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Using ungulate biomass to estimate abundance of wolves in British Columbia

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, 2014
Management of wolves (Canis lupus) in British Columbia, as with most other Canadian provinces, is conducted on a regional scale (38,557–252,776 km2), yet there is no standardized, cost‐effective methodology for providing reliable estimates of wolf ...
Gerald W. Kuzyk, Ian W. Hatter
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Wolves and Dogs May Rely on Non-numerical Cues in Quantity Discrimination Tasks When Given the Choice

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
A wide array of species throughout the animal kingdom has shown the ability to distinguish between quantities. Aside from being important for optimal foraging decisions, this ability seems to also be of great relevance in group-living animals as it ...
Dániel Rivas-Blanco   +6 more
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Daily activity patterns of wolves in open habitats in the Dauria ecoregion, Russia

open access: yesNature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука, 2021
There are very little data about daily activity patterns of Canis lupus (hereinafter – wolf) living in open arid habitats with low human density in Dauria.
Anastasia V. Kirilyuk   +2 more
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Non-Contact Heart Rate Measurement Based on Adaptive Notch Filter and Elimination of Respiration Harmonics

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2023
Continuous-wave Doppler radar is an established method for non-contact heart rate estimation. The output signal of the Doppler radar includes the fundamental wave of a heartbeat, heartbeat harmonics, the fundamental wave of respiration, respiration ...
Moushumi Tazen   +2 more
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How Stakeholder Co-management Reproduces Conservation Conflicts: Revealing Rationality Problems in Swedish Wolf Conservation

open access: yesConservation & Society, 2015
'Stakeholder' has become the primary category of political actor in decision-making, not least within nature conservation. Drawing from Habermas' theory on communicative action, this article argues that there are democratic deficits to the stakeholder ...
Erica von Essen, Hans Peter Hansen
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Integrating Values and Ethics into Wildlife Policy and Management—Lessons from North America

open access: yesAnimals, 2011
Few animals provoke as wide a range of emotions as wolves. Some see wolves as icons of a lost wilderness; others see them as intruders. As the battle continues between wolf proponents and opponents, finding solutions that resolve conflicts while ...
Camilla H. Fox, Marc Bekoff
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Accounting for imperfect detection in observational studies: modeling wolf sightability in Yellowstone National Park

open access: yesEcosphere, 2020
Imperfect detection is ubiquitous among wildlife research and is therefore commonly included in abundance estimation. Yet, the factors that affect observation success are largely unknown for rare and elusive species, such as large carnivores.
Matthew C. Metz   +6 more
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Ojibwe Perspectives Toward Proper Wolf Stewardship and Wisconsin’s February 2021 Wolf Hunting Season

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
In February 2021, the Wisconsin DNR implemented a wolf season in which > 20% of the population was killed in 63 h. Wisconsin’s Ojibwe tribes had a visceral reaction to this killing.
Jonathan H. Gilbert   +3 more
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New insights into the geographical distribution of brown bears Ursus arctos in Nepal

open access: yesOryx
In the current IUCN Red List assessment, the south-western distribution range of the brown bear Ursus arctos in Nepal ends in Upper Mustang, in the central Himalaya, and extends northwards into the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. Although brown bears
Naresh Kusi   +6 more
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Welcoming Wolves? Governing the Return of Large Carnivores in Traditional Pastoral Landscapes

open access: yesFrontiers in Conservation Science, 2021
Wolf populations are recovering across Europe and readily recolonize most areas where humans allow their presence. Reintegrating wolves in human-dominated landscapes is a major challenge, particularly in places where memories and experience of ...
Hanna L. Pettersson   +4 more
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