Robert Paine conducted studies of rocky intertidal communities on the coast of Washington and in the Gulf of California. Paine showed that removal of __________ consumers could result in reduction of the number of their resource species.

A) predator
B) herbivore
C) both predator and herbivore


Ans: C) both predator and herbivore

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