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    Consumers decrease variability across space and turnover through time during coral reef succession

    Consumers play an integral role in mediating ecological succession—the change in community composition over time. As consumer populations are facing rapid decline in ecosystems around the world, understanding ...

    Jamie M. McDevitt-Irwin, Douglas J. McCauley, Daniel R. Brumbaugh… in Oecologia (2023)

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    Invasive plant Arundo donax alters habitat use by carnivores

    Invasive plants can have significant negative interactions with native flora and fauna, often decreasing the abundance and diversity of native plants and invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. Less is known, ...

    Molly Hardesty-Moore, Devyn Orr, Douglas J. McCauley in Biological Invasions (2020)

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    Diverse effects of the common hippopotamus on plant communities and soil chemistry

    The ecological importance of the common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) in aquatic ecosystems is becoming increasingly well known. These unique megaherbivores are also likely to have a formative influence o...

    Douglas J. McCauley, Stuart I. Graham, Todd E. Dawson, Mary E. Power… in Oecologia (2018)

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    Consumer preference for seeds and seedlings of rare species impacts tree diversity at multiple scales

    Positive density-dependent seed and seedling predation, where herbivores selectively eat seeds or seedlings of common species, is thought to play a major role in creating and maintaining plant community divers...

    Hillary S. Young, Douglas J. McCauley, Roger Guevara, Rodolfo Dirzo in Oecologia (2013)