Animal learning may contribute to both problems and solutions for wildlife–train collisions

CC St. Clair, J Backs, A Friesen… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Transportation infrastructure can cause an ecological trap if it attracts wildlife for foraging
and travel opportunities, while increasing the risk of mortality from collisions. This situation …

Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) responses to forest harvesting: A review of underlying mechanisms and management recommendations

CP Colton, NC Coops, AC Burton - Forest Ecology and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Active forest management for timber production, through the harvesting of forest stands
using cut blocks, frequently overlaps grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) habitat on multi-use …

Seasonal range fidelity of a megaherbivore in response to environmental change

R Burton-Roberts, LS Cordes, R Slotow, AT Vanak… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
For large herbivores living in highly dynamic environments, maintaining range fidelity has
the potential to facilitate the exploitation of predictable resources while minimising energy …

Can concentrations of steroid hormones in brown bear hair reveal age class?

M Cattet, GB Stenhouse, J Boulanger… - Conservation …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Although combining genetic and endocrine data from non-invasively collected hair samples
has potential to improve the conservation of threatened mammals, few studies have …

Simulating multi-scale movement decision-making and learning in a large carnivore using agent-based modelling

AZ Perez, C Bone, G Stenhouse - Ecological Modelling, 2021 - Elsevier
There is a vital need to understand wildlife movement and space-use patterns to inform
conservation efforts given current rates of anthropogenic environmental change. Grizzly …

Factors affecting the home range of Dinaric-Pindos brown bears

D De Angelis, D Huber, S Reljic, P Ciucci… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Studying how animals interact with their environment is fundamental to informing
conservation and management efforts, especially when examining large, wide-ranging …

Towards grizzly bear population recovery in a modern landscape

SCP Coogan, NC Coops, DM Janz, MRL Cattet… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - JSTOR
There seems to be a dichotomy in societal responses to scientific news stories regarding
grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) lately. On the one hand, there appears to be strong positive …

Characterizing spatial-temporal patterns of landscape disturbance and recovery in western Alberta, Canada using a functional data analysis approach and remotely …

ML Bourbonnais, TA Nelson, GB Stenhouse… - Ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Landscape regionalization approaches are frequently used to summarize and visualize
complex spatial patterns, environmental factors, and disturbance regimes. However …