Climate change is an increasing concern for wildlife managers across the United States and
Canada. Because climate change may alter populations and harvest dynamics of key …

Estimating cause‐specific mortality is often of central importance for understanding the
dynamics of wildlife populations. Despite such importance, methodology for estimating and …

Vital rates of large herbivores normally respond to increased resource limitation by following
a progressive sequence of effects on life‐history characteristics from survival of young, age …

Two oft‐cited drawbacks of kernel density estimators (KDEs) of home range are their
sensitivity to the choice of smoothing parameter (s) and their need for independent data …

The effects of harvest on the annual and seasonal survival of willow ptarmigan Lagopus
lagopus L. were tested in a large‐scale harvest experiment. Management units were …

Summary 1 Environmental conditions shape population growth through their impact on
demographic parameters. While knowledge has accumulated concerning the effects of …

Summary 1 Predation plays a major role in sha** the structure and dynamics of ecological
communities, and the functional response of a predator is of crucial importance to the …

A relationship between winter weather and survival of northern ungulates has long been
established, yet the possible roles of biological (eg, nutritional status) and environmental …

Mortality profiles have figured prominently among tools used by zooarchaeologists to
investigate relationships between hominids and prey species. Their analysis and …

North temperate species on the southern edge of their distribution are especially at risk to
climate‐induced changes. One such species is the moose (Alces alces), whose continental …