Apex predator (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Apex predator" in English language version.

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Whiting, Frances. "Terri fights to halt croc eggs harvest." Archived 2010-10-28 at the Wayback Machine Australia Zoo. 2007-06-11. Retrieved 2010-01-25.

bbc.co.uk (Global: 8^th place; English: 10^th place)

Jones, Lucy. "The rewilding plan that would return Britain to nature". BBC. Retrieved 6 June 2018. wolves, bears and lynx roamed the land. ... Humans chopped down the trees to make space for farms, and hunted the large animals to extinction, leaving plant-eaters to decimate the country's flora. Britain is now one of the few countries in the world that doesn't have top predators.

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Wilmers, Christopher C. (2004). "The gray wolf – scavenger complex in Yellowstone National Park" (PDF). pp. 56, 90 and throughout. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2010-07-12. Retrieved 2010-01-25.

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Werdelin, Lars; McDonald, H. G.; Shaw, Christopher A. (2018). Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 204. ISBN 978-1-4214-2556-6.
King, Richard J. (2013). The Devil's Cormorant: A Natural History. University of New Hampshire Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-61168-225-0.

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Berger, Joel (1999). "Anthropogenic extinction of top carnivores and interspecific animal behaviour: implications of the rapid decoupling of a web involving wolves, bears, moose and ravens" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 266 (1435): 2261–2267. doi:10.1098/rspb.1999.0917. PMC 1690453. PMID 10629976.

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Davic, Robert D. (2003). "Linking Keystone Species and Functional Groups: A New Operational Definition of the Keystone Species Concept". Conservation Ecology. 7 (1) resp11. Bibcode:2003ConEc...7Pes11D. doi:10.5751/ES-00502-0701r11. hdl:10535/2966. Retrieved 2011-02-03.

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Lepak, Jesse M.; Kraft, Clifford E.; Weidel, Brian C. (March 2006). "Rapid food web recovery in response to removal of an introduced apex predator" (PDF). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 63 (3): 569–575. Bibcode:2006CJFAS..63..569L. doi:10.1139/f05-248. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2008.

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Ordiz, Andrés; Bischof, Richard; Swenson, Jon E. (2013). "Saving large carnivores, but losing the apex predator?". Biological Conservation. 168: 128–133. Bibcode:2013BCons.168..128O. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2013.09.024. hdl:11250/2492589.
Kristoffer T. Everatt; Jennifer F. Moore; Graham I.H. Kerley (2019). "Africa's apex predator, the lion, is limited by interference and exploitive competition with humans". Global Ecology and Conservation. 20 e00758. Bibcode:2019GEcoC..2000758E. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00758. ISSN 2351-9894. S2CID 202023472.
Sukhdeo, Michael V. K. (2012). "Where are the parasites in food webs?". Parasites & Vectors. 5 (1) 239. Bibcode:2012PVec....5..239S. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-5-239. PMC 3523981. PMID 23092160.
Lepak, Jesse M.; Kraft, Clifford E.; Weidel, Brian C. (March 2006). "Rapid food web recovery in response to removal of an introduced apex predator" (PDF). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 63 (3): 569–575. Bibcode:2006CJFAS..63..569L. doi:10.1139/f05-248. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2008.
Trewby, Iain D.; Young, Richard; McDonald, Robbie A.; Wilson, Gavin J.; Davison, John; Walker, Neil; Robertson, Andrew; Doncaster, C. Patrick; Delahay, Richard J. (April 2014). Criscuolo, François (ed.). "Impacts of Removing Badgers on Localised Counts of Hedgehogs". PLOS ONE. 9 (4) e95477. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...995477T. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095477. PMC 3988185. PMID 24736454.
Davic, Robert D. (2003). "Linking Keystone Species and Functional Groups: A New Operational Definition of the Keystone Species Concept". Conservation Ecology. 7 (1) resp11. Bibcode:2003ConEc...7Pes11D. doi:10.5751/ES-00502-0701r11. hdl:10535/2966. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
Wallach, Arian D.; Izhaki, Ido; Toms, Judith D.; Ripple, William J.; Shanas, Uri (2015). "What is an apex predator?". Oikos. 124 (11): 1453–1461. Bibcode:2015Oikos.124.1453W. doi:10.1111/oik.01977.
Stier, A. C.; Samhouri, J. F.; Novak, M.; Marshall, K. N.; Ward, E. J.; Holt, R. D.; Levin, P. S. (May 2016). "Ecosystem context and historical contingency in apex predator recoveries". Science Advances. 2 (5) e1501769. Bibcode:2016SciA....2E1769S. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1501769. PMC 4928970. PMID 27386535.
Croll, D. A.; Maron, J. L.; et al. (March 2005). "Introduced predators transform subarctic islands from grassland to tundra". Science. 307 (5717): 1959–1961. Bibcode:2005Sci...307.1959C. doi:10.1126/science.1108485. PMID 15790855. S2CID 19305264.
Pace, M. L.; Cole, J. J.; et al. (December 1999). "Trophic cascades revealed in diverse ecosystems". Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 14 (12): 483–488. doi:10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01723-1. PMID 10542455.
Berger, Joel (1999). "Anthropogenic extinction of top carnivores and interspecific animal behaviour: implications of the rapid decoupling of a web involving wolves, bears, moose and ravens" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 266 (1435): 2261–2267. doi:10.1098/rspb.1999.0917. PMC 1690453. PMID 10629976.
Baum, Julia K.; Worm, Boris (2009). "Cascading top-down effects of changing oceanic predator abundances". Journal of Animal Ecology. 78 (4): 699–714. Bibcode:2009JAnEc..78..699B. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01531.x. PMID 19298616.
Soulé, Michael E.; Bolger, Douglas T.; Alberts, Allison C.; Wright, John; Sorice, Marina; Hill, Scott (March 1988). "Reconstructed Dynamics of Rapid Extinctions of Chaparral-Requiring Birds in Urban Habitat Islands" (PDF). Conservation Biology. 2 (1): 75–92. Bibcode:1988ConBi...2...75S. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.1988.tb00337.x. hdl:2027.42/74761.
Prugh, Laura R.; Stoner, Chantal J.; Epps, Clinton W.; Bean, William T.; Ripple, William J.; Laliberte, Andrea S.; Brashares, Justin S. (2009). "The Rise of the Mesopredator". BioScience. 59 (9): 779–791. Bibcode:2009BiSci..59..779P. doi:10.1525/bio.2009.59.9.9. S2CID 40484905.
Estes, James A.; Terborgh, John; Brashares, Justin S.; Power, Mary E.; Berger, Joel; Bond, William J.; et al. (2011). "Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth". Science. 333 (6040): 301–306. Bibcode:2011Sci...333..301E. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.701.8043. doi:10.1126/science.1205106. PMID 21764740. S2CID 7752940.
Silliman, Brian R.; Hughes, Brent B.; Gaskins, Leo C.; He, Qiang; Tinker, M. Tim; Read, Andrew; Nifong, James; Stepp, Rick (2018). "Are the ghosts of nature's past haunting ecology today?". Current Biology. 28 (9): R532–R537. Bibcode:2018CBio...28.R532S. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.002. PMID 29738721.
Dobson, Andy P.; Wilmers, Christopher C; Getz, Wayne M. (2005). "Gray Wolves as Climate Change Buffers in Yellowstone". PLOS Biology. 3 (4) e92. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030092. PMC 1064850. PMID 15757363.
Leat, Eliza H. K.; Bourgeon, Sophie; Eze, Jude I.; Muir, Derek C.G.; Williamson, Mary; Bustnes, Jan O.; Furness, Robert W.; Borgå, Katrine (2013-02-15). "Perfluoroalkyl substances in eggs and plasma of an avian top predator, great skua (Stercorarius skua), in the north Atlantic". Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 32 (3): 569–576. Bibcode:2013EnvTC..32..569L. doi:10.1002/etc.2101. PMID 23258709.
Bonhommeau, S.; Dubroca, L.; Le Pape, O.; Barde, J.; Kaplan, D. M.; Chassot, E.; Nieblas, A.-E. (2013). "Eating up the world's food web and the human trophic level". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (51): 20617–20620. Bibcode:2013PNAS..11020617B. doi:10.1073/pnas.1305827110. PMC 3870703. PMID 24297882.
Roopnarine, Peter D. (2014). "Humans are apex predators". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (9): E796. Bibcode:2014PNAS..111E.796R. doi:10.1073/pnas.1323645111. PMC 3948303. PMID 24497513.
Ben-Dor, Miki; Sirtoli, Raphael; Barkai, Ran (2021). "The evolution of the human trophic level during the Pleistocene". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 175 (S72): 27–56. Bibcode:2021AJPA..175S..27B. doi:10.1002/ajpa.24247. PMID 33675083.
Callaway, Ewen (2011). "Cambrian super-predators grew large in arms race". Nature. doi:10.1038/news.2011.318.
Zanno, Lindsay E.; Makovicky, Peter J. (22 November 2013). "Neovenatorid theropods are apex predators in the Late Cretaceous of North America". Nature Communications. 4 (1): 2827. Bibcode:2013NatCo...4.2827Z. doi:10.1038/ncomms3827. PMID 24264527.
Van Valkenburgh, Blaire; Molnar, Ralph E. (2002). "Dinosaurian and Mammalian Predators Compared". Paleobiology. 28 (4): 527–543. Bibcode:2002Pbio...28..527V. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2002)028<0527:DAMPC>2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 3595499. S2CID 85725299.
Kriwet, J.; Witzmann, F.; Klug, S.; Heidtke, U. H.J (2008). "First direct evidence of a vertebrate three-level trophic chain in the fossil record". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 275 (1631): 181–186. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1170. PMC 2596183. PMID 17971323.
Rudstam, Lars G.; VanDeValk, Anthony J. (February 2004). "Cormorant Predation and the Population Dynamics of Walleye and Yellow Perch in Oneida Lake". Ecological Applications. 14 (1): 149–163. Bibcode:2004EcoAp..14..149R. doi:10.1890/03-5010. JSTOR 4493527. providing the opportunity to study the effects of an increase of a top predator on an existing predator-prey system
Hammerschlag, Neil; Gallagher, Austin J.; Wester, Julia; Luo, Jiangang; Ault, Jerald S. (2012). "Don't bite the hand that feeds: assessing ecological impacts of provisioning ecotourism on an apex marine predator". Functional Ecology. 26 (3): 567–576. Bibcode:2012FuEco..26..567H. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01973.x.
Macdonald, Catherine; Gallagher, Austin J.; Barnett, Adam; Brunnschweiler, Juerg; Shiffman, David S.; Hammerschlag, Neil (2017). "Conservation potential of apex predator tourism". Biological Conservation. 215: 132–141. Bibcode:2017BCons.215..132M. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2017.07.013.

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"predator". Online Etymological Dictionary. Archived from the original on 2009-07-01. Retrieved 2010-01-25.

figshare.com (Global: 5,893^rd place; English: 3,320^th place)

Pace, M. L.; Cole, J. J.; et al. (December 1999). "Trophic cascades revealed in diverse ecosystems". Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 14 (12): 483–488. doi:10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01723-1. PMID 10542455.

ghostarchive.org (Global: 32^nd place; English: 21^st place)

"The 7 categories of dog". The Daily Telegraph. 10 March 2017. Archived from the original on 2022-01-11.
Lister, Paul (28 April 2015). "Bring on a few more apex predators". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2022-01-11. Retrieved 14 March 2018.

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Ordiz, Andrés; Bischof, Richard; Swenson, Jon E. (2013). "Saving large carnivores, but losing the apex predator?". Biological Conservation. 168: 128–133. Bibcode:2013BCons.168..128O. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2013.09.024. hdl:11250/2492589.
Davic, Robert D. (2003). "Linking Keystone Species and Functional Groups: A New Operational Definition of the Keystone Species Concept". Conservation Ecology. 7 (1) resp11. Bibcode:2003ConEc...7Pes11D. doi:10.5751/ES-00502-0701r11. hdl:10535/2966. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
Soulé, Michael E.; Bolger, Douglas T.; Alberts, Allison C.; Wright, John; Sorice, Marina; Hill, Scott (March 1988). "Reconstructed Dynamics of Rapid Extinctions of Chaparral-Requiring Birds in Urban Habitat Islands" (PDF). Conservation Biology. 2 (1): 75–92. Bibcode:1988ConBi...2...75S. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.1988.tb00337.x. hdl:2027.42/74761.

harvard.edu (Global: 18^th place; English: 17^th place)

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Ordiz, Andrés; Bischof, Richard; Swenson, Jon E. (2013). "Saving large carnivores, but losing the apex predator?". Biological Conservation. 168: 128–133. Bibcode:2013BCons.168..128O. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2013.09.024. hdl:11250/2492589.
Kristoffer T. Everatt; Jennifer F. Moore; Graham I.H. Kerley (2019). "Africa's apex predator, the lion, is limited by interference and exploitive competition with humans". Global Ecology and Conservation. 20 e00758. Bibcode:2019GEcoC..2000758E. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00758. ISSN 2351-9894. S2CID 202023472.
Sukhdeo, Michael V. K. (2012). "Where are the parasites in food webs?". Parasites & Vectors. 5 (1) 239. Bibcode:2012PVec....5..239S. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-5-239. PMC 3523981. PMID 23092160.
Lepak, Jesse M.; Kraft, Clifford E.; Weidel, Brian C. (March 2006). "Rapid food web recovery in response to removal of an introduced apex predator" (PDF). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 63 (3): 569–575. Bibcode:2006CJFAS..63..569L. doi:10.1139/f05-248. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2008.
Trewby, Iain D.; Young, Richard; McDonald, Robbie A.; Wilson, Gavin J.; Davison, John; Walker, Neil; Robertson, Andrew; Doncaster, C. Patrick; Delahay, Richard J. (April 2014). Criscuolo, François (ed.). "Impacts of Removing Badgers on Localised Counts of Hedgehogs". PLOS ONE. 9 (4) e95477. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...995477T. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095477. PMC 3988185. PMID 24736454.
Davic, Robert D. (2003). "Linking Keystone Species and Functional Groups: A New Operational Definition of the Keystone Species Concept". Conservation Ecology. 7 (1) resp11. Bibcode:2003ConEc...7Pes11D. doi:10.5751/ES-00502-0701r11. hdl:10535/2966. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
Wallach, Arian D.; Izhaki, Ido; Toms, Judith D.; Ripple, William J.; Shanas, Uri (2015). "What is an apex predator?". Oikos. 124 (11): 1453–1461. Bibcode:2015Oikos.124.1453W. doi:10.1111/oik.01977.
Stier, A. C.; Samhouri, J. F.; Novak, M.; Marshall, K. N.; Ward, E. J.; Holt, R. D.; Levin, P. S. (May 2016). "Ecosystem context and historical contingency in apex predator recoveries". Science Advances. 2 (5) e1501769. Bibcode:2016SciA....2E1769S. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1501769. PMC 4928970. PMID 27386535.
Croll, D. A.; Maron, J. L.; et al. (March 2005). "Introduced predators transform subarctic islands from grassland to tundra". Science. 307 (5717): 1959–1961. Bibcode:2005Sci...307.1959C. doi:10.1126/science.1108485. PMID 15790855. S2CID 19305264.
Baum, Julia K.; Worm, Boris (2009). "Cascading top-down effects of changing oceanic predator abundances". Journal of Animal Ecology. 78 (4): 699–714. Bibcode:2009JAnEc..78..699B. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01531.x. PMID 19298616.
Soulé, Michael E.; Bolger, Douglas T.; Alberts, Allison C.; Wright, John; Sorice, Marina; Hill, Scott (March 1988). "Reconstructed Dynamics of Rapid Extinctions of Chaparral-Requiring Birds in Urban Habitat Islands" (PDF). Conservation Biology. 2 (1): 75–92. Bibcode:1988ConBi...2...75S. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.1988.tb00337.x. hdl:2027.42/74761.
Prugh, Laura R.; Stoner, Chantal J.; Epps, Clinton W.; Bean, William T.; Ripple, William J.; Laliberte, Andrea S.; Brashares, Justin S. (2009). "The Rise of the Mesopredator". BioScience. 59 (9): 779–791. Bibcode:2009BiSci..59..779P. doi:10.1525/bio.2009.59.9.9. S2CID 40484905.
Estes, James A.; Terborgh, John; Brashares, Justin S.; Power, Mary E.; Berger, Joel; Bond, William J.; et al. (2011). "Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth". Science. 333 (6040): 301–306. Bibcode:2011Sci...333..301E. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.701.8043. doi:10.1126/science.1205106. PMID 21764740. S2CID 7752940.
Silliman, Brian R.; Hughes, Brent B.; Gaskins, Leo C.; He, Qiang; Tinker, M. Tim; Read, Andrew; Nifong, James; Stepp, Rick (2018). "Are the ghosts of nature's past haunting ecology today?". Current Biology. 28 (9): R532–R537. Bibcode:2018CBio...28.R532S. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.002. PMID 29738721.
Leat, Eliza H. K.; Bourgeon, Sophie; Eze, Jude I.; Muir, Derek C.G.; Williamson, Mary; Bustnes, Jan O.; Furness, Robert W.; Borgå, Katrine (2013-02-15). "Perfluoroalkyl substances in eggs and plasma of an avian top predator, great skua (Stercorarius skua), in the north Atlantic". Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 32 (3): 569–576. Bibcode:2013EnvTC..32..569L. doi:10.1002/etc.2101. PMID 23258709.
Bonhommeau, S.; Dubroca, L.; Le Pape, O.; Barde, J.; Kaplan, D. M.; Chassot, E.; Nieblas, A.-E. (2013). "Eating up the world's food web and the human trophic level". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (51): 20617–20620. Bibcode:2013PNAS..11020617B. doi:10.1073/pnas.1305827110. PMC 3870703. PMID 24297882.
Roopnarine, Peter D. (2014). "Humans are apex predators". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (9): E796. Bibcode:2014PNAS..111E.796R. doi:10.1073/pnas.1323645111. PMC 3948303. PMID 24497513.
Ben-Dor, Miki; Sirtoli, Raphael; Barkai, Ran (2021). "The evolution of the human trophic level during the Pleistocene". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 175 (S72): 27–56. Bibcode:2021AJPA..175S..27B. doi:10.1002/ajpa.24247. PMID 33675083.
Zanno, Lindsay E.; Makovicky, Peter J. (22 November 2013). "Neovenatorid theropods are apex predators in the Late Cretaceous of North America". Nature Communications. 4 (1): 2827. Bibcode:2013NatCo...4.2827Z. doi:10.1038/ncomms3827. PMID 24264527.
Van Valkenburgh, Blaire; Molnar, Ralph E. (2002). "Dinosaurian and Mammalian Predators Compared". Paleobiology. 28 (4): 527–543. Bibcode:2002Pbio...28..527V. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2002)028<0527:DAMPC>2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 3595499. S2CID 85725299.
Rudstam, Lars G.; VanDeValk, Anthony J. (February 2004). "Cormorant Predation and the Population Dynamics of Walleye and Yellow Perch in Oneida Lake". Ecological Applications. 14 (1): 149–163. Bibcode:2004EcoAp..14..149R. doi:10.1890/03-5010. JSTOR 4493527. providing the opportunity to study the effects of an increase of a top predator on an existing predator-prey system
Hammerschlag, Neil; Gallagher, Austin J.; Wester, Julia; Luo, Jiangang; Ault, Jerald S. (2012). "Don't bite the hand that feeds: assessing ecological impacts of provisioning ecotourism on an apex marine predator". Functional Ecology. 26 (3): 567–576. Bibcode:2012FuEco..26..567H. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01973.x.
Macdonald, Catherine; Gallagher, Austin J.; Barnett, Adam; Brunnschweiler, Juerg; Shiffman, David S.; Hammerschlag, Neil (2017). "Conservation potential of apex predator tourism". Biological Conservation. 215: 132–141. Bibcode:2017BCons.215..132M. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2017.07.013.

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Van Valkenburgh, Blaire; Molnar, Ralph E. (2002). "Dinosaurian and Mammalian Predators Compared". Paleobiology. 28 (4): 527–543. Bibcode:2002Pbio...28..527V. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2002)028<0527:DAMPC>2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 3595499. S2CID 85725299.
Rudstam, Lars G.; VanDeValk, Anthony J. (February 2004). "Cormorant Predation and the Population Dynamics of Walleye and Yellow Perch in Oneida Lake". Ecological Applications. 14 (1): 149–163. Bibcode:2004EcoAp..14..149R. doi:10.1890/03-5010. JSTOR 4493527. providing the opportunity to study the effects of an increase of a top predator on an existing predator-prey system

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Sukhdeo, Michael V. K. (2012). "Where are the parasites in food webs?". Parasites & Vectors. 5 (1) 239. Bibcode:2012PVec....5..239S. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-5-239. PMC 3523981. PMID 23092160.
Trewby, Iain D.; Young, Richard; McDonald, Robbie A.; Wilson, Gavin J.; Davison, John; Walker, Neil; Robertson, Andrew; Doncaster, C. Patrick; Delahay, Richard J. (April 2014). Criscuolo, François (ed.). "Impacts of Removing Badgers on Localised Counts of Hedgehogs". PLOS ONE. 9 (4) e95477. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...995477T. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095477. PMC 3988185. PMID 24736454.
Stier, A. C.; Samhouri, J. F.; Novak, M.; Marshall, K. N.; Ward, E. J.; Holt, R. D.; Levin, P. S. (May 2016). "Ecosystem context and historical contingency in apex predator recoveries". Science Advances. 2 (5) e1501769. Bibcode:2016SciA....2E1769S. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1501769. PMC 4928970. PMID 27386535.
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