A new paradigm has been developed for describing trophic cascades caused by infectious agents. When gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, they sparked a resurgence of aspen trees ...

STONY BROOK, NY, July 6, 2010 - A compendium on trophic cascades and how they operate in the world's major ecosystems has been published for the first time. The term "trophic cascades" refers to the ...

D. G. Flagel, G. E. Belovsky and D. E. Beyer Jr. Herbivores can be major drivers of environmental change, altering plant community structure and changing biodiversity through the amount and species of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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