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List of works by Douglas McCauley

A mammoth undertaking: harnessing insight from functional ecology to shape de-extinction priority setting

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Acute effects of removing large fish from a near-pristine coral reef

scientific article

Addressing Criticisms of Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas.

scientific article published on 5 April 2018

Assessing the effectiveness of a large marine protected area for reef shark conservation

Assessing the effects of large mobile predators on ecosystem connectivity

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Assessing the significance of global and local correlations under spatial autocorrelation: a nonparametric approach

scientific article

Carbon stable isotopes suggest that hippopotamus-vectored nutrients subsidize aquatic consumers in an East African river

scientific article published in 2015

Conservation at the edges of the world

Conservation policy. Wildlife decline and social conflict.

scientific article published in July 2014

Conservation: smart advocacy needs data

scientific article

Consumer preference for seeds and seedlings of rare species impacts tree diversity at multiple scales

scientific article

Context-Dependent Effects of Largewildlife Declines on Small-Mammal Communities in Central Kenya

scholarly article by Hillary S. Young et al published January 2015 in Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America

Context-dependent effects of large-wildlife declines on small-mammal communities in central Kenya

scientific article published on March 2015

Correction to 'Migration in the Anthropocene: how collective navigation, environmental system and taxonomy shape the vulnerability of migratory species'.

scientific article

Data-driven approach for highlighting priority areas for protection in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction

scientific article

Declines in large wildlife increase landscape-level prevalence of rodent-borne disease in Africa

scientific article (publication date: 13 May 2014)

Dermal denticle assemblages in coral reef sediments correlate with conventional shark surveys

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

Differential responses to guano fertilization among tropical tree species with varying functional traits

scientific article published on 7 January 2011

Digital nature: Are field trips a thing of the past?

scientific article published in October 2017

Diverse effects of the common hippopotamus on plant communities and soil chemistry

scientific article published on 11 August 2018

Drivers of Intensity and Prevalence of Flea Parasitism on Small Mammals in East African Savanna Ecosystems.

scientific article published on 29 January 2015

Ecological Importance of Large Herbivores in the Ewaso Ecosystem

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Ecological importance of large fishes

2011 thesis (Ph.D.) submitted to Stanford University by Douglas J. McCauley

Ecological selectivity of the emerging mass extinction in the oceans

scientific article

Effects of land use on plague (Yersinia pestis) activity in rodents in Tanzania

scientific article

Effects of mammalian herbivore declines on plant communities: observations and experiments in an African savanna

scientific article (publication date: July 2013)

Effects of spatial subsidies and habitat structure on the foraging ecology and size of geckos

scientific article

Effects of the hippopotamus on the chemistry and ecology of a changing watershed

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Effects of the removal of large herbivores on fleas of small mammals

scientific article published on December 2008

Empowering high seas governance with satellite vessel tracking data

scholarly article by Daniel C Dunn published in April 2018

Evaluating the performance of methods for estimating the abundance of rapidly declining coastal shark populations

scientific article published on March 1, 2012

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

scientific article

Fauna in decline--response

scientific article published on 13 November 2014

Fisheries-induced selection against schooling behaviour in marine fishes

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Fishing for good news

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

From wing to wing: the persistence of long ecological interaction chains in less-disturbed ecosystems

scientific article

Greater vulnerability to warming of marine versus terrestrial ectotherms

scientific article published on 24 April 2019

Growth and life history variability of the grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) across its range

scientific article

Herbivore-initiated interaction cascades and their modulation by productivity in an African savanna

scientific article (publication date: 2 January 2007)

Herbivores at the highest risk of extinction among mammals, birds, and reptiles

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

Hippopotamus dung inputs accelerate fish predation by terrestrial consumers

scientific article published in 2018

Impacts of rodent eradication on seed predation and plant community biomass on a tropical atoll

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Indirect effects of large herbivores on snakes in an African savanna

scientific article

Interacting effects of land use and climate on rodent-borne pathogens in central Kenya

scientific article

Invasive plant Arundo donax alters habitat use by carnivores

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Large wildlife removal drives immune defence increases in rodents

scientific article published in 2015

Limited trophic partitioning among sympatric delphinids off a tropical oceanic atoll

scientific article published on 2 August 2017

MARINE GOVERNANCE. Ending hide and seek at sea

scientific article published on 01 March 2016

Marine defaunation: animal loss in the global ocean

scientific article

Marine reserves can mitigate and promote adaptation to climate change

scientific article

Migration in the Anthropocene: how collective navigation, environmental system and taxonomy shape the vulnerability of migratory species

scientific article published in May 2018

Nature: McCauley replies

scientific article published in Nature

Night shift: expansion of temporal niche use following reductions in predator density

scientific article published in 2012

Nutrition: Fall in fish catch threatens human health

scientific article published on 15 June 2016

On the prevalence and dynamics of inverted trophic pyramids and otherwise top-heavy communities.

scientific article

Plants cause ecosystem nutrient depletion via the interruption of bird-derived spatial subsidies

scientific article

Positive and negative effects of a threatened parrotfish on reef ecosystems

scientific article

Pushing back against paper-park pushers – Reply to Craigie et al

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Reliance of mobile species on sensitive habitats: a case study of manta rays (Manta alfredi) and lagoons

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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

Resetting predator baselines in coral reef ecosystems.

scientific article

Scenarios for Global Aquaculture and Its Role in Human Nutrition

Selling out on nature

scientific article (publication date: 7 September 2006)

Spatial ecology of male hippopotamus in a changing watershed

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

The roles of productivity and ecosystem size in determining food chain length in tropical terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article published on March 1, 2013

Tracking the response of industrial fishing fleets to large marine protected areas in the Pacific Ocean

scientific article published on 08 October 2020

Use of high-resolution acoustic cameras to study reef shark behavioral ecology

scientific article published in 2016

Vulnerabilities and fisheries impacts: the uncertain future of manta and devil rays

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WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies

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Wealthy countries dominate industrial fishing

scientific article published on 01 August 2018