I also linked a uk study, but this works the same everywhere they tried, including wolves in italy etc
> Which "prey" have to be controlled, or else which "pests" will balloon?
the food chain sits at an equilibrium that's under dampened. the population of opportunistic/scavenger will grow sharply going over capacity. that will cause harm to animals down the food chain (i.e. attack to bird nests) and will cause immigration of nearby predator population, which will again be underdampenend and will grow over capacity.
heck I even linked a paper explaining this, there's plenty references around too.
> Predator
now you're just being an hardass. it was autocorrect.