Where the Wild Things Were : Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

from mitchellray

This is an informative, interesting, and disturbing account of the ecological impact of predator elimination. The author points out that some environmental problems commonly blamed on climate change may actually be the result of the loss of major predators in ecosystems. A particular point I foun...

from VisibleGhost

Biology and conservation theories have been undergoing changes for the last fifty years. One of the theories gaining traction is the keystone large predator theory. When large predators disappear the ecological diversity of a region is greatly reduced. Deer and elf and other herbivores tend to re...

from msbaba

William Stolzenburg's Where the Wild Things Were summarized the past sixty years of scientific discoveries concerning the importance of predators as keystone species-remove these vital carnivores from the "Web of Life" and entire ecological systems collapse. In this book, Stolzenburg recounts the...

from anna_in_pdx

I was excited to get this book. I had just seen a movie, called "Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators," that covered many of the scientific studies and predator reintroduction issues that this book talks about in much more depth. I was struck by how crucial these animals are to thei...

from hayleyscomet

Rarely is popular science so well-written as William Stolzenburg has managed to write it in Where the Wild Things Were. He weaves a rich tapestry of the tales of predators (and lost predators) and the scientists who study them. The damage caused by humans driving out large predators makes for an ...