Latitudinal Variation in the Timing of Nest Predator Activity Is Habitat Specific

L de Framond, CD Francis, M Valcu… - Global Ecology and …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The goal of this work was to investigate whether the community of avian nest predators
shifts from nocturnal to diurnal with changes in latitude. This hypothesis was formulated 70 …

Can a mesocarnivore fill the functional role of an apex predator?

AC Avrin, CE Pekins, CC Wilmers, JH Sperry… - Ecosphere, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As keystone species, apex predators play a role in structuring most ecosystems through
competition and facilitation, thereby affecting community structure, prey abundance and …

Species differences in temporal response to urbanization alters predator-prey and human overlap in northern Utah

AM Green, KA Barnick, ME Pendergast… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wildlife are under continuous pressure to adapt to new environments as more land area is
converted for human use and human populations continue to concentrate in suburban and …

Biological invasions disrupt activity patterns of native wildlife: An example from wild pigs

AM Dykstra, C Baruzzi, K VerCauteren, B Strickland… - Food Webs, 2023 - Elsevier
Activity patterns are an important behavioral trait linked to animal interactions within food
webs. Biological invasions can have impacts on the behavior of native species through …

Effects of human and nonhuman predation risk on antipredator movement behaviors of an upland game bird

PH Wightman, JA Martin, MT Kohl, BA Collier… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Predators elicit antipredator behaviors such as proactive and reactive movements in prey,
but both are rarely investigated simultaneously. Impacts of human predation risk on …

American martens use vigilance and short-term avoidance to navigate a landscape of fear from fishers at artificial scavenging sites

TM Kautz, DE Beyer Jr, Z Farley, NL Fowler… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Where two sympatric species compete for the same resource and one species is dominant,
there is potential for the subordinate species to be affected through interference competition …

Supplementation of seasonal natural resources with year‐round anthropogenic resources by coyotes in natural fragments within a high‐density urban area

PM Reed, JF Dwyer, T Stankowich - Wildlife Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Coyotes Canis latrans in urban landscapes provide important food web functions and
ecological services but can also trigger human‐wildlife conflict when their diet includes …

Impacts of coyote colonization on coastal mammalian predators

CH Crosby, TA Schlacher, K Kerwin, B Maslo - Scientific reports, 2024 - nature.com
Extreme ecosystem modification by humans has caused drastic reductions in populations
and ranges of top mammalian predators, while simultaneously allowing synanthropic …

An approach to rapid processing of camera trap images with minimal human input

MT Duggan, MF Groleau, EP Shealy… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Camera traps have become an extensively utilized tool in ecological research, but the
manual processing of images created by a network of camera traps rapidly becomes an …

Short-term predation risk and habitat complexity influence cheetah antipredator behaviours

LC Gigliotti, R Slotow, C Sholto-Douglas, C de Vos… - Animal Behaviour, 2021 - Elsevier
Animals can reduce predation risk by increasing antipredator behaviours in areas of high
long-term risk (risky places hypothesis), escalating antipredator behaviours when exposed …