The ecological effects of providing resource subsidies to predators
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Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia, Trophic Cascades Program, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA, CSIRO Land and Water Flagship, PO Box 2111, Alice Springs, NT 0871, Australia ABSTRACT
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