![]() ![]() ![]() Once these predators disappear, the whole ecosystem is tipped out of balance. To put it simply, the only reason why terrestrial herbivores don’t consume entire forests is because predators are there to keep them in check. According to this hypothesis, the balance between predator and prey is crucial for biodiversity. ![]() Stolzenburg’s book combines natural history and cautionary environmental writing with several case studies that illustrate Hairston, Smith and Slobodkin’s Green World Hypothesis, known today as trophic cascade. William Stolzenburg’s Where the Wild Things Were is a passionate and very accessible account of the devastating ecological impact of the disappearance of big predators – be it killer whales on the seas, sea stars in small rock ecosystem, or wolves, bears and mountain lions on land. ![]()
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