ReviewProceedings. Biological sciences2016
Paws without claws? Ecological effects of large carnivores in anthropogenic landscapes.
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57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Human disturbance thresholds determine the ecological role of an apex predator.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Carcass use by mesoscavengers varied across modified landscapes in the absence of top carnivores.Oecologia · 2025Article
- Dracula's Menagerie Reloaded: Assessing the Relative Roles of Habitat and Interspecific Interactions in an Intact Mammalian Assemblage Using Structural Equation Modeling.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Residential development reduces black bear (Ursus americanus) opportunity to scavenge cougar (Puma concolor) killed prey.Ecology · 2025Article
- Quantifying large carnivore predation relative to human harvest on moose in an intensively managed boreal ecosystem.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
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Abstract
Large carnivores are frequently presented as saviours of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning through their creation of trophic cascades, an idea largely based on studies coming primarily out of relatively natural landscapes. However, in large parts of the world, particularly in Europe, large carnivores live in and are returning to strongly human-modified ecosystems. At present, we lack a coherent framework to predict the effects of large carnivores in these anthropogenic landscapes. We review how human actions influence the ecological roles of large carnivores by affecting their density or behaviour or those of mesopredators or prey species. We argue that the potential for density-mediated trophic cascades in anthropogenic landscapes is limited to unproductive areas where even low carnivore numbers may impact prey densities or to the limited parts of the landscape where carnivores are allowed to reach ecologically functional densities. The potential for behaviourally mediated trophic cascades may be larger and more widespread, because even low carnivore densities affect prey behaviour. We conclude that predator-prey interactions in anthropogenic landscapes will be highly context-dependent and human actions will often attenuate the ecological effects of large carnivores. We highlight the knowledge gaps and outline a new research avenue to study the role of carnivores in anthropogenic landscapes.
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