Cascading effects of a disease outbreak in a remote protected area.
Puma concolor
Sarcoptic mange
Trophic cascades
Vicugna vicugna
Vultur gryphus
disease
high Andes
Journal
Ecology letters
ISSN: 1461-0248
Titre abrégé: Ecol Lett
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101121949
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
May 2022
May 2022
Historique:
revised:
17
01
2022
received:
21
10
2021
accepted:
26
01
2022
pubmed:
18
2
2022
medline:
28
4
2022
entrez:
17
2
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Disease outbreaks induced by humans increasingly threaten wildlife communities worldwide. Like predators, pathogens can be key top-down forces in ecosystems, initiating trophic cascades that may alter food webs. An outbreak of mange in a remote Andean protected area caused a dramatic population decline in a mammalian herbivore (the vicuña), creating conditions to test the cascading effects of disease on the ecological community. By comparing a suite of ecological measurements to pre-disease baseline records, we demonstrate that mange restructured tightly linked trophic interactions previously driven by a mammalian predator (the puma). Following the mange outbreak, scavenger (Andean condor) occurrence in the ecosystem declined sharply and plant biomass and cover increased dramatically in predation refuges where herbivory was historically concentrated. The evidence shows that a disease-induced trophic cascade, mediated by vicuña density, could supplant the predator-induced trophic cascade, mediated by vicuña behaviour, thereby transforming the Andean ecosystem.
Types de publication
Letter
Langues
eng
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1152-1163Subventions
Organisme : Proyectos de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnológica
ID : 0725-2014
Organisme : Rufford Foundation
Organisme : The Devonwood Foundation
Organisme : Universidad Nacional de Comahue
ID : Project 04/B227
Organisme : Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association
Organisme : Cleveland Metroparks
Organisme : Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Organisme : Conservation, Research, and Educational Opportunities International
Organisme : University of Wisconsin - Madison
Organisme : University of California Berkeley
Organisme : Wildlife Conservation Society Argentina
Organisme : University of Wyoming
Organisme : Denver Zoological Foundation
Organisme : Institute for Biospheric Studies, Yale University
Organisme : Lincoln Park Zoo
Organisme : Idea Wild
Organisme : Yale University
Organisme : National Geographic Society
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© 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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