Trophic cascades involving cougar, mule deer, and black oaks in Yosemite National Park

By W. Ripple, R. Beschta. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. W. Ripple
2. R. Beschta
3. M. Valeix
4. David W. Macdonald
5. Hervé Fritz
6. Calum Brown
7. Robert McMorran
8. M. Price

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. R. Beschta
2. W. Ripple
3. Robert McMorran
4. C. Riginos
5. Calum Brown
6. M. Price
7. D. Spear
8. Hervé Fritz

Citations in the corpus

• Elephant-induced structural changes in the vegetation and habitat selection by large herbivores in an African savanna (2011, background): “To date most studies of indirect effects have focused on trophic cascades initiated by predators (e.g. Ripple et al., 2001; Ripple and Beschta, 2008).”
• Large predators and trophic cascades in terrestrial ecosystems of the western United States (2009, methodology): “…(Beschta and Ripple, 2008b); climate fluctuations, fire suppression, conifer invasion, land use, and loss of aboriginal influences in Yosemite NP (Ripple and Beschta, 2008); fire history, hydrologic disturbances, and natural stand dynamics in Yellowstone NP (Beschta, 2005); climate fluctuations,…”
• Rewilding – A New Paradigm for Nature Conservation in Scotland? (2011, background): “2002 ; Ripple & Beschta 2008 ), particularly where forest fragments or islands have been left devoid of predators (Terborgh et al.”
• Non-indigenous ungulates as a threat to biodiversity (2009, background): “…the introduction and the control of other non-indigenous taxa have been shown to cause ecosystem level impacts via trophic cascades in terrestrial systems (e.g. Courchamp, Langlais & Sugihara, 1999; White et al., 2006; Kurle, Croll & Tershy, 2008; Ripple & Beschta, 2008; Bergstrom et al., 2009).”
• Landscapes of Coexistence for terrestrial carnivores: the ecological consequences of being downgraded from ultimate to penultimate predator by humans (2015, background): “In a Landscape of Coexistence, similar cascades may be mediated by carnivores’ fear of people, with large carnivores being the penultimate, not the top predator (Ripple and Beschta 2008, Ordiz et al. 2013b).”
• Large predators limit herbivore densities in northern forest ecosystems (2012, unknown): “In western North America, cougars (Puma concolor) were found to limit mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) densities releasing woody plants from browsing suppression, thus maintaining biodiverisity (Ripple and Beschta 2006; Ripple and Beschta 2008).”