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

Decades of decline in the number of hunters in the United States have made hunter
recruitment and retention (HRR) a high priority within the North American wildlife …

Understanding space in parks and protected areas is becoming more important as
recreation and other uses in these areas change and increase. Spatial demand and space …

Hunters can affect the behavior of wildlife by inducing a landscape of fear, selecting
individuals with specific traits, or altering resource availability across the landscape. Most …

Sport hunting may help in controlling cervid populations over large areas. As with natural
predators, several environmental factors can influence sport harvest. A better understanding …

Close‐kin mark–recapture (CKMR) is a method for estimating abundance and vital rates
from kinship relationships observed in genetic samples. CKMR inference only requires …

Regulated hunts of carnivores are believed to prevent property damage and other conflicts
with people. Few studies have tested if public hunting reduces subsequent complaints about …

There is currently a limited understanding of how visitors travel within and through a
destination. Understanding what influences visitor travel patterns is an important aspect of …

Context Numerous wildlife species use a polygynous mating system, where males use
auditory courtship behaviors to secure breeding opportunities. The acoustic adaptation …

Predators elicit antipredator behaviors such as proactive and reactive movements in prey,
but both are rarely investigated simultaneously. Impacts of human predation risk on …