Methods for monitoring large terrestrial animals in the wild

A Prosekov, A Kuznetsov, A Rada, S Ivanova - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
Reliable information about wildlife is absolutely important for making informed management
decisions. The issues with the effectiveness of the control and monitoring of both large and …

Decomposing risk: landscape structure and wolf behavior generate different predation patterns in two sympatric ungulates

V Gervasi, H Sand, B Zimmermann… - Ecological …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Recolonizing carnivores can have a large impact on the status of wild ungulates, which have
often modified their behavior in the absence of predation. Therefore, understanding the …

Prey selection of Scandinavian wolves: single large or several small?

H Sand, A Eklund, B Zimmermann, C Wikenros… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Research on large predator-prey interactions are often limited to the predators' primary prey,
with the potential for prey switching in systems with multiple ungulate species rarely …

Browsed twig environmental DNA: diagnostic PCR to identify ungulate species

RV Nichols, H KOeNIGSSON, K Danell… - Molecular Ecology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ungulate browsing can have a strong effect on ecological processes by affecting plant
community structure and composition, with cascading effects on nutrient cycling and animal …

Canopy openness and exclusion of wild ungulates act synergistically to improve oak natural regeneration

J Barrere, LK Petersson, V Boulanger, C Collet… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The recruitment of forest trees is driven by both bottom-up processes (the acquisition of
resources) and top-down processes (herbivory). To initiate stand regeneration, foresters …

Influence of canopy openness, ungulate exclosure, and low‐intensity fire for improved oak regeneration in temperate Europe

LK Petersson, DC Dey, AM Felton… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Failed oak regeneration is widely reported in temperate forests and has been linked in part
to changed disturbance regimes and land‐use. We investigated if the North American fire …

Habitat segregation between brown bears and gray wolves in a human‐dominated landscape

C Milleret, A Ordiz, G Chapron… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying how sympatric species belonging to the same guild coexist is a major question of
community ecology and conservation. Habitat segregation between two species might help …

Testing the risk of predation hypothesis: the influence of recolonizing wolves on habitat use by moose

KL Nicholson, C Milleret, J Månsson, H Sand - Oecologia, 2014 - Springer
Considered as absent throughout Scandinavia for> 100 years, wolves (Canis lupus) have
recently naturally recolonized south-central Sweden. This recolonization has provided an …

Large herbivores in novel ecosystems - Habitat selection by red deer (Cervus elaphus) in a former brown-coal mining area

A Müller, M Dahm, PK Bøcher, M Root-Bernstein… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
After centuries of range contraction, many megafauna species are recolonizing parts of
Europe. One example is the red deer (Cervus elaphus), which was able to expand its range …

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 …