![]() ![]() ![]() The food web that sustains physical life can be seen as a pyramid. What this thorough, sound, and articulate book convincingly conveys to me with its extensive hard science is: Where the predators no longer hunted, their prey had run amok, amassing at freakish densities, crowding out competing species, denuding landscapes and seascapes as they went." It was becoming ever more apparent that the extermination of the earth’s apex predators- the lions and wolves of the land, the great sharks and big fish of the sea, all so vehemently swept aside in humanity’s global swarming- had triggered a cascade of ecological consequences. Beyond the bulldozers and the polluters and the usual cast of suspects, a more insidious factor had entered the equation. ![]() Researchers from around the world were returning with disquieting reports of forests dying, coral reefs collapsing, pests and plagues irrupting. "The murmur had been gathering from field sites and conference halls, formally surfacing in academic journals and publicized in mainstream media. This book expands on a passage from another of William Stolzenburg's books, Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cat's Walk Across America which reads: Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators by William Stolzenburg ![]()
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