# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-j-ripple
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:30:50.972Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-j-ripple"
name: "William J. Ripple"
slug: "william-j-ripple"
description: "William J. Ripple is a professor of ecology at Oregon State University in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society. He is best known for his research on terrestrial trophic cascades, particularly the role of the gray wolf in North America as an apex predator and a keystone species that shapes food webs and landscape structures via “top-down” pressures."
tagline: "Ecologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Ripple_Iron_Moutain.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1952-03-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.39
  momentum:             14.48602745136763
  historical:           4.814616
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/WilliamJRipple"
    handle:    "WilliamJRipple"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.cof.orst.edu/cascades/"
sources:
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    title: "ویلیام جی رپل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William J. Ripple"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Ripple"
    title: "William J. Ripple"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Ripple"
    title: "William J. Ripple"
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    title: "Риппл, Уильям"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump