Mammals

Partitioning the effects of habitat loss, hunting and climate change on the endangered Chacoan peccary

Aim

Land-use change and overexploitation are major threats to biodiversity, and climate change will exert additional pressure in the …

Ricardo Torres, Tobias Kuemmerle, Matthias Baumann, Alfredo Romero-Muñoz, Mariana Altrichter, Gabriel I. Boaglio, Hugo Cabral, Micaela Camino, Juan M. Campos Krauer, José L. Cartes, Rosa L. Cuellar, Julieta Decarre, Marcelo Gallegos, Anthony J. Giordano, Leónidas Lizarraga, Leonardo Maffei, Nora N. Neris, Verónica Quiroga, Silvia Saldivar, Daniela Tamburini, Jeffrey Thompson, Marianela Velilla, Robert B. Wallace, Alberto Yanosky

Advancing protected area effectiveness assessments by disentangling social-ecological interactions: A case study from the Luangwa Valley, Zambia

Protected and conserved areas (PCAs) target at biodiversity conservation and human well-being, but often reflect low levels of …

Marina Frietsch, Noelia Zafra-Calvo, Arash Ghoddousi, Jacqueline Loos

Prerequisites for coexistence: human pressure and refuge habitat availability shape continental-scale habitat use patterns of a large carnivore

Context

Adjustments in habitat use by large carnivores can be a key factor facilitating their coexistence with people in shared …

Julian Oeser, Marco Heurich, Stephanie Kramer-Schadt, Henrik Andrén, Guna Bagrade, Elisa Belotti, Ludek Bufka, Christine Breitenmoser-Wursten, Rok Cerne, Martin Dula, Christian Fuxjager, Tomislav Gomercic, Włodzimierz Jędrzejewski, Raido Kont, Petr Koubek, Rafał Kowalczyk, Miha Krofel, Jarmila Krojerova-Prokesova, Jakub Kubala, Josip Kusak, Miroslav Kutal, John D.C. Linnell, Jenny Mattisson, Anja Molinari-Jobin, Peep Männil, John Odden, Henryk Okarma, Teresa Oliveira, Nives Pagon, Jens Persson, Jaanus Remm, Krzysztof Schmidt, Sven Signer, Branislav Tám, Kristina Vogt, Fridolin Zimmermann, Tobias Kuemmerle

Spatial variation in red deer density in a transboundary forest ecosystem

Forests in Europe are exposed to increasingly frequent and severe disturbances. The resulting changes in the structure and composition …

Mahdieh Tourani, Frederik Franke, Marco Heurich, Maik Henrich, Tomáš Peterka, Cornelia Ebert, Julian Oeser, Hendrik Edelhoff, Cyril Milleret, Pierre Dupont, Richard Bischof, Wibke Peters

Opportunities and challenges for monitoring a recolonizing large herbivore using citizen science

Monitoring is a prerequisite for evidence-based wildlife management and conservation planning, yet conventional monitoring approaches …

Emu-Felicitas Ostermann-Miyashita, Hendrik Bluhm, Kornelia Dobiáš, Nina Gandl, Sophia Hibler, Samantha Look, Frank-Uwe Michler, Leonie Weltgen, Aleksandra Smaga, Hannes J. König, Tobias Kuemmerle, Christian Kiffner

Widespread habitat for Europe's largest herbivores, but poor connectivity limits recolonization

Several large-mammal species in Europe have recovered and recolonized parts of their historical ranges. Knowing where suitable habitat …

Hendrik Bluhm, Tom A. Diserens, Thomas Engleder, Kaja Heising, Marco Heurich, Tomas Janik, Miloslav Jirku, Daniel Klich, Hannes J. König, Rafal Kowalczyk, Dries Kuijper, Weronika Maslanko, Frank-Uwe Michler, Wiebke Neumann, Julian Oeser, Wanda Olech, Kajetan Perzanowski, Miroslaw Ratkiewicz, Dusan Romportl, Martin Salek, Tobias Kuemmerle

A range-wide monitoring framework for the Persian leopard and its prey

The long-term survival of the Persian leopard Panthera pardus tulliana requires concerted regional conservation efforts. Understanding …

Arash Ghoddousi, Benjamin Bleyhl, Elshad Askerov, Aurel Heidelberg, Muhammad Kabir, Bejan Lortkipanidze, Karen Manvelyan, Deniz Mengüllüoğlu, Zalmai Moheb, Marzieh Mousavi, Alim Pkhitikovo, Hanna Raza, Tatjana Rosen, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov, Paul Weinberg, Anna Yachmennikova, Tobias Kuemmerle

Changing patterns of conflict between humans, carnivores and crop-raiding prey as large carnivores recolonize human-dominated landscapes

Large carnivores are making remarkable comebacks in Europe, but how this affects human-wildlife conflict remains unclear. Rebounding …

Marco Davoli, Arash Ghoddousi, Francesco Maria Sabatini, Elena Fabbri, Romolo Caniglia, Tobias Kuemmerle

Human disturbance is the most limiting factor driving habitat selection of a large carnivore throughout Continental Europe

Habitat selection is a multi-scale process driven by trade-offs between benefits, such as resource abundance, and disadvantages, such …

Lucia Ripari, Joe Premier, Elisa Belotti, Hendrik Bluhm, Christine Breitenmoser-Wursten, Ludek Bufka, Jaroslav Cerveny, Nolwenn Drouet-Hoguet, Christian Fuxjager, Wlodzimierz Jedrzejewski, Raido Kont, Petr Koubek, Rafal Kowalczyk, Miha Krofel, Jarmila Krojerova-Prokesova, Anja Molinari-Jobin, Henryk Okarma, Teresa Oliveira, Jaanus Remm, Krzysztof Schmidt, Fridolin Zimmermann, Stephanie Kramer-Schadt, Marco Heurich

Humans rather than Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) shape ungulate browsing patterns in a temperate forest

The recolonization of human-dominated landscapes by large carnivores has been followed with considerable scientific interest; however, …

Suzanne T. S. van Beeck Calkoen, Michele H. Deis, Julian Oeser, Dries P. J. Kuijper, Marco Heurich