Enemies with benefits: integrating positive and negative interactions among terrestrial carnivores

LR Prugh, KJ Sivy - Ecology Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Interactions among terrestrial carnivores involve a complex interplay of competition,
predation and facilitation via carrion provisioning, and these negative and positive pathways …

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 …

Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages

IS Martins, F Schrodt, SA Blowes, AE Bates… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Biotic responses to global change include directional shifts in organismal traits. Body size,
an integrative trait that determines demographic rates and ecosystem functions, is thought to …

Evaluating the efficacy of predator removal in a conflict-prone world

RJ Lennox, AJ Gallagher, EG Ritchie, SJ Cooke - Biological Conservation, 2018 - Elsevier
Predators shape ecosystem structure and function through their direct and indirect effects on
prey, which permeate through ecological communities. Predators are often perceived as …

Human disturbance is the most limiting factor driving habitat selection of a large carnivore throughout Continental Europe

L Ripari, J Premier, E Belotti, H Bluhm… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Habitat selection is a multi-scale process driven by trade-offs between benefits, such as
resource abundance, and disadvantages, such as the avoidance of risk. The latter includes …

An ecological framework for contextualizing carnivore–livestock conflict

CE Wilkinson, A McInturff, JRB Miller… - Conservation …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Carnivore predation on livestock is a complex management and policy challenge, yet it is
also intrinsically an ecological interaction between predators and prey. Human–wildlife …

Characterizing conflict between humans and big cats Panthera spp: A systematic review of research trends and management opportunities

K Krafte Holland, LR Larson, RB Powell - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Conservation of big cats (Panthera spp.), a taxonomic group including tigers, lions, jaguars,
leopards and snow leopards, is a daunting challenge. As expanding human populations …

Range-wide phylogeography of the golden jackals (Canis aureus) reveals multiple sources of recent spatial expansion and admixture with dogs at the expansion front

M Stefanović, W Bogdanowicz, R Adavoudi… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
The current rapid climate change and human-induced alteration of landscapes and animal
communities have led to range expansions in numerous species, raising concerns about …

Identifying mesopredator release in multi‐predator systems: a review of evidence from North America

DS Jachowski, A Butler, RYY Eng, L Gigliotti… - Mammal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The mesopredator release hypothesis, defined as the change in distribution, abundance or
behaviour of a middle‐ranking predator in response to a decrease in density or distribution …

[HTML][HTML] Dispersal history of the golden jackal (Canis aureus moreoticus Geoffroy, 1835) in Europe and possible causes of its recent population explosion

N Spassov, I Acosta-Pankov - Biodiversity data journal, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Data on the historical distribution of the golden jackal in Europe and its primary
habitats are scarce. There are many new data on the population explosion and the rapid …