Trophic cascades in Yellowstone: The first 15 years after wolf reintroduction

By W. Ripple, R. Beschta. 2012

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Subfields: Ecology

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Large predators limit herbivore densities in northern forest ecosystems (2012, positive): “For example, the reintroduction or recolonization of wolves, decades after extirpation, has shown to positively affect tree and shrub recruitment at some sites on ungulate winter ranges where cervids seasonally migrate (Beschta and Ripple 2007; Ripple and Beschta 2012).”
Restoring apex predators can reduce mesopredator abundances (2019, background): “…debate about the robustness of the available evidence regarding their ecological roles (Allen et al., 2017; Bruskotter et al., 2017), such as ecosystem functioning and structuring, disease regulation or biodiversity maintenance (Ripple et al., 2014; Stier et al., 2016; O'Bryan et al., 2018).”
Riparian vegetation recovery in Yellowstone: The first two decades after wolf reintroduction (2016, methodology): “3g; Ripple and Beschta, 2012).”
Diel predator activity drives a dynamic landscape of fear (2017, positive): “…evidence of an apparent trophic cascade in northern YNP in the decade after wolf reintroduction has been attributed to behavioral mechanisms in part because elk numbers remained high during that period (Ripple et al. 2001, Ripple and Beschta 2004, 2006, Beyer et al. 2007, Ripple and Beschta 2012).”
As clear as mud: A critical review of evidence for the ecological roles of Australian dingoes (2013, background): “Through direct (e.g. predation) and indirect (e.g. competition and fear) effects on sympatric carnivore and herbivore species, apex predators might limit, suppress or regulate mesopredators and prey and might even promote vegetation growth (e.g. Ripple and Beschta, 2012, but see Mech, 2012).”
Rewilding: Science, Practice, and Politics (2015, background): “There have also been different interpretations of the outcomes of these interventions, for example on the significance of the wolf effect in Yellowstone National Park (17, 128).”
More than fear: role of emotions in acceptability of lethal control of wolves (2014, background): “The return of wolves to regions where they were absent can enhance biodiversity (Ripple and Beschta 2012).”
Quantification of population sizes of large herbivores and their long‐term functional role in ecosystems using dung fungal spores (2016, background): “…vertebrates that live at high trophic levels play an important role in shaping vegetation cover and community composition across most landscapes (Estes et al. 2011; Nuttle et al. 2011; Peh & Lewis 2012; Ripple & Beschta 2012; Ritchie et al. 2012; Tanentzap & Coomes 2012; Cromsigt & te Beest 2014).”
Maintaining tiger connectivity and minimizing extinction into the next century: Insights from landscape genetics and spatially-explicit simulations (2017, background): “…monitoring, legal protection, creation of protected areas, reintroductions and translocations, have ensured recovery of species, such as the grey wolf (Canis lupus) in North America and brown bears (Ursus arctus) in northern Europe, among others (Ripple & Beschta 2012; Hagen et al. 2015).”