The value of monitoring wildlife roadkill

ALW Schwartz, FM Shilling, SE Perkins - European journal of wildlife …, 2020 - Springer
The number of wildlife-vehicle collisions has an obvious value in estimating the direct effects
of roads on wildlife, ie mortality due to vehicle collisions. Given the nature of the data …

Recovery of large carnivores in Europe's modern human-dominated landscapes

G Chapron, P Kaczensky, JDC Linnell, M Von Arx… - science, 2014 - science.org
The conservation of large carnivores is a formidable challenge for biodiversity conservation.
Using a data set on the past and current status of brown bears (Ursus arctos), Eurasian lynx …

Opportunistic citizen science data of animal species produce reliable estimates of distribution trends if analysed with occupancy models

AJ Van Strien, CAM Van Swaay… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Many publications documenting large‐scale trends in the distribution of species make use of
opportunistic citizen data, that is, observations of species collected without standardized …

Genetics and conservation of European brown bears Ursus arctos

JE Swenson, P Taberlet, E Bellemain - Mammal Review, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT 1 We review the genetics research that has been conducted on the European
brown bear Ursus arctos, one of the genetically best‐studied mammalian species. 2 The first …

The potential for citizen science to produce reliable and useful information in ecology

ED Brown, BK Williams - Conservation Biology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We examined features of citizen science that influence data quality, inferential power, and
usefulness in ecology. As background context for our examination, we considered topics …

Unstructured citizen science data fail to detect long‐term population declines of common birds in Denmark

J Kamp, S Oppel, H Heldbjerg… - Diversity and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Long‐term monitoring of biodiversity is necessary to identify population declines and to
develop conservation management. Because long‐term monitoring is labour‐intensive …

Estimating population size and trends of the Swedish brown bear Ursus arctos population

J Kindberg, JE Swenson, G Ericsson… - Wildlife …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Estimating population size and trends are key issues in the conservation and management
of large carnivores. The rebounding brown bear Ursus arctos population in Sweden is …

Random encounter model is a reliable method for estimating population density of multiple species using camera traps

P Palencia, P Barroso, J Vicente… - Remote Sensing in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Population density estimates are important for wildlife conservation and management.
Several camera trapping‐based methods for estimating densities have been developed …

Native predators reduce harvest of reindeer by Sámi pastoralists

NT Hobbs, H Andrén, J Persson… - Ecological …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Contemporary efforts to protect biological diversity recognize the importance of sustaining
traditional human livelihoods, particularly uses of the land that are compatible with intact …

Caught in the mesh: Roads and their network‐scale impediment to animal movement

R Bischof, SMJG Steyaert, J Kindberg - Ecography, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Roads have a pervasive multi‐faceted influence on ecosystems, including pronounced
impacts on wildlife movements. In recognition of the scale‐transcending impacts of …