Wolves and the Ecology of Fear: Can Predation Risk Structure Ecosystems?

By W. Ripple, R. Beschta. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology

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The influence of conspecifics and predation risk on the vigilance of elk (Cervus elaphus) in Yellowstone National Park (2006, background): “2005), and their indirect effect on the plant community (Ripple et al. 2001; Beschta 2003; Ripple and Beschta 2004; Creel et al. 2005).”
Mapping the Landscape of Fear of the Cape Ground Squirrel (Xerus inauris) (2008, background): “These predictions have since been abundantly demonstrated (Hernández and Laundré 2005; Ripple and Beschta 2004).”
Determining Where the Wild Things will be: Using Psychological Theory to Find Tolerance for Large Carnivores (2014, background): “The need is made more acute by recent research indicating large, terrestrial carnivores change the composition of ecological communities via their impact on sympatric ungulates and mesopredator populations (Ripple & Beschta 2004a,b; Prugh et al. 2009).”
Ecological mechanisms linking protected areas to surrounding lands. (2007, background): “…been extinct for 60 years, appears to be expanding the scavenger community, reducing mesocarnivores and ungulate population sizes, releasing the riparian plant community that was overbrowsed by ungulates, and allowing for expansion of ripariandependent bird communities (Ripple and Beschta 2004).”
Large predators limit herbivore densities in northern forest ecosystems (2012, positive): “by large mammalian carnivores can also influence ecosystem structure and function, and these effects may be different than any risk effects caused by human hunters (Berger 2005; Laundré et al. 2001; Ripple and Beschta 2004).”
The ecological importance of intact top-predator populations: a synthesis of 15 years of research in a seagrass ecosystem (2012, background): “…the overall dynamics of subtropical estuaries and other communities is whether antipredator behaviours of large herbivores and upper trophic-level predators (e.g. dolphins)might trigger cascades in the SharkBay ecosystem that parallel those suggested on land (e.g. Ripple and Beschta 2004).”
The Ecological Role of the Mammalian Mesocarnivore (2009, background): “…reducing the forage base and the abundance of beaver (Castor canadensis), limiting nesting habitat for migratory songbirds, and even negatively affecting hydrological properties of riparian habitats by increasing erosion (Berger et al. 2001, Ripple and Beschta 2004, Beschta and Ripple 2008).”
Trophic cascades in a multicausal world: Isle Royale and Yellowstone (2014, background): “Subsequent reports of height increases in willow reinforced this explanation (Ripple & Beschta 2004, Beyer et al. 2007, Beschta & Ripple 2012).”
Delay-induced chaos and its possible control in a seasonally forced eco-epidemiological model with fear effect and predator switching (2021, background): “Many field studies have manifested that, when prey senses upcoming risk of predation, they allegedly abandon their original territory to avoid high vulnerability to predation and relocate to new suboptimal habitat, which basically imposes an energetic cost to them [7].”
Lag times and exotic species: The ecology and management of biological invasions in slow-motion (2005, background): “This has led to increased tree growth along the river margins, providing dam material for beavers and an increase in pond habitats within the system (Ripple & Beschta, 2004).”