Late‐Quaternary megafauna extinctions have strongly reduced mammalian vegetation consumption

Elephant rewilding affects landscape openness and fauna habitat across a 92‐year period

(2023) Christopher E. Gordon et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The effects of defaunation on plants’ capacity to track climate change

(2022) Evan C. Fricke et al.   SCIENCE

Elephant rewilding indirectly affects the abundance of an arboreal but not generalist savanna lizard

(2021) Christopher E. Gordon et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Reintroducing extirpated herbivores could partially reverse the late Quaternary decline of large and grazing species

(2021) Simon D. Schowanek et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Guiding principles for rewilding

(2021) Steve Carver et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Exploring a natural baseline for large‐herbivore biomass in ecological restoration

(2021) Camilla Fløjgaard et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Global response of fire activity to late Quaternary grazer extinctions

(2021) Allison T. Karp et al.   SCIENCE

Trophic rewilding presents regionally specific opportunities for mitigating climate change

(2020) Christopher J. Sandom et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The megabiota are disproportionately important for biosphere functioning

(2020) Brian J. Enquist et al.   Nature Communications

Trophic rewilding revives biotic resistance to shrub invasion

(2020) Jennifer A. Guyton et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Mammal species composition reveals new insights into Earth's remaining wilderness

(2020) R Travis Belote et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Introduced herbivores restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions

(2020) Erick J. Lundgren et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Megafauna extinctions have reduced biotic connectivity worldwide

(2020) Emilio Berti et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Animal body size distribution influences the ratios of nutrients supplied to plants

(2020) Elizabeth le Roux et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The past and future human impact on mammalian diversity

(2020) Tobias Andermann et al.   Science Advances

Top-down limits on prey populations may be more severe in larger prey species, despite having fewer predators

(2019) Elizabeth le Roux et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Projected losses of global mammal and bird ecological strategies

(2019) Robert S. C. Cooke et al.   Nature Communications

Megaherbivores Modify Trophic Cascades Triggered by Fear of Predation in an African Savanna Ecosystem

(2018) Elizabeth le Roux et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Megafaunal effects on vegetation structure throughout a densely wooded African landscape

(2018) Andrew B. Davies et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

PHYLACINE 1.2: The Phylogenetic Atlas of Mammal Macroecology

(2018) Søren Faurby et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional composition of temperate forest trees under chronic ungulate herbivory

(2018) Per-Ola Hedwall et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The biomass distribution on Earth

(2018) Yinon M. Bar-On et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Body size downgrading of mammals over the late Quaternary

(2018) Felisa A. Smith et al.   SCIENCE

The large mean body size of mammalian herbivores explains the productivity paradox during the Last Glacial Maximum

(2018) Dan Zhu et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Global drivers of population density in terrestrial vertebrates

(2018) Luca Santini et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Humboldt and the reinvention of nature

(2018) Juli G. Pausas et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Can trophic rewilding reduce the impact of fire in a more flammable world?

(2018) Christopher N. Johnson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Shallow size-density relations within mammal clades suggest greater intra-guild ecological impact of large-bodied species

(2017) Rasmus Østergaard Pedersen et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Savanna elephant numbers are only a quarter of their expected values

(2017) Ashley S. Robson et al.   PLoS One

Factors Influencing the Survival of Sympatric Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) Nests

(2016) David Morgan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Brown world forests: increased ungulate browsing keeps temperate trees in recruitment bottlenecks in resource hotspots

(2016) Marcin Churski et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Extreme Wildlife Declines and Concurrent Increase in Livestock Numbers in Kenya: What Are the Causes?

(2016) Joseph O. Ogutu et al.   PLoS One

Historic and prehistoric human-driven extinctions have reshaped global mammal diversity patterns

(2015) S. Faurby et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The impact of the megafauna extinctions on savanna woody cover in South America

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Ecological legacies of civil war: 35-year increase in savanna tree cover following wholesale large-mammal declines

(2015) Joshua H. Daskin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Exploring the influence of ancient and historic megaherbivore extirpations on the global methane budget

(2015) Felisa A. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global nutrient transport in a world of giants

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research

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Combining paleo-data and modern exclosure experiments to assess the impact of megafauna extinctions on woody vegetation

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Collapse of the world's largest herbivores

(2015) W. J. Ripple et al.   Science Advances

EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals

(2014) Hamish Wilman et al.   ECOLOGY

High herbivore density associated with vegetation diversity in interglacial ecosystems

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Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Status and Ecological Effects of the World's Largest Carnivores

(2014) W. J. Ripple et al.   SCIENCE

Establishing macroecological trait datasets: digitalization, extrapolation, and validation of diet preferences in terrestrial mammals worldwide

(2014) Wilm Daniel Kissling et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Energy, water and space use by free-living red kangaroos Macropus rufus and domestic sheep Ovis aries in an Australian rangeland

(2013) A. J. Munn et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

The legacy of the Pleistocene megafauna extinctions on nutrient availability in Amazonia

(2013) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   Nature Geoscience

Ecological impacts of the late Quaternary megaherbivore extinctions

(2013) Jacquelyn L. Gill   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Lateral Diffusion of Nutrients by Mammalian Herbivores in Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2013) Adam Wolf et al.   PLoS One

Landscape-scale effects of herbivores on treefall in African savannas

(2012) Gregory P. Asner et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Mammoth steppe: a high-productivity phenomenon

(2012) S.A. Zimov et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Aftermath of Megafaunal Extinction: Ecosystem Transformation in Pleistocene Australia

(2012) S. Rule et al.   SCIENCE

Continuing wildlife population declines and range contraction in the Mara region of Kenya during 1977-2009

(2011) J. O. Ogutu et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Novel Plant Communities, and Enhanced Fire Regimes in North America

(2009) J. L. Gill et al.   SCIENCE

Megafauna biomass tradeoff as a driver of Quaternary and future extinctions

(2008) A. D. Barnosky   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Predator-prey size relationships in an African large-mammal food web

(2007) Norman Owen-Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY