Shining the spotlight on small mammalian carnivores: Global status and threats

C Marneweck, AR Butler, LC Gigliotti, SN Harris… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Small mammalian carnivores (Carnivora< 16 kg) carry out important roles in ecosystems,
such as influencing ecosystem structure and providing numerous ecosystem services …

Review of small cat ecology and status within India

K Bandyopadhyay, K Banerjee… - Mammal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Small felids play pivotal roles in India's ecosystems, regulating prey populations, facilitating
nutrient transfer, and safeguarding critical habitats. Despite their ecological significance …

[HTML][HTML] Large carnivore response to human road use suggests a landscape of coexistence

TM Kautz, NL Fowler, TR Petroelje, DE Beyer… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Coexistence between humans and large carnivores may depend on carnivore adaptations
to use developed landscapes while reducing human encounters. Roads are a widespread …

Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure

MA Beer, KM Proft, A Veillet, CP Kozakiewicz… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Top predator declines are pervasive and often have dramatic effects on ecological
communities via changes in food web dynamics, but their evolutionary consequences are …

Mesopredator release among invasive predators: Controlling red foxes can increase feral cat density and alter their behaviour

MW Rees, JH Pascoe, M Le Pla… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The mesopredator release theory predicts that the density of subordinate predators will
increase as dominant predators decline. Persistent debate around mesopredator release in …

Modelling the distribution and intraguild associations of an understudied mesocarnivore across the contiguous United States

ML Allen, AM Green, RJ Moll - Diversity and Distributions, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Understanding the range‐wide distribution and abundance of species is critical for their
conservation and management. Grey foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) are an …

Support for the size‐mediated sensitivity hypothesis within a diverse carnivore community

DS Jachowski, CJ Marneweck… - Journal of Animal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Carnivore community dynamics are governed by a complex set of often interacting biotic,
abiotic and anthropogenic factors that are increasingly volatile as a result of global change …

[HTML][HTML] Functional landscape connectivity for a select few: Linkages do not consistently predict wildlife movement or occupancy

AR Iverson, D Waetjen, F Shilling - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2024 - Elsevier
Landscape-level connectivity models developed in geographic information systems (GIS)
produce hypothetical objects proposed to connect areas of habitat in fragmented …

Carnivore coexistence facilitated by spatial and dietary partitioning and fine‐scale behavioural avoidance in a semi‐arid ecosystem

L Müller, WD Briers‐Louw, R Amin… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sympatric carnivores compete for similar resources which may lead to dominant species
influencing the ecology of subordinate ones. However, carnivores often make use of …

Terrestrial mesopredators did not increase after top-predator removal in a large-scale experimental test of mesopredator release theory

G Castle, D Smith, LR Allen, BL Allen - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Removal or loss of top-predators has been predicted to cause cascading negative effects for
ecosystems, including mesopredator release. However, reliable evidence for these …