Changes in behavior are unable to disrupt a trophic cascade involving a specialist herbivore and its food plant

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Lohman, Madeleine G., Riecke, Thomas V., Acevedo, Cheyenne R., Person, Brian T., Schmutz, Joel A., Uher‐Koch, Brian D., Sedinger, James S.
• Other Authors: Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research, Ducks Unlimited Canada, National Science Foundation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Brant; Yukon; Branta bernicla; Kuskokwim; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5118; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.5118; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/ece3.5118

Abstract Changes in ecological conditions can induce changes in behavior and demography of wild organisms, which in turn may influence population dynamics. Black brant ( Branta bernicla nigricans ) nesting in colonies on the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta (YKD) in western Alaska have declined substantially (...