Large terrestrial carnivores, eg wolves or bears, often play a key ecological role from their
position at the apex of trophic systems. Changes to their populations reverberate through …

Because of the large scales at which large carnivores live, their conservation cannot occur
only within protected areas. They must therefore be conserved within multi-use landscapes …

Predation, one of the most dramatic interactions in animals' lives, has long fascinated
ecologists. This volume presents carnivores, raptors and their prey in the complicated net of …

Wolf (Canis lupus) kill rates, factors affecting their variation, and predation impact on
ungulates were studied in the Polish part of BiałowieŻa Primeval Forest (580 km2). With the …

Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity brings together more than thirty
leading scientists and conservation practitioners to consider a key question in environmental …

Top-down suppression by apex predators can limit the abundance and spatial distribution of
mesopredators. However, this phenomenon has not been studied over long time periods in …

Relationships of wolves (Canis lupus) and ungulates were studied in the Polish part of
Białowieża Primeval Forest with high densities of prey. The number of wolves ranged from 7 …

We studied the influence of human activity, hunting of prey by wolves, reproduction, and
weather conditions on daily patterns and duration of activity of 11 radiotracked wolves …

In the field of large predator-ungulate relationships in the Holarctic zone, most contemporary
knowledge comes from North American studies on wolves Canis lupus, moose Alces alces …

Wolf Canis lupus relationships with wild ungulates, domestic animals and humans were
studied in an area of ca 800 km2 at the head of the Lovat River in northeastern Belarus …