Communications Biology
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The Stickleback Wave: a spatial regime shift from predator to prey dominance
We pooled data from >13,000 historical fish surveys to demonstrate a regime shift to ecosystem dominance of the small fish three-spined stickleback, that has gradually spread along the western Baltic Sea coast like a 'stickleback wave'.
