REDUCED COTTONWOOD RECRUITMENT FOLLOWING EXTIRPATION OF WOLVES IN YELLOWSTONE'S NORTHERN RANGE

By R. Beschta. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology

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1. W. Ripple
2. R. Beschta
3. Douglas W. Smith
4. V. Cramer
5. Richard J. Hobbs
6. R. Peterson
7. J. Vucetich
8. A. Ager

Citations in the corpus

• Trophic cascades in Yellowstone: The first 15 years after wolf reintroduction (2012, background): “Scattered groups of black (Populus trichocarpa) and narrowleaf (Populus angustifolia) cottonwoods, totaling some 700 trees in 2001, provided prominent overstory canopies along the Lamar River and Soda Butte Creek in the northern range (Beschta, 2005).”
• Understanding Ungulate Herbivory–Episodic Disturbance Effects on Vegetation Dynamics: Knowledge Gaps and Management Needs (2006, background): “284 Wildlife Society Bulletin 34(2) published since 1990 on ungulate herbivory to characterize the types of herbivory research conducted to date and to identify knowledge gaps associated with a lack of research on particular herbivory topics.”
• Biodiversity, exotic plant species, and herbivory: The good, the bad, and the ungulate (2007, background): “…the distributions of elk (Cervus elaphus) were significantly altered (Fortin et al., 2005), resulting in substantially less herbivory by elk in riparian areas, which allowed widespread recruitment of cottonwood along stream courses for the first time in over 50 years (Beschta, 2005).”
• Trophic cascades in a multicausal world: Isle Royale and Yellowstone (2014, background): “2002, Beschta 2005).”
• Large predators and trophic cascades in terrestrial ecosystems of the western United States (2009, methodology): “Sources: adapted from (a) Beschta and Ripple (2008b), (b) Ripple and Beschta (2008), (c) Beschta (2005) and (d) Ripple and Beschta (2006a). and (2) the fact that relatively large numbers of young trees are required to maintain tree frequencies characteristic of the pre-treatment period.”
• Trophic cascades involving cougar, mule deer, and black oaks in Yosemite National Park (2008, methodology): “Furthermore, when predation is either eliminated or reduced, the subsequent decline in carrying capacity following an ungulate population irruption likely occurs because herbivores over-utilize their forage base (Leopold, 1943; McCullough, 1979; Ripple and Beschta, 2005).”
• Linking wolves to willows via risk-sensitive foraging by ungulates in the northern Yellowstone ecosystem (2006, background): “…of riparian woody browse species is underway within winter ranges that are inside or bordering northern YNP subsequent to wolf re-introduction (Ripple and Beschta, 2003, 2004b, 2005a), we undertook this study to better understand factors that could potentially influence the willow growth response.”
• Riparian vegetation recovery in Yellowstone: The first two decades after wolf reintroduction (2016, background): “Along tributaries of the Lamar Valley, young aspen in some riparian areas began to increase in height after about 2003 (Fig.”
• Restoration Ecology: Interventionist Approaches for Restoring and Maintaining Ecosystem Function in the Face of Rapid Environmental Change (2008, background): “For instance, arid lands which have been overgrazed lose their vegetation cover leading to poor water and nutrient retention and resulting erosion, and elevated numbers of ungulates can prevent tree regeneration in woodland and forest systems (24, 90).”
• Linking a cougar decline, trophic cascade, and catastrophic regime shift in Zion National Park (2006, methodology): “Our results are consistent with previous studies regarding the role of wolves (Canis lupus) in trophic cascades (McLaren and Peterson, 1994; Ripple and Larsen, 2000; Ripple and Bes- chta, 2004; Beschta, 2005; Hebblewhite et al., 2005).”
• Restoring Yellowstone’s aspen with wolves (2007, background): “Aspen clones, with longevities of centuries and perhaps millennia, and other woody browse species in the park’s northern winter range have declined substantially since wolf extirpation in the 1920s, likely attributable to ungulate browsing (Ripple and Larsen, 2000; National Research Council (NRC), 2”