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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. 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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3. The wolf's tooth
: keystone predators, trophic cascades, and biodiversity
by Eisenberg, Cristina
2010, ISBN 1597263982, xvi, 254
Food chains (Ecology) | Ecology | Predation (Biology) | Predatory animals
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4. Full Text Trophic cascade alters ecosystem carbon exchange
by Michael S. Strickland and Dror Hawlena and Aspen Reese and Mark A. Bradford and Oswald J. Schmitz
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 7/2013, Volume 110, Issue 27, pp. 11035 - 11038
Trophic cascades—the indirect effects of carnivores on plants mediated by herbivores—are common across ecosystems, but their influence on biogeochemical... 
Carnivores | Terrestrial ecosystems | Predators | Spiders | Trophic cascades | Herbivores | Plants | Biomass | Respiration | Carbon | Carbon tracer experiment | Animal-mediated carbon cycling | Carbon retention | Experimental ecosystem ecology | experimental ecosystem ecology | COMMUNITY | GRASSLAND | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | animal-mediated carbon cycling | carbon retention | RISK | carbon tracer experiment | PHOTOSYNTHESIS | Food Chain | Plants - metabolism | Animals | Herbivory - physiology | Models, Biological | Ecosystem | Carbon Isotopes | Carbon Cycle - physiology | Carnivora - physiology | Biodiversity | Research | Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry) | Methods | Environmental impact analysis | Ecological balance | Biological Sciences
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5. 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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6. Full Text Trophic Cascade Facilitates Coral Recruitment in a Marine Reserve
by Peter J. Mumby and Alastair R. Harborne and Jodene Williams and Carrie V. Kappel and Daniel R. Brumbaugh and Fiorenza Micheli and Katherine E. Holmes and Craig P. Dahlgren and Claire B. Paris and Paul G. Blackwell
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 5/2007, Volume 104, Issue 20, pp. 8362 - 8367
Reduced fishing pressure and weak predator-prey interactions within marine reserves can create trophic cascades that increase the number of grazing fishes and... 
Coral reefs | Community structure | Larvae | Corals | Marine ecology | Marine fishes | Trophic cascades | Macroalgae | Biomass | Grazing intensity | Coral reef | Predation | Biodiversity | Grazing | PROTECTED AREAS | biodiversity | grazing | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | SIZE | ASSEMBLAGES | predation | COMMUNITY STRUCTURE | REEF | CONSERVATION | LARVAL TRANSPORT | ALGAE | POPULATION-STRUCTURE | SCLERACTINIAN CORALS | coral reef | Predatory Behavior - physiology | Food Chain | Animals | Eukaryota - physiology | Anthozoa - physiology | Larva | Models, Biological | Conservation of Natural Resources | Fishes - physiology | Coral reef ecology | Aims and objectives | Trophic levels | Environmental aspects | Research | Observations | Marine parks and reserves | Biological Sciences
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7. Full Text Are wolves saving Yellowstone's aspen? A landscape-level test of a behaviorally mediated trophic cascade
by Kauffman, Matthew J and Brodie, Jedediah F and Jules, Erik S
Ecology, ISSN 0012-9658, 9/2010, Volume 91, Issue 9, pp. 2742 - 2755
Behaviorally mediated trophic cascades (BMTCs) occur when the fear of predation among herbivores enhances plant productivity. Based primarily on systems... 
Yellowstone National Park | behaviorally mediated trophic cascade | Populus tremuloides | predation risk | elk | Cervus elaphus | herbivory | density-mediated indirect interactions | Canis lupus | predator hunting mode | landscape of fear | trait-mediated indirect interactions | National parks | Predators | Wolves | Habitats | Browsing | Trophic cascades | Ecology | Herbivores | Creels | Elks | Yellowstone national park | Elk | Trait-mediated indirect interactions | Predator hunting mode | Herbivory | Landscape of fear | Predation risk | Behaviorally mediated trophic cascade | Density-mediated indirect interactions | ELK HERD | USA | NATIONAL-PARK | NORTHERN RANGE | TEMPORAL VARIATION | HABITAT SELECTION | WOLF REINTRODUCTION | FOOD WEBS | ECOLOGY | ANTIPREDATOR RESPONSE | Predatory Behavior - physiology | Food Chain | Animals | Demography | Deer - physiology | Time Factors | Wolves - physiology | Conservation of Natural Resources | Populus - physiology | Protection and preservation | Red deer | Models | Predation (Biology) | Food and nutrition
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8. Full Text Variation in trophic cascade strength is triggered by top–down process in an ant–wasp‐fig system
by Wang, Bo and Segar, Simon T and Deng, Gui‐Zhong and Luo, Tian‐Xun and Lin, Hua and Peng, Yan‐Qiong
Oikos, ISSN 0030-1299, 02/2019, Volume 128, Issue 2, pp. 185 - 195
Changes in the strength of trophic cascades over time have been associated with dramatic shifts in community structure and function. However, the pattern,... 
fig wasp | predator-exclusion | predation | fig | trophic cascade strength | TEMPORAL VARIATION | PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTIONS | COMMUNITY | MODELS | DYNAMICS | ECOLOGY | VARY | MULTIVARIATE ANALYSES | CLIMATE | Community structure | Trees | Keystone species | Seed production | Communities | Branches | Fruit trees | Dry season | Ants | Dynamics | Correlation analysis | Cascades | Seasons | Interactions | Temporal variations | Rainy season | Small mammals | Dismantling | Species | Strength | Structure-function relationships
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9. Full Text A trophic cascade triggers collapse of a salt-marsh ecosystem with intensive recreational fishing
by Altieri, Andrew H and Bertness, Mark D and Coverdale, Tyler C and Herrmann, Nicholas C and Angelini, Christine
Ecology, ISSN 0012-9658, 06/2012, Volume 93, Issue 6, pp. 1402 - 1410
Overexploitation of predators has been linked to the collapse of a growing number of shallow-water marine ecosystems. However, salt-marsh ecosystems are often... 
plant-herbivore interactions | recreational fishing | overfishing | Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA | conservation | food web | top-down control | human impacts | top predator | trophic cascade | Spartina alterniflora | marine | Predators | Marine ecology | Crabs | Trophic cascades | Sport fishing | Marine ecosystems | Salt marshes | Wetland ecology | Die off | Biomass | plant–herbivore interactions | USA | Cape Cod | Conservation | Human impacts | Toppredator | Plant-herbivore interactions | Top-down control | Food web | Marine | Massachusetts | Overfishing | Trophic cascade | Recreational fishing | CHESAPEAKE BAY | CONSUMER CONTROL | CORAL-REEFS | CALLINECTES-SAPIDUS | ST-LAWRENCE | FISHERIES | NEW-ENGLAND | DIE-OFF | ECOLOGY | BLUE CRABS | Environmental aspects | Research | Fishing | Tidal marsh ecology | Plant-animal interactions
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10. 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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11. Full Text What Determines the Strength of a Trophic Cascade?
by E. T. Borer and E. W. Seabloom and J. B. Shurin and K. E. Anderson and C. A. Blanchette and B. Broitman and S. D. Cooper and B. S. Halpern
Ecology, ISSN 0012-9658, 2/2005, Volume 86, Issue 2, pp. 528 - 537
Trophic cascades have been documented in a diversity of ecological systems and can be important in determining biomass distribution within a community. To... 
Datasets | Vertebrates | Predators | Marine ecology | Trophic cascades | City states | Herbivores | Plants | Metabolism | Invertebrates | meta-analysis | trophic cascade | productivity | herbivore | predator | indirect effect | Productivity | Predator | Indirect effect | Trophic cascade | Herbivore | Meta-analysis | PREDATION | CONSUMER-RESOURCE DYNAMICS | METAANALYSIS | COMMUNITY REGULATION | NATURAL COMMUNITIES | TERRESTRIAL | POPULATION CONTROL | ECOLOGY | EXPLOITATION ECOSYSTEMS | BOTTOM-UP | Food chains (Ecology) | Ecology | Biomass | Research
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12. Full Text Recolonizing wolves trigger a trophic cascade in Wisconsin (USA)
by Ramana Callan and Nathan P. Nibbelink and Thomas P. Rooney and Jane E. Wiedenhoeft and Adrian P. Wydeven
Journal of Ecology, ISSN 0022-0477, 7/2013, Volume 101, Issue 4, pp. 837 - 845
1. We tested the hypothesis that wolves are reducing local browse intensity by white-tailed deer, thus indirectly mitigating the biotic impoverishment of... 
Conservation biology | Determinants of plant community diversity and structure | Cedars | Wolves | Plant ecology | Forest ecology | Shrubs | Wetland ecology | Plants | Human ecology | Species | Northern White Cedar (Thuja occidentalis) | biodiversity | species–area relationship | herbivory | trophic cascades | determinants of plant community diversity and structure | vegetation dynamics | white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) | Wisconsin | grey wolf (Canis lupus) | Grey wolf (Canis lupus) | Trophic cascades | White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) | Herbivory | Vegetation dynamics | Biodiversity | Species-area relationship | SPECIES-DIVERSITY | ODOCOILEUS-VIRGINIANUS | FOREST UNDERSTORIES | NORTHERN WISCONSIN | GREAT-LAKES REGION | BUFFER ZONES | PLANT SCIENCES | WHITE-TAILED DEER | OLD-GROWTH | ECOLOGY | species-area relationship | white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) | WOLF PREDATION | White-tailed deer | Data processing
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13. Full Text Fish predators reduce kelp frond loss via a trait‐mediated trophic cascade
by Haggerty, Miranda B and Anderson, Todd W and Long, Jeremy D
Ecology, ISSN 0012-9658, 07/2018, Volume 99, Issue 7, pp. 1574 - 1583
Although trophic cascades were originally believed to be driven only by predators eating prey, there is mounting evidence that such cascades can be generated... 
density‐mediated indirect interaction (DMII) | non‐consumptive effect | trophic cascade | trait‐mediated indirect interaction (TMII) | predator‐prey | fear | non-consumptive effect | density-mediated indirect interaction (DMII) | predator-prey | trait-mediated indirect interaction (TMII) | EPIFAUNA | SIZE | RISK | POPULATIONS | CONSEQUENCES | ECOLOGY | RELATIVE IMPORTANCE | FORCES | EGREGIA-MENZIESII | CONSUMPTION | FOOD | Predation (Biology) | Kelps | Trophic levels | Wrasses | Research | Ecological research | Plant-animal interactions | Wave energy | Wave power | Laboratories | Algae | Forming | Grazing | Seaweeds | Marine systems | Prey | Organic chemistry | Predators | Cascades | Fronds | Field tests | Fish | Predation
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14. 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 |