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Chicago IL, pp 256–274
Terborgh J, Estes JA, Paquet P, Ralls K, Boyd D, Miller B, Noss R (1999) Role of top carnivores
in regulating terrestrial ecosystems. In: Soulé M, Terborgh J (eds) Continental conservation:
scientific foundations of regional reserve networks. Island Press, Covelo, CA, pp 39–64
Valdmann H, Andersone-Lilley Z, Koppa O, Ozolins J, Bagrade G (2005) Winter diets of wolf
Canis lupus and lynx Lynx lynx in Estonia and Latvia. Acta Theriol 50:521–527
Vulla E, Hobson KA, Korsten M, Leht M, Martin AJ, Lind A, Männil P, Valdmann H, Saarma U
(2009) Carnivory is positively correlated with latitude among omnivorous mammals: evidence
from brown bears, badgers and pine martens. Ann Zool Fen 46:395–415
Wardle DA, Bellingham PJ, Fukami T, Mulder CPH (2007) Promotion of ecosystem carbon
sequestration by invasive predators. Biol Lett 3:479–482
Weber W, Rabinowitz A (1996) A global perspective on large carnivore conservation. Conser Biol
10:1046–1055
Woodroffe R (2000) Predators and people: using human densities to interpret declines of large
carnivores. Animal Conser 3:165–173
Zager P, Beecham J (2006) The role of American black bears and brown bears as predators on
ungulates in North America. Ursus 17:95–108
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing,
adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate
credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and
indicate if changes were made.
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