Erick Lundgren

Feral Earth Research

2024

EJ Lundgren, J Bergman, E le Roux, S Monsarrat, JA Kristensen, RØ Pedersen, J Trepel, and J-C Svenning. Functional traits—not nativeness—shape the effects of herbivorous megafauna on plants. Science doi: 10.1126/science.adh2616 PDF

J Trepel [MS student], E le Roux, AJ Abraham, R Buteinwerf, J Kamp, JA Kristensen, M Tietje, J-C Svenning, and EJ Lundgren [co-senior]. Wild megafauna shape ecosystem properties and promote spatial heterogeneity globally. Nature Ecology and Evolution 10.1038/s41559-024-02327-6 PDF

EJ Lundgren, AD Wallach, J-C Svenning, M. Schlaepfer, A.L.A. Andersson, D Ramp. Preventing extinction in an age of species migration and planetary change. Conservation Biology e14270 https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14270 PDF

EIF Wooster, OS Middleton, AD Wallach, D Ramp, VK Harris, J Rowan, SD Schowanek, CE Gordon, J-C Svenning, M Davis, JPW Scharlemann, CJ Sandom, EJ Lundgren [co-senior]. Australia’s recently established predators restore complexity to food webs simplified by extinction. Current Biology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.049

EIF Wooster, EJ Lundgren, CJ Sandom, J Rowan, OS Middleton. Functional traits of the world’s late Quaternary mammalian hypercarnivores. Global Ecology and Biogeography https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13909

J Rowan, A Du, EJ Lundgren, JT Faith, L Beaudrot, CJ Campisano, J Joordens, IA Lazagabaster, EM Locke, IE Smail, KE Reed, JM Kamilar. The biogeographic context of hominin evolution in eastern Africa. Nature Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02462-0

J-C Svenning, R Lemoine, J Bergman, R Buitenwerf, E le Roux, EJ Lundgren, N Mungi, R Pedersen. Late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: patterns, drivers, consequences and implications for conservation and restoration. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction 2:e5

PJ Pereyra, P de la Barra, LLD Amione, A Arcángel, BMM Buch, E Rodríguez, MA Maldonado, L Hünicken, EJ Lundgren, AD Wallach. Human beings and the species they introduce are not a “cancer” of Planet Earth. BioScience biae112.

WJ Ripple, Rl Beschta, AD Craig, EJ Lundgren, LC Satterfield, ST Woodrich, AJ Wirsing. Predator decline and shifting baselines: are we studying a sick patient? Biological Conservation biae034.

L Barbero-Palacios, IC Barrio, M Garcia Criado, I Kater, M Petit Bon, THM Kolari, R Bjorkas, J Trepel, EJ Lundgren, K Bjornsdottir, BC Hwang, L Bartra-Cabre, M Defourneaux, J Ramsay, TK Lameris, AJ Leffler, JG Lock, MS Kuoppamaa, JA Kristensen, A Bjorkman, I Myers-Smith, N Lecomte, JC Axmacher, O Gilg, M Den Herder, EP Pagneux, A Skarin, N Sokolova, T Windirsch, HC Wheeler, E Serrano, T Virtanen, DS Hik, E Kaarlejarvi, JDM Speed, EM Soininen. Herbivore diversity effects on Arctic tundra ecosystems—a systematic review. Accepted: Environmental Evidence

Trepel, J, AJ Abraham, EJ Lundgren, KM Ferraro, C Fløjgaard, L Haugaard, P Sunde, RØ Pedersen, M Tietje, J Kamp, E le Roux (2024). Zoogeochemistry of a protected area: Driven by anthropogenic impacts and animal behavior. Conservation Science and Practice. doi: 10.1111/csp2.13107

SM Mahoney, P Davis, C Dodge, C Edwards, JA Holmes, Q Jennings, MJ Johnson, EJ Lundgren, MA McLeod, D Moore, PJ Motyka, A Pellegrini, DN Rakestraw, ANB Smith, RR Winton, E Woodhouse. Evidence of honest signalling in a suboscine bird: Southwestern willow flycatcher song frequency is positively related to apparent reproductive success. Behaviour 1(aop):1-21.

2023

EIF Wooster, AD Wallach, LA Stanton, KM Gaynor, D Ramp, EJ Lundgren [senior author]. Animal cognition and culture mediate predator-prey interactions. Trends in Ecology and the Environment https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.09.012 PDF

EIF Wooster, D Ramp, EJ Lundgren, GT Bonsen, A Geisler-Edge, D Ben-Ami, AJR Carthey, S Carroll, O Keynan, Y Olek, A O'Neill, U Shanas, and AD Wallach. Prey responses to predators are not determined by nativeness. Ecography https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07031

J Bergman, RO Pedersen, EJ Lundgren, RT Lemoine, S Monsarrat, MH Schierup, and J-C Svenning. Worldwide Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene population declines in extant megafauna are associated with Homo sapiens expansion rather than climate change. Nature Communications 14 7679. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43426-5

L Wang, JPGM Cromsigt, R Buitenwerf, EJ Lundgren, W Li, ES Bakker, and J-C Svenning. Megafauna explain tree cover and its heterogeneity in natural ecosystems globally. One Earth https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.007

AD Wallach, D Ramp, A Benítez, EIF Wooster, S Carroll, A Carthey, E Rogers, O Middleton, KJA Zawada, J-C Svenning, E Avidor, and EJ Lundgren [senior author]. Savviness of prey to introduced predators. Conservation Biology doi:10.1111/cobi.14012 PDF

2022

EJ Lundgren, D Ramp, OM Middleton, EIF Wooster, E Kusch, M Balisi, WJ Ripple, CD Hasselerharm, JN Sanchez, M Mills, and AD Wallach. Novel trophic cascade between cougars and feral donkeys shapes desert wetlands. Journal of Animal Ecology open access. Featured in Research Highlight

EIF Wooster, D Ramp, E Yanco, G Bonsen, EJ Lundgren, and AD Wallach. Predator protection dampens the landscape of fear. Oikos https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.09059

EJ Lundgren, KT Moeller, MO Clyne, OM Middleton, SM Mahoney, and CL Kwapich. Cicada nymphs are important food for desert-dwelling American black bears. Ecology and Evolution 12(3): e8577. open access

2021

EJ Lundgren, D Ramp, JC Stromberg, J Wu, NC Nieto, M Sluk, KT Moeller, and AD Wallach. Equids engineer desert water availability. Science 372:491-495. PDF

EJ Lundgren, D Ramp, J Wu, M Sluk, KT Moeller, JC Stromberg, and AD Wallach. Feral equids’ varied effects on ecosystems. Science 373: 973-974. PDF

EJ Lundgren, SD Schowanek [co-first], O Middleton, J Rowan, RØ Pedersen, AD Wallach, D Ramp, M Davis, CJ Sandom, and J-C Svenning. Functional traits of the world’s late Quaternary large-bodied avian and mammalian herbivores. Nature Scientific Data https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00788-5 open access

EIF Wooster, D Ramp, EJ Lundgren, AJ O’Neill, and AD Wallach. Red foxes avoid apex predation without increasing fear. Behavioral Ecology arab053. PDF

SD Schowanek, M Davis, O Middleton, RØ Pedersen, EJ Lundgren, J Rowan, D Ramp, CJ Sandom, and J-C Svenning. Reintroducing extirpated herbivores could partially reverse the late Quaternary decline of large and grazing species. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30:896-908. PDF

2020

EJ Lundgren, D Ramp, J Rowan, O Middleton, SD Schowanek, O Sanisidro, SP Carroll, M Davis, CJ Sandom, J-C Svenning, and AD Wallach. Introduced megafauna restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915769117 PDF

AD Wallach, EJ Lundgren, C Batavia, MP Nelson, E Yanco, WL Linklater, SP Carroll, D Celermajer, KJ Brandis, J Steer, and D Ramp. When all life counts in conservation. Conservation Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13447 PDF

Nelson, MP, C Batavia, KJ Brandis, SP Carroll, D Celermajer, W Linklater, EJ Lundgren, D Ramp, J Steer, E Yanco, and AD Wallach. Challenges at the intersection of conservation and ethics: Reply to Meyer et al. 2021. Conservation Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13666

2019

CJ Sandom, O Middleton, EJ Lundgren, J Rowan, SD Schowanek, J-C Svenning, and S Faurby. Trophic rewilding presents regionally specific opportunities for mitigating climate change. Philosophical Transactions B 20190125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0125

S Mahoney, AN Smith, PJ Motyka, EJ Lundgren, R Winton, B Stevens, and MJ Johnson. Non-native Russian olive-dominated (Elaeagnus angustifolia) habitat supports similar bird communities to native habitat: Implications for biological control. Journal of Arid Environments 167:26-33 PDF

2018

EJ Lundgren, D Ramp, WJ Ripple, and AD Wallach. Introduced megafauna are rewilding the Anthropocene. Ecography http://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03430 PDF Editor's Choice Award

AD Wallach, D Ramp, WJ Ripple, and EJ Lundgren. Invisible megafauna. Conservation Biology 32(4): 962-965 https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13116 PDF

AD Wallach, EJ Lundgren, EJ Yanco, and D Ramp. Is the prickly pear a ‘Tzabar’? Diversity and conservation of Israel’s migrant species. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 63(3-4) http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22244662-06303003 PDF

2017

EJ Lundgren and KT Moeller. Anti-Predator Strategies of, and Possible Thanatosis in, Juvenile Collared Peccaries (Pecari tajacu). The Southwestern Naturalist 62: 235-237. PDF

KT Moeller, AK Moeller, F Moyano, and EJ Lundgren. Observation of an American Black Bear eating odonates in Yosemite National Park. Western North American Naturalist 77: 9. PDF

PB Shafroth, KJ Schlatter, M Gomez-Sapiens, EJ Lundgren, MR Grabau, J Ramírez-Hernández, E Rodríguez-Burgueño, and KW Flessa. A large-scale experiment for riparian restoration in the Colorado River delta. Ecological Engineering http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.02.016 PDF

Non-academic publications

2024

EJ Lundgren. February 1, 2024. Horses, camels and deer get a bad rap for razing plants—but our new research shows they’re no worse than native animals. The Conversation

2023

EIF Wooster and EJ Lundgren. October 23, 2023. "From meerkat school to whale-tail slapping and oyster smashing, how clever predators shape their world" The Conversation

2021

EJ Lundgren, AD Wallach, and D Ramp. April 30, 2021. “Feral desert donkeys are digging wells, giving water to parched wildlife”. The Conversation

2019

AD Wallach, C Batavia, D Celermajer, D Ramp, EJ Lundgren, and E Yanco. November 28, 2019. “Non-native species should count in conservation – even in Australia”. The Conversation

2017

EJ Lundgren, AD Wallach, D Ramp, and W Ripple. October 1, 2017. “From feral camels to ‘cocaine hippos’, large animals are rewilding the world”. The Conversation