Animal movement tools (amt): R package for managing tracking data and conducting habitat selection analyses

J Signer, J Fieberg, T Avgar - Ecology and evolution, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in tracking technology have led to an exponential increase in animal location
data, greatly enhancing our ability to address interesting questions in movement ecology …

A 'How to'guide for interpreting parameters in habitat‐selection analyses

J Fieberg, J Signer, B Smith… - Journal of Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat‐selection analyses allow researchers to link animals to their environment via habitat‐
selection or step‐selection functions, and are commonly used to address questions related …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Wolverines (Gulo gulo) in a changing landscape and warming climate: A decadal synthesis of global conservation ecology research

JT Fisher, S Murray, M Barrueto, K Carroll… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wolverines are vulnerable to multiple, widespread, increasing forms of human activity so
have become an indicator of conservation success or failure for northern ecosystems …

Corridors or risk? Movement along, and use of, linear features varies predictably among large mammal predator and prey species

M Dickie, SR McNay, GD Sutherland… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Space‐use behaviour reflects trade‐offs in meeting ecological needs and can have
consequences for individual survival and population demographics. The mechanisms …

Wolverines in winter: indirect habitat loss and functional responses to backcountry recreation

K Heinemeyer, J Squires, M Hebblewhite… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Outdoor recreation is increasingly recognized to impact nature and wildlife, yet few studies
have examined recreation within large natural landscapes that are critical habitat to some of …

Protection status, human disturbance, snow cover and trap** drive density of a declining wolverine population in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

M Barrueto, A Forshner, J Whittington, AP Clevenger… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Protected areas are important in species conservation, but high rates of human-caused
mortality outside their borders and increasing popularity for recreation can negatively affect …

An Analytical Framework of the Factors Affecting Wildlife–Vehicle Collisions and Barriers to Movement

H Su, Y Wang, Y Yang, S Tao, Y Kong - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Road mortalities caused by wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVCs) are the most obvious negative
effect of roads on wildlife. Identifying the influencing factors and summarizing the spatial …

Temperature shapes movement and habitat selection by a heat-sensitive ungulate

JM Alston, MJ Joyce, JA Merkle, RA Moen - Landscape Ecology, 2020 - Springer
Context Warmer weather caused by climate change poses increasingly serious threats to
the persistence of many species, but animals can modify behavior to mitigate at least some …

Grizzly bear response to spatio‐temporal variability in human recreational activity

A Ladle, T Avgar, M Wheatley… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Outdoor recreation on trail networks is a growing form of disturbance for wildlife. However,
few studies have examined behavioural responses by large carnivores to motorised and …