Developmentally stunted stickleback? Study of 34 Greenlandic lakes reveals the absence of top predators reduces the available prey biomass, leading to small-bodied, large-headed stickleback populations:
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Predator-mediated resource limitation shapes body and head size variation in stickleback populations
Abstract. Predator and prey communities are important putative drivers of phenotypic variation in consumers. However, in natural food webs, we often lack a