Trophic cascades in a multicausal world: Isle Royale and Yellowstone

RO Peterson, JA Vucetich, JM Bump… - Annual Review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Questions of whether trophic cascades occur in Isle Royale National Park (IRNP) or
Yellowstone National Park's northern range (NR) cannot lead to simple, precise, or definitive …

Can we save large carnivores without losing large carnivore science?

BL Allen, LR Allen, H Andrén, G Ballard, L Boitani… - Food Webs, 2017 - Elsevier
Large carnivores are depicted to shape entire ecosystems through top-down processes.
Studies describing these processes are often used to support interventionist wildlife …

[KNIHA][B] The Serengeti rules: the quest to discover how life works and why it matters

SB Carroll - 2024 - degruyter.com
How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the
African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells …

Holistic management: misinformation on the science of grazed ecosystems

J Carter, A Jones, M O'Brien, J Ratner… - … Journal of Biodiversity, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Over 3 billion hectares of lands worldwide are grazed by livestock, with a majority suffering
degradation in ecological condition. Losses in plant productivity, biodiversity of plant and …

Patterns and consequences of ungulate herbivory on aspen in western North America

ST Seager, C Eisenberg, SBS Clair - Forest Ecology and Management, 2013 - Elsevier
Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) forests develop complex, multi-story structure and
speciose plant communities, which provide habitat for ungulates and diverse wildlife …

Assessing the trophic ecology of top predators across a recolonisation frontier using DNA metabarcoding of diets

N Hardy, T Berry, BP Kelaher, SD Goldsworthy… - Marine Ecology …, 2017 - int-res.com
Top predator populations, once intensively hunted, are rebounding in size and geographic
distribution. The cessation of sealing along coastal Australia and subsequent recovery of …

The return of the wild in the Anthropocene. Wolf resurgence in the Netherlands

M Drenthen - Ethics, Policy & Environment, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In most rewilding projects, humans are still the agents in control: it is us who decide to no
longer want to fully control nature. Spontaneous rewilding changes the nature of this game …

[HTML][HTML] Roles for the Canidae in food webs reviewed: where do they fit?

PJS Fleming, H Nolan, SM Jackson, GA Ballard… - Food Webs, 2017 - Elsevier
The roles of the 37 species in the family Canidae (the dog family), are of great current
interest. The Gray Wolf is the largest canid and their roles in food webs are much …

What's love got to do with it? A biophilia-based approach to zoonoses prevention through a conservation lens

JR Kirkey - Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
EO Wilson coined the term biophilia, defining it as an innate affinity to the natural world. The
concept of nature connectedness is used in environmental psychology as a measure of …

Distinct responses of antagonistic and mutualistic networks to agricultural intensification

BML Morrison, R Dirzo - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Species interaction networks, which govern the maintenance of biodiversity and ecosystem
processes within ecological communities, are being rapidly altered by anthropogenic …