Causes, consequences, and conservation of ungulate migration

MJ Kauffman, EO Aikens, S Esmaeili… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Our understanding of ungulate migration is advancing rapidly due to innovations in modern
animal tracking. Herein, we review and synthesize nearly seven decades of work on …

Climate change effects on deer and moose in the Midwest

SR Weiskopf, OE Ledee… - The Journal of Wildlife …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is an increasing concern for wildlife managers across the United States and
Canada. Because climate change may alter populations and harvest dynamics of key …

Is ungulate migration culturally transmitted? Evidence of social learning from translocated animals

BR Jesmer, JA Merkle, JR Goheen, EO Aikens, JL Beck… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Ungulate migrations are assumed to stem from learning and cultural transmission of
information regarding seasonal distribution of forage, but this hypothesis has not been …

Large herbivores surf waves of green-up during spring

JA Merkle, KL Monteith, EO Aikens… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The green wave hypothesis (GWH) states that migrating animals should track or 'surf'high-
quality forage at the leading edge of spring green-up. To index such high-quality forage …

Maxent modeling for predicting the potential distribution of endangered medicinal plant (H. riparia Lour) in Yunnan, China

Y Yi, X Cheng, ZF Yang, SH Zhang - Ecological Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
Climate change influences ecosystem by altering the habitat of species in it. We report the
quantitative predictions of climate change on riparian species. Homonoia riparia (H. riparia) …

The greenscape shapes surfing of resource waves in a large migratory herbivore

EO Aikens, MJ Kauffman, JA Merkle… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Green Wave Hypothesis posits that herbivore migration manifests in response
to waves of spring green‐up (ie green‐wave surfing). Nonetheless, empirical support for the …

Predicting the Suitable Current and Future Potential Distribution of the Native Endangered Tree Tecomella undulata (Sm.) Seem. in Pakistan

F Arshad, M Waheed, K Fatima, N Harun, M Iqbal… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The burgeoning human population exhibited a rapid amplification in demand for timber and
fuelwood and as a result, the natural population of the native tree Tecomella undulata …

An Integrated Approach to Map the Impact of Climate Change on the Distributions of Crataegus azarolus and Crataegus monogyna in Kurdistan Region, Iraq

KO Radha, NR Khwarahm - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The hawthorns Crataegus azarolus L. and Crataegus monogyna Jacq are two ecologically
and medicinally important endemic tree species that occur only in forests of oak in the …

Nutritional ecology of elk during summer and autumn in the Pacific Northwest

JG Cook, RC Cook, RW Davis, LL Irwin - Wildlife Monographs, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Elk (Cervus elaphus) in the western United States are an economically and socially valuable
wildlife species. They have featured species status for federal land management planning; …

Where to forage when afraid: Does perceived risk impair use of the foodscape?

SPH Dwinnell, H Sawyer, JE Randall… - Ecological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The availability and quality of forage on the landscape constitute the foodscape within which
animals make behavioral decisions to acquire food. Novel changes to the foodscape, such …