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Research overview: big cats as apex predators and trophic cascades
OverviewAs apex predators, big cats can exert top-down control that ripples through ecosystems via trophic cascades. This overview synthesizes evidence that lions, tigers, leopards, pumas, and jaguars influen…
Research overview: jaguar and puma coexistence in the Neotropics
OverviewAcross much of Latin America jaguars and pumas occur together, and their coexistence is mediated by differences in prey, habitat, and behavior. This overview synthesizes research showing that jaguars…
Research overview: niche shifts where pumas coexist with jaguars
OverviewWhere pumas and jaguars overlap in the Neotropics, the puma often shifts its niche in response to the larger cat. This overview synthesizes research showing that in sympatry pumas tend to take smaller…
Research overview: the puma as the most widely distributed cat of the Americas
OverviewThe puma has the largest latitudinal range of any wild land mammal in the Western Hemisphere, occupying habitats from boreal forest and western mountains to deserts, grasslands, swamps, and tropical j…