Recent advances highlight the potential for predators to restore ecosystems and confer
resilience against globally threatening processes, including climate change and biological …

Top‐order predators often have positive effects on biological diversity owing to their key
functional roles in regulating trophic cascades and other ecological processes. Their loss …

Reports of positive or neutral effects of grazing on plant species richness have prompted
calls for livestock grazing to be used as a tool for managing land for conservation. Grazing …

Although mammalian carnivores are vulnerable to habitat fragmentation and require
landscape connectivity, their global patterns of fragmentation and connectivity have not …

It is critical that the impacts of environmental stressors on natural systems are detected,
monitored and assessed accurately in order to legislate effectively and to protect and restore …

Apex predators can benefit ecosystems through top–down control of mesopredators and
herbivores. However, apex predators are often subject to lethal control aimed at minimizing …

One of the classic ecological questions is how predators affect population size. This is often
assessed by measuring how many individuals are killed by a predator, yet such direct effects …

ABSTRACT 1 The successful introduction of the red fox Vulpes vulpes into Australia in the
1870s has had dramatic and deleterious impacts on both native fauna and agricultural …

The invasion of alien species into areas beyond their native ranges is having profound
effects on ecosystems around the world. In particular, novel alien predators are causing …

Extinctions beget further extinctions when species lose obligate mutualists, predators, prey,
or hosts. Here, we develop a conceptual model of species and community attributes …