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Burned habitats facilitate predation and lead to long‐term reductions in prey success

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
By evaluating the effects of burned habitats on the habitat selection and movement responses of cougars and mule deer, cougar kill sites, and mule deer reproduction, the authors find that increasingly large, severe burns are diminishing herbivore reproductive success, potentially due to advantages for predators created by burned landscapes.
Kirby L. Mills, Martin Leclerc, Mark A. Ditmer, David C. Stoner, Zachary L. Steel, Joseph O. Sexton, Panshi Wang, Kent R. Hersey, Cody A. Schroeder, Alyson M. Andreasen, Kristin Engebretsen, Julie K. Young, Brock McMillan, Randy Larsen, Derek B. Hall, Brandon Holton, David Choate, Neil H. Carter   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative health assessment of urban and non-urban free-ranging mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in southeastern British Columbia, Canada [PDF]

PeerJ, 2018
Background The provincial wildlife management agency, British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, performed a translocation to control the urban mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus; uMD) overpopulation and ...
Amélie Mathieu, Mark Flint, Patrick M. Stent, Helen M. Schwantje, Thomas E. Wittum   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Can Wapiti (Cervus elaphus) Browsing Stimulate the Chemical Defense of Taxus cuspidata—A Case of Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We study that browsing by wapiti reduces the growth of saplings, and it develop chemical defenses to prevent themselves browsed again. These results reduce our concern about wapiti browse T. cuspidate saplings, and provide basic data for the study of the interaction between them, and also provide theoretical basis for the population restoration and ...
Jianan Feng, Hairong Du, Xianzhe Wang, Minghai Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extreme droughts shrink suitable habitats and reduce fitness for large mammals in the American West

Communications Earth & Environment
Droughts are intensifying across the biosphere, yet the consequences of this phenomenon for wildlife habitat suitability and fitness are poorly studied.
Martin Leclerc, Kirby L. Mills, Mark A. Ditmer, David C. Stoner, Joseph O. Sexton, Panshi Wang, Kent R. Hersey, Cody A. Schroeder, Alyson M. Andreasen, David Choate, Derek B. Hall, Kathleen M. Longshore, Darren DeBloois, Kristin Engebretsen, Julie K. Young, Patrick J. Jackson, Kathryn A. Schoenecker, Neil H. Carter   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

Resource selection of mule deer in a shrub‐steppe ecosystem: influence of woodland distribution and animal behavior

Ecosphere, 2019
Ungulates inhabiting arid ecosystems are reliant on productive forb and shrub communities during summer months to meet nutritional demands for survival and reproduction.
Sabrina Morano, Kelley M. Stewart, Thomas Dilts, Alisa Ellsworth, Vernon C. Bleich   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Smoke signals: Measuring wildlife smoke exposure with animal‐borne and stationary sensors

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Wildfires are becoming larger, more frequent and more severe, producing smoke plumes that degrade air quality hundreds of kilometres away and for days to weeks after an active fire. Despite public health and safety concerns regarding wildfire smoke, we know little about how free‐ranging wildlife experience or respond to these exposures.
Adam F. Parlin, Mark A. Ditmer, Zachary L. Steel, Jeremy Alder, Kent R. Hersey, Virginia Stout, B. Wesley Alexander, Brock R. McMillan, Randy T. Larsen, Melia DeVivo, Andria M. Townsend, James W. Cain III, Mark A. Peyton, Beth Gardner, George Wittemyer   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mule Deer Herd

, 2015
Mule Deer ...
Heffernan, David
core   +1 more source

Human Recreation and Fire History Shape Landscape Connectivity for an Endangered Forest Carnivore

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Roads and trails can impede wildlife movement, but their permeability varies with human use and fire history. We combined GPS telemetry from 45 endangered southern Sierra Nevada fishers (Pekania pennanti) with smartphone‐derived human mobility data to estimate crossing probability across road and trail segments. Fishers were about 2.5 times more likely
Mark A. Ditmer, Maksim Sergeyev, Helen E. Chmura, Jody M. Tucker, Gavin M. Jones, Kari E. Norman, Ronan B. Hart, Michael K. Schwartz, Andria M. Townsend, Rebecca E. Green, Sarah L. Stock, George Wittemyer   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Condition, Survival, and Productivity of Mule Deer in Semiarid Grassland-Woodland in East-Central New Mexico

Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) are an economically important species to wildlife enterprises throughout New Mexico and the western United States, but populations are declining, limiting recreational and revenue potential to private and public wildlife ...
Louis C. Bender, Jon C. Boren, Heather Halbritter, Shad Cox   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Incentives and motivational crowding to address chronic wasting disease: An experiment with Alberta hunters

Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, EarlyView.
Abstract Behavioral interventions, for example, through the use of incentives and information, are widely used by policymakers to induce welfare‐improving behavior. When these interventions are used in specific contexts such as environmental conservation, individual knowledge, experience, and attitudes can lead to motivational crowding and may limit ...
Lusi Xie, Maik Kecinski, Wiktor Adamowicz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source