Behavior change in urban mammals: a systematic review

K Ritzel, T Gallo - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - frontiersin.org
As cities expand to accommodate a growing human population, their impacts to natural
ecosystems and the wildlife residing within them increase. Some animals that persist in …

The influence of human disturbance on wildlife nocturnality

KM Gaynor, CE Hojnowski, NH Carter, JS Brashares - Science, 2018 - science.org
Rapid expansion of human activity has driven well-documented shifts in the spatial
distribution of wildlife, but the cumulative effect of human disturbance on the temporal …

The intrepid urban coyote: a comparison of bold and exploratory behavior in coyotes from urban and rural environments

SW Breck, SA Poessel, P Mahoney, JK Young - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Coyotes (Canis latrans) are highly adaptable, medium-sized carnivores that now inhabit
nearly every large city in the United States and Canada. To help understand how coyotes …

Effects of urbanization on resource use and individual specialization in coyotes (Canis latrans) in southern California

RN Larson, JL Brown, T Karels, SPD Riley - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Urban environments are unique because fragments of natural or semi-natural habitat are
embedded within a potentially permeable matrix of human-dominated areas, creating …

Coyote, fox, and bobcat response to anthropogenic and natural landscape features in a small urban area

JV Lombardi, CE Comer, DG Scognamillo… - Urban …, 2017 - Springer
Increasing urbanization across the southeastern United States presents unique challenges
for wildlife; however certain species have learned to adapt and thrive in these environments …

Coyote (Canis latrans) diet in an urban environment: variation relative to pet conflicts, housing density, and season

SA Poessel, EC Mock, SW Breck - Canadian Journal of …, 2017 - cdnsciencepub.com
Coyotes (Canis latrans Say, 1823) are highly successful in urbanized environments, but as
they populate cities, conflict can occur and often manifests in the form of incidents with pets …

Severe environmental conditions create severe conflicts: A novel ecological pathway to extreme coyote attacks on humans

SD Gehrt, EM Muntz, EC Wilson… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying the circumstances and causes of carnivore attacks on humans is important for
prevention of future incidents as well as employing effective wildlife management strategies …

Seasonal and daily shifts in behavior and resource selection: how a carnivore navigates costly landscapes

EH Ellington, EM Muntz, SD Gehrt - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
The dynamic environmental conditions in highly seasonal systems likely have a strong
influence on how species use the landscape. Animals must balance seasonal and daily …

Behavioral responses by an apex predator to urbanization

EH Ellington, SD Gehrt - Behavioral ecology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Wildlife can respond to urbanization positively (synanthropic) or negatively (misanthropic),
and for some species, this is a nonlinear process, whereby low levels of urbanization elicit a …

Evaluating lethal and nonlethal management options for urban coyotes

SW Breck, SA Poessel, MA Bonnell - Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 - JSTOR
Human–coyote (Canis latrans) conflict in urban environments is a growing issue in cities
throughout the United States, with the primary problem being the development of problem …