A global database and “state of the field” review of research into ecosystem engineering by land animals

Mammal burrowing in discrete landscape patches further increases soil and vegetation heterogeneity in an arid environment

(2017) M.A. Louw et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

A theoretical foundation for multi-scale regular vegetation patterns

(2017) Corina E. Tarnita et al.   NATURE

Aardvark burrows: a potential resource for animals in arid and semi-arid environments

(2017) G.M. Whittington-Jones et al.   AFRICAN ZOOLOGY

Cape ground squirrels as ecosystem engineers: modifying habitat for plants, small mammals and beetles in Namib Desert grasslands

(2016) Michelle V. A. Ewacha et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Could biodiversity loss have increased Australia's bushfire threat?

(2016) M. W. Hayward et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Experimental habitat restoration for conserved species using ecosystem engineers and vegetation management

(2016) S. McCullough Hennessy et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Vegetation heterogeneity caused by an ecosystem engineer drives oviposition-site selection of a threatened grassland insect

(2016) Merle Streitberger et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Contrasting effects of two mammalian soil engineers on microbial communities

(2016) David J. Eldridge et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Termite cohabitation: the relative effect of biotic and abiotic factors on mound biodiversity

(2016) ALESSANDRA MARINS et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Host plant phenology may determine the abundance of an ecosystem engineering herbivore in a tropical savanna

(2016) MARIANA VELASQUE et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Elephants in the understory: opposing direct and indirect effects of consumption and ecosystem engineering by megaherbivores

(2016) Tyler C. Coverdale et al.   ECOLOGY

Ecosystem engineering by a gall-forming wasp indirectly suppresses diversity and density of herbivores on oak trees

(2016) William C. Wetzel et al.   ECOLOGY

Mammalian engineers drive soil microbial communities and ecosystem functions across a disturbance gradient

(2016) David J. Eldridge et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Net effects of soil disturbance and herbivory on vegetation by a re-established digging mammal assemblage in arid zone Australia

(2016) Simon James Verdon et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Termite activity and decomposition are influenced by digging mammal reintroductions along an aridity gradient

(2016) Nicole V. Coggan et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Modification of plant-induced responses by an insect ecosystem engineer influences the colonization behaviour of subsequent shelter-users

(2016) Akane Uesugi et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ecosystem engineering and manipulation of host plant tissues by the insect borer Oncideres albomarginata chamela

(2016) Nancy Calderón-Cortés et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

The impacts of beaversCastorspp. on biodiversity and the ecological basis for their reintroduction to Scotland, UK

(2016) Andrew P. Stringer et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment

(2016) Tim Newbold et al.   SCIENCE

Introduction to the Special Issue on Soil Macrofauna as Ecosystem Engineers

(2016) Daniel R. Hirmas et al.   SOIL SCIENCE

Ecosystem Engineers in a Self-organized Soil

(2016) Patrick Lavelle et al.   SOIL SCIENCE

Burrowing Through the Literature

(2016) Brian F. Platt et al.   SOIL SCIENCE

Arctic foxes as ecosystem engineers: increased soil nutrients lead to increased plant productivity on fox dens

(2016) Tazarve Gharajehdaghipour et al.   Scientific Reports

The Elephant Poaching Crisis in Tanzania: A Need to Reverse the Trend and the Way Forward

(2016) Jafari R. Kideghesho   Tropical Conservation Science

Cumulative effects of an herbivorous ecosystem engineer in a heterogeneous landscape

(2016) Mitchell A. Parsons et al.   Ecosphere

Vegetation and climate determine ant-mound occupancy by a declining herbivorous insect in grasslands

(2015) Merle Streitberger et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Further support for thermal ecosystem engineering by wandering albatross

(2015) Tanya M. Haupt et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Numbat nirvana: conservation ecology of the endangered numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) (Marsupialia : Myrmecobiidae) reintroduced to Scotia and Yookamurra Sanctuaries, Australia

(2015) Matt W. Hayward et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Populations, pools, and peccaries: simulating the impact of ecosystem engineers on rainforest frogs

(2015) M. Ringler et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Making literature reviews more reliable through application of lessons from systematic reviews

(2015) N.R. Haddaway et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Soil-foraging animals alter the composition and co-occurrence of microbial communities in a desert shrubland

(2015) David J Eldridge et al.   ISME Journal

Synergistic effects of fire and elephants on arboreal animals in an African savanna

(2015) Robert M. Pringle et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Burrow systems of mole-rats as refuges for frogs in the Miombo woodlands of south-east Africa

(2015) Jan Šklíba et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Drill, baby, drill: the influence of woodpeckers on post-fire vertebrate communities through cavity excavation

(2015) G. L. Tarbill et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Reintroduction of locally extinct vertebrates impacts arid soil fungal communities

(2015) Laurence J. Clarke et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Shelter-Building Insects and Their Role as Ecosystem Engineers

(2015) T Cornelissen et al.   NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Effects of reconstruction of a pre-European vertebrate assemblage on ground-dwelling arachnids in arid Australia

(2015) Colin J. Silvey et al.   OECOLOGIA

Termite mounds can increase the robustness of dryland ecosystems to climatic change

(2015) J. A. Bonachela et al.   SCIENCE

Whole-ecosystem experimental manipulations of tropical forests

(2015) Tom M. Fayle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Contrasting Responses of Web-Building Spiders to Deer Browsing Among Habitats and Feeding Guilds

(2015) Mayura Takada et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

At home with the birds: Kalahari tree skinks associate with sociable weaver nests despite African pygmy falcon presence

(2014) Tasmin L. Rymer et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Modification by an invasive ecosystem engineer shifts a wet prairie to a monotypic stand

(2014) Elizabeth H. Boughton et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Ecosystem engineering effects on species diversity across ecosystems: a meta-analysis

(2014) Gustavo Q. Romero et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Native leaf-tying caterpillars influence host plant use by the invasive Asiatic oak weevil through ecosystem engineering

(2014) Christina S. Baer et al.   ECOLOGY

Facilitation Among Saproxylic Insects Inhabiting Tree Hollows in a Mediterranean Forest: The Case of Cetonids (Coleoptera: Cetoniidae) and Syrphids (Diptera: Syrphidae)

(2014) I. R. Sánchez-Galván et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Molehills as important larval habitats for the grizzled skipper, Pyrgus malvae (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), in calcareous grasslands

(2014) Merle STREITBERGER et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

The role of a mound-building ecosystem engineer for a grassland butterfly

(2014) Merle Streitberger et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Mesoherbivores affect grasshopper communities in a megaherbivore-dominated South African savannah

(2014) Fons van der Plas et al.   OECOLOGIA

Integrating ecosystem engineering and food webs

(2014) Dirk Sanders et al.   OIKOS

Habitat-Mediated Variation in the Importance of Ecosystem Engineers for Secondary Cavity Nesters in a Nest Web

(2014) Hugo Robles et al.   PLoS One

Interactions between the superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) and fire in south-eastern Australia

(2014) Daniel T. Nugent et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Burrow-dwelling ecosystem engineers provide thermal refugia throughout the landscape

(2013) D. A. Pike et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Impact of abundant Pheidole ant species on soil nutrients in relation to the food biology of the species

(2013) R.K. Shukla et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Earthworm invasion alters enchytraeid community composition and individual biomass in northern hardwood forests of North America

(2013) Jiří Schlaghamerský et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Foraging activity by the southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) as a mechanism for soil turnover

(2013) Leonie E. Valentine et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Elephants facilitate impact of large predators on small ungulate prey species

(2013) Craig J. Tambling et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Utilization of harvester ant nest sites by Persian goitered gazelle in steppes of central Iran

(2013) Saeideh Esmaeili et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Within-lodge interactions between two ecosystem engineers, beavers (Castor canadensis) and muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus)

(2013) Cy L. Mott et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Long-term exclosure of large terrestrial vertebrates: Implications of defaunation for seedling demographics in the Amazon rainforest

(2013) Harald Beck et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Using a surviving lineage of Madagascar’s vanished megafauna for ecological restoration

(2013) Miguel Pedrono et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Elephant both Increase and Decrease Availability of Browse Resources for Black Rhinoceros

(2013) Marietjie Landman et al.   BIOTROPICA

The Role of Giant Armadillos (Priodontes maximus) as Physical Ecosystem Engineers

(2013) Arnaud Léonard Jean Desbiez et al.   BIOTROPICA

Equivalency of Galápagos Giant Tortoises Used as Ecological Replacement Species to Restore Ecosystem Functions

(2013) ELIZABETH A. HUNTER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Contrasting engineering effects of leaf-rolling caterpillars on a tropical mite community

(2013) VIVIAN O. LIMA et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Leaf-cutting ants as ecosystem engineers: topsoil and litter perturbations aroundAtta cephalotesnests reduce nutrient availability

(2013) SEBASTIAN T. MEYER et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Ecosystem engineers on plants: indirect facilitation of arthropod communities by leaf-rollers at different scales

(2013) Camila Vieira et al.   ECOLOGY

The ecological consequences of megafaunal loss: giant tortoises and wetland biodiversity

(2013) Cynthia A. Froyd et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Metapopulation Dynamics of a Burrowing Herbivore Drive Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Riparian Plant Communities

(2013) Rosalind Bryce et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Linking ecosystem modification by the yellow meadow ant (Lasius flavus) to microbial assemblages in different soil environments

(2013) Bas Boots et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Escaping the flames: large termitaria as refugia from fire in miombo woodland

(2013) Grant S. Joseph et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Is the loss of Australian digging mammals contributing to a deterioration in ecosystem function?

(2013) Patricia A. Fleming et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

High frequency of functional extinctions in ecological networks

(2013) Torbjörn Säterberg et al.   NATURE

Direct and indirect effects of termites on savanna tree-seedling growth

(2013) Kayleigh Muller et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Niche Construction Theory: A Practical Guide for Ecologists

(2013) John Odling-Smee et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Marmot Disturbance Drives Trait Variations Among Five Dominant Grasses in a Mongolian Grassland

(2013) Takehiro Sasaki et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Relic bilby (Macrotis lagotis) refuge burrows: assessment of potential contribution to a rangeland restoration program

(2013) Tamra F. Chapman   RANGELAND JOURNAL

Densities of Ecological Replacement Herbivores Required to Restore Plant Communities: A Case Study of Giant Tortoises on Pinta Island, Galápagos

(2013) Elizabeth A. Hunter et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Herbivory of an invasive slug is affected by earthworms and the composition of plant communities

(2013) Johann G Zaller et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Local and latitudinal variation in abundance: the mechanisms shaping the distribution of an ecosystem engineer

(2013) Gregory M. Crutsinger et al.   PeerJ

Meta-analysis of the effects of small mammal disturbances on species diversity, richness and plant biomass

(2012) MEREDITH ROOT-BERNSTEIN et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Impacts of invasive Asian (Amynthas hilgendorfi) and European (Lumbricus rubellus) earthworms in a North American temperate deciduous forest

(2012) Holly G. Greiner et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Impact of wild boar (Sus scrofa) in its introduced and native range: a review

(2012) M. Noelia Barrios-Garcia et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Considering Extinction of Dependent Species during Translocation, Ex Situ Conservation, and Assisted Migration of Threatened Hosts

(2012) MELINDA L. MOIR et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Ecosystem engineering varies spatially: a test of the vegetation modification paradigm for prairie dogs

(2012) Bruce W. Baker et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Harvester ants modify seed rain using nest vegetation and granivory

(2012) NANCY NICOLAI et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Comparison of direct, indirect, and ecosystem engineering effects of an earthworm on the red-backed salamander

(2012) Tami S. Ransom   ECOLOGY

Both host plant and ecosystem engineer identity influence leaf-tie impacts on the arthropod community ofQuercus

(2012) H. George Wang et al.   ECOLOGY

Non-native earthworm influences on ectomycorrhizal colonization and growth of white spruce

(2012) Erin K. Cameron et al.   ECOSCIENCE

Spatial organization of earthworm assemblages in pastures of northwestern France

(2012) Benoit Richard et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

The effects of harvester ant (Messor ebeninus Forel) nests on vegetation and soil properties in a desert dwarf shrub community in north-eastern Arabia

(2012) Gary Brown et al.   FLORA

Ecological roles and conservation challenges of social, burrowing, herbivorous mammals in the world's grasslands

(2012) Ana D Davidson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Are Primates Ecosystem Engineers?

(2012) Colin A. Chapman et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Elk herbivory alters small mammal assemblages in high-elevation drainages

(2012) Elliott W. R. Parsons et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The influence of termite-induced heterogeneity on savanna vegetation along a climatic gradient in West Africa

(2012) Arne Erpenbach et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Mole rats act as ecosystem engineers within a biodiversity hotspot, the Cape Fynbos

(2012) N. Hagenah et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Arctic ground squirrelsUrocitellus parryiias drivers and indicators of change in northern ecosystems

(2012) Helen C. Wheeler et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Rewilding the Scottish Highlands: Do Wild Boar,Sus scrofa, Use a Suitable Foraging Strategy to be Effective Ecosystem Engineers?

(2012) Christopher J. Sandom et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Influence of two exotic earthworm species with different foraging strategies on abundance and composition of boreal microarthropods

(2012) Erin K. Cameron et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Gall-inducing nematodes as ecosystem engineers for arthropods associated with its host plant in the Cerrado of Brazil

(2012) Pietro Kiyoshi Maruyama et al.   STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT

Megagardeners of the forest – the role of elephants in seed dispersal

(2011) Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Can the invasive European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) assume the soil engineering role of locally-extinct natives?

(2011) Alex I. James et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Experimental evidence for mediation of competition by habitat succession

(2011) H. Gibb   ECOLOGY

Influence of termites on ecosystem functioning. Ecosystem services provided by termites

(2011) Pascal Jouquet et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Elephants (and extinct relatives) as earth-movers and ecosystem engineers

(2011) Gary Haynes   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Evidence for and geomorphologic consequences of a reptilian ecosystem engineer: The burrowing cascade initiated by the Gopher Tortoise

(2011) A. Kinlaw et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Partitioning the effects of an ecosystem engineer: kangaroo rats control community structure via multiple pathways

(2011) Laura R. Prugh et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Ecosystem engineering and predation: the multi-trophic impact of two ant species

(2011) Dirk Sanders et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) engineering effects promote plant heterogeneity in Mediterranean dehesa pastures

(2011) L. Gálvez-Bravo et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Parasites and Dung Beetles as Ecosystem Engineers in a Forest Ecosystem

(2011) Broox G. V. Boze et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR

Large termitaria act as refugia for tall trees, deadwood and cavity-using birds in a miombo woodland

(2011) Grant S. Joseph et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Small mammals cause non-trophic effects on habitat and associated snails in a native system

(2011) Mikaela Huntzinger et al.   OECOLOGIA

Range-wide declines of a key Neotropical ecosystem architect, the Near Threatened white-lipped peccary Tayassu pecari

(2011) Mariana Altrichter et al.   ORYX

Insects as Stem Engineers: Interactions Mediated by the Twig-Girdler Oncideres albomarginata chamela Enhance Arthropod Diversity

(2011) Nancy Calderón-Cortés et al.   PLoS One

The impact of tree modification by African elephant (Loxodonta africana) on herpetofaunal species richness in northern Tanzania

(2010) Nabil A. Nasseri et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Formation of nutrient-poor soil patches in a semi-arid woodland by the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus L.)

(2010) DAVID J. ELDRIDGE et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

When seasnake meets seabird: Ecosystem engineering, facilitation and competition

(2010) AMANDA M. LANE et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Do abandoned nests of leaf-cutting ants enhance plant recruitment in the Atlantic Forest?

(2010) ANA GABRIELA D. BIEBER et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Elephant-induced structural changes in the vegetation and habitat selection by large herbivores in an African savanna

(2010) Marion Valeix et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Ecosystem engineering by leaf-cutting ants: nests of Atta cephalotes drastically alter forest structure and microclimate

(2010) SEBASTIAN T. MEYER et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Interactive Effects of Three Ecosystem Engineers on Infiltration in a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Grassland

(2010) David J. Eldridge et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Functional Groups of Ecosystem Engineers: A Proposed Classification with Comments on Current Issues

(2010) S. K. Berke   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Food habits and impact of rooting behaviour of the invasive wild boar, Sus scrofa, in a protected area of the Monte Desert, Argentina

(2010) María Fernanda Cuevas et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Pack rats (Neotoma spp.): Keystone ecological engineers?

(2010) Walter G. Whitford et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Do Neotropical peccary species (Tayassuidae) function as ecosystem engineers for anurans?

(2010) Harald Beck et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Positive ecosystem engineering effects of the antAtta vollenweiderion the shrubGrabowskia duplicata

(2010) Beatriz Sosa et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Ecological engineering by a native leaf-cutting ant increases the performance of exotic plant species

(2010) Alejandro G. Farji-Brener et al.   OECOLOGIA

Ecosystem engineers maintain a rare species of butterfly and increase plant diversity

(2010) Rebecca A. Bartel et al.   OIKOS

The action of an animal ecosystem engineer: Identification of the main mechanisms of earthworm impacts on soil microarthropods

(2010) Nico Eisenhauer   PEDOBIOLOGIA

The influence of habitat provisioning: use of earthworm burrows by the terrestrial salamander, Plethodon cinereus

(2010) Rita I. Cáceres-Charneco et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Pre-Columbian agricultural landscapes, ecosystem engineers, and self-organized patchiness in Amazonia

(2010) Doyle McKey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biodiversity Conservation: Challenges Beyond 2010

(2010) Michael R. W. Rands et al.   SCIENCE

Complementary effects of disturbance by livestock and marmots on the spatial heterogeneity of vegetation and soil in a Mongolian steppe ecosystem

(2009) Yu Yoshihara et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Forest Elephants: Tree Planters of the Congo

(2009) Stephen Blake et al.   BIOTROPICA

Shit Happens (to be Useful)! Use of Elephant Dung as Habitat by Amphibians

(2009) Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz   BIOTROPICA

Seed Dispersal of the Palm Syagrus romanzoffiana by Tapirs in the Semi-deciduous Atlantic Forest of Argentina

(2009) Mariano I. Giombini et al.   BIOTROPICA

Giant Tortoises as Ecological Engineers: A Long-term Quasi-experiment in the Galápagos Islands

(2009) James P. Gibbs et al.   BIOTROPICA

Foraging animals create fertile patches in an Australian desert shrubland

(2009) Alex I. James et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Exotic Ecosystem Engineers Change the Emergence of Plants from the Seed Bank of a Deciduous Forest

(2009) Nico Eisenhauer et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

How leaf-cutting ants impact forests: drastic nest effects on light environment and plant assemblages

(2009) Michele M. Corrêa et al.   OECOLOGIA

Livestock as Ecosystem Engineers for Grassland Bird Habitat in the Western Great Plains of North America

(2009) Justin D. Derner et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

The Use of Extant Non-Indigenous Tortoises as a Restoration Tool to Replace Extinct Ecosystem Engineers

(2009) Christine J. Griffiths et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Soil-disturbance by native animals plays a critical role in maintaining healthy Australian landscapes

(2009) David J. Eldridge et al.   ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT & RESTORATION

Plant Succession on Gopher Mounds in Western Cascade Meadows: Consequences for Species Diversity and Heterogeneity

(2008) Chad C. Jones et al.   AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST

Ecosystem Services Provided by Birds

(2008) Christopher J. Whelan et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Removal of palm fruits and ecosystem engineering in palm stands by white-lipped peccaries (Tayassu pecari) and other frugivores in an isolated Atlantic Forest fragment

(2008) Alexine Keuroghlian et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

European rabbits as ecosystem engineers: warrens increase lizard density and diversity

(2008) Lucía Gálvez Bravo et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Tree leaf litter composition and nonnative earthworms influence plant invasion in experimental forest floor mesocosms

(2008) R. Travis Belote et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

A perfect storm: two ecosystem engineers interact to degrade deciduous forests of New Jersey

(2008) Benjamin Baiser et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Sea Turtle Nesting as a Process Influencing a Sandy Beach Ecosystem

(2008) Derek Madden et al.   BIOTROPICA

Key Role of European Rabbits in the Conservation of the Western Mediterranean Basin Hotspot

(2008) MIGUEL DELIBES-MATEOS et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

The beaver as an ecosystem engineer facilitates teal breeding

(2008) Petri Nummi et al.   ECOGRAPHY

ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING BY A COLONIAL MAMMAL: HOW PRAIRIE DOGS STRUCTURE RODENT COMMUNITIES

(2008) Ron E. Van Nimwegen et al.   ECOLOGY

BEHAVIOR RATHER THAN DIET MEDIATES SEASONAL DIFFERENCES IN SEED DISPERSAL BY ASIAN ELEPHANTS

(2008) Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz et al.   ECOLOGY

ELEPHANTS AS AGENTS OF HABITAT CREATION FOR SMALL VERTEBRATES AT THE PATCH SCALE

(2008) Robert M. Pringle   ECOLOGY

Engineering rodents create key habitat for lizards

(2008) A.D. Davidson et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Ecological roles of rabbit, bettong and bilby warrens in arid Australia

(2008) J.L. Read et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Camel grazing affects species diversity and community structure in the deserts of the UAE

(2008) A. El-Keblawy et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Are small rodents key promoters of ecosystem restoration in harsh environments? A case study of abandoned croplands on Mongolian grasslands

(2008) Y. Yoshihara et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Do introduced North American beaversCastor canadensisengineer differently in southern South America? An overview with implications for restoration

(2008) CHRISTOPHER B. ANDERSON et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Interactive disturbance effects of two disparate ecosystem engineers in North American shortgrass steppe

(2008) Christina Alba-Lynn et al.   OECOLOGIA

Ecological Interactions Between Two Ecosystem Engineers: Gunnison's Prairie Dog and Botta's Pocket Gopher

(2008) Jonathan A. Gallie et al.   SOUTHWESTERN NATURALIST

Is conservation triage just smart decision making?

(2008) Madeleine C. Bottrill et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Links between riparian characteristics and the abundance of common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) burrows in an agricultural landscape

(2008) Philip Borchard et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH