The past decade has seen an explosion in the development and application of models
aimed at estimating species occurrence and occupancy dynamics while accounting for …

Protected areas are the most important tool to safeguard large mammals from
overexploitation, but their effectiveness is insufficiently studied in temperate ecosystems …

Camera traps are increasingly used to study wildlife ecology and inform conservation, but
valid inference depends on appropriate data analysis. This article introduces the most …

Species within a guild vary their use of time, space and resources, thereby enabling
sympatry. As intra-guild competition intensifies, such behavioural adaptations may become …

Many wildlife species face imminent extinction because of human impacts, and therefore, a
prevailing belief is that some wildlife species, particularly large carnivores and ungulates …

Carnivore guilds play a vital role in ecological communities by cascading trophic effects,
energy and nutrient transfer, and stabilizing or destabilizing food webs. Consequently, the …

Conservation of threatened species relies on predictions about their spatial distribution;
however, it is often difficult to detect species in the wild. The combination of acoustic …

This study examines how transformations of a regional rural economy have produced new
geographies of encounter between agricultural communities, their livestock, and carnivores …

The probability that a site has at least one individual of a species ('occupancy') has come to
be widely used as a state variable for animal population monitoring. The available statistical …

Occupancy models are increasingly applied to data from wildlife camera‐trap (CT) surveys
to estimate distribution, habitat use, or relative abundance of unmarked animals …