Costs of territoriality: a review of hypotheses, meta-analysis, and field study

TJ Ord - Oecologia, 2021 - Springer
The evolution of territoriality reflects the balance between the benefit and cost of
monopolising a resource. While the benefit of territoriality is generally intuitive (improved …

Home range size variation in a recovering wolf population: evaluating the effect of environmental, demographic, and social factors

J Mattisson, H Sand, P Wabakken, V Gervasi, O Liberg… - Oecologia, 2013 - Springer
Home range size in mammals is a key ecological trait and an important parameter in
conservation planning, and has been shown to be influenced by ecological, demographic …

Room to roam for African lions Panthera leo: a review of the key drivers of lion habitat use and implications for conservation

R Sargent, NJ Deere, PJK McGowan… - Mammal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, large terrestrial carnivores (Carnivora) have suffered precipitous declines in
population and range. Today, they must persist in increasingly isolated natural habitat …

Wolves adapt territory size, not pack size to local habitat quality

AM Kittle, M Anderson, T Avgar, JA Baker… - Journal of Animal …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Although local variation in territorial predator density is often correlated with habitat quality,
the causal mechanism underlying this frequently observed association is poorly understood …

Determining occurrence dynamics when false positives occur: estimating the range dynamics of wolves from public survey data

DAW Miller, JD Nichols, JA Gude, LN Rich… - PLoS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Large-scale presence-absence monitoring programs have great promise for many
conservation applications. Their value can be limited by potential incorrect inferences owing …

Determinants of home range size and space use patterns in a protected wolf (Canis lupus) population in the central Apennines, Italy

S Mancinelli, L Boitani, P Ciucci - Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2018 - cdnsciencepub.com
Large carnivores are amongst the most susceptible species to human activities, and human-
modified environments pose a threat to carnivore conservation. Wolves (Canis lupus …

[HTML][HTML] Defining ecological and socially suitable habitat for the reintroduction of an apex predator

MA Ditmer, G Wittemyer, SW Breck… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reintroducing native carnivores risks creating conflict with people and consequently
reducing support for coexistence and conservation efforts. Determining the interface …

Wolf‐livestock conflict and the effects of wolf management

NJ DeCesare, SM Wilson, EH Bradley… - The Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Wolf (Canis lupus) depredations of livestock are a ubiquitous source of conflict in every
country where wolves and livestock overlap. We studied the spatial and temporal variation of …

Pulsed food resources affect reproduction but not adult apparent survival in arctic foxes

C Chevallier, G Gauthier, S Lai, D Berteaux - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
As top or mesopredators, carnivores play a key role in food webs. Their survival and
reproduction are usually thought to be influenced by prey availability. However …

Sedentary but not dispersing wolves Canis lupus recolonizing western Poland (2001–2016) conform to the predictions of a habitat suitability model

S Nowak, RW Mysłajek, M Szewczyk… - Diversity and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To compare predictions of the habitat suitability model (HSM) for wolves Canis lupus in
Poland with actual wolf distribution in western Poland after 15 years of recolonization …