A survey of plant and animal sightings, feeding interactions and carbon cycling across 4.8 million hectares provides evidence for the role of multitrophic biodiversity and interactions in large-scale biogeochemical dynamics in the Amazon.
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Eisenhauer, N. Consumers control carbon. Nat Ecol Evol 1, 1596–1597 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0352-y
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