Home | [1–10] << 11 12 13 14 15 >> |
Records | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Author | Ronnenberg, K.; Habbe, B.; Gräber, R.; Strauß, E.; Siebert, U. | ||||
Title | Coexistence of wolves and humans in a densely populated region (Lower Saxony, Germany) | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2017 | Publication | Basic and Applied Ecology | Abbreviated Journal | Basic. Appl. Ecol. |
Volume | 25 | Issue | Pages | 1-14 | |
Keywords | Grey wolf; ; Habitat use; Species distribution models; Predator-prey interactions | ||||
Abstract | Since the first sporadic occurrences of grey wolves (Canis lupus) west of the Polish border in 1996, wolves have shown a rapid population recovery in Germany. Wolves are known to avoid people and wolf attacks on humans are very rare worldwide. However, the subjectively perceived threat is considerable, especially as food-conditioned habituation to humans occurs sporadically. Lower Saxony (Germany) has an exceedingly higher human population density than most other regions with territorial wolves; thus, the potential for human-wolf conflicts is higher. Using hunters' wildlife survey data from 455 municipalities and two years (2014-2015) and data from the official wolf monitoring (557 confirmed wolf presences and 500 background points) collected between 2012-2015, grey wolf habitat selection was modelled using generalized additive models with respect to human population density, road density, forest cover and roe deer density. Moreover, we tested whether habitat use changed in response to human population and road density between 2012/2013 and 2014/2015. Wolves showed a preference for areas of low road density. Human population density was less important as a covariate in the model of the survey data. Areas with higher prey abundance (5-10 roe deer/km2) and areas with >20% forest cover were preferred wolf habitats. Wolves were mostly restricted to areas with the lowest road and human population densities. However, between the two time periods, avoidance of human density decreased significantly. Recolonization of Germany is still in its early stages and it is unclear where this process will halt. To-date authorities mainly concentrate on monitoring measures. However, to avoid conflict, recolonization will require more stringent management of wolf populations and an improved information strategy for rural populations. | ||||
Address | |||||
Corporate Author | Thesis | ||||
Publisher | Place of Publication | Editor | |||
Language | Summary Language | Original Title | |||
Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | |||
Series Volume | Series Issue | Edition | |||
ISSN | 1439-1791 | ISBN | Medium | ||
Area | Expedition | Conference | |||
Notes | Approved | no | |||
Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 6397 | ||
Permanent link to this record | |||||
Author | Sharp, T.; Saunders, G. | ||||
Title | mustering of feral horses | Type | Manuscript | ||
Year | Publication | Ecology | Abbreviated Journal | ||
Volume | Issue | Pages | |||
Keywords | |||||
Abstract | Background Feral horses (Equus caballus) can cause significant environmental damage and losses to rural industries. Although considered pests, feral horses are also a resource, providing products such as pet meat for the domestic market and meat for human consumption for the export market. Control methods include trapping, mustering exclusion fencing, ground shooting and shooting from helicopters. Feral horses are mustered by helicopter, motorbike or on horseback, sometimes with the assistance of coacher horses. Once mustered into yards, net traps or fenced paddocks, the horses are usually sold to abattoirs for slaughter which can offset the costs of capture and handling. Less commonly, they are sold as riding horses or relocated to reserves or horse sanctuaries. Where there is no market for them or where removal may be too costly or impractical e.g. in conservation areas or remote areas without access to transportation, horses are sometimes destroyed by shooting in the yards. This standard operating procedure (SOP) is a guide only; it does not replace or override the legislation that applies in the relevant State or Territory jurisdiction. The SOP should only be used subject to the applicable legal requirements (including OH&S) operating in the relevant jurisdiction. |
||||
Address | |||||
Corporate Author | Thesis | ||||
Publisher | Place of Publication | Editor | |||
Language | Summary Language | Original Title | |||
Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | |||
Series Volume | Series Issue | Edition | |||
ISSN | ISBN | Medium | |||
Area | Expedition | Conference | |||
Notes | Approved | no | |||
Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 517 | ||
Permanent link to this record | |||||
Author | Giraldeau, Luc-Alain | ||||
Title | The ecology of information use | Type | Book Chapter | ||
Year | 1997 | Publication | Behavioural ecology : an evolutionary approach | Abbreviated Journal | |
Volume | Issue | Pages | |||
Keywords | |||||
Abstract | |||||
Address | |||||
Corporate Author | Thesis | ||||
Publisher | Blackwell Science | Place of Publication | Cambridge, Mass. | Editor | Krebs, J.R.; Davies, N.B. |
Language | Summary Language | Original Title | |||
Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | |||
Series Volume | Series Issue | Edition | |||
ISSN | ISBN | 0865427313 9780865427310 | Medium | ||
Area | Expedition | Conference | |||
Notes | Approved | no | |||
Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ 35114973 | Serial | 4277 | ||
Permanent link to this record | |||||
Author | Wasser, S.K.; Keim, J.L.; Taper, M.L.; Lele, S.R. | ||||
Title | The influences of wolf predation, habitat loss, and human activity on caribou and moose in the Alberta oil sands | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2011 | Publication | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | Abbreviated Journal | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment |
Volume | Issue | Pages | |||
Keywords | |||||
Abstract | Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) and moose (Alces alces) populations in the Alberta oil sands region of western Canada are influenced by wolf (Canis lupus) predation, habitat degradation and loss, and anthropogenic activities. Trained domestic dogs were used to locate scat from caribou, moose, and wolves during winter surges in petroleum development. Evidence obtained from collected scat was then used to estimate resource selection, measure physiological stress, and provide individual genetic identification for precise mark–recapture abundance estimates of caribou, moose, and wolves. Strong impacts of human activity were indicated by changes in resource selection and in stress and nutrition hormone levels as human-use measures were added to base resource selection models (including ecological variables, provincial highways, and pre-existing linear features with no human activity) for caribou. Wolf predation and resource selection so heavily targeted deer (Odocoileus virginiana or O hemionus) that wolves appeared drawn away from prime caribou habitat. None of the three examined species showed a significant population change over 4 years. However, caribou population estimates were more than double those of previous approximations for this area. Our findings suggest that modifying landscape-level human-use patterns may be more effective at managing this ecosystem than intentional removal of wolves. | ||||
Address | |||||
Corporate Author | Thesis | ||||
Publisher | Ecological Society of America | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
Language | Summary Language | Original Title | |||
Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | |||
Series Volume | Series Issue | Edition | |||
ISSN | 1540-9295 | ISBN | Medium | ||
Area | Expedition | Conference | |||
Notes | doi: 10.1890/100071 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5397 | ||
Permanent link to this record | |||||
Author | Boitani, L. | ||||
Title | Patterns of homesites attendance in two Minnesota wolf packs | Type | Book Chapter | ||
Year | 1982 | Publication | Wolves of the World: Perspectives of Behavior, Ecology and Conservation | Abbreviated Journal | |
Volume | Issue | Pages | |||
Keywords | |||||
Abstract | |||||
Address | |||||
Corporate Author | Thesis | ||||
Publisher | Noyes, Park Ridge | Place of Publication | New York | Editor | Harrington, F.H.; Paquet, P.C. |
Language | Summary Language | Original Title | |||
Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | |||
Series Volume | Series Issue | Edition | |||
ISSN | ISBN | Medium | |||
Area | Expedition | Conference | |||
Notes | Approved | no | |||
Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ Boitani1982 | Serial | 6474 | ||
Permanent link to this record | |||||
Author | Jedrzejewski, W.; Schmidt, K.; Theuerkauf, J.; Jedrzejewska, B.; Selva, N.; Zub, K. | ||||
Title | Kill rate and predation by wolves on ungulate populations in Bialowieza primeval forest (Poland) | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2002 | Publication | Ecology | Abbreviated Journal | |
Volume | 83 | Issue | Pages | ||
Keywords | |||||
Abstract | |||||
Address | |||||
Corporate Author | Thesis | ||||
Publisher | Place of Publication | Editor | |||
Language | Summary Language | Original Title | |||
Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | |||
Series Volume | Series Issue | Edition | |||
ISSN | ISBN | Medium | |||
Area | Expedition | Conference | |||
Notes | Approved | no | |||
Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ Jedrzejewski2002 | Serial | 6481 | ||
Permanent link to this record | |||||
Author | Amodio, P.; Boeckle, M.; Schnell, A.K.; Ostojic, L.; Fiorito, G.; Clayton, N.S. | ||||
Title | Grow Smart and Die Young: Why Did Cephalopods Evolve Intelligence? | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2018 | Publication | Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Abbreviated Journal | Trends. Ecol. Evol. |
Volume | Issue | Pages | |||
Keywords | |||||
Abstract | Intelligence in large-brained vertebrates might have evolved through independent, yet similar processes based on comparable socioecological pressures and slow life histories. This convergent evolutionary route, however, cannot explain why cephalopods developed large brains and flexible behavioural repertoires: cephalopods have fast life histories and live in simple social environments. Here, we suggest that the loss of the external shell in cephalopods (i) caused a dramatic increase in predatory pressure, which in turn prevented the emergence of slow life histories, and (ii) allowed the exploitation of novel challenging niches, thus favouring the emergence of intelligence. By highlighting convergent and divergent aspects between cephalopods and large-brained vertebrates we illustrate how the evolution of intelligence might not be constrained to a single evolutionary route. | ||||
Address | |||||
Corporate Author | Thesis | ||||
Publisher | Elsevier | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
Language | Summary Language | Original Title | |||
Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | |||
Series Volume | Series Issue | Edition | |||
ISSN | 0169-5347 | ISBN | Medium | ||
Area | Expedition | Conference | |||
Notes | doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2018.10.010 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 6508 | ||
Permanent link to this record | |||||
Author | Hofmeester, T.R.; Cromsigt, J.P.G.M.; Odden, J.; Andrén, H.; Kindberg, J.; Linnell, J.D.C. | ||||
Title | Framing pictures: A conceptual framework to identify and correct for biases in detection probability of camera traps enabling multi-species comparison | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2019 | Publication | Ecology and Evolution | Abbreviated Journal | Ecol Evol |
Volume | Issue | Pages | |||
Keywords | animal characteristics; detectability; environmental variables; mammal monitoring; reuse of data; trail camera | ||||
Abstract | Abstract Obtaining reliable species observations is of great importance in animal ecology and wildlife conservation. An increasing number of studies use camera traps (CTs) to study wildlife communities, and an increasing effort is made to make better use and reuse of the large amounts of data that are produced. It is in these circumstances that it becomes paramount to correct for the species- and study-specific variation in imperfect detection within CTs. We reviewed the literature and used our own experience to compile a list of factors that affect CT detection of animals. We did this within a conceptual framework of six distinct scales separating out the influences of (a) animal characteristics, (b) CT specifications, (c) CT set-up protocols, and (d) environmental variables. We identified 40 factors that can potentially influence the detection of animals by CTs at these six scales. Many of these factors were related to only a few overarching parameters. Most of the animal characteristics scale with body mass and diet type, and most environmental characteristics differ with season or latitude such that remote sensing products like NDVI could be used as a proxy index to capture this variation. Factors that influence detection at the microsite and camera scales are probably the most important in determining CT detection of animals. The type of study and specific research question will determine which factors should be corrected. Corrections can be done by directly adjusting the CT metric of interest or by using covariates in a statistical framework. Our conceptual framework can be used to design better CT studies and help when analyzing CT data. Furthermore, it provides an overview of which factors should be reported in CT studies to make them repeatable, comparable, and their data reusable. This should greatly improve the possibilities for global scale analyses of (reused) CT data. | ||||
Address | |||||
Corporate Author | Thesis | ||||
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
Language | Summary Language | Original Title | |||
Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | |||
Series Volume | Series Issue | Edition | |||
ISSN | 2045-7758 | ISBN | Medium | ||
Area | Expedition | Conference | |||
Notes | doi: 10.1002/ece3.4878 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 6518 | ||
Permanent link to this record | |||||
Author | Hunt, G.R.; Gray R.D.; Taylor, A.H. | ||||
Title | Why is tool use rare in animals? | Type | Book Whole | ||
Year | 2013 | Publication | Tool Use in Animals: Cognition and Ecology | Abbreviated Journal | |
Volume | Issue | Pages | |||
Keywords | |||||
Abstract | |||||
Address | |||||
Corporate Author | Thesis | ||||
Publisher | Cambridge University Press | Place of Publication | Cambridge, MA. | Editor | anz C, Call J, Boesch C |
Language | Summary Language | Original Title | |||
Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | |||
Series Volume | Series Issue | Edition | |||
ISSN | ISBN | Medium | |||
Area | Expedition | Conference | |||
Notes | Approved | no | |||
Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 6658 | ||
Permanent link to this record |