Carcasses are of great ecological importance, especially as a resource for arthropods. However, many aspects of carrion ecology remain to be investigated. One of these aspects is the ecological significance of mass mortality ...

Roads have a pervasive multi-faceted influence on ecosystems, including pronounced impacts on wildlife movements. In recognition of the scale-transcending impacts of transportation infrastructure, ecologists have been ...

Human encroachment, habitat fragmentation, resource exploitation, and hunting can affect the presence, habitat use, behavior, life history, and population dynamics of wildlife species. Wide-ranging large mammals with low ...

Wild animal populations experience selection pressures from both natural and anthropogenic sources. The availability of extensive pedigrees is increasing along with our ability to quantify the heritability and evolvability ...

Plant seed dispersal by endozoochory (seed dispersal via the digestive system of animals) is an important process affecting plant species composition in ecosystems. Recent studies in temperate regions have shown that a ...

Apex carnivores are mostly recognized for their effects on ecosystem processes through altering population dynamics and behaviour of their prey. Apex carnivores may also affect lower trophic levels through the distribution ...

Understanding a species' feeding ecology is essential for successful management and conservation, because food abundance can influence body mass, survival, reproductive success, movements, and habitat use. We describe ...

Avoiding predators most often entails a food cost. For the Scandinavian brown bear (Ursus arctos), the hunting season coincides with the period of hyperphagia. Hunting mortality risk is not uniformly distributed throughout ...