Latest posts tagged with #TrophicCascade on Bluesky
🕷️🪨Predator density outweighs experimental warming effects on short-term carbon and nitrogen loss from arctic shrub litter
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#ClimateChange #Decomposition #NutrientCycling #ShrubExpansion #TrophicCascade #WolfSpiders
Restoring the balance of nature to #Yellowstone's #ecosystem was achieved by reintroducing #graywolves to the region. Just think how robust this locale would be if the wolves had never been eliminated in the first place!
#ProtectWolves #trophiccascade
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Caught between joy at the high quality scientific investigation and sadness at the benthic devastation that's unfolded over on the North American Atlantic coast. Sometimes I wish ecological theory was just theory. #trophiccascade #regimeshift
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is.gd/fzCya4 Well the wolf may have been the saviour of the #aspen in #Yellowstone an could be in the Highlands too but lets at least start with #Lynx #rewilding #trophiccascade #paintingscotlandyellow
A photo of a deep throated orange flower with red veins. This is the NZ endemic forest shrub taurepo, Rhabdothamnus solandri. Photo CC-BY Saryu Mae https://inaturalist.nz/observations/194693749
One of the classics of NZ ecological science is this Auckland study by Sandra Anderson and colleagues. They showed, in extraordinary detail, how the loss of two endemic flower-pollinating birds from mainland Auckland (korimako and hihi), and the relative rarity […]
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Wolves heal ecosystems. 🐺🌿
Their return triggers a trophic cascade, helping plants regrow, rivers stabilize, and wildlife thrive. Predators matter.
#Wolves #TrophicCascade #Rewilding #Ecology #CWWC
Wasn't expecting much of a hit from this #BBCFreeThinking but, well, that'll teach me! Company of #Wolves. #ADelicateBalance #rewilding #TrophicCascade #rethinking. @shahidhabari.bsky.social
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“Without these apex predators to regulate populations, we are seeing measurable changes that could have long-term effects on ocean health. ” -- Neil Hammerschlag, lead author of the study.
#GreatWhiteSharks
#TrophicCascade
#MarineEcology
#Seaotter introduction and #kelp forest recovery is a textbook-favorite example of #trophiccascade. New research tries to explain why the effect is not consistent in strength
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🦑 #Marineresearch
🦈 #shark
New paper in Communications Biology from Mark Meekan suggests the removal of mesopredators (such as #sharks) from a reef may cause a #trophiccascade that results in more #crownofthorns #starfish
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Restoring #Predators, #Restoring #Ecosystems - #Yellowstone #Wolves & Other #Carnivores Drive Strong #TrophicCascade
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #willows #ecology #biology #biodiversity #vegetation #wolf #elk #riparian #stream #tree #herbivore #spatiotemporal #model
Rodenticides don’t stop at rats they move up the food chain poisoning predators like Italy’s growing wolf population. A silent but deadly threat to ecosystems. Unintended consequences? No. Just reckless disregard.
#TrophicCascade
2024 study highlights the threat, contextualizing recent events.
#ecology
"This explosion of prey species could represent what ecologists call a #trophiccascade, where the loss of a predator reverberates down the food chain, unbalancing the ecosystem."
E.g. less 🦈-> more 🦭 -> less 🐧...
Oil, paintstick, alkyd & wax on epoxy, enamel& marker on aluminum composite panel. 34.5” x 26” Text in vertical registers: Tarkovsky (vowels in second register) Tropic cascade (3rd register) Tailings (4th register)
A new #painting for Tarkovsky’s zone, poetry presaging our oncoming calamity.
ZONE PAINTING 1 (FUTURE-TENSE).
#art #contemporaryart #abstractart #abstractpainting #contemporarypainting #textart #Tarkovsky #Stalker #TrophicCascade
If a wolf howls in the forest and noone is there to hear it, does it still restore the ecosystem? 🫡Yes. Always yes! #TrophicCascade #ConservationEcology
How Wolves Change Rivers
by @GrrlScientist via @substack
#wolves🐺 #ecology #evolution #EcosystemEngineers #TrophicCascade #Yellowstone #SciComm🧪 grrlscientist.substack.com/p/how-wolves...
#Seaotters #trophiccascade #saltmarsh
The new (to me) information is the strong #citsci component of this research; part of the data came from an #ecotourism operator with detailed daily records of customer otter observations going back 15 years.
#trophiccascade
The textbook Marine example of a trophic cascade:
1 Otters eat the urchins
2 Kelp survives the urchins
3 Zooplankton has kelp for us to grow in
4 Gray whales have food
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🦑 #Marinescience #whales #kelp
Further coverage of #graywhales moving further from the $Oregon coast. Why? A #trophiccascade that means there's less zooplankton to eat
Excess urchins = less kelp
Less kelp = less plankton
Whales go where the food is
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Sorry to see that my belief that #wolves reversed ecological changes in Yellowstone Park may not be grounded on good evidence... #trophiccascade. This #natgeo article cites exptl work by Hobbs et al 2024.
🦑 #Marinescience
🐋 #whales #graywhales #urchins #kelp #keystonespecies #trophicCascade #Oregon
Without keystone predators like sea otters & sunflowers stars, sea urchins can destroy kelp forests. New study suggests this reduces zoplankton that live in kelp, an important food for gray whales.
🦑 #Marinescience
🐋 #whales #graywhales #urchins #kelp #keystonespecies #trophicCascade #Oregon
New paper from Lisa Hildebrand at #OregonStateUniversity.
The loss of kelp forests means lower populations of the zooplankton who live there. The #zooplankton are food for migrating #graywhales
🚨New publication alert🚨 Our paper "Exploring indirect effects of a classic trophic cascade between urchins and kelp on zooplankton and whales" is out now in Scientific Reports! Open access here: rdcu.be/dF8cl
#kelp #urchins #zooplankton #GrayWhales #TrophicCascade
Top-#Predator Recovery Abates #Geomorphic #Decline Of A #Coastal #Ecosystem
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#GIS #spatial #monitoring #trophiccascade #biology #geomorphology #habitat #otter #seaotter #crab #substrate #spatialanalysis #marine #vegetation #estuary #erosion #marsh #geomorphicstability
New publication: #Treecover and its heterogeneity in natural ecosystems is linked to large herbivore #biomass globally. #megafauna #trophiccascade #rewilding #biodiversity #climatechange
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.007
New publication: The biology and ecology of parasitoid wasps of predatory arthropods, by @Jeffrey75327765 and others. #biologicalcontrol #ladybird #trophiccascade #spiders
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-120120-111607
I stan for this paper and REALLY want to know the backstory: Testing the AC/DC hypothesis: Rock and roll is noise pollution and weakens a trophic cascade onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.42... #trophiccascade @acdc
