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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: how GPS and biologging reshaped big-cat ecology
OverviewThe advent of GPS collars and biologging sensors has revolutionized the study of big-cat movement, hunting, and energetics. This overview synthesizes how high-resolution location data revealed kill si…
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