Investigating animal activity patterns and temporal niche partitioning using camera‐trap data: Challenges and opportunities

S Frey, JT Fisher, AC Burton… - Remote Sensing in …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Time‐stamped camera data are increasingly used to study temporal patterns in species and
community ecology, including species' activity patterns and niche partitioning. Given the …

Paws without claws? Ecological effects of large carnivores in anthropogenic landscapes

DPJ Kuijper, E Sahlén, B Elmhagen… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Large carnivores are frequently presented as saviours of biodiversity and ecosystem
functioning through their creation of trophic cascades, an idea largely based on studies …

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 …

The influence of human disturbance on wildlife nocturnality

KM Gaynor, CE Hojnowski, NH Carter, JS Brashares - Science, 2018 - science.org
Rapid expansion of human activity has driven well-documented shifts in the spatial
distribution of wildlife, but the cumulative effect of human disturbance on the temporal …

Fear of large carnivores causes a trophic cascade

JP Suraci, M Clinchy, LM Dill, D Roberts… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The fear large carnivores inspire, independent of their direct killing of prey, may itself cause
cascading effects down food webs potentially critical for conserving ecosystem function …

[HTML][HTML] Mesopredator spatial and temporal responses to large predators and human development in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California

Y Wang, ML Allen, CC Wilmers - Biological Conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
Human-driven declines of apex predators can trigger widespread impacts throughout
ecological communities. Reduced apex predator occupancy or activity can release …

Plasticity in circadian activity patterns of mesocarnivores in Southwestern Europe: implications for species coexistence

P Monterroso, PC Alves, P Ferreras - Behavioral ecology and …, 2014 - Springer
Limiting similarity theory predicts that competing species must segregate along one or more
dimensions of their ecological niche in order to coexist. In predator communities …

Multiple threats, or multiplying the threats? Interactions between invasive predators and other ecological disturbances

TS Doherty, CR Dickman, DG Nimmo, EG Ritchie - Biological Conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
Invasive species have reshaped the composition of biomes across the globe, and
considerable cost is now associated with minimising their ecological, social and economic …

[HTML][HTML] Feral cats are better killers in open habitats, revealed by animal-borne video

H McGregor, S Legge, ME Jones, CN Johnson - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
One of the key gaps in understanding the impacts of predation by small mammalian
predators on prey is how habitat structure affects the hunting success of small predators …

[HTML][HTML] Landscape management of fire and grazing regimes alters the fine-scale habitat utilisation by feral cats

HW McGregor, S Legge, ME Jones, CN Johnson - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Intensification of fires and grazing by large herbivores has caused population declines in
small vertebrates in many ecosystems worldwide. Impacts are rarely direct, and usually …