Dynamic landscapes of fear: understanding spatiotemporal risk

MS Palmer, KM Gaynor, JA Becker, JO Abraham… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
The landscape of fear (LOF) concept posits that prey navigate spatial heterogeneity in
perceived predation risk, balancing risk mitigation against other activities necessary for …

Urban biodiversity and the importance of scale

K Uchida, RV Blakey, JR Burger, DS Cooper… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Many ecological and evolutionary processes are affected by urbanization, but cities vary by
orders of magnitude in their human population size and areal extent. To quantify and …

Fear of humans as apex predators has landscape‐scale impacts from mountain lions to mice

JP Suraci, M Clinchy, LY Zanette, CC Wilmers - Ecology letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Apex predators such as large carnivores can have cascading, landscape‐scale impacts
across wildlife communities, which could result largely from the fear they inspire, although …

Fear of the human “super predator” pervades the South African savanna

LY Zanette, NR Frizzelle, M Clinchy, MJS Peel… - Current biology, 2023 - cell.com
Lions have long been perceived as Africa's, if not the world's, most fearsome terrestrial
predator, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 the" king of beasts". Wildlife's fear of humans may, however …

Human presence and human footprint have non-equivalent effects on wildlife spatiotemporal habitat use

BA Nickel, JP Suraci, ML Allen, CC Wilmers - Biological Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
Human impacts on wildlife stem from both our footprint on the landscape and the presence
of people in wildlife habitat. Each may influence wildlife at very different spatial and temporal …

The evolutionary consequences of human–wildlife conflict in cities

CJ Schell, LA Stanton, JK Young… - Evolutionary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Human–wildlife interactions, including human–wildlife conflict, are increasingly common as
expanding urbanization worldwide creates more opportunities for people to encounter …

Fear of large carnivores amplifies human-caused mortality for mesopredators

LR Prugh, CX Cunningham, RM Windell, BN Kertson… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The challenge that large carnivores face in coexisting with humans calls into question their
ability to carry out critical ecosystem functions such as mesopredator suppression outside …

Ecology and neurobiology of fear in free-living wildlife

LY Zanette, M Clinchy - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The ecology of fear concerns the population-, community-, and ecosystem-level
consequences of the behavioral interactions between predators and prey, ie, the aggregate …

Human disturbance compresses the spatiotemporal niche

NA Gilbert, JL Stenglein, JN Pauli… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Human disturbance may fundamentally alter the way that species interact, a prospect that
remains poorly understood. We investigated whether anthropogenic landscape modification …

Crowded mountains: Long-term effects of human outdoor recreation on a community of wild mammals monitored with systematic camera trapping

M Salvatori, V Oberosler, M Rinaldi, A Franceschini… - Ambio, 2023 - Springer
Outdoor recreation in natural areas has become an increasingly popular activity globally, yet
the long-term effects on wildlife are poorly known. Reconciling human access to nature and …