Large predators and trophic cascades in terrestrial ecosystems of the western United States

By R. Beschta, W. Ripple. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Trophic cascades in Yellowstone: The first 15 years after wolf reintroduction (2012, background): “…boreal and temperate ecosystems throughout the northern hemisphere, and this is the consistent conclusion from prehistoric, historic, and modern evidence from North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania (Flueck, 2000; Beschta and Ripple, 2009; Ripple and Van Valkenburgh, 2010; Ripple et al., 2010b).”
The ecological effects of providing resource subsidies to predators (2015, background): “In terrestrial environments, they can exert strong top-down effects on sympatric carnivores and herbivores via interactions such as predation and the generation of fear (Beschta & Ripple, 2009). In many circumstances these impacts help to maintain mammalian, avian, invertebrate and herpetofauna abun”
Widespread mesopredator effects after wolf extirpation (2013, background): “Loss of large predators has been linked to irruptions of herbivore prey (Beschta and Ripple, 2009) and of smaller predators (Ritchie and Johnson, 2009).”
Linking Top-Down Forces to the Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions (2010, background): “The impetus for this article was in large part the growing realization of the importance of top-down forcing in modern terrestrial and marine ecosystems (Beschta and Ripple 2009, Terborgh and Estes 2010), combined with the appearance of new fossil data on Pleistocene mammal dental wear and growth.”
Human Involvement in Food Webs (2010, background): “The subset of wolves, ungulates, and plants has great practical and theoretical interest (9).”
Life history strategies of aspen (Populus tremula L.) and browsing effects: a literature review (2011, background): “These strong effects seem fi rst of all to appear in areas where large predators have been extirpated or displaced (e.g. Beschta and Ripple, 2009 ), which is currently also the situation in most of Norway.”
Riparian vegetation recovery in Yellowstone: The first two decades after wolf reintroduction (2016, background): “In other areas of thewestern North America, high levels of ungulate herbivory following the displacement or extirpation of large predators profoundly reduced the recruitment of woody species over time (e.g., Hess, 1993, White et al., 1998; Ripple and Beschta, 2004b; Beschta and Ripple, 2009).”
Predators drive community structure in coral reef fish assemblages (2015, background): “In the USA, extirpation of large predators from national parks has resulted in major impacts to plant communities through overgrazing by ungulates (Beschta and Ripple 2009).”
Large predators limit herbivore densities in northern forest ecosystems (2012, unknown): “Plant damage following cervid irruptions has also been found in regions with relatively low productivity as well as those with very high productivity (Beschta and Ripple 2009).”