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An analysis of mountain lion predation upon mule deer and elk in Idaho
PaperThis pioneering study in the Idaho Primitive Area provided the first rigorous picture of mountain lion predation on wild ungulates, based on years of tracking pumas in snow and examining kills. It doc…
Hornocker, M. G. · Wildlife Monographs · 1970
Mountain lion social organization in the Idaho Primitive Area
PaperBuilding on long-term tracking of marked mountain lions, this study described how pumas organize their use of space through a land-tenure system maintained largely by mutual avoidance. Resident adults…
Seidensticker, J. C., Hornocker, M. G., Wiles, W. V., Messick, J. P. · Wildlife Monographs · 1973
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: home range and the felid land-tenure system
OverviewMost big cats organize their use of space through a land-tenure system in which residents hold home ranges advertised by scent and maintained partly through avoidance. This overview synthesizes the ge…
Research overview: the landscape of fear created by big cats
OverviewBeyond killing prey, big cats shape ecosystems through the fear they inspire, altering where and how prey forage. This overview synthesizes research on the landscape of fear, in which the risk of pred…
Trophic downgrading of planet Earth
PaperThis influential synthesis argued that the loss of large apex consumers, including big cats and other top predators, is among humanity's most pervasive impacts on nature. Drawing on examples across ec…
Estes, J. A., Terborgh, J., Brashares, J. S., et al. · Science · 2011