Claire N. Foster

TL;DR: A global, quantitative assessment of the amphibian chytridiomycosis panzootic demonstrates its role in the decline of at least 501 amphibian species over the past half-century and represents the greatest recorded loss of biodiversity attributable to a disease.

TL;DR: Critical questions remain for both basic ecology and the management of large native herbivores for biodiversity, and the need for studies which employ contrasts over a gradient of ecologically relevant herbivore densities and biologically meaningful time frames is emphasized.

TL;DR: The 'niche reduction hypothesis' is argued that threats often reduce the realized niche breadth of declining species because environmental, biotic, and evolutionary processes reduce or amplify threats, or because a species' capacity to tolerate threats varies across niche space.

TL;DR: It is shown that few experiments testing fire-grazing interactions are able to identify the mechanistic pathway driving an observed interaction, and most are unable to detect nonlinear effects, and a series of adjustments are proposed that would enable tests of key theoretical pathways and provide the deeper ecological understanding necessary for effective management.

TL;DR: This framework facilitates the generation of new data that is critical to building a quantitative understanding of the contribution of carrion to trophic processes and ecosystem stocks and flows.