Large herbivores play unique ecological roles and are disproportionately imperiled by
human activity. As many wild populations dwindle towards extinction, and as interest grows …

Human-elephant conflict is a major conservation concern in elephant range countries. A
variety of management strategies have been developed and are practiced at different scales …

Megafauna (animals≥ 45 kg) have probably shaped the Earth's terrestrial ecosystems for
millions of years with pronounced impacts on biogeochemistry, vegetation, ecological …

Understanding the evolutionary consequences of wildlife exploitation is increasingly
important as harvesting becomes more efficient. We examined the impacts of ivory poaching …

Food webs are a major focus and organizing theme of ecology, but the data used to
assemble them are deficient. Early debates over food-web data focused on taxonomic …

Ecosystem engineers have been widely studied for terrestrial systems, but global trends in
research encompassing the range of taxa and functions have not previously been …

Crop raiding by wildlife poses major threats to both wildlife conservation and human well‐
being in agroecosystems worldwide. These threats are particularly acute in many parts of …

Trophic rewilding seeks to rehabilitate degraded ecosystems by repopulating them with
large animals, thereby re-establishing strong top-down interactions. Yet there are very few …

Ecosystem engineers strongly influence the communities in which they live by modifying
habitats and altering resource availability. These biogenic changes can persist beyond the …

Trophic rewilding aims to promote biodiverse self‐sustaining ecosystems through the
restoration of ecologically important taxa and the trophic interactions and cascades they …