A new analysis challenges one of the most publicized claims about Yellowstone's wolves. In a detailed comment published in ...

Evidence varies on how subsidies affect trophic cascades within recipient food webs. This could be due to complex nonlinearities being masked by single-level manipulations (presence/absence) of ...

New research has demonstrated the powerful impacts the reintroduction of predators can have on an ecosystem. The presence of wolves in Yellowstone National Park has driven a cascading effect that has ...

Purpose: To introduce the idea of indirect effects of predator on prey by changing prey behavior, and of trophic cascades - effects of predators on primary producers; to construct a flow diagram of ...

It’s an environmental success story that feels like a parable—the reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone National Park in the mid-1990s triggered a cascade of effects that ultimately restored the ...

The release of gray wolves in Yellowstone decades ago still stands as one of the few examples of a predator reintroduction, and the lessons learned continue to be debated. New projects aim to do it ...

1. Resource subsidies often weaken trophic cascades in recipient communities via consumers' functional response to the subsidies. Consumer populations are commonly stage-structured and may respond to ...

Purpose: To practice interpreting graphical data; to use the data to address the question of why browsing by elk in Yellowstone was so intense during the 20th century. Why was elk browsing on ...