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Filtering by: Committee Member Doescher, Paul S. Date issued sim 2013-05-30

Trophic cascades and large mammals in the Yellowstone ecosystem

Creator:

Painter, Luke E.

Abstract:

Reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park (YNP) in 1995-96 provided a rare opportunity to observe the response of an ecosystem to the return of a top predator, including possible reversal of decades of decline of aspen, cottonwood, and tall willows suppressed by intensive herbivory on elk winter ranges. To...

Resource Type:

Dissertation