When carnivores collide: a review of studies exploring the competitive interactions between bobcats Lynx rufus and coyotes Canis latrans

MA Dyck, E Wyza, VD Popescu - Mammal Review, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bobcats Lynx rufus and coyotes Canis latrans are two widespread mesopredators with a
complex history of sympatry. The competitive interactions between these species are of …

Spatial and temporal structure of a mesocarnivore guild in midwestern North America

DB Lesmeister, CK Nielsen, EM Schauber… - Wildlife …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Carnivore guilds play a vital role in ecological communities by cascading trophic effects,
energy and nutrient transfer, and stabilizing or destabilizing food webs. Consequently, the …

Effects of roads, topography, and land use on forest cover dynamics in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

SR Freitas, TJ Hawbaker, JP Metzger - Forest ecology and management, 2010 - Elsevier
Roads and topography can determine patterns of land use and distribution of forest cover,
particularly in tropical regions. We evaluated how road density, land use, and topography …

A continental scale trophic cascade from wolves through coyotes to foxes

TM Newsome, WJ Ripple - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Top‐down processes, via the direct and indirect effects of interspecific competitive killing (no
consumption of the kill) or intraguild predation (consumption of the kill), can potentially …

Potential distribution of coyotes (Canis latrans), Virginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana), striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis), and raccoons (Procyon lotor) in the …

E Greenspan, CK Nielsen, KW Cassel - Urban Ecosystems, 2018 - Springer
Large-scale distribution models are effective predictors of habitat suitability and connectivity
across broad landscapes and are useful management tools, though few large-scale species …

Asymmetrical intraguild interactions with coyotes, red foxes, and domestic dogs may contribute to competitive exclusion of declining gray foxes

DJ Morin, DB Lesmeister, CK Nielsen… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Species coexistence is governed by availability of resources and intraguild interactions
including strategies to reduce ecological overlap. Gray foxes are dietary generalist …

The truth about cats and dogs: Landscape composition and human occupation mediate the distribution and potential impact of non-native carnivores

DJ Morin, DB Lesmeister, CK Nielsen… - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Humans alter landscapes and native species distributions in many ways, including
alterations mediated via domestic pets. While the negative impacts of domestic cats are well …

Assessing nutritional parameters of brown bear diets among ecosystems gives insight into differences among populations

C López-Alfaro, SCP Coogan, CT Robbins, JK Fortin… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Food habit studies are among the first steps used to understand wildlife-habitat
relationships. However, these studies are in themselves insufficient to understand …

Describing habitat suitability of bobcats (Lynx rufus) using several sources of information obtained at multiple spatial scales

GC Reed, JA Litvaitis, M Ellingwood, P Tate… - Mammalian …, 2017 - Springer
We investigated habitat use of bobcats (Lynx rufus) across spatial scales in New Hampshire,
USA, by integrating independent sources of information into one statewide model of habitat …

Dynamic occupancy modelling reveals a hierarchy of competition among fishers, grey foxes and ringtails

DS Green, SM Matthews, RC Swiers… - Journal of Animal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Determining how species coexist is critical for understanding functional diversity, niche
partitioning and interspecific interactions. Identifying the direct and indirect interactions …