Posts Tagged: gray wolf
Temporal dynamics in gray wolf space use suggest stabilizing range in the Great Lakes region
November 6, 2024
Species distribution models can facilitate conservation planning and action but presume species-environment relationships are stable, which is not the case for invasive or recolonizing species only partially occupying their potential distributions. This complicates our understanding of colonization and recolonization processes … read more
Posted in Biology, Resources | Tagged Equilibrium, gray wolf, Range stabilization, recolonization, Space use, Species distribution
Gray wolf range in the western Great Lakes region under forecasted land use and climate change
February 1, 2024
Land use and climate change alter species distributions worldwide, and detecting and understanding how species ranges shift can facilitate conservation planning and action. Following extirpation from most of the contiguous United States, gray wolves (Canis lupus) have partially recolonized former … read more
Posted in Habitat | Tagged carnivore, climate change, distribution, global change, gray wolf, land use change, range stability, recolonization
Efficacy and ethics of intensive predator management to save endangered caribou
November 2, 2022
Lethal population control has a history of application to wildlife management and conservation. There is debate about the efficacy of the practice, but more controversial is the ethical justification and methods of killing one species in favor of another. This … read more
Posted in Caribou, Predator/Prey Relationships, Resources | Tagged anthropogenic disturbance, compassionate conservation, conservation strategy effectiveness, ethics, gray wolf, management tool, predator management, public support, Rangifer tarandus caribou, woodland caribou
Extinguishing a Learned Response in a Free-ranging Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)
April 2, 2022
A free-ranging Gray Wolf (Canis lupus), habituated to human presence (the author) on Ellesmere Island, Canada, learned to anticipate experimental feeding by a human, became impatient, persistent, and bold and exhibited stalking behaviour toward the food source. Only after the … read more
Posted in Conflicts, Resources | Tagged arctic, Behaviour, Canis lupus, Ellesmere Island, extinguishing learned behaviour, gray wolf, learned-response, learning
Forest Carnivore Conservation and Management in the Interior Columbia Basin: Issues and Environmental Correlates
August 29, 2021
Forest carnivores in the Pacific Northwest include 11 medium to large-sized mammalian species of canids, felids, mustelids, and ursids. These carnivores have widely differing status in the region, with some harvested in regulated furbearer seasons, some taken for depredations, and … read more
Posted in Pacific West Wolves | Tagged animal damage, black bear, bobcat, carnivores, conservation, conservation biology, coyote, disturbance, fisher, forest management, fragmentation, geographic information systems, gray wolf, grizzly bear, late successional forest, lynx, management, marten, mountain lion, river otter, roads, wilderness, wolverine
Wolves make roadways safer, generating large economic returns to predator conservation
May 30, 2021
Recent studies uncover cascading ecological effects resulting from removing and reintroducing predators into a landscape, but little is known about effects on human lives and property. We quantify the effects of restoring wolf populations by evaluating their influence on deer–vehicle … read more
Posted in Benefits of Wolves | Tagged deer–vehicle collision, economic impact, gray wolf, trophic cascade, white-tailed deer
