Posts Tagged: Anthropogenic mortality

Efects of lethal management on gray wolf pack persistence and reproduction in Wisconsin
November 6, 2024
Direct human-caused mortality accounts for about half of all large mammal mortality in North America. For social species like gray wolves (Canis lupus), the death of pack members can disrupt pack structure and cause pack dissolution, and mortality of breeding … read more
Posted in Conflicts, Resources | Tagged Anthropogenic mortality, Canis lupus, carnivore management, Howl surveys, Legal harvest, Pack persistence

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

Quantifying the effects of delisting wolves after the first state began lethal management
July 31, 2021
Predators and their protection are controversial worldwide. Gray wolves, Canis lupus, lost U.S. federal protection (delisting) and the State of Wisconsin began lethal management first among all states and tribes that regained authority over wolves. Here we evaluated the initial … read more
Posted in Hunting Wolves | Tagged Anthropogenic mortality, Canis lupus, Human-caused mortality, hunting, Illegal take, poaching, policy, Regulated an dunregulated off-take, U.S. endangered species act, Wisconsin gray wolf