Автор: John Terborgh

Launching a new series, Monographs in Behavior and Ecology, this work is an intensive study of five species of New World monkeys–all omnivores with a diet of fruit and small prey. Notwithstanding th …

Most scientists and researchers working in tropical areas are convinced that parks and protected areas are the only real hope for saving land and biodiversity in those regions. Rather than giving up …

Trophic cascades-the top-down regulation of ecosystems by predators-are an essential aspect of ecosystem function and well-being. Trophic cascades are often drastically disrupted by human interventio …

For ecologist John Terborgh, Manu National Park in the rainforest of Peru is a second home; he has spent half of each of the past twenty-five years there conducting research. Like all parks, Manu is …

‘Things are going wrong with our environment, ‘ writes John Terborgh, ‘even the parts of it that are nominally protected. If we wait until all the answers are in, we may find ourselves in a much wors …