Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

This study predicts wild pig movement across their range using displacement distributions and habitat selection analysis to inform landscape-scale management.

This paper uses multi-agent reinforcement learning to simulate animal behavior in alpine ecosystems and assesses ecosystem resilience under various stress scenarios.

This study examines how mammals in the Julian Prealps respond to predation risk through habitat selection, activity timing, and behavioral changes, finding that diel activity adjustments are the primary response.

The paper examines spatial relationships between wild boars and other mammals in peri-urban areas, finding no spatial covariation but strong spatial structuring driven by small carnivores.

The paper uses camera trap data to identify disease indicators in Eurasian lynx, finding 17% showed signs of illness, primarily skin disorders.

This paper introduces a Bayesian Network-based metric, Koala Population Potential (KPP), to estimate koala populations in South-East Queensland and validate it with habitat quality assessments.

The paper uses hormonal data to test assumptions about prey risk perception, finding that elk show consistent stress levels in high-reward habitats despite increased human activity.

This study shows lactating feral goats at high latitudes increase foraging time but not enough to meet their kids' nutritional needs, and they minimize thermal costs by spending more time in shelter and at lower altitudes.

This study compares turn identification methods on movement trajectories, finding large accuracy differences and advising caution in comparing results across methods.

The paper quantitatively analyzes wolf occurrence patterns in the Hudson Bay Lowlands using trail cameras, finding consistent spatial and temporal trends across years.

This paper introduces random forests to infer nonlinear step selection effects in animal movement, showing they outperform traditional methods and confirm hypothesized step functions in wolf data.

This study estimates snow leopard population size and density in northern Pakistan using camera trapping and spatial capture-recapture models, finding higher densities in protected areas and regions with greater prey biomass.

This paper describes a manual system for individual recognition of Hartmann's mountain zebras using stripe patterns, offering a low-cost alternative to computerized methods for population monitoring.

The paper reviews 604 foraging behavior studies to compare direct and remote methods, finding five categories with different spatial and temporal extents and highlighting the value of combining approaches.

This paper introduces a simple method to classify aerial predator behaviors using tri-axial accelerometers, achieving high accuracy in identifying perching, soaring, flapping, and hovering.

This study examines factors affecting wolves' ability to reach reproduction, finding human density and collaring increase chances, while inbreeding decreases it.

This study examines factors predicting public support for lethal dingo control in Australia and finds that social license pressure, wildlife attitudes, and dog ownership significantly influence opposition to lethal control.

The paper characterizes dog populations near shorebird sites in Chile and finds high abundance, low survival, and irresponsible pet ownership linked to negative impacts on shorebirds.

This paper introduces a citizen science-based monitoring system for wildlife in oil palm plantations, demonstrating its effectiveness in collecting valuable biodiversity data over five years.

This paper introduces birp, a Bayesian tool for testing population trend changes in ecological data, showing it can accurately detect trends even with noisy or sparse data.

The paper adjusts twig age data to account for species-specific palatability, enabling accurate tracking of ungulate browsing impacts across sites and time.

The paper analyzes camera trap data to assess predator-prey interactions, finding that prey are not avoiding predators but wolves are attracted to prey, suggesting an asymmetry in the predation sequence.

The paper shows that random subsamples of animal populations can reliably reveal intrinsic social differences, highlighting the importance of accounting for sampling biases in social network analysis.

This study examines how winter enclosures affect energy expenditure and movement of European reed deer, finding reduced activity in enclosed animals compared to free-living ones.

This study examines moose occurrence patterns in Saskatoon, Canada, finding that moose avoid highly urbanized areas and are more active at night, raising safety concerns.

This paper develops a stochastic dynamic programming framework to model optimal foraging strategies in continuous landscapes with spatially varying predation risk, showing how utility functions influence foraging paths and decisions.

The paper tests the wood-pasture hypothesis by modeling interactions between weather, ungulates, and geese in a nature reserve, finding that weather variability and geese influence ungulate numbers and vegetation heterogeneity.

This study examines spatial-temporal contact patterns among free-ranging dogs in rural Africa, revealing seasonal and hourly variations that influence disease transmission risks.

This study applies human neurophysiological responses to bird deterrence by using flickering red light to induce escape behavior, significantly increasing flight initiation distance.

This study finds that a 15 Hz flashing light stimulus effectively deters crows by leveraging physiological aversion, similar to its effect on humans.