Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

The effects of predator recovery and climate change on the long-term demography of a flagship herbivore

This study uses an integrated population model to analyze how predator recovery and climate change affect elk demography over 36 years in eastern Oregon, finding that bottom-up factors like drought have a stronger impact than top-down predator effects.

A Smart Bait Dispenser with Real-time Monitoring for Species-Specific Bait Delivery

This paper develops a smart bait dispenser using image classification to deliver baits specifically to target species, achieving 75.6% bait delivery success with minimal non-target consumption.

Behavioural state inference from movement and environmental data using Markovian step selection functions

This paper introduces a framework using Hidden Markov Models with Step Selection Functions to infer behavioural states from movement and environmental data, showing improved accuracy in identifying ecologically meaningful states.

Decomposing alarm-calling behaviour to investigate context-dependent threat discrimination and response escalation in a social mongoose

The paper decomposes meerkat alarm-calling behaviour into threat discrimination and response escalation to study context-dependent predation risk perception.

Wildlife damage to tropical agroforests: predicting primate-induced fruit loss using species' energy requirements

The paper develops an energy balance model to predict primate-induced fruit loss in tropical agroforests by estimating energy requirements and food intake of primates.

Livestock depredation frequency is negatively associated with wolf body mass

The paper examines the relationship between wolf body mass and livestock depredation frequency, finding a negative association where higher body mass correlates with lower depredation rates.

β-Stability: Efficient, human-in-the-loop, graph-based curation of individual animal identities from images

The paper introduces β-Stability, a graph-based framework for semi-automated curation of animal identities from images, achieving high accuracy with limited expert review.

Social anchors: how previous social locations shape current animal movement and habitat selection

This study investigates how caribou use memory of past social and foraging locations to shape their movement and habitat selection across different temporal scales.

Private forest reserves in Brazils agricultural landscapes effectively sustain the occupancy and abundance of multiple threatened large vertebrate

This study evaluates how private forest reserves in Brazil's agricultural landscapes affect the occupancy and abundance of threatened large vertebrates, finding that higher forest cover correlates with increased species presence.

Camouflage functions of juvenile giant panda colouration in forest environments

This study investigates whether juvenile giant panda coloration provides camouflage through background matching or disruptive coloration in different environmental conditions.

Parental death destabilizes wolf packs despite the benefits of larger pack size

The paper examines how parental death affects wolf pack stability and reproductive success, finding that larger packs cannot fully compensate for the negative impacts of parental loss.

Available time-series of terrestrial animals provide low reliability in population trend estimates

The paper assesses the reliability of population trend estimates from time-series data of terrestrial animals, finding most are too short or noisy to detect meaningful trends.

Intra- and interspecific relationships of alpine ungulates reorganise along a wolf recolonisation gradient

The paper examines how wolf recolonisation affects prey species interactions and group behaviour in alpine ungulates.

VesperFlow: An automated pipeline for decoding multisensor data from biologging tags

VesperFlow automates decoding of multisensor biologging data, validating on lemur field data to process movement, vocal, and spatial data reliably.

Human-wildlife conflict shows shared spatial predictors across ecological and geographic contexts

This study identifies shared spatial predictors of human-wildlife conflict across diverse ecological and geographic contexts using ~11,000 conflict incidents.

Assessing the potential ecological functions, ecosystem services and disservices of megaherbivore rewilding in traditional rural wood-pastures

This study evaluates the ecological and socioecological impacts of megaherbivore rewilding in traditional wood-pastures, finding context-dependent benefits and risks.

Spatiotemporal Autocorrelation of Acoustic Indices: Implications for Biodiversity Monitoring

This study examines the spatiotemporal autocorrelation of acoustic indices in biodiversity monitoring and finds they capture distinct spatial and temporal dimensions of soundscape variation.