Wildlife roadkill and COVID‐19: A biologically significant, but heterogeneous, reduction

B Pokorny, J Cerri, E Bužan - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Collisions with vehicles are a major cause of wildlife mortality. During the COVID‐19
pandemic, many countries enforced lockdowns that reduced vehicular traffic and …

Environmental and anthropogenic features mediate risk from human hunters and wolves for moose

G Ausilio, C Wikenros, H Sand, P Wabakken… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Landscape characteristics, seasonal changes in the environment, and daylight conditions
influence space use and detection of prey and predators, resulting in spatiotemporal …

Age at first reproduction in wolves: different patterns of density dependence for females and males

C Wikenros, M Gicquel… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Age at first reproduction constitutes a key life-history trait in animals and is evolutionarily
shaped by fitness benefits and costs of delayed versus early reproduction. The …

Scavenging patterns of an inbred wolf population in a landscape with a pulse of human‐provided carrion

C Wikenros, C Di Bernardi, B Zimmermann… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Scavenging is an important part of food acquisition for many carnivore species that switch
between scavenging and predation. In landscapes with anthropogenic impact, humans …

[HTML][HTML] Using citizen data in a population model to estimate population size of moose (Alces alces)

C Kalén, H Andrén, J Månsson, H Sand - Ecological Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
Long-term and wide-ranging citizen science programs provide a unique opportunity to
monitor wildlife populations and trends through time while encouraging stakeholder …

Determining puma habitat suitability in the Eastern USA

V Yovovich, N Robinson, H Robinson… - Biodiversity and …, 2023 - Springer
Pumas (Puma concolor) were eliminated from most of the eastern USA a century ago. In the
past couple of decades, their recovery in the West has increased puma dispersal into the …

Carcass provisioning and intra-guild risk avoidance between two sympatric large carnivores

K Nordli, Z Walton, A Eriksen, M Rogstad… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2024 - Springer
Apex carnivores that rely primarily on predation play a central but complex role within
scavenging ecology by potentially suppressing intra-guild competitors, but also facilitating …

Behavioral effects of wolf presence on moose habitat selection: testing the landscape of fear hypothesis in an anthropogenic landscape

H Sand, M Jamieson, H Andrén, C Wikenros… - Oecologia, 2021 - Springer
Landscape of fear refers to the spatial variation in prey perception of predation risk, that
under certain conditions, may lead to changes in their behavior. Behavioral responses of …

Effects of large carnivores, hunter harvest, and weather on the mortality of moose calves in a partially migratory population

G Ausilio, H Sand, C Wikenros, M Aronsson… - Wildlife …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Survival of juvenile ungulates represents an important demographic parameter that
influences population dynamics within ecosystems. In many ecological systems, the …

The role of predation, forestry and productivity in moose harvest at different spatial levels of management units

C Wikenros, H Sand, C Di Bernardi… - Wildlife …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Management of ungulate populations to the desired density and/or demographic
composition are challenged by contrasting aims of different stakeholders. For example …