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Venn diagram shows species recorded in Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Credit - MEYERS, ET AL. / FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
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When wolves returned to Yellowstone in 1995, no one imagined the predators would literally change the course of rivers in the national park through cascading effects on other animals and plants. Now, a Stanford University-developed approach holds the promise of forecasting such ecosystem changes as certain species become more prevalent or vanish altogether.

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