Human disturbance has contrasting effects on niche partitioning within carnivore communities

A Sévêque, LK Gentle, JV López‐Bao… - Biological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Among species, coexistence is driven partly by the partitioning of available resources. The
mechanisms of coexistence and competition among species have been a central topic …

Shining the spotlight on small mammalian carnivores: Global status and threats

C Marneweck, AR Butler, LC Gigliotti, SN Harris… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Small mammalian carnivores (Carnivora< 16 kg) carry out important roles in ecosystems,
such as influencing ecosystem structure and providing numerous ecosystem services …

Limited evidence on the effectiveness of interventions to reduce livestock predation by large carnivores

A Eklund, JV López-Bao, M Tourani, G Chapron… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Successful coexistence between large carnivores and humans is conditional upon effective
mitigation of the impact of these species on humans, such as through livestock depredation …

Where can wolves live and how can we live with them?

LD Mech - Biological conservation, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract In the contiguous 48 United States, southern Canada, and in Europe, wolves (Canis
lupus) have greatly increased and expanded their range during the past few decades. They …

Habitat selection by Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) is primarily driven by avoidance of human activity during day and prey availability during night

M Filla, J Premier, N Magg, C Dupke… - Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The greatest threat to the protected Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in Central Europe is human‐
induced mortality. As the availability of lynx prey often peaks in human‐modified areas, lynx …

Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore ecosystems? Large carnivores in Y ellowstone as a model system

NT Hobbs, DB Johnston, KN Marshall… - Ecological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Modification of food webs is a frequent cause of shifts in ecosystem states that resist reversal
when the food web is restored to its original condition. We used the restoration of the large …

Outsized effect of predation: Wolves alter wetland creation and recolonization by killing ecosystem engineers

TD Gable, SM Johnson-Bice, AT Homkes… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Gray wolves are a premier example of how predators can transform ecosystems through
trophic cascades. However, whether wolves change ecosystems as drastically as previously …

Recreation and hunting differentially affect deer behaviour and sapling performance

B Mols, E Lambers, JPGM Cromsigt, DPJ Kuijper… - Oikos, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Humans are increasingly acknowledged as apex predators that shape landscapes of fear to
which herbivores adapt their behaviour. Here, we investigate how humans modify deer …

A comprehensive review of mammalian carnivore translocations

B Stepkovitch, RT Kingsford, KE Moseby - Mammal Review, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Carnivore conservation translocations are assumed to provide numerous ecological
benefits, including conservation of the translocated carnivores, regulation of prey species …

[图书][B] Yellowstone wolves: Science and discovery in the world's first national park

DW Smith, DR Stahler, DR MacNulty - 2020 - degruyter.com
In 2020, it will have been twenty-five years since one of the greatest wildlife conservation
and restoration achievements of the twentieth century took place: the reintroduction of …