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Michael E. Soulé
Researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz
Publications - 77
Citations - 22813
Michael E. Soulé is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Cruz. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Conservation biology. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 76 publications receiving 21843 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael E. Soulé include Cornell University & University of Michigan.
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Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth
James A. Estes,John Terborgh,Justin S. Brashares,Mary E. Power,Joel Berger,William J. Bond,Stephen R. Carpenter,Timothy E. Essington,Robert D. Holt,Jeremy B. C. Jackson,Robert J. Marquis,Lauri Oksanen,Tarja Oksanen,Robert T. Paine,Ellen K. Pikitch,William J. Ripple,Stuart A. Sandin,Marten Scheffer,Thomas W. Schoener,Jonathan B. Shurin,Anthony R. E. Sinclair,Michael E. Soulé,Risto Virtanen,David A. Wardle +23 more
TL;DR: This empirical work supports long-standing theory about the role of top-down forcing in ecosystems but also highlights the unanticipated impacts of trophic cascades on processes as diverse as the dynamics of disease, wildfire, carbon sequestration, invasive species, and biogeochemical cycles.
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Viable Populations for Conservation
TL;DR: Soule as mentioned in this paper proposed a demography of chance extinction model for the Sumatran rhino as a case study and used the Soule Index to measure the survivability of critically endangered species.