Bears have fascinated people since ancient times. The relationship between bears and
humans dates back thousands of years, during which time we have also competed with …

A rich set of statistical techniques has been developed over the last several decades to
estimate the spatial extent of animal home ranges from telemetry data, and new methods to …

Habitat modeling is one of the most common practices in ecology today, aimed at
understanding complex associations between species and an array of environmental …

Hunting has multiple consequences for wildlife, and it can be an important source of
environmental pollution. Most big game hunters use lead (Pb) ammunition that shed metal …

Aim Decades of research on species distributions has revealed geographic variation in
species‐environment relationships for a given species. That is, the way a species uses the …

Among the world's large Carnivores, American black bears (Ursus americanus) are the
foremost conservation success story. Populations have been expanding across North …

Roads can result in negative effects on wildlife including habitat loss, behavioral avoidance,
reduced survival, reproduction and gene flow. These road effects are especially pronounced …

With efforts to restore large mammal populations following extirpations, it is vital to quantify
how they are impacted by human activities and gain insights into population dynamics in …

Globally, wide-ranging carnivore populations are imperiled due to human-caused habitat
fragmentation. Where populations are fragmented, habitat quantification is often the first step …

Identifying and preserving landscape connectivity as well as planning for conflict mitigation
are key for facilitating species persistence, especially in increasingly human-dominated …