Ecology: Humans are scarier than lions

Ungulates’ Behavioral Responses to Humans as an Apex Predator in a Hunting-Prohibited Area of China

(2023) Mingzhang Liu et al.   Animals

Fear of the human “super predator” pervades the South African savanna

(2023) Liana Y. Zanette et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Humanity’s diverse predatory niche and its ecological consequences

(2023) Chris T. Darimont et al.   Communications Biology

Extinction, climate change and the ecology of Homo sapiens

(2022) David Tilman   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Prey tells, large herbivores fear the human ‘super predator’

(2022) Daniel A. Crawford et al.   OECOLOGIA

Hierarchy of fear: experimentally testing ungulate reactions to lion, African wild dog and cheetah

(2022) Noa L A Rigoudy et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Alarm calls or predator calls: which elicit stronger responses in ungulate communities living with and without lions?

(2019) Douglas F. Makin et al.   OECOLOGIA

Cause-specific mortality of the world’s terrestrial vertebrates

(2019) Jacob E. Hill et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Fear of humans as apex predators has landscape‐scale impacts from mountain lions to mice

(2019) Justin P. Suraci et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Humans, but not their dogs, displace pumas from their kills: An experimental approach

(2019) Justin P. Suraci et al.   Scientific Reports

Zebra diel migrations reduce encounter risk with lions at night

(2018) Nicolas Courbin et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation

(2016) Oscar Venter et al.   Nature Communications

Fear of large carnivores causes a trophic cascade

(2016) Justin P. Suraci et al.   Nature Communications

Does the risk of encountering lions influence African herbivore behaviour at waterholes?

(2009) Marion Valeix et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY