Robert M. Pringle

Research interests

Publications

• Impacts of large herbivores on terrestrial ecosystems

  Current Biology · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.04.024

• Dynamic landscapes of fear: understanding spatiotemporal risk

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.06.007

• Covariation of diet and gut microbiome in African megafauna

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1905666116

• Cascading impacts of large-carnivore extirpation in an African ecosystem

  Science · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau3561

• Predator-induced collapse of niche structure and species coexistence

  Nature · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1264-6

• Microbial nitrogen limitation in the mammalian large intestine

  Nature Microbiology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-018-0267-7

• Warfare and wildlife declines in Africa’s protected areas

  Nature · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25194

• Upgrading protected areas to conserve wild biodiversity

  Nature · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22902

• A theoretical foundation for multi-scale regular vegetation patterns

  Nature · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20801

• Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna

  BioScience · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biw092

• Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

  Science · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aab3916

• Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction

  Science Advances · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1400253

• DNA metabarcoding illuminates dietary niche partitioning by African large herbivores

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503283112

• Termite mounds can increase the robustness of dryland ecosystems to climatic change

  Science · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1261487

• Ecological legacies of civil war: 35‐year increase in savanna tree cover following wholesale large‐mammal declines

  Journal of Ecology · 2015 · 10.1111/1365-2745.12483

• Large carnivores make savanna tree communities less thorny

  Science · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1252753

• Synergy of multiple partners, including freeloaders, increases host fitness in a multispecies mutualism

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1006872107

• Spatial Pattern Enhances Ecosystem Functioning in an African Savanna

  PLoS Biology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000377

• Breakdown of an Ant-Plant Mutualism Follows the Loss of Large Herbivores from an African Savanna

  Science · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1151579

• Where does biodiversity go from here? A grim business-as-usual forecast and a hopeful portfolio of partial solutions

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0801911105

• ELEPHANTS AS AGENTS OF HABITAT CREATION FOR SMALL VERTEBRATES AT THE PATCH SCALE

  Ecology · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1890/07-0776.1

• Herbivore-initiated interaction cascades and their modulation by productivity in an African savanna

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0609840104

• When Agendas Collide: Human Welfare and Biological Conservation

  Conservation Biology · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00570.x

• The Origins of the Nile Perch in Lake Victoria

  BioScience · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0780:tootnp]2.0.co;2

• CANOPY STRUCTURE, MICROCLIMATE, AND HABITAT SELECTION BY A NOCTURNAL SNAKE, HOPLOCEPHALUS BUNGAROIDES

  Ecology · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1890/02-0482

Current projects

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