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Wildlife temporal behaviors in response to human activity changes during and following COVID‐19 park closures

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
With urbanization reducing the amount of available wildlife habitat, and outdoor recreation increasing the human activity within wildlife habitats, it is important to understand the effects of human activity on animal behavior. This study examined how the reduction in human presence in urban parks in Gainesville, Florida, affected the temporal ...
Maya Fives, Matthew Hallett
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Urbanisation and human activities influence the co‐occurrence of red squirrels Sciurus vulgaris and meso‐carnivores in Berlin, Germany

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Urban expansion is a major driver of habitat fragmentation, shrinking wildlife habitat, and restricting wildlife movements and activity patterns. In this novel environment, species must adapt to the new composition of wildlife communities. For example, red squirrels Sciurus vulgaris are commonly found in urban environments, while their potential ...
Josefa Vergara Stuardo, Sinah Drenske, Julie Louvrier   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Concrete jungle to urban oasis: evaluating scale, vegetation cover, and aggregation of urban greenspaces on wildlife

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Urban greenspaces are a haven for wildlife in densely populated cities. Wildlife use greenspaces for resource acquisition, shelter, and travel across urbanized landscapes. Greenspace metrics such as herbaceous or woody landcover, size, patchiness, and human land use influence species richness.
Adrianna J. Elihu, Janel L. Ortiz
wiley   +1 more source

Aggressive coyote behavior toward a human being at Volcán Barva, Costa Rica Comportamiento agresivo del coyote hacia los seres humanos en el Volcán Barva, Costa Rica

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2012
Coyotes occur in Costa Rica and their population is increasing. In August 2010, the first author visited Braulio Carrillo National Park and approached 3 coyotes.
Ivan Literák, Johana Polásková, Martina Literáková   +2 more
doaj  

Individual Identification of Prey in Carnivore Scats. [PDF]

Mol Ecol Resour
ABSTRACT Noninvasive genetic sampling is widely used in ecology and conservation to identify predators and their diets but recovering individual‐level information from consumed prey remains largely unexplored. We evaluated whether individual prey can be reliably genotyped from carnivore scats and assessed limitations associated with degraded and mixed ...
Eriksson CE, Bianco M, Ruprecht J, Clark DA, Levi T.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Quantifying microhabitat selection of snowshoe hares using forest metrics from UAS‐based LiDAR

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Identifying the spatial and temporal scale at which animals select resources is critical for predicting how populations respond to changes in the environment. The spatial distribution of fine‐scale resources (e.g. patches of dense vegetation) are often linked with critical life‐history requirements such as denning and feeding sites.
Alexej P. K. Sirén, Franklin Sullivan, Rachel Cliché, Jeremy Goetz, Leighlan S. Prout, Jillian Kilborn, Katelyn Courtot, Michael Palace   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cost Effectiveness of Livestock Guardian Dogs for Predator Control

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2020
Predation threatens the economic viability of sheep operations in the United States. Many producers recognize the need to complement lethal control methods with nonlethal strategies such as the use of livestock guardian dogs (LGDs), but little ...
Tina L. Saitone, Ellen M. Bruno
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Consumption of anthropogenic foods influences the nutritional and reproductive condition of hunter‐harvested black bears

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
The consumption of human food subsidies influences ecological processes, and can affect individual behavior and fitness with population level changes in abundance and distribution. American black bears Ursus americanus often consume human food subsidies, which have been correlated with increased bear body size, age‐specific fertility and mortality ...
Isabel I. Field, Jonathan N. Pauli, David M. MacFarland, Jennifer L. Price Tack, Matthew M. Smith   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Will an artificial scent boundary prevent coyote intrusion?

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2011
Highly territorial species such as coyotes (Canis latrans) use scent‐marks to delineate boundaries, and it has been suggested that canids may be repelled from areas by using human‐placed scent‐marks. To evaluate the potential of artificial scent‐marks as
John A. Shivik, Ryan. R. Wilson, Lynne Gilbert‐Norton   +2 more
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Genetic population structure of red foxes Vulpes vulpes across a rural landscape: insights into population connectivity and spatial patterns

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Human activities have shaped and are continuing to influence terrestrial landscapes, creating heterogenous, and often, fragmented landscapes. Generalist species, like the red fox Vulpes vulpes, show high flexibility in habitat use, and occur across the heterogeneous, anthropogenic landscapes of central Europe.
Lukas G. Scholz, Felicitas Oehler, Florian Kunz, Robert Hagen, Niko Balkenhol, Cornelia Ebert, Thomas Alef, Manisha Bhardwaj, Janosch Arnold, Gisela Kopp, Ilse Storch   +10 more
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