Causes, consequences, and conservation of ungulate migration

MJ Kauffman, EO Aikens, S Esmaeili… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Our understanding of ungulate migration is advancing rapidly due to innovations in modern
animal tracking. Herein, we review and synthesize nearly seven decades of work on …

Map** out a future for ungulate migrations

MJ Kauffman, F Cagnacci, S Chamaillé-Jammes… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Migration of ungulates (hooved mammals) is a fundamental ecological process that
promotes abundant herds, whose effects cascade up and down terrestrial food webs …

Barrier Behaviour Analysis (BaBA) reveals extensive effects of fencing on wide‐ranging ungulates

W Xu, N Dejid, V Herrmann, H Sawyer… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As human activities expand globally, there is a growing need to identify and mitigate barriers
to animal movements. Fencing is a pervasive human modification of the landscape that can …

Toward a new framework for restoring lost wildlife migrations

KJ Barker, W Xu, A Van Scoyoc, MW Serota… - Conservation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Global declines in wildlife migrations have prompted new initiatives to conserve remaining
migratory behaviors. However, many migrations have already been lost. Important attempts …

Permeability of artificial barriers (fences) for wild boar (Sus scrofa) in Mediterranean mixed landscapes

E Laguna, JA Barasona, AJ Carpio… - Pest Management …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Fences are one of the most widespread manmade features in nature,
constituting an artificial limitation to the movement of wildlife. To date, their effects on wildlife …

The plasticity of ungulate migration in a changing world

W Xu, K Barker, A Shawler, A Van Scoyoc, JA Smith… - Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Migratory ungulates are thought to be declining globally because their dependence on large
landscapes renders them highly vulnerable to environmental change. Yet recent studies …

Evidence on the efficacy of small unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) as a survey tool for North American terrestrial, vertebrate animals: a systematic map

JA Elmore, EA Schultz, LR Jones, KO Evans… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Background Small unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) are replacing or supplementing
occupied aircraft and ground-based surveys in animal monitoring due to improved sensors …

Migration Mapper: Identifying movement corridors and seasonal ranges for large mammal conservation

JA Merkle, J Gage, H Sawyer, B Lowrey… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Modern tracking technology has facilitated a novel understanding of terrestrial mammal
movement while revealing that movements are being truncated and lost. The first step …

Wildlife migrations highlight importance of both private lands and protected areas in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

LC Gigliotti, W Xu, GR Zuckerman, MP Atwood… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Formally protected areas are an important component of wildlife conservation, but face
limitations in their effectiveness for migratory species. Improved stewardship of working …

Migratory disturbance thresholds with mule deer and energy development

H Sawyer, MS Lambert… - The Journal of Wildlife …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fine‐scale movement data has transformed our knowledge of ungulate migration ecology
and now provides accurate, spatially explicit maps of migratory routes that can inform …