Abstract
During a recent periodical cicada emergence, over 80 bird species altered their foraging behaviors to feed on the abundant insects. This diet shift reduced the rate of predation on forest caterpillars, doubling both their abundance and the amount of leaf tissue they consumed. Regional biomass pulses thus have the potential to disrupt the usual patterns of energy flow in forest ecosystems.
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