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The concepts of top‐down and bottom‐up controls are central to our understanding of cascading trophic effects on ecosystem functioning. Classical food web theory has focused either on food webs based on primary production (green food webs) or on food webs based on detritus (brown food webs) and generally ignored nutrient cycling.
We argue that nutrient cycling connects the two food webs, which...