Behavioural reactions to oncoming vehicles as a crucial aspect of wildlife-vehicle collision risk in three common wildlife species

F Brieger, JL Kämmerle, R Hagen, R Suchant - Accident Analysis & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) strongly impact road safety. While technical aspects of
collision risk and the effects of roads on animal populations are well studied, knowledge …

[HTML][HTML] Explaining inter-individual differences in habitat relationships among wildcat hybrids in Scotland

SA Cushman, K Kilshaw, Z Kaszta, RD Campbell… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Little is known about the factors that drive nonstationarity and inter-individual differences in
realized habitat niches and species-environment relationships. We explored this topic by …

Data management and sharing for collaborative science: Lessons learnt from the Euromammals initiative

F Urbano, F Cagnacci… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The current and future consequences of anthropogenic impacts such as climate change and
habitat loss on ecosystems will be better understood and therefore addressed if diverse …

Humans and traffic influence European wildcat behaviour in pastoral landscapes

H Ruiz-Villar, A Morales-González, JV López-Bao… - Animal Behaviour, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Human presence increased time spent alert and reduced foraging
behaviour.•Wildcats spent more time hunting in scenarios with high traffic and closer to …

Using GPS tracking to monitor the breeding performance of a low-density raptor improves accuracy, and reduces long-term financial and carbon costs

M Murgatroyd, G Tate, A Amar - Royal Society Open …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Traditionally, demographic monitoring of birds has been undertaken by intensive monitoring
of nesting sites. However, this is challenging for low-density species, whereby the effort and …

metaRange: A framework to build mechanistic range models

S Fallert, L Li, JS Cabral - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanistic or process‐based models offer great insights into the range dynamics of
species facing non‐equilibrium conditions, such as climate and land‐use changes or …

The rhythm of the night: patterns of activity of the European wildcat in the Italian peninsula

L Lazzeri, P Fazzi, M Lucchesi, E Mori, E Velli… - Mammalian …, 2022 - Springer
The European wildcat is a threatened carnivore, whose ecology is still scarcely studied,
especially in Mediterranean areas. In this study, we estimated activity rhythm patterns of this …

Wildlife fencing at German highways and federal roads–requirements and management implications

F Brieger, M Strein - Wildlife Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In Germany, the high risk of wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVC) is further increasing due to
increasing traffic volumes and road densities as well as the growing population densities of …

[HTML][HTML] Variable importance and scale of influence across individual scottish wildcat hybrid habitat models

SA Cushman, K Kilshaw, Z Kaszta, RD Campbell… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the scale dependence of species-habitat relationships is an important area
of research in species distribution modeling. There has been little research focused on how …

Spatial Ecology and Diel Activity of European Wildcat (Felis silvestris) in a Protected Lowland Area in Northern Greece

D Migli, C Astaras, G Boutsis, A Diakou, NE Karantanis… - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The European wildcat is a species of conservation concern protected
across its range in Europe, where it occurs in five discontinuous populations. The Balkan …