What Happens When Predators Disappear?

2024-10-03

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A world without predators. It sounds like a safer, happier world, but come on, this is SCIENCE…

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- Ecosystem: a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

- Herbivore: an animal that feeds on plants.

- Top predator: a predator without natural predators of its own.

- Trophic cascade: an ecological phenomenon triggered by the addition or removal of top predators.

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Moore, Peter D. “Green and Pleasant Trials.” Nature, vol. 440, no. 7084, Mar. 2006, pp. 613–614, www.nature.com/articles/440613a, https://doi.org/10.1038/440613a

Stolzenburg, William. “Ecosystems Unraveling.” Anthropocene, 31 July 2008, www.anthropocenemagazine.org/conservation/2008/07/ecosystems-unraveling/

Terborgh, J. “Ecological Meltdown in Predator-Free Forest Fragments.” Science, vol. 294, no. 5548, 30 Nov. 2001, pp. 1923–1926, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1064397