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Influence of body mass and environmental conditions on winter mortality risk of a northern ungulate: Evidence for a late-winter survival bottleneck
December 30, 2021
A relationship between winter weather and survival of northern ungulates has long been established, yet the possible roles of biological (e.g., nutritional status) and environmental (e.g., weather) conditions make it important to determine which potential limiting factors are most influential. … read more
Posted in Deer, Predator/Prey Relationships | Tagged Canis latrans, Canis lupus, cause-specific mortality, Odocoileus virginianus, weather, winter severity index

Factors Limiting Deer Abundance in the Upper Peninsula
August 29, 2021
In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, there are numerous factors that may act singularly or in combination to influence deer abundance. For instance, if food availability was greatly reduced, especially during critical times, or habitat that is essential for survival … read more
Posted in Predator/Prey Relationships | Tagged Deer, Upper Peninsula

Evaluating carnivore harvest as a tool for increasing elk calf survival and recruitment
August 29, 2021
Elk (Cervus canadensis) are an iconic species throughout the western United States and play a large role across ecological (Kauffman et al. 2010), social (Haggerty and Travis 2006) and economic (US Department of the Interior et al. 2014) landscapes. However, … read more
Posted in Predator/Prey Relationships | Tagged carnivore, Cervus canadensis, elk

Influence of body mass and environmental conditions on winter mortality risk of a northern ungulate: Evidence for a late-winter survival bottleneck
July 31, 2021
Identifying limiting factors for animals with seasonally dynamic life histories sometimes requires understanding intra-annual periods of resource scarcity (e.g., Ashmole, 1963). For ungulates living in northern environments, winter is generally a period of negative energy budget when forage provides some … read more
Posted in General, Predator/Prey Relationships | Tagged Canis latrans, Canis lupus, cause-specific mortality, Odocoileus virginianus, weather, winter severity index

Managing animal movement conserves predator–prey dynamics
July 2, 2021
Anthropogenic landscape change can lead to novel interactions among species with consequences for predator–prey dynamics. Population responses of predators and prey vary according to species abundance, movement, and distribution. Although conservation often involves managing species abundance, culling predators to benefit … read more
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Wolves choose ambushing locations to counter and capitalize on the sensory abilities of their prey
March 4, 2021
Comprehensive knowledge of ambush behavior requires an understanding of where a predator expects prey to be, which is generally unknowable because ambush predators often hunt mobile prey that exhibit complex, irregular, or inconspicuous movements. Wolves (Canis lupus) are primarily cursorial … read more
Posted in General, Predator/Prey Relationships | Tagged ambush hunting, hunting behavior, hunting mode, predation risk, sit-and-wait predator, wolf predation