Large carnivores are depicted to shape entire ecosystems through top-down processes.
Studies describing these processes are often used to support interventionist wildlife …

Large terrestrial carnivores, eg wolves or bears, often play a key ecological role from their
position at the apex of trophic systems. Changes to their populations reverberate through …

This chapter addresses the assumptions and risks of using large carnivores as tools for
conserving biodiversity as part of the background in “Large Carnivores and the …

This summary chapter in “Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity” reviews
the ideas presented within the book to address a key question in environmental …

Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity brings together more than thirty
leading scientists and conservation practitioners to consider a key question in environmental …

Although many studies explore characteristics of stakeholders or publics “for” or “against”
large carnivores, disagreements among conservation professionals advocating different …

Species that respond to ecosystem change in a timely, measurable, and interpretable way
can be used as sentinels of global change. Contrary to a pervasive view, we suggest that …

Most carnivorans (members of the mammalian order Carnivora) are elusive and long lived,
so long-term studies are required to understand their basic biology and, ultimately, to …

Recent assessments of the conservation status of mam-mals present an alarming picture of
ongoing declines, emphasizing the urgent need for informed conservation actions. Global …

ABSTRACT 1 The production of food for human consumption has led to an historical and
global conflict with terrestrial carnivores, which in turn has resulted in the extinction or …