Dynamic landscapes of fear: understanding spatiotemporal risk

MS Palmer, KM Gaynor, JA Becker, JO Abraham… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
The landscape of fear (LOF) concept posits that prey navigate spatial heterogeneity in
perceived predation risk, balancing risk mitigation against other activities necessary for …

Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution

MG Bertram, JM Martin, ES McCallum… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Animal behaviour is remarkably sensitive to disruption by chemical pollution, with
widespread implications for ecological and evolutionary processes in contaminated wildlife …

Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape

AC Burton, C Beirne, KM Gaynor, C Sun… - Nature ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Wildlife must adapt to human presence to survive in the Anthropocene, so it is critical to
understand species responses to humans in different contexts. We used camera trap** as …

Fear of humans as apex predators has landscape‐scale impacts from mountain lions to mice

JP Suraci, M Clinchy, LY Zanette, CC Wilmers - Ecology letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Apex predators such as large carnivores can have cascading, landscape‐scale impacts
across wildlife communities, which could result largely from the fear they inspire, although …

Behavioral responses of terrestrial mammals to COVID-19 lockdowns

MA Tucker, AM Schipper, TSF Adams, N Attias, T Avgar… - Science, 2023 - science.org
COVID-19 lockdowns in early 2020 reduced human mobility, providing an opportunity to
disentangle its effects on animals from those of landscape modifications. Using GPS data …

Ecological impacts of human‐induced animal behaviour change

MW Wilson, AD Ridlon, KM Gaynor, SD Gaines… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A growing body of literature has documented myriad effects of human activities on animal
behaviour, yet the ultimate ecological consequences of these behavioural shifts remain …

Emerging perspectives on resource tracking and animal movement ecology

B Abrahms, EO Aikens, JB Armstrong… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Resource tracking, where animals increase energy gain by moving to track phenological
variation in resources across space, is emerging as a fundamental attribute of animal …

The context dependence of non‐consumptive predator effects

AJ Wirsing, MR Heithaus, JS Brown, BP Kotler… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐consumptive predator effects (NCEs) are now widely recognised for their capacity to
shape ecosystem structure and function. Yet, forecasting the propagation of these predator …

The rise of hyperabundant native generalists threatens both humans and nature

JH Moore, L Gibson, Z Amir, W Chanthorn… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In many disturbed terrestrial landscapes, a subset of native generalist vertebrates thrives.
The population trends of these disturbance‐tolerant species may be driven by multiple …

Wolves make roadways safer, generating large economic returns to predator conservation

JL Raynor, CA Grainger, DP Parker - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - pnas.org
Recent studies uncover cascading ecological effects resulting from removing and
reintroducing predators into a landscape, but little is known about effects on human lives …