A mammalian predator-prey imbalance: Grizzly bear and wolf extinction affect avian neotropical migrants

Ecological Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 947-960

  Berger, Joel ^a,b   Stacey, Peter B ^c   Bellis, Lori ^a   Johnson, Matthew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Extinction; Grand Teton National Park; Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem; Grizzly bears; Moose; Neotropical migrant birds; Restoration ecology; Riparian vegetation; Trophic cascades; Wolves

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MAMMAL; NATURE CONSERVATION; PREDATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ALCES ALCES; CANIS LUPUS; DUMETELLA CAROLINENSIS; OPORORNIS TOLMIEI; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 0034903637     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2001)011[0947:AMPPIG]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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