Trophic Cascades in Terrestrial Systems: A Review of the Effects of Carnivore Removals on Plants

By Oswald J. Schmitz, P. Hambäck, A. Beckerman. American Naturalist, 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Linking wolves to willows via risk-sensitive foraging by ungulates in the northern Yellowstone ecosystem (2006, background): “When behaviorally mediated trophic cascades occur, the presence of carnivores will typically have net positive effects on some plants and net negative effects on other plants if they cause the herbivores to shift their habitat use to lower overall predation risk (Schmitz et al., 2000).”
HUMAN ACTIVITY MEDIATES A TROPHIC CASCADE CAUSED BY WOLVES (2005, methodology): “In time series of predator removal experiments, the last time series point is usually used to compare effect sizes at steady state (Schmitz et al. 2000), or divided by time with time-varying response ratios, such as with rates (Osenberg et al. 1997).”
Large predators and trophic cascades in terrestrial ecosystems of the western United States (2009, methodology): “Although top-down influences upon community structure have typically been found in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems (e.g., Shurin et al., 2002; Schmitz et al., 2000), a particularly troubling aspect of trophic cascades research in terrestrial ecosystems is the paucity of studies involving lar”
Hydrodynamic mediation of predator-prey interactions: differential patterns of prey susceptibility and predator success explained by variation in water flow (2002, background): “Variation in predation intensity has the potential to regulate species abundance in space and time in most systems (e.g., Peterson, 1979; Sih et al., 1985; Schmitz et al., 2000).”
Trophic cascades in a multicausal world: Isle Royale and Yellowstone (2014, background): “Much that is known about trophic cascades is based on field experiments involving the manipulation of small subsets of an ecosystem, comprised of just a few species living in small areas (e.g., Schmitz et al. 2000).”
The strength of trophic cascades across ecosystems: predictions from allometry and energetics (2005, background): “Evidence for cascades has been found in systems as disparate as grasslands, lakes, streams, kelp beds, forests and marine pelagia (Power 1990; McClaren & Peterson 1994; Brett & Goldman 1996, 1997; Estes et al . 1998; Micheli 1999; Pace et al . 1999; Post et al . 1999; Schmitz et al . 2000; Halaj &”
Experimental evidence for alternative stable equilibria in a benthic pond food web (2003, background): “Indeed, meta-analyses in both aquatic (Brett & Goldman 1996, 1997) and terrestrial ( Schmitz et al. 2000; Halaj & Wise 2001) systems look for an overall effect of trophic level manipulations, ignoring the importance of variation in those effects (Leibold et al. 1997).”
Exploitation and habitat degradation as agents of change within coral reef fish communities (2008, background): “Thus, community level responses to changes in exploitation or habitat are more likely to be attenuated when there is high diversity within a functional group (Schmitz et al., 2000).”
HABITAT COMPLEXITY DISRUPTS PREDATOR–PREY INTERACTIONS BUT NOT THE TROPHIC CASCADE ON OYSTER REEFS (2004, background): “Recent meta-analyses that reviewed the relative strength of trophic cascades initially reached some conflicting conclusions (Schmitz et al. 2000, Halaj and Wise 2001), but have begun to resolve this issue (Shurin et al. 2002).”