The impacts of trophic cascades, therefore, have incredible influences on all aspects of the wider ecosystem, changing biodiversity, primary productivity, and even the nutrient cycle.

Although “sexy”, trophic cascades shouldn’t be generalized as a conservation strategy, Comley advises. The fortuitous outcome to Yellowstone’s wolf reintroduction program may be but an ...

But wolves were only one piece of a larger picture, argue Dr. Hobbs and other skeptics of a full-blown trophic cascade at Yellowstone. Grizzly bears and humans played a role, too.

The commonly held claim that wolves reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park in the mid-1990s spearheaded a "trophic cascade" of ecological restoration, as some studies indicated, is unfounded ...

Figure Set 4: How do wolves impact elk and elk browsing, if not by direct population control? Purpose: To introduce the idea of indirect effects of predator on prey by changing prey behavior, and of ...

A trophic cascade is when an apex predator, like the gray wolf, indirectly benefits plants by controlling the number of plant eaters, in this case elk.

Hurricane Harvey destroyed the fishing infrastructure of Aransas Bay and reduced fishing by 80% over the following year. This removed humans from the trophic cascade and whole food webs changed.