Ecological Meltdown in Predator-Free Forest Fragments

By J. Terborgh, L. Lopez, Percy V. Núñez, Madhu Rao, G. Shahabuddin, Gabriela Orihuela, M. Riveros, R. Ascanio, G. Adler, T. Lambert and 1 more. Science, 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

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3. C. A. Peres
4. T. Tscharntke
5. Nicholas A. J. Graham
6. J. Emmett Duffy
7. Jennifer A. Dunne
8. S. Wilson

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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2. C. Kremen
3. J. Tylianakis
4. Alexandra-Maria Klein
5. N. Williams
6. I. Steffan‐Dewenter
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In Nature and Landscape Conservation

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2. W. Ripple
3. R. Beschta
4. C. A. Peres
5. J. Tylianakis
6. J. Emmett Duffy
7. I. Steffan‐Dewenter
8. C. Kremen

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• Trophic cascades involving cougar, mule deer, and black oaks in Yosemite National Park (2008, background): “One source of controversy may be associated with the unraveling of ecosystems that often occurs whenever humans significantly affect trophic levels (Terborgh et al., 2001).”
• AN INTRODUCED PREDATOR ALTERS ALEUTIAN ISLAND PLANT COMMUNITIES BY THWARTING NUTRIENT SUBSIDIES (2006, background): “Although the influences of large vertebrates have been difficult to examine in terrestrial ecosystems, larger scale comparative and time-series analyses have strongly suggested similar roles for large predatory mammals (McLaren and Peterson 1994, Ripple et al. 2001, Terborgh et al. 2001).”
• Biotic Impoverishment and Homogenization in Unfragmented Forest Understory Communities (2004, background): “Altered biotic interactions have cascading effects on community structure and ecosystem function (Terborgh et al. 2001), suggesting that biotic interactions need more attention from researchers and managers.”
• Cascading effects of predator richness (2008, background): “e know that predators play a vital role in maintaining the structure and stability of communities and that their removal can have a variety of cascading, indirect effects (Terborgh et al. 2001; Duffy 2003; Figure 1).”
• Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: robustness increases with connectance (2002, background): “Feeding relationships and other direct and indirect effects need to be taken into account when considering the effects of species loss (Terborgh et al. 2001).”
• The Wildlife Picture Index: monitoring top trophic levels (2010, background): “Their loss is often linked to trophic cascade and collapse (Terborgh et al., 2001; Pringle et al., 2007).”
• The effects of the frog Eleutherodactylus coqui on invertebrates and ecosystem processes at two scales in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico (2003, background): “These types of top-down-controlled trophic cascades at one time were thought to only occur in simple ecosystems; however, recent studies have revealed that they also occur in highly diverse terrestrial ecosystems (Dial & Roughgarden 1995, Letourneau & Dyer 1998, Terborgh et al. 2001).”
• Restoring tropical diversity: beating the time tax on species loss (2003, background): “Martínez-Garza & H. F. HoweFORUM Restoring tropical diversity: beating the time tax on species loss CRISTINA MARTÍNEZ-GARZA and HENRY F. HOWE”