The importance of degraded forest landscapes for the future of Bornean elephants is currently underestimated.
Projects Animal Ecology
Management and forest restoration efforts that foster taller Bornean rainforest canopies are more likely to succeed at sustaining orangutan populations over the long-term.
3D vegetation habitat is a strong determinant of success among endangered African wild dogs
Distributions of multiple prey species are differentially influenced by terrain and vegetation structure following lion reintroduction in an African protected area
Source: Ecology and Evolution
Vegetation strongly affects lion hunting behavior in South African ecosystems
Source paper in PLoS One.
Animal assemblages are often viewed as a product of the ecosystems in which they live, but in reality they are often the reason an ecosystem looks the way it does. The roles of animals in shaping ecosystems are so important that two special issues recently published in PNAS and Ecography focus specifically on megafauna (literately translated as ‘large animal’) and the important roles they play in ecosystems, as well as what we may have lost through their extinctions across much of the globe.
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Elephants play a major role in controlling woody vegetation in African savannas
Losses of large animals has radically changed the structure and functioning of ecosystems worldwide
Termites affect the use of savannas by larger herbivores
Airborne 3-D mapping to understand the decline of a rare and charismatic animal in Africa