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

Review of feeding ecology data of Late Pleistocene mammalian herbivores from South America and discussions on niche differentiation

(2015) Lucas de Melo França et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Recovering aspen follow changing elk dynamics in Yellowstone: evidence of a trophic cascade?

(2015) Luke E. Painter et al.   ECOLOGY

The impact of large terrestrial carnivores on Pleistocene ecosystems

(2015) Blaire Van Valkenburgh 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

(2015) Jens-Christian Svenning et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal

(2015) Jan Zalasiewicz et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Paleontology and paleoecology of guano deposits in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, USA

(2015) Chris Widga et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Semi-open environmental conditions during phases of hominin occupation at the Eemian Interglacial basin site Neumark-Nord 2 and its wider environment

(2015) Eduard Pop et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Using dung fungi to interpret decline and extinction of megaherbivores: problems and solutions

(2015) Chris N. Johnson et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Dietary variation and overlap in Central and Northwest European Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis and S. hemitoechus (Rhinocerotidae, Mammalia) influenced by habitat diversity

(2015) Eline N. van Asperen et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean

(2015) D. J. McCauley et al.   SCIENCE

Collapse of the world's largest herbivores

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

Cascading Consequences of the Loss of Large Mammals in an African Savanna

(2014) Felicia Keesing et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Is there a ‘browse trap’? Dynamics of herbivore impacts on trees and grasses in an African savanna

(2014) Ann Carla Staver et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Restoration of a megaherbivore: landscape-level impacts of white rhinoceros in Kruger National Park, South Africa

(2014) Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

(2014) Eske Willerslev et al.   NATURE

High herbivore density associated with vegetation diversity in interglacial ecosystems

(2014) C. J. Sandom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Low functional redundancy among mammalian browsers in regulating an encroaching shrub (Solanum campylacanthum) in African savannah

(2014) R. M. Pringle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change

(2014) C. Sandom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Can dung beetles from the palaeoecological and archaeological record indicate herd concentration and the identity of herbivores?

(2014) David Smith et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

A high-precision chronology for the rapid extinction of New Zealand moa (Aves, Dinornithiformes)

(2014) George L.W. Perry et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The river masters

(2014) E. Pennisi   SCIENCE

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Large carnivores make savanna tree communities less thorny

(2014) A. T. Ford 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

Herbivores shape woody plant communities in the Kruger National Park: Lessons from three long-term exclosures

(2014) Benjamin J. Wigley et al.   KOEDOE

Temperate mountain grasslands: a climate-herbivore hypothesis for origins and persistence

(2013) Peter D. Weigl et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Landscape of fear in Europe: wolves affect spatial patterns of ungulate browsing in Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland

(2013) D. P. J. Kuijper et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Native and domestic browsers and grazers reduce fuels, fire temperatures, and acacia ant mortality in an African savanna

(2013) Duncan M. Kimuyu et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Coupling a physiological grazer population model with a generalized model for vegetation dynamics

(2013) Adrian Pachzelt et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

A large herbivore triggers alternative successional trajectories in the boreal forest

(2013) Bert Hidding et al.   ECOLOGY

Transition of a Sambucus nigra L. dominated woody vegetation into grassland by a multi-species herbivore assemblage

(2013) Perry Cornelissen et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Continental-scale variability in browser diversity is a major driver of diversity patterns in acacias across Africa

(2013) Michelle Greve et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effects of mammalian herbivore declines on plant communities: observations and experiments in an African savanna

(2013) Hillary S. Young et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Linking abundances of the dung fungusSporormiellato the density of bison: implications for assessing grazing by megaherbivores in palaeorecords

(2013) Jacquelyn L. Gill et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Native ungulates of diverse body sizes collectively regulate long-term woody plant demography and structure of a semi-arid savanna

(2013) Mahesh Sankaran et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Recolonizing wolves trigger a trophic cascade in Wisconsin (USA)

(2013) Ramana Callan et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ecological impacts of the late Quaternary megaherbivore extinctions

(2013) Jacquelyn L. Gill   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ice-age megafauna in Arctic Alaska: extinction, invasion, survival

(2013) Daniel H. Mann et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Proboscideans and paleoenvironments of the Pleistocene Great Lakes: landscape, vegetation, and stable isotopes

(2013) Jessica Z. Metcalfe et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Landscape-scale effects of herbivores on treefall in African savannas

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

Coarse woody debris facilitates oak recruitment in Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland

(2012) Christian Smit et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Mastodon herbivory in mid-latitude late-Pleistocene boreal forests of eastern North America

(2012) Chelsea L. Teale et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Climatic and megaherbivory controls on late-glacial vegetation dynamics: a new, high-resolution, multi-proxy record from Silver Lake, Ohio

(2012) Jacquelyn L. Gill et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

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

Are the long-term effects of mesobrowsers on woodland dynamics substitutive or additive to those of elephants?

(2011) Christopher A.J. O’Kane et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Is New Zealand vegetation really ‘problematic’? Dansereau's puzzles revisited

(2011) J. Bastow Wilson et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Conservation implications of the refugee species concept and the European bison: king of the forest or refugee in a marginal habitat?

(2011) G. I. H. Kerley et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Cryptic herbivores mediate the strength and form of ungulate impacts on a long-lived savanna tree

(2011) Janet E. Maclean et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Gary Haynes   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6 million years

(2011) Thure E. Cerling et al.   NATURE

Revisiting the browsing lawn concept: Evolutionary Interactions or pruning herbivores?

(2011) Joris P.G.M. Cromsigt et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Cave bear killers and scavengers from the last ice age of central Europe: Feeding specializations in response to the absence of mammoth steppe fauna from mountainous regions

(2011) Cajus G. Diedrich   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Paleontological records indicate the occurrence of open woodlands in a dry inland climate at the present-day Arctic coast in western Beringia during the Last Interglacial

(2011) Frank Kienast et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Global Extent and Determinants of Savanna and Forest as Alternative Biome States

(2011) A. C. Staver et al.   SCIENCE

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

Seeing the forest for the deer: Do reductions in deer-disturbance lead to forest recovery?

(2010) Andrew J. Tanentzap et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Bottom-up versus top-down control of tree regeneration in the Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland

(2010) Dries P. J. Kuijper et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Growth responses of African savanna trees implicate atmospheric [CO2] as a driver of past and current changes in savanna tree cover

(2009) BARNEY S. KGOPE et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Herbivores inhibit climate-driven shrub expansion on the tundra

(2009) JOHAN OLOFSSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Large herbivores facilitate savanna tree establishment via diverse and indirect pathways

(2009) Jacob R. Goheen et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The anomalous Kentucky coffeetree: megafaunal fruit sinking to extinction?

(2009) David N. Zaya et al.   OECOLOGIA

Large-scale impacts of herbivores on the structural diversity of African savannas

(2009) G. P. Asner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecological consequences of Late Quaternary extinctions of megafauna

(2009) C.N. Johnson   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How fragmented was the British Holocene wildwood? Perspectives on the “Vera” grazing debate from the fossil beetle record

(2009) Nicki J. Whitehouse et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

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

(2009) J. L. Gill et al.   SCIENCE

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

(2008) William J. Bond   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

SAVANNA TREE DENSITY, HERBIVORES, AND THE HERBACEOUS COMMUNITY: BOTTOM-UP VS. TOP-DOWN EFFECTS

(2008) Corinna Riginos et al.   ECOLOGY

What controls woodland regeneration after elephants have killed the big trees?

(2008) Stein R. Moe et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of African Elephants on Savanna Vegetation

(2008) Robert Guldemond et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Opposing plant community responses to warming with and without herbivores

(2008) E. Post et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Woody cover in African savannas: the role of resources, fire and herbivory

(2007) Mahesh Sankaran et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY