Author Archives: Nathan Lyle
Evaluating how management policies affect red wolf mortality and disappearance
May 31, 2022
Poaching is the major cause of death for large carnivores in several regions, contributing to their global endangerment. The traditional hypothesis used in wildlife management (killing for tolerance) suggests reducing protections for a species will decrease poaching. However, recent studies … read more
Posted in News, Regional Wolves, Southeast-Red Wolves | Tagged Canis rufus, endangered species, large carnivore, poaching, policy signal, survival analysis
Gray wolf mortality patterns in Wisconsin from 1979 to 2012
May 5, 2022
Starting in the 1970s, many populations of large-bodied mammalian carnivores began to recover from centuries of human-caused eradication and habitat destruction. The recovery of several such populations has since slowed or reversed due to mortality caused by humans. Illegal killing … read more
Posted in Biology, Resources | Tagged Anthropogenic mortality, carnivore, conflict, illegal killing, poaching, sampling bias, take
Examination of the interaction between age-specific predation and chronic disease in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
May 5, 2022
The patterns of parasite infections in wildlife hosts often have an age component. For example, the prevalence of chronic infections tends to skew towards older individuals that have had a longer amount of time to be exposed (e.g. Heisey et … read more
Posted in CWD & Other Diseases, Resources | Tagged age structure, demography, healthy herds, infectious disease, matrix model, predator–prey, Prion, simulation
The Role of Wolves in Regulating a Chronic Non-communicable Disease, Osteoarthritis, in Prey Populations
May 5, 2022
It is widely accepted that predators disproportionately prey on individuals that are old, weak, diseased or injured. By selectively removing individuals with diseases, predators may play an important role in regulating the overall health of prey populations. However, that idea … read more
Posted in CWD & Other Diseases, Resources | Tagged bone disease, carnivores, chronic pathology, disease dynamics, resource selection, selective predation, senescent related pathology, ungulates
The gray wolf as a symbol or a subject of science
May 5, 2022
Wolves have always slipped easily into the part of the human brain that processes symbols and metaphors. In the Inferno from his Divine Comedy, Dante (~1265–1321) used wolves to represent greed and fraud. In the Middle Ages Europeans called famine, … read more
Posted in Human Dimensions, Resources | Tagged Gray Wolves, science, Wolf
Rapid changes in public perception toward a conservation initiative
May 5, 2022
Rapid, widespread changes in public perceptions and behaviors have the potential to influence conservation outcomes. However, few studies have documented whether and how such shifts occur throughout the span of a conservation initiative. We examined the 2020 ballot initiative to … read more
Posted in Human Dimensions, Resources | Tagged attitude change, conservation behavior, public perspectives, Wolf
