You're right, but it's also not a settled or well understood concept yet. This whole idea got running with ecological cascades, and it turns out that these are

You're right, but it's also not a settled or well understood concept yet. This whole idea got running with ecological cascades, and it turns out that these are all complex systems. But just adding or removing a species doesn't have one effect, or even an effect at all in some cases. We have to be careful not to trumpet one or two successes of eco-forming, because lots of people will read that and repeat it and think that doing X is always going to have a positive effect. Reintroducing the wolves was part of a much larger mis-management of the park where we basically destroyed 80-90% of Yellowstone over a half century, by doing things like screwing with the animal population, or the controlled burning by indigenous/native populations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_effect_(ecology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_effect_(ecology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_cascade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_cascade https://kottke.org/15/01/yellowstone-how-not-to-manage-a-national-park https://kottke.org/15/01/yellowstone-how-not-to-manage-a-nat...