Human–wildlife conflict and coexistence

PJ Nyhus - Annual review of environment and resources, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Human interactions with wildlife are a defining experience of human existence. These
interactions can be positive or negative. People compete with wildlife for food and …

The self-domestication hypothesis: evolution of bonobo psychology is due to selection against aggression

B Hare, V Wobber, R Wrangham - Animal Behaviour, 2012 - Elsevier
Experiments indicate that selection against aggression in mammals can have multiple
effects on their morphology, physiology, behaviour and psychology, and that these results …

The ecology of human-caused mortality for a protected large carnivore

JF Benson, KD Dougherty, P Beier, WM Boyce… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Mitigating human-caused mortality for large carnivores is a pressing global challenge for
wildlife conservation. However, mortality is almost exclusively studied at local (within …

Patterns and determinants of dispersal in grey wolves (Canis lupus)

A Morales‐González, A Fernández‐Gil… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dispersal is a key demographic process involving three stages: emigration, transience and
settlement; each of which is influenced by individual, social and environmental …

Effects of wolf mortality on livestock depredations

RB Wielgus, KA Peebles - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Predator control and sport hunting are often used to reduce predator populations and
livestock depredations,–but the efficacy of lethal control has rarely been tested. We …

Density‐dependent intraspecific aggression regulates survival in northern Yellowstone wolves (Canis lupus)

S Cubaynes, DR MacNulty, DR Stahler… - Journal of Animal …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the population dynamics of top‐predators is essential to assess their impact
on ecosystems and to guide their management. Key to this understanding is identifying the …

Managing wolves (Canis lupus) to recover threatened woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in Alberta

D Hervieux, M Hebblewhite, D Stepnisky… - Canadian Journal of …, 2014 - cdnsciencepub.com
Across Canada, woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou (Gmelin, 1788)) populations
are declining because of human-induced changes to food webs that are resulting in …

Neonatal mortality of elk driven by climate, predator phenology and predator community composition

KA Griffin, M Hebblewhite, HS Robinson… - Journal of Animal …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the interaction among predators and between predation and climate is
critical to understanding the mechanisms for compensatory mortality. We used data from …

Human‐caused mortality triggers pack instability in gray wolves

KA Cassidy, BL Borg, KJ Klauder… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Transboundary movement of wildlife results in some of the most complicated and
unresolved wildlife management issues across the globe. Depending on the location and …

Climate change increases predation risk for a keystone species of the boreal forest

MJL Peers, YN Majchrzak, AK Menzies… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) and snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) form a keystone
predator–prey cycle that has large impacts on the North American boreal forest vertebrate …