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Urbanisation strips São Paulo streams of food-web complexity and energy flow

Urban growth around São Paulo is dismantling the food webs of headwater streams, according to a study in Nature Cities. Across 30 micro-watersheds, estimated feeding interactions fell from 190 in fully forested catchments to just three in fully urbanised ones, and the energy moving through the community dropped by a…

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