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, volume 117 , issue 14 , pages 7871-7878

Introduced herbivores restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions

Erick J Lundgren ¹

Daniel Ramp ¹

John Rowan ²

Owen S. Middleton ³

Simon D. Schowanek ^{4, 5}

Oscar Sanisidro ^{6, 7}

Scott P. Carroll ^{8, 9}

Matt Davis ¹⁰

Christopher J Sandom ³

Jens-Christian Svenning ^{4, 5}

ARIAN D. WALLACH ¹

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Centre for Compassionate Conservation, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo 2007, NSW, Australia; |

Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003; |

School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RH, United Kingdom; |

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Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, DK 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; |

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Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Biology, Aarhus University, DK 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; |

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Departamento Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, 28801 Alcalá de Henares, Spain; |

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Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, KS 66045; |

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Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616; |

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Institute for Contemporary Evolution, Davis, CA 95616; |

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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA 90007 |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2020-03-23

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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SJR: 3.414

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ISSN: 00278424, 10916490

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1915769117

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PubMed ID: 32205427

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Humans have caused extinctions of large-bodied mammalian herbivores over the past ∼100,000 y, leading to cascading changes in ecosystems. Conversely, introductions of herbivores have, in part, numerically compensated for extinction losses. However, the net outcome of the twin anthropogenic forces of extinction and introduction on herbivore assemblages has remained unknown. We found that a primary outcome of introductions has been the reintroduction of key ecological functions, making herbivore assemblages with nonnative species more similar to preextinction ones than native-only assemblages are. Our findings support calls for renewed research on introduced herbivore ecologies in light of paleoecological change and suggest that shifting focus from eradication to landscape and predator protection may have broader biodiversity benefits.

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Lundgren E. J. et al. Introduced herbivores restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2020. Vol. 117. No. 14. pp. 7871-7878.

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Lundgren E. J., Ramp D., Rowan J., Middleton O. S., Schowanek S. D., Sanisidro O., Carroll S. P., Davis M., Sandom C. J., Svenning J., WALLACH A. D. Introduced herbivores restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2020. Vol. 117. No. 14. pp. 7871-7878.

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TY - JOUR

DO - 10.1073/pnas.1915769117

UR - https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915769117

TI - Introduced herbivores restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions

T2 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

AU - Lundgren, Erick J

AU - Ramp, Daniel

AU - Rowan, John

AU - Middleton, Owen S.

AU - Schowanek, Simon D.

AU - Sanisidro, Oscar

AU - Carroll, Scott P.

AU - Davis, Matt

AU - Sandom, Christopher J

AU - Svenning, Jens-Christian

AU - WALLACH, ARIAN D.

PY - 2020

DA - 2020/03/23

PB - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

SP - 7871-7878

IS - 14

VL - 117

PMID - 32205427

SN - 0027-8424

SN - 1091-6490

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@article{2020_Lundgren,

author = {Erick J Lundgren and Daniel Ramp and John Rowan and Owen S. Middleton and Simon D. Schowanek and Oscar Sanisidro and Scott P. Carroll and Matt Davis and Christopher J Sandom and Jens-Christian Svenning and ARIAN D. WALLACH},

title = {Introduced herbivores restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions},

journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},

year = {2020},

volume = {117},

publisher = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)},

month = {mar},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915769117},

number = {14},

pages = {7871--7878},

doi = {10.1073/pnas.1915769117}

}

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Lundgren, Erick J., et al. “Introduced herbivores restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 117, no. 14, Mar. 2020, pp. 7871-7878. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915769117.

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

scimago Q1

wos Q1

SJR

3.414

CiteScore

16.5

Impact factor

9.1

ISSN

00278424 (Print)

10916490 (Electronic)