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Photo 1. Aerial view of Lough Hyne marine reserve, highlighting its sheltered nature due to a narrow connection to the open coast. Photo credit: John Rowlands. Photo 2. To fish or not to fish: preparing to set some creel pots to capture the predators for the experiments. Photo credit: Malte Jochum. Photo 3. Success! Green shore crabs (Carcinus maenas), ready to be added to treatments in the caging experiments. Photo credit: Malte Jochum. Photo 4. Getting ready to set up the treatments and place the cages underwater in the marine reserve (left to right: Eoin O’Gorman, Jesús Fernandez, Maike Pohlmann). Photo credit: Claire Passarelli. Photo 5. One of the cages used in the experiment is inspected underwater by a velvet swimming crab (Necora puber) and two-spot gobies (Gobiusculus flavescens). Photo credit: Marion Twomey. These photographs illustrate the article “Multitrophic diversity sustains ecological complexity by dampening top-down control of a shallow marine benthic food web” by Eoin J O'Gorman published in Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3274.
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