Posts Tagged: predator

Genetics and wolf conservation in the American West: lessons and challenges
January 31, 2022
Top predators are endangered throughout the world because of human persecution and habitat destruction. Plans to conserve and restore predator populations are often contentious, but few species are as problematic as the gray wolf (Canis lupus). In the United States, … read more
Posted in Genetics, Resources | Tagged American West, genetics, mexico, predator, Rocky Mountains, Wolf

Predator Control Needs a Standard of Unbiased Randomized Experiments With Cross-Over Design
January 29, 2020
Despite over 20 years of searching for answers about predator control, the policy intervention of killing predators that threaten domestic animals has not been subjected to unbiased randomized experimental tests of effectiveness. Rapid, global changes, such as extinction and … read more
Posted in Conflicts | Tagged control, experiments, needs, predator, randomized, standard, unbiased

How Long Do Anti-Predator Interventions Remain Effective? Patterns, Thresholds and Uncertainty
October 31, 2019
Human–predator conflicts are globally widespread, and effective interventions are essential to protect human assets from predator attacks. As effectiveness also has a temporal dimension, it is of importance to know how long interventions remain most effective and to determine time … read more
Posted in Non-Lethal Management Tools | Tagged effective, interventions, patterns, predator, remain, thresholds, uncertainty

Cascading effects of predator activity on tick-borne disease risk
August 30, 2019
Predators and competitors of vertebrates can in theory reduce the density of infected nymphs (DIN)—an often-used measure of tick-borne disease risk by lowering the density of reservoir-competent hosts and/or the tick burden on reservoir-competent hosts. We investigated this possible indirect … read more
Posted in Benefits of Wolves | Tagged activity, borne, cascading, disease, effects, predator

A Mammalian Predator–Prey Imbalance: Grizzly Bear and Wolf Extinction Affect Avian Neotropical Migrants
July 6, 2019
Because most large, terrestrial mammalian predators have already been lost from more than 95–99% of the contiguous United States and Mexico, many ecological communities are either missing dominant selective forces or have new ones dependent upon humans. Such large-scale manipulations … read more
Posted in Trophic Cascade | Tagged affect, avian, extinction, grizzly, imbalance, mammalian, predator

The Forgotten Prey Of An Iconic Predator: A Review Of Interactions Between Grey Wolves Canis Lupus And Beavers Castor spp.
July 4, 2019
Predator–prey relationships can have wide-ranging ecological and landscapelevel effects. Knowledge of these relationships is therefore crucial to understanding how these systems function and how changes in predator–prey communities affect these systems. Grey wolves Canis lupus can be significant predators of … read more
Posted in Beaver | Tagged between, forgotten, iconic, interactions, predator, review, wolves