Intra-guild competition and ecosystem services of mammal scavengers in a new colonized wolf landscape

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 79(2)

Published: Jan. 23, 2025

Language: Английский

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Uncovering the full potential of attitude measures in navigating human-wolf coexistence

Biological Conservation, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 302, P. 110976 - 110976

Published: Jan. 14, 2025

Language: Английский

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Space use of a diverse megafauna community in a rewilding area in the southwestern Carpathians

Biological Conservation, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 302, P. 110977 - 110977

Published: Jan. 14, 2025

Language: Английский

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From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 20, 2025

Abstract Effective, equitable and just strategies for multispecies coexistence are increasingly the focus of research policy. The critical social sciences, such as political ecology, have been particularly interested in this topic recently, exploring production human–wildlife interactions resulting (uneven) outcomes different communities. Within body literature, some studies explored through Foucauldian lenses biopower related governmentalities, which also extended more‐than‐human analyses. After drawing a distinction between affirmative biopolitics, whereby latter concern alternative modes ‘living with’ societies, beyond forms control over (human non‐human) life, study explores (alternative) subjectivities contexts farmer–wolf Tuscany, Italy. approach adopted entailed 12‐month ethnography semi‐structured interviews. On one hand, exercises operationalised truth neoliberal governmentalities by conservation actors met local resistance contribute to an exacerbation human–wolf conflict. other manifestations wherein wolves conceived not objects or means end but subjects care, may provide more promising bases coexistence. Nevertheless, ethical propensities coexist with strained constrained wider economies shaping socioeconomic hardships agricultural sector. We emphasise need greater recognition going problematic that reduce providers services (e.g., ecological economic), they necessarily deliver. link biopolitics feminist ethics articulating navigating interspecies violence is attentive human non‐human needs frames caring systemic project. encourage future continue biopolitics.

Language: Английский

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Movement‐integrated habitat selection reveals wolves balance ease of travel with human avoidance in a risk–reward trade‐off

Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 13, 2025

Abstract Anthropogenic linear features often alter wildlife behaviour and movement. Landscape features, such as habitat, can have important mediating effects on response to disturbance yet are rarely explicitly considered in how habitat interact. We tested the movement space‐use responses of GPS‐collared grey wolves with respect adjacent variation. simultaneously modelled wolf selection within a conditional logistic regression framework (integrated Step Selection Analysis). alters these through putative effects, friction. Classifying based revealed that pairing transmission lines primary roads increased avoidance be greater than either feature its own provided evidence semi‐permeable barrier In contrast, reduced human activity, including secondary tertiary roads, were highly selected for may function corridors. Synthesis applications . Explicitly parameterizing provides where is routed which habitats it interacts will greatest implications behavioural responses. Reduced risky environments signifies importance maintaining landscape connectivity, particularly when routing multiple different parallel near each other. Increased vegetation density along also reduces advantages putatively by increasing friction, indicating actively decommissioning other could an effective mitigation strategy reducing encounters prey. Knowing influence likelihood selecting given creates context minimize impact new anthropogenic behaviour.

Language: Английский

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Reduced human disturbance increases diurnal activity in wolves, but not Eurasian lynx

Global Ecology and Conservation, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 53, P. e02985 - e02985

Published: May 15, 2024

Wildlife in the Anthropocene is increasingly constrained both spatially and temporally by lethal non-lethal human disturbance. For large carnivores with extensive space requirements, like wolves Eurasian lynx, avoiding disturbance European landscapes challenging when sufficient low rarely available. Consequently, investigating behavioural adjustments to presence critical understanding capacity adapt We hypothesised that under conditions, would adjust their temporal behaviours make use of daytime, daytime high, they opt for nocturnality. Using camera trap data from nine study sites along a gradient disturbance, we analysed wolf lynx nocturnality diel activity patterns. Our spanned multiple years 2014 – 2022, focused analysis on September until April, most carnivore monitoring takes place. wolves, our revealed i) increased nocturnal activity, ii) decreased diurnal overlap iii) significant association between probability increasing found iv) consistently across all sites, regardless v) no be active during night. results show can or cathemeral but quickly shift increases. however, maintain behaviour, which attribute principal hunting strategy stalk ambush. If constrains nighttime, it could lead changes interactions prey. On other hand, maintaining human-dominated may beneficial conservation, decreasing thereby contributing landscape coexistence.

Language: Английский

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Large carnivore management at odds; science or prejudice?

Global Ecology and Conservation, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. e03202 - e03202

Published: Sept. 1, 2024

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Land conversion and lack of protection significantly reduce suitable wolf habitat amount and functional connectivity in the Adirondack-to-Laurentians (A2L) transboundary wildlife linkage

Regional Environmental Change, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 24(3)

Published: Aug. 14, 2024

Language: Английский

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Influence of Human Hunting Strategies and Large Carnivore Presence on Population Dynamics of European Facultative Scavengers

Ecology and Evolution, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(11)

Published: Nov. 1, 2024

ABSTRACT Ungulates serve as the primary carrion source for facultative scavengers in European ecosystems. In absence of large carnivores, such wolves ( Canis lupus ), human hunting leftovers are main these scavengers. Additionally, wild boars Sus scrofa ) heavily culled many ecosystems and both a significant prey species well key scavenger. Nowadays, re‐establishing their historical home ranges. However, it remains unclear how presence influences population dynamics under different scenarios strategies. We simulated biomass densities all states trophic web including using an ordinary differential equations (ODE) model. The led to positive trend scavenger general. general, we found that plant‐based resources were more important than carrion, regardless whether originated from or wolf predation. Only when absent but present, strategy became determining via supply. conclusion, our model indicates not mainly driven by availability rather competition vegetation. Furthermore, simulations highlight importance adapting strategies accordance with re‐establishment boar can cause fluctuating patterns over years.

Language: Английский

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Dispersal and settlement dynamics of wolves in a lowland ecological corridor in northern Italy: Effects of resource availability and human disturbance

Biological Conservation, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 302, P. 110936 - 110936

Published: Dec. 16, 2024

Language: Английский

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