Carnivores are difficult to conserve because of direct and indirect competition with people.
Public hunts are increasingly proposed to support carnivore conservation. This article …

In predator–prey theory, habitat heterogeneity can affect the relationship between kill rates
and prey or predator density through its effect on the predator's ability to search for …

Aim The recent recovery of large carnivores in Europe has been explained as resulting from
a decrease in human persecution driven by widespread rural land abandonment, paralleled …

There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and
conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference …

No group of wild mammals so universally captures the emotions of people world-wide than
do wild canids. That emotion can be enchantment and fascination, but it can also be …

Concern about the effects of habitat fragmentation has led to increasing interest in dispersal
and connectivity modelling. Most modern techniques for connectivity modelling have …

Livestock depredation has implications for conservation and agronomy; it can be costly for
farmers and can prompt retaliatory killing of carnivores. Lethal control measures are readily …

Habitat selection is a multi-scale process driven by trade-offs between benefits, such as
resource abundance, and disadvantages, such as the avoidance of risk. The latter includes …

The greatest threat to the protected Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in Central Europe is human‐
induced mortality. As the availability of lynx prey often peaks in human‐modified areas, lynx …

We propose here some refinements of the ecological-niche factor analysis (ENFA) to
describe precisely one organism's habitat selection. The ENFA is based on the concept of …