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List of works by William J. Ripple

A continental scale trophic cascade from wolves through coyotes to foxes

scientific article published on 9 July 2014

A novel trophic cascade between cougars and feral donkeys shapes desert wetlands

scientific article published on 24 July 2022

A poor international standard for trap selectivity threatens carnivore conservation

An ecoregion‐based approach to restoring the world's intact large mammal assemblages

scientific article

Are we eating the world's megafauna to extinction?

Are wolves saving Yellowstone's aspen? A landscape-level test of a behaviorally mediated trophic cascade: comment.

scientific article published in June 2013

Aspen recruitment in the Yellowstone region linked to reduced herbivory after large carnivore restoration

scientific article published on 30 August 2018

Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption

scientific article

Bison limit ecosystem recovery in northern Yellowstone

scientific article

Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals

scientific article

Can large carnivores change streams via a trophic cascade?

Can restoring wolves aid in lynx recovery?

article

Carbon sequestration and biodiversity co-benefits of preserving forests in the western United States

scientific article published on 27 December 2019

Carnivore coexistence: trophic cascades.

scientific article published in January 2015

Carnivore conservation needs evidence-based livestock protection

scientific article published on 18 September 2018

Challenges and perspectives on tackling illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade

scientific article published on 14 October 2021

Collapse of the world's largest herbivores

scientific article

Community Ecology and Conservation of Bear-Salmon Ecosystems

scientific article published on 04 December 2020

Conserving the World's Megafauna and Biodiversity: The Fierce Urgency of Now

Correction to 'Rewilding the world's large carnivores'.

scientific article published on 2 May 2018

Correction: Large carnivores under assault in Alaska

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Corrigendum: World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency

scientific article published on 9 December 2019

Divergent patterns of riparian cottonwood recovery after the return of wolves in Yellowstone, USA

scientific article published on 3 April 2014

Does Trophy Hunting Support Biodiversity? A Response to Di Minin et al.

scientific article published in April 2016

Earth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just and sustainable future

scientific article published in April 2024

Eating plants and planting forests for the climate

scientific article published on 15 October 2019

Echoes of the late Pleistocene in a novel trophic cascade between cougars and feral donkeys

Effects of bison on willow and cottonwood in northern Yellowstone National Park

article

Extinction filters mediate the global effects of habitat fragmentation on animals

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Extinction risk is most acute for the world's largest and smallest vertebrates

scientific article

Fine-scale predation risk on elk after wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone National Park, USA.

scientific article published on 26 January 2008

Food habits of the world's grey wolves

article

Global forest loss disproportionately erodes biodiversity in intact landscapes

scientific article published on 19 July 2017

Global reforestation and biodiversity conservation

scientific article published on 04 February 2020

Grasshopper consumption by grey wolves and implications for ecosystems

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Habitat use of sympatric prey suggests divergent anti-predator responses to recolonizing gray wolves

scientific article published on 11 December 2018

Hunted carnivores at outsized risk

scientific article published on 29 October 2015

Hypercarnivorous apex predator could provide ecosystem services by dispersing seeds

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

INCREASED WILLOW HEIGHTS ALONG NORTHERN YELLOWSTONE's BLACKTAIL DEER CREEK FOLLOWING WOLF REINTRODUCTION

article

Increasing beef production won't reduce emissions

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Infectious Agents Trigger Trophic Cascades

scientific article

Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change

scientific article

Introduced megafauna are rewilding the Anthropocene

article

Invisible megafauna

article

Large carnivores under assault in Alaska

article

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

scientific article published on 05 August 2009

Large species within carnivora are large carnivores

article

Large‐scale responses of herbivore prey to canid predators and primary productivity

scientific article published on 16 May 2017

Learning from the past to prepare for the future: felids face continued threat from declining prey

scientific article published in 2017

Linking a cougar decline, trophic cascade, and catastrophic regime shift in Zion National Park

article

Linking wolves to willows via risk-sensitive foraging by ungulates in the northern Yellowstone ecosystem

scientific article published on 26 May 2006

Making a New Dog?

Managing conflict between large carnivores and livestock

scientific article

Monitoring the dead as an ecosystem indicator

scientific article published on 01 May 2021

Neocolonial Conservation: Is Moving Rhinos to Australia Conservation or Intellectual Property Loss

scientific article published on 3 March 2017

Novel trophic cascades: apex predators enable coexistence.

scientific article published on 13 February 2015

Potential trophic cascades triggered by the barred owl range expansion

scientific article published in 2016

Prey depletion as a threat to the world's large carnivores

scientific article

Range Contractions of North American Carnivores and Ungulates

article

Range contractions of the world's large carnivores

scientific article published on 12 July 2017

Recovering Riparian Plant Communities with Wolves in Northern Yellowstone, U.S.A.

scientific article published on 06 October 2008

Recovering aspen follow changing elk dynamics in Yellowstone: evidence of a trophic cascade?

scientific article published on January 2015

Reducing the environmental impact of global diets

scientific article published on 25 August 2017

Relative efforts of countries to conserve world’s megafauna

scientific article published in April 2017

Reply to Kalinkat et al.: Smallest terrestrial vertebrates are highly imperiled

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

Reply to Pincheira-Donoso and Hodgson: Both the largest and smallest vertebrates have elevated extinction risk.

scientific article published on 13 June 2018

Resolving the value of the dingo in ecological restoration

article

Restoration of riparian areas following the removal of cattle in the northwestern great basin

scientific article published on 19 February 2015

Restoring landscapes of fear with wolves in the Scottish Highlands

article

Rewilding the American West

scientific article published on 9 August 2022

Rewilding the world's large carnivores

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Riparian vegetation recovery in Yellowstone: The first two decades after wolf reintroduction

article by Robert L. Beschta & William J. Ripple published June 2016 in Biological Conservation

River channel dynamics following extirpation of wolves in northwestern Yellowstone National Park, USA

scientific article published in 2006

Ruminants, climate change and climate policy

article

Saving the World with Satire: A Response to Chapron et al

scientific article published on 10 May 2018

Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna.

scientific article

Scientists call for renewed Paris pledges to transform agriculture

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Scientists' warning of threats to mountains

scientific article published in 2022

Scientists' warning on endangered food webs

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

Scientists' warning to humanity on illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade

scientific article published in November 2021

Scientists' warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change

scientific article published on 18 June 2019

Shrub encroachment is linked to extirpation of an apex predator

scientific article published on 5 December 2016

Simultaneously operating threats cannot predict extinction risk

Six steps to integrate climate mitigation with adaptation for social justice

scientific article

Small mammal relative abundance within riparian ecosystems of the Blue Mountains

scientific article

Solve the biodiversity crisis with funding

scientific article

Status and ecological effects of the world's largest carnivores

scientific article

Strategic Forest Reserves can protect biodiversity in the western United States and mitigate climate change

scientific article

The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory

scientific article published on 24 October 2023

The Climate Emergency, Forests, and Transformative Change

scientific article

The Roles of Large Top Predators in Coastal Ecosystems: New Insights from Long Term Ecological Research

scientific article published on 05 August 2013

The carbon opportunity cost of animal-sourced food production on land

scientific article

The elephant (head) in the room: A critical look at trophy hunting

article

The impact of large terrestrial carnivores on Pleistocene ecosystems

scientific article

The paradoxical extinction of the most charismatic animals

scientific article published on 12 April 2018

The rise of the mesopredator

article

The role of large predators in maintaining riparian plant communities and river morphology

article

This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

book about the Extinction Rebellion movement

Threats to biodiversity from cumulative human impacts in one of North America's last wildlife frontiers

scientific article published on 25 October 2017

Top predators constrain mesopredator distributions

scientific article

Towards a cohesive, holistic view of top predation: a definition, synthesis and perspective

article published in 2014

Transformational change: creating a safe operating space for humanity

article

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

scientific article

Trophic cascades among wolves, elk and aspen on Yellowstone National Park’s northern range

scientific article (publication date: December 2001)

Trophic cascades from wolves to grizzly bears in Yellowstone

scientific article published on 4 September 2013

Trophic cascades in Yellowstone: The first 15 years after wolf reintroduction

article

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

article

Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future

scientific article published on 13 January 2021

What is a Trophic Cascade?

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

What is an apex predator?

article

Wildlife-snaring crisis in Asian forests

scientific article

Wolf reintroduction, predation risk, and cottonwood recovery in Yellowstone National Park

scientific article published on 02 June 2003

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

article

Wolves trigger a trophic cascade to berries as alternative food for grizzly bears

scientific article published on 3 March 2015

Wolves, elk, willows, and trophic cascades in the upper Gallatin Range of Southwestern Montana, USA

article

Wolves, trophic cascades, and rivers in the Olympic National Park, USA

scientific article

World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency

scientific article published on 5 November 2019

World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021

World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice

scientific article published on 13 November 2017