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<i>The Predator Paradox: Ending the War with Wolves, Bears, Cougars, and Coyotes</i>. By John A. Shivik. Boston (Massachusetts): Beacon Press. $26.95. ix + 196 p.; index. ISBN: 978-0-8070-8496-0 (hc); 978-0-8070-8497-7 (eb). 2014.

scientific article published in 2015

A call for applying trophic structure in ecological restoration

article

A methodological roadmap to quantify animal‐vectored spatial ecosystem subsidies

scientific article published on 20 May 2021

A spatial theory for characterizing predator-multiprey interactions in heterogeneous landscapes.

scientific article

A spatial theory for emergent multiple predator-prey interactions in food webs.

scientific article published on 28 July 2017

Acceleration or deceleration of litter decomposition by herbivory depends on nutrient availability through intraspecific differences in induced plant resistance traits

scientific article published on 05 May 2018

Alternative Dynamic Regimes and Trophic Control of Plant Succession

scientific article published in 2006

Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle

scientific article published in Science

Animating the Carbon Cycle

Applying population and community ecology theory to advance understanding of belowground biogeochemistry

scientific article published on February 2017

Aquatic Predators Influence Micronutrients: Important but Understudied

scientific article published on 11 August 2019

Behaviorally Mediated Trophic Cascades: Effects of Predation Risk on Food Web Interactions

scientific article published in July 1997

Carnivore conservation needs evidence-based livestock protection

scientific article published on 18 September 2018

Cascading ecological effects of landscape moderated arthropod diversity

scientific article published on 21 November 2015

Cascading effects of a disease outbreak in a remote protected area

scientific article

Climate Change, Nutrition, and Bottom-Up and Top-Down Food Web Processes

scientific article

Climate change effects on behavioral and physiological ecology of predator–prey interactions: Implications for conservation biological control

scientific article published in 2014

Climate warming strengthens indirect interactions in an old-field food web.

scientific article

Consequences of body size variation among herbivores on the strength of plant–herbivore interactions in a seasonal environment

scientific article published in 2007

Consequences of individual size variation for survival of an insect herbivore: an analytical model and experimental field testing using the red-legged grasshopper

scientific article published in 2008

Conserving Biodiversity: Practical Guidance about Climate Change Adaptation Approaches in Support of Land-use Planning

scientific article published in 2015

Context matters when rewilding for climate change

scientific article published on 15 February 2024

Convergence of trophic interaction strengths in grassland food webs through metabolic scaling of herbivore biomass ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Defending biodiversity in the age of humans

scientific article published in 2018

Detritivores ameliorate the enhancing effect of plant-based trophic cascades on nitrogen cycling in an old-field system

scientific article published on April 2015

Dietary guild composition and disaggregation of avian assemblages under climate change

scientific article

Differences in prey personality mediate trophic cascades

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Do predators have a role to play in wetland ecosystem functioning? An experimental study in New England salt marshes

scientific article published on 21 July 2021

EFFECTS OF GROUPING BEHAVIOR AND PREDATORS ON THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF A FOREST FLOOR ARTHROPOD

scientific article published in 2005

Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics: The Predator-Prey Adaptive Play and the Ecological Theater

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Ecology: Re-complexifying impoverished food webs

scientific article published in November 2024

Ecosystem Function and Services of Aquatic Predators in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Editing nature: Local roots of global governance

scientific article published in Science

Editorial overview: Global change, evolutionary ecology and adaptation

scientific article published on 30 August 2018

Effects of Deer Settling Stimulus and Deer Density on Regeneration in a Harvested Southern New England Forest

article

Effects of gray wolf‐induced trophic cascades on ecosystem carbon cycling

scientific article published on 21 October 2016

Effects of predator functional diversity on grassland ecosystem function

scientific article published in September 2009

Effects of predator hunting mode on grassland ecosystem function

scientific article

Effects of spines and thorns on Australian arid zone herbivores of different body masses

scientific article published on 01 December 1991

Enhancing species distribution modeling by characterizing predator-prey interactions

scientific article published on January 2014

Experimental warming transforms multiple predator effects in a grassland food web.

scientific article

Fear of predation slows plant-litter decomposition

scientific article published in June 2012

Fear on the move: predator hunting mode predicts variation in prey mortality and plasticity in prey spatial response

scientific article

Food Webs and Ecosystems: Linking Species Interactions to the Carbon Cycle

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

Foraging to balance conflicting demands: novel insights from grasshoppers under predation risk

scientific article published in 1997

From individuals to ecosystem function: toward an integration of evolutionary and ecosystem ecology.

scientific article

Functional responses of adaptive consumers and community stability with emphasis on the dynamics of plant-herbivore systems

scientific article published in 1997

Genetic divergence of Connecticut Melanoplus femurrubrum populations

scientific article published on 5 April 2006

Global climate change and mammalian species diversity in U.S. national parks ⬇️

scientific article published on September 19, 2003

Global climate change and the evolutionary ecology of ecosystem functioning

scientific article

Global synthesis suggests that food web connectance correlates to invasion resistance

scientific article published on 10 August 2016

Grasshoppers alter jumping biomechanics to enhance escape performance under chronic risk of spider predation

scientific article published in 2010

Haynes, G. 1991. Mammoths, mastodants and elephants: biology, behavior and the fossil record. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 413 p. ISBN:0-521-38435-4

scientific article published in 1993

Herbivore physiological response to predation risk and implications for ecosystem nutrient dynamics

scientific article

Herbivory from Individuals to Ecosystems

scholarly article by Oswald Schmitz published in December 2008

Human Perceptions Mirror Realities of Carnivore Attack Risk for Livestock: Implications for Mitigating Human-Carnivore Conflict

scientific article

Human land‐use effects on mammalian mesopredator occupancy of a northeastern Connecticut landscape

scientific article published in 2022

Human–nature relationships: An introduction to social–ecological practice theory for human–wildlife interactions

scientific article published on 14 October 2023

Impacts of habitat connectivity on grassland arthropod metacommunity structure: A field‐based experimental test of theory

scientific article published in 2023

Influence of gap position and competition control on the leaf physiology of planted Picea glauca and natural regeneration of Populus tremuloides

scientific article published on 09 May 2018

Infusing considerations of trophic dependencies into species distribution modelling

scientific article published on 23 September 2014

Integrating policy and ecology systems to achieve path dependent climate solutions

scholarly article

Interactive effects of multiple climate change variables on food web dynamics: Modeling the effects of changing temperature, CO2, and water availability on a tri-trophic food web

scientific article published on 29 October 2016

Interactive effects of multiple climate change variables on trophic interactions: a meta-analysis

article by Adam E Rosenblatt & Oswald Schmitz published December 2014 in Climate Change Responses

Intraspecific differences in plant chemotype determine the structure of arthropod food webs.

scientific article published on 18 November 2015

Invasive plants may promote predator-mediated feedback that inhibits further invasion ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 May 2015

Invertebrate functional traits and terrestrial nutrient cycling: Insights from a global meta‐analysis

scientific article published on 30 March 2021

Landscape of fear and human-predator coexistence: Applying spatial predator-prey interaction theory to understand and reduce carnivore-livestock conflict

scientific article published in 2019

Landscape-scale accessibility of livestock to tigers: implications of spatial grain for modeling predation risk to mitigate human-carnivore conflict.

scientific article

Landscapes shaped from the top down: predicting cascading predator effects on spatial biogeochemistry

scientific article published in 2021

Linearity in the aggregate effects of multiple predators in a food web

scientific article published in 2002

Linking individuals with ecosystems: experimentally identifying the relevant organizational scale for predicting trophic abundances

scientific article

Linking intraspecific variation in plant chemical defence with arthropod and soil bacterial community structure and N allocation

scholarly article

Linking predation risk, herbivore physiological stress and microbial decomposition of plant litter

scientific article published on 12 March 2013

Linking trophic interactions to plasticity in thermal sensitivity of geographically separated populations of a herbivore

scientific article published in 2016

Local differences in maximum temperature determine water use among desert bighorn sheep populations

scientific article published in 2022

Microbial and animal nutrient limitation change the distribution of nitrogen within coupled green and brown food chains

scientific article published on 29 March 2019

Microbial stoichiometry overrides biomass as a regulator of soil carbon and nitrogen cycling

scientific article

Nitrogen recycling in coupled green and brown food webs: Weak effects of herbivory and detritivory when nitrogen passes through soil

scientific article published in 2018

Opposite effects of daytime and nighttime warming on top-down control of plant diversity

scientific article published on 28 October 2017

Owen-Smith's evaluation of herbivore foraging models: What is constraining?

scientific article published in 1993

Perturbation and abrupt shift in trophic control of biodiversity and productivity

scientific article published in 2004

Physiological Stress as a Fundamental Mechanism Linking Predation to Ecosystem Functioning ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

Plant Chemical Defense and Twig Selection by Snowshoe Hare: An Optimal Foraging Perspective

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Plant chemical variation mediates soil bacterial community composition

Predation Determines Different Selective Pressure on Pea Aphid Host Races in a Complex Agricultural Mosaic ⬇️

scientific article published on February 7, 2013

Predation risk, stoichiometric plasticity and ecosystem elemental cycling ⬇️

scientific article published on August 15, 2012

Predator and Prey Models with Flexible Individual Behavior and Imperfect Information

scientific article published on 01 May 2000

Predator and prey functional traits: understanding the adaptive machinery driving predator-prey interactions.

scientific article published on 27 September 2017

Predator community composition is linked to soil carbon retention across a human land use gradient

scientific article published on 8 March 2017

Predator control of ecosystem nutrient dynamics

scientific article

Predator diversity and trophic interactions

scientific article

Predator hunting mode and habitat domain alter nonconsumptive effects in predator-prey interactions

scientific article published in November 2007

Predator-driven elemental cycling: the impact of predation and risk effects on ecosystem stoichiometry

scientific article published on 15 October 2015

Predators affect competitors' coexistence through fear effects

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Predators and rainfall control spatial biogeochemistry in a landscape of fear

scientific article published on 04 September 2020

Predators avoiding predation

scholarly article

Predators have large effects on ecosystem properties by changing plant diversity, not plant biomass

scientific article published in June 2006

Pushing the boundaries of ecosystems

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Rapid recovery of damaged ecosystems

scientific article

Reconciling variability and optimal behaviour using multiple criteria in optimization models

scientific article published in January 1998

Restoration of Ailing Wetlands ⬇️

scientific article published on January 24, 2012

Revisiting the classics: considering nonconsumptive effects in textbook examples of predator-prey interactions

scientific article published on September 2008

Scaling from plot experiments to landscapes: studying grasshoppers to inform forest ecosystem management

scientific article published in September 2005

Short-term effects of different genetically modified maize varieties on arthropod food web properties: an experimental field assessment

scientific article

Spatial dynamics and ecosystem functioning

scientific article

Species in ecosystems and all that jazz

scientific article published on 13 July 2018

Status and ecological effects of the world's largest carnivores

scientific article

Stocks, Flows, and Prospects of Land

Suburbanization Increases Echinostome Infection in Green Frogs and Snails

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Temperature dependence of predation stress and the nutritional ecology of a generalist herbivore

scientific article published on 4 October 2016

The Ecosystem Impacts of Severe Warming

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The Temperature Dependence of Predation Stress and Prey Nutritional Stoichiometry

scientific article published in 2017

The context dependence of non-consumptive predator effects

scientific article published on 29 September 2020

The economics of conservation debt: a natural capital approach to revealed valuation of ecological dynamics

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

The limits of direct community modeling approaches for broad-scale predictions of ecological assemblage structure

scientific article published in 2016

Top predator control of plant biodiversity and productivity in an old-field ecosystem

scientific article published in 2003

Toward a community ecology of landscapes: predicting multiple predator-prey interactions across geographic space

scientific article published on 6 June 2017

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

article published in 2014

Trophic Cascades in Terrestrial Systems: A Review of the Effects of Carnivore Removals on Plants.

scientific article

Trophic Control across a Natural Productivity Gradient with Sap-Feeding Herbivores

scientific article published in 1998

Trophic cascade alters ecosystem carbon exchange

scientific article

Trophic cascades: the primacy of trait-mediated indirect interactions

scientific article published on 23 December 2004

Trophic exploitation in grassland food chains: simple models and a field experiment.

scientific article

Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions

Trophic trait plasticity in response to changes in resource availability and predation risk

scientific article published on 29 July 2011

Universal ecological patterns in college basketball communities

scientific article

Weak interactions between strong interactors in an old‐field ecosystem: Control of nitrogen cycling by coupled herbivores and detritivores

scientific article published in 2021

Weather variation and trophic interaction strength: sorting the signal from the noise

scientific article published on 4 June 2004

What is a Trophic Cascade?

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

Will like replace like? Linking thermal performance to ecological function across predator and herbivore populations

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

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