Map** resource selection functions in wildlife studies: concerns and recommendations

LR Morris, KM Proffitt, JK Blackburn - Applied Geography, 2016 - Elsevier
Predicting the spatial distribution of animals is an important and widely used tool with
applications in wildlife management, conservation, and population health. Wildlife telemetry …

Restoration of bighorn sheep: History, successes, and remaining conservation issues

JC Whiting, VC Bleich, RT Bowyer… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Mammals are imperiled worldwide, primarily from habitat loss or modification, and exhibit
downward trends in their populations and distributions. Likewise, large-bodied herbivores …

Ungulate preference for burned patches reveals strength of fire–grazing interaction

BW Allred, SD Fuhlendorf, DM Engle… - Ecology and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The interactions between fire and grazing are widespread throughout fire‐dependent
landscapes. The utilization of burned areas by grazing animals establishes the fire–grazing …

Patch-burn grazing (PBG) as a livestock management alternative for fire-prone ecosystems of North America

JD Scasta, ET Thacker, TJ Hovick… - … Agriculture and Food …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Many rangelands of the world are fire dependent and display a strong interaction between
fire and grazing on animal behavior, productivity and ecosystem processes. The application …

The effects of fire on large‐and medium‐sized mammal communities: what do we know? A review

RR Forney, MM Peacock - Mammal Review, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐and medium‐sized mammals play a unique role in ecosystem dynamics. They can
change the physical and biotic landscape by altering the flow of resources among trophic …

Faunal responses to fire in chaparral and sage scrub in California, USA

EF van Mantgem, JE Keeley, M Witter - Fire Ecology, 2015 - Springer
Impact of fire on California shrublands has been well studied but nearly all of this work has
focused on plant communities. Impact on and recovery of the chaparral fauna has received …

Evaluating apparent competition in limiting the recovery of an endangered ungulate

HE Johnson, M Hebblewhite, TR Stephenson… - Oecologia, 2013 - Springer
Predation can disproportionately affect endangered prey populations when generalist
predators are numerically linked to more abundant primary prey. Apparent competition, the …

Habitat use by a desert ungulate: predicting effects of water availability on mountain sheep

VC Bleich, JP Marshal, NG Andrew - Journal of Arid Environments, 2010 - Elsevier
Provision of surface water has been a long-standing management strategy to enhance
habitat for large mammals in southwestern North America. In this paper, we use a resource …

Desert bighorn sheep habitat selection, group size, and mountain lion predation risk

AS Jones, ES Rubin, MJ Clement… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) evolved for thousands of years in the presence of
numerous predators, including mountain lions (Puma concolor). Bighorn sheep have …

Carnivores in burned and adjacent unburned areas in a Mediterranean ecosystem

P Birtsas, C Sokos, S Exadactylos - Mammalia, 2012 - degruyter.com
Wildfire is a major disturbance factor that affects wildlife both directly and indirectly. To better
understand its influence, carnivore mammals were monitored using scent stations, inside …