Home range size, vegetation density, and season influences prey use by coyotes (Canis latrans)

JN Ward, JW Hinton, KL Johannsen, ML Karlin… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
To ensure reproductive success, Canis species establish contiguous mosaics of territories in
suitable habitats to partition space and defend limiting resources. Consequently, Canis …

Exploring spatial nonstationarity for four mammal species reveals regional variation in environmental relationships

BS Pease, K Pacifici, R Kays - Ecosphere, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Broad‐scale ecological research on species distributions commonly presumes that the
correlative relationships discovered are stationary over space. This is an assumption of most …

Fire‐mediated foraging tradeoffs in white‐tailed deer

MJ Cherry, RJ Warren, LM Conner - Ecosphere, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Predation risk can induce individual prey to express behavioral, physiological, and
morphological traits that can influence population‐level processes. Maternal care is an …

Selection in the third dimension: Using LiDAR derived canopy metrics to assess individual and population‐level habitat partitioning of ocelots, bobcats, and coyotes

M Sergeyev, DA Crawford, JD Holbrook… - Remote Sensing in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Wildlife depends on specific landscape features to persist. Thus, characterizing the
vegetation available in an area can be essential for management. The ocelot (Leopardus …

Predation risk increases intraspecific heterogeneity in white-tailed deer diel activity patterns

DA Crawford, LM Conner, G Morris… - Behavioral …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Prey species often mitigate predation risk through alteration of spatiotemporal diel activity
patterns whereby prey access high-quality resources in risky areas during predator …

Fire and land cover drive predator abundances in a pyric landscape

MH Jorge, EP Garrison, LM Conner… - Forest Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding the link between environmental factors such as disturbance events, land
cover, and soil productivity to spatial variation in animal abundance is fundamental to …

Landscape‐level patterns in fawn survival across North America

TM Gingery, DR Diefenbach… - The Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A landscape‐level meta‐analysis approach to examining early survival of
ungulates may elucidate patterns in survival not evident from individual studies. Despite …

Survival of white‐tailed deer fawns on Marine Corps Base Quantico

GR Aubin, CC Nye, JH Rohm… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Some jurisdictions in the eastern United States have reduced harvest of white‐tailed deer
(Odocoileus virginianus) because of perceived declines in recruitment and population size …

Land‐use change structures carnivore communities in remaining tallgrass prairie

KR Wait, AM Ricketts, AA Ahlers - The Journal of Wildlife …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The Flint Hills ecoregion is the largest remaining tract of native tallgrass prairie
in North America. Contemporary landscape change (eg, urbanization, agricultural …

People or predators? Comparing habitat‐dependent effects of hunting and large carnivores on the abundance of North America's top mesocarnivore

RJ Moll, AM Green, ML Allen, R Kays - Ecography, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Variation in animal abundance is shaped by scale‐dependent habitat, competition, and
anthropogenic influences. Coyotes Canis latrans have dramatically increased in abundance …