Ecosystem sentinels as early-warning indicators in the Anthropocene

EL Hazen, MS Savoca, TJ Clark-Wolf… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
We are already experiencing the rapid pace of environmental change in the Anthropocene,
necessitating the development of new tools and techniques for measuring changes in …

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 …

The capacity of sentinel species to detect changes in environmental conditions and ecosystem structure

TJ Clark‐Wolf, KA Holt, E Johansson… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A major obstacle to preventing and reversing biodiversity loss in the Anthropocene lies in
the scarcity of tools and data for monitoring the health and trajectory of ecosystems. Sentinel …

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 …

Wild felids in trophic cascades: a global review

S Tossens, M Drouilly, S Lhoest, C Vermeulen… - Mammal …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Carnivores, often identified as keystone species, can influence prey and subordinate
carnivores through density‐and behaviourally mediated pathways. Although the magnitude …

Badger ecology, bovine tuberculosis, and population management: lessons from the island of Ireland

AW Byrne, A Allen, S Ciuti, E Gormley… - Transboundary and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The European badger, Meles meles, is an important wildlife host for Mycobacterium bovis
and contributes to the epidemiology of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle in several …

Identifying indicators of polar bear population status

KD Rode, RR Wilson, JA Crawford, LT Quakenbush - Ecological Indicators, 2024 - Elsevier
Monitoring trends in large mammal populations is a fundamental component of wildlife
management and conservation. However, direct estimates of population size and vital rates …

Moderate anthropogenic impacts alter temporal niche without affecting spatial distribution of ocelots in the Amazon rainforest

S Zwicker, B Gardner - Biotropica, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Amazon rainforest faces escalating human disturbances such as logging, mining,
agriculture, and urbanization, leading to the conversion of primary forest into matrix habitat …

Scale of effect of landscape patterns on resource selection by bobcats (Lynx rufus) in a multi-use rangeland system

AB Branney, AMV Dutt, ZM Wardle, EP Tanner… - Landscape …, 2024 - Springer
Context There is a growing appreciation that wildlife behavioral responses to environmental
conditions are scale-dependent and that identifying the scale where the effect of an …