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 ...

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 ecosystems of coastal and enclosed seas are under increasing anthropogenic pressure worldwide, with Chesapeake Bay, the Gulf of Mexico and the Black and Baltic Seas as well known examples. We use ...

The commonly held claim that wolves reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park in the mid-1990s spearheaded a "trophic cascade" of ecological restoration, as some studies indicated, is unfounded, ...

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 ...

Trophic cascades can determine the structure of aquatic food webs, a role often used to manage water quality in lakes. However, trophic cascades are subject to multiple interacting drivers of ...

For more than a decade a passionate debate has reverberated within Yellowstone National Park’s scientific community regarding wolf reintroduction. Did wolves improve aspen growth by helping to reduce ...

These are published figures from peer-reviewed research journals and monographs that engage students in data analysis and critical thinking organized by teaching approach, Bloom's Taxonomy cognitive ...