STONY BROOK, NY, July 6, 2010 - A compendium on trophic cascades and how they operate in the world's major ecosystems has been published for the first time. The term "trophic cascades" refers to the ...

The trophic cascade is a combination of two words- trophic which means feeding and nutrition or trophic level of the food chain; cascade means succession of stages, operations, processes or units.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new analysis of the extinction of woolly mammoths and other large mammals more than 10,000 years ago suggests that they may have fallen victim to the same type of "trophic cascade" ...

BILLINGS – Following the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995-97, the regrowth of aspen trees became a worldwide story, highlighting the importance of large predators. The ...

A new paradigm has been developed for describing trophic cascades caused by infectious agents. When gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, they sparked a resurgence of aspen trees ...

The ecosystems of coastal and enclosed seas are under increasing anthropogenic pressure worldwide, with Chesapeake Bay, the Gulf of Mexico and the Black and Baltic Seas as well known examples. We use ...

Visitors from the North -- Web of life. Patterns in an ecosystem ; Living in a landscape of fear : trophic cascades mechanisms ; Origins : aquatic cascades ; Why the earth is green : terrestrial ...

Following the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995-97, the regrowth of aspen trees became a worldwide story, highlighting the importance of large predators. The wolves ate elk ...