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1. Trophic cascades
: predators, prey, and the changing dynamics of nature
by Estes, J. A. 1945- (James A.) and Terborgh, John, 1936
2010, ISBN 1597264873, xx, 464
Keystone species | Ecology | Predatory animals | Predation (Biology)
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2. The wolf's tooth
: keystone predators, trophic cascades, and biodiversity
by Eisenberg, Cristina
2010, ISBN 9781597263986, xvi, 254
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3. Full Text Trophic Cascades
by Rao, T Ramakrishna
Resonance, ISSN 0971-8044, 11/2018, Volume 23, Issue 11, pp. 1205 - 1213
In many ecosystems, apex consumers (top predators) play a crucial role in food web dynamics. Their top-down impacts are known to spread downwards through the... 
aquatic ecosystem | trophic tangles | biomanipulation | Education | food web | resource | Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary | Trophic cascade | trophic downgrading | Science Education | consumer
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4. Full Text The Body Size Dependence of Trophic Cascades
by John P. DeLong and Benjamin Gilbert and Jonathan B. Shurin and Van M. Savage and Brandon T. Barton and Christopher F. Clements and Anthony I. Dell and Hamish S. Greig and Christopher D. G. Harley and Pavel Kratina and Kevin S. McCann and Tyler D. Tunney and David A. Vasseur and Mary I. O’Connor and Associate Editor: Frederick R. Adler and Editor: Judith L. Bronstein
The American Naturalist, ISSN 0003-0147, 03/2015, Volume 185, Issue 3, pp. 354 - 366
Trophic cascades are indirect positive effects of predators on resources via control of intermediate consumers. Larger-bodied predators appear to induce... 
Predators | Trophic levels | Body size | Trophic cascades | Trophic relationships | Ecological balance | Consumer equilibrium | Parametric models | Food chain | Human food chain | Interaction strength | Predator-prey size ratio | Allometry | Body size scaling | Trophic cascade | food chain | TERRESTRIAL FOOD WEBS | CONSUMER-RESOURCE DYNAMICS | SEA OTTERS | TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENCE | body size scaling | PREDATOR-PREY DYNAMICS | INTERACTION STRENGTHS | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | allometry | interaction strength | TOP-DOWN | trophic cascade | REAL DIFFERENCES | ECOLOGY | predator-prey size ratio | BOTTOM-UP | ECOSYSTEMS | Models, Theoretical | Predatory Behavior - physiology | Food Chain | Animals | Eukaryota | Body Size | Conservation of Natural Resources | Biological research | Food chains (Ecology) | Predation (Biology) | Research | Biology, Experimental
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5. Full Text Leading indicators of trophic cascades
by Carpenter, S. R and Brock, W. A and Cole, J. J and Kitchell, J. F and Pace, M. L
Ecology Letters, ISSN 1461-023X, 02/2008, Volume 11, Issue 2, pp. 128 - 138
Regime shifts are large, long‐lasting changes in ecosystems. They are often hard to predict but may have leading indicators which are detectable in advance.... 
return rate | depensation | leading indicator | spectrum | variance | trophic cascade | threshold | stochastic differential equations | Alternate stable state | lake | Leading indicator | Depensation | Stochastic differential equations | Trophic cascade | Return rate | Lake | Variance | Spectrum | Threshold | alternate stable state | REGIME SHIFTS | CATASTROPHIC SHIFTS | RESILIENCE | STABLE-STATE | ALTERNATIVE STATES | COMMUNITIES | ECOLOGY | SHALLOW LAKES | ECOSYSTEMS | LONG | Food Chain | Predatory Behavior | Animals | Models, Biological | Phytoplankton - physiology | Biomass | Fishes - physiology | Population Dynamics | Ecosystems | Food chains | Plankton | Lakes | Ecology | Models | Predation
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6. Full Text Wolves-coyotes-foxes: a cascade among carnivores
by Levi, Taal and Wilmers, Christopher C
Ecology, ISSN 0012-9658, 04/2012, Volume 93, Issue 4, pp. 921 - 929
Due to the widespread eradication of large canids and felids, top predators in many terrestrial ecosystems are now medium-sized carnivores such as coyotes.... 
indirect effects | predator interference | wolf | Minnesota, USA | coyote | intraguild predation | mesopredator release | fox | Carnivores | Foxes | Predators | Population growth | Wolves | Ecological competition | Forest habitats | Trophic relationships | Farmlands | Species | Predator interference | Indirect effects | Mesopredator release | Coyote | Wolf | Fox | Intraguild predation | SWIFT FOXES | AFRICAN WILD DOGS | TROPHIC CASCADES | RED FOXES | NORTH-ATLANTIC OSCILLATION | SCENT-STATION SURVEYS | ECOLOGY | EASTERN COYOTES | POPULATION-DYNAMICS | Food Chain | Animals | Foxes - physiology | Wolves - physiology | Coyotes - physiology | Feeding Behavior | Minnesota | Seasons | Population Dynamics | Coyotes | Predatory animals | Research | Trophic levels
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7. Full Text Trophic Cascades in a Formerly Cod-Dominated Ecosystem
by Kenneth T. Frank and Brian Petrie and Jae S. Choi and William C. Leggett
Science, ISSN 0036-8075, 6/2005, Volume 308, Issue 5728, pp. 1621 - 1623
Removal of top predators from ecosystems can result in cascading effects through the trophic levels below, completely restructuring the food web. Cascades have... 
Predators | Oceans | Ecosystems | Trophic cascades | Seals | Macroinvertebrates | Marine ecosystems | Reports | Food webs | Freshwater ecosystems | Biomass | DYNAMICS | FISHERIES | FOOD WEBS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | Predatory Behavior | Atlantic Ocean | Fisheries | Biodiversity | Food Chain | Animals | Time Factors | Ecosystem | Fishes | Population Density | Phytoplankton | Invertebrates | Principal Component Analysis | Seals, Earless | Zooplankton | Gadus morhua | Population Dynamics | Seawater | Research | Analysis | Varieties | Fish | Predation | Ecosystem studies | Aquatic ecosystems
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8. Full Text Warming modifies trophic cascades and eutrophication in experimental freshwater communities
by Kratina, Pavel and Greig, Hamish S and Thompson, Patrick L and Carvalho-Pereira, Ticiana S. A and Shurin, Jonathan B
Ecology, ISSN 0012-9658, 06/2012, Volume 93, Issue 6, pp. 1421 - 1430
Climate warming is occurring in concert with other anthropogenic changes to ecosystems. However, it is unknown whether and how warming alters the importance of... 
temporal variability | trophic interactions | community structure | productivity | metabolic rates | climate warming | press perturbations | food webs | indirect and direct temperature effects | Synecology | Marine ecology | Communities | Trophic relationships | Phytoplankton | Ecology | Freshwater ecology | Biomass | Zooplankton | Eutrophication | Community structure | Productivity | Metabolic rates | Press perturbations | Temporal variability | Climate warming | Food webs | Indirect and direct temperature effects | Trophic interactions | SYSTEM | PHOSPHORUS | STABILITY | CLIMATE-CHANGE | RATES | RESPONSES | TEMPERATURE | POLLUTION | ECOLOGY | DIVERSITY | ECOSYSTEMS | Plankton - physiology | Food Chain | Global Warming | Animals | Time Factors | Ecosystem | Fresh Water | Plankton - cytology | Smegmamorpha - physiology | Habitat (Ecology) | Modification | Global warming | Food chains (Ecology) | Research
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9. Full Text High fishery catches through trophic cascades in China
by Szuwalski, Cody S and Burgess, Matthew G and Costello, Christopher and Gaines, Steven D
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 01/2017, Volume 114, Issue 4, pp. 717 - 721
Indiscriminate and intense fishing has occurred in many marine ecosystems around the world. Although this practice may have negative effects on biodiversity... 
Fisheries | Ecosystem management | China | Food security | Trophic cascades | ecosystem management | MANAGEMENT | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | food security | fisheries | trophic cascades | Fishery management | Methods | Biological Sciences | Social Sciences
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10. Full Text Trophic cascades in Yellowstone: The first 15years after wolf reintroduction
by Ripple, William J and Beschta, Robert L
Biological Conservation, ISSN 0006-3207, 01/2012, Volume 145, Issue 1, pp. 205 - 213
► The reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone has triggered a tri-trophic cascade. ► Woody plants are now growing taller in portions of the northern range. ►... 
Yellowstone | Wolves | Elk | Aspen | Trophic cascades
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11. Full Text Wolf‐triggered trophic cascades and stream channel dynamics in Olympic National Park: a comment on East et al. (2017)
by Beschta, Robert L and Ripple, William J
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, ISSN 0197-9337, 03/2018, Volume 43, Issue 4, pp. 930 - 935
riparian vegetation | trophic cascades | sediment, peakflows | fluvial geomorphology | ASPEN RECRUITMENT | WOLVES | USA | QUEETS RIVER | ELK | WASHINGTON | peakflows | sediment | NORTHERN YELLOWSTONE | FOREST | GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA | RANGE | Geomorphology | National parks and reserves | Sediments (Geology) | River channels | National parks | Dynamics | Cascades
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12. Full Text Trophic cascades in Yellowstone: The first 15 years after wolf reintroduction
by Ripple, WJ and Beschta, RL
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, ISSN 0006-3207, 01/2012, Volume 145, Issue 1, pp. 205 - 213
The 1995/1996 reintroduction of gray wolves (Canis lupus) into Yellowstone National Park after a 70 year absence has allowed for studies of tri-trophic... 
ASPEN RECRUITMENT | NATIONAL-PARK | Elk | GRAZING ECOSYSTEM | Aspen | NORTHERN YELLOWSTONE | HABITAT SELECTION | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | Wolves | Trophic cascades | Yellowstone | SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA | ECOLOGY | WINTER RANGE | PREDATION RISK | BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION | ELK IMPLICATIONS
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13. Trophic redundancy reduces vulnerability to extinction cascades
by Dirk Sanders and Elisa Thébault and Rachel Kehoe and F J Frank van Veen
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 03/2018, Volume 115, Issue 10, p. 2419
Current species extinction rates are at unprecedentedly high levels. While human activities can be the direct cause of some extinctions, it is becoming... 
Parasitoids | Extinct species | Simplification | Computer simulation | Extinction | Redundancy | Ecosystems | Communities | Trophic levels | Harvesting | Species extinction | Plant communities | Food webs | Biodiversity | Simulation | Insects | Food chains | Cascades
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14. Full Text A cross‐ecosystem comparison of the strength of trophic cascades
by Shurin, Jonathan B and Borer, Elizabeth T and Seabloom, Eric W and Anderson, Kurt and Blanchette, Carol A and Broitman, Bernardo and Cooper, Scott D and Halpern, Benjamin S
Ecology Letters, ISSN 1461-023X, 11/2002, Volume 5, Issue 6, pp. 785 - 791
Although trophic cascades (indirect effects of predators on plants via herbivores) occur in a wide variety of food webs, the magnitudes of their effects are... 
top‐down control | indirect effects | predation | Cross‐system comparison | trophic structure | meta‐analysis | Top-down control | Predation | Indirect effects | Trophic structure | Cross-system comparison | Meta-analysis | METAANALYSIS | meta-analysis | PATTERNS | TERRESTRIAL | IMPACT | COMMUNITY | MODELS | top-down control | FOOD WEBS | PRODUCTIVITY | DYNAMICS | ECOLOGY | cross-system comparison
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15. Full Text Trophic Cascades Promote Threshold-Like Shifts in Pelagic Marine Ecosystems
by Michele Casini and Joakim Hjelm and Juan-Carlos Molinero and Johan Lövgren and Massimiliano Cardinale and Valerio Bartolino and Andrea Belgrano and Georgs Kornilovs and Robert T. Paine
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 1/2009, Volume 106, Issue 1, pp. 197 - 202
Fisheries can have a large impact on marine ecosystems, because the effects of removing large predatory fish may cascade down the food web. The implications of... 
Climate change | Ecosystem dynamics | Seas | Marine ecology | Ecosystems | Marine fishes | Trophic cascades | Marine ecosystems | Biomass | Zooplankton | Ecosystem resilience | Alternative dynamics | Baltic Sea | Climate versus top-down control | Ecological thresholds | RECRUITMENT | FOOD-WEB | REGIME SHIFTS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | climate versus top-down control | CLIMATE-CHANGE | alternative dynamics | COMMUNITIES | ecological thresholds | FISH PRODUCTION | CLUPEA-HARENGUS | CENTRAL BALTIC SEA | TOP-DOWN | ecosystem resilience | BOTTOM-UP | Marine Biology | Food Chain | Gadiformes | Oceans and Seas | Animals | Ecosystem | Fishes | Extinction, Biological | Population Dynamics | Influence | Climatic changes | Predation (Biology) | Research | Trophic levels | Ecological balance | Biological Sciences
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16. Full Text Trophic Cascades Triggered by Overfishing Reveal Possible Mechanisms of Ecosystem Regime Shifts
by Georgi M. Daskalov and Alexander N. Grishin and Sergei Rodionov and Vesselina Mihneva
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 6/2007, Volume 104, Issue 25, pp. 10518 - 10523
Large-scale transitions between alternative states in ecosystems are known as regime shifts. Once described as healthy and dominated by various marine... 
Predators | Plankton | Trophic levels | Ecosystems | Trophic cascades | Marine ecosystems | Phytoplankton | Fish | Biomass | Zooplankton | Invasive species | Foodweb control | Black Sea | Top predators | Disturbance | disturbance | MANAGEMENT | OCEAN | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | invasive species | top predators | foodweb control | FISHERIES | COLLAPSE | DYNAMICS | FISH | BLACK-SEA | Fisheries - methods | Marine Biology | Models, Theoretical | Food Chain | Oceans and Seas | Animals | Ecosystem | Population Density | Fishes - physiology | Ctenophora - physiology | Environmental aspects | Food chains (Ecology) | Predation (Biology) | Research | Biological Sciences
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17. Full Text Trophic cascades in the bryosphere: the impact of global change factors on top‐down control of cyanobacterial N2‐fixation
by Kardol, Paul and Spitzer, Clydecia M and Gundale, Michael J and Nilsson, Marie‐Charlotte and Wardle, David A and Gessner, Mark
Ecology Letters, ISSN 1461-023X, 08/2016, Volume 19, Issue 8, pp. 967 - 976
Trophic cascades in which predators regulate densities of organisms at lower trophic levels are important drivers of population dynamics, but effects of... 
top‐down control | Boreal forest | precipitation | trophic interactions | nitrogen cycling | nitrogen deposition | food webs | feather moss | bottom‐up control | Pleurozium schreberi | top-down control | bottom-up control | Bryophyta - physiology | Cyanobacteria - physiology | Food Chain | Nitrogen Fixation - physiology | Animals | Bryophyta - microbiology | Ecosystems | Precipitation (Meteorology) | Food chains
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