A5032951794- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Health, Medicine and Society
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Marine animal studies overview
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- UAV Applications and Optimization
- Rabies epidemiology and control
- Environmental Sustainability and Technology
Spital Muri
2014-2025
University of Lausanne
2005-2025
Körber Foundation
2021-2025
Stiftung Empiris
2024
Hudson Institute
2019
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2019
Zimmer (Switzerland)
2014
Zimmerman Associates (United States)
2007
The conservation of large carnivores is a formidable challenge for biodiversity conservation. Using data set on the past and current status brown bears ( Ursus arctos ), Eurasian lynx Lynx gray wolves Canis lupus wolverines Gulo gulo ) in European countries, we show that roughly one-third mainland Europe hosts at least one carnivore species, with stable or increasing abundance most cases 21st-century records. reasons this overall success include protective legislation, supportive public...
Abstract Studying activity patterns and temporal overlap among carnivores their putative prey is difficult because of secretive elusive nature. With large declining worldwide, it imperative for conservation planning that we understand how interact with competitors. Camera trapping offers a promising avenue to address this issue. We investigated between male female leopards, known as well competitor, the spotted hyenas, in Udzungwa Mountains Tanzania. Data consisted 4297 independent events...
Abstract Context Adjustments in habitat use by large carnivores can be a key factor facilitating their coexistence with people shared landscapes. Landscape composition might determining how adapt to occurring alongside humans, yet broad-scale analyses investigating adjustments of across gradients human pressure and landscape are lacking. Objectives Here, we investigate Eurasian lynx ( Lynx ) response varying availability refuge habitats (i.e., forests rugged terrain) modification. Methods...
Abstract Understanding the impact of livestock on native wildlife is increasing conservation relevance. For Vulnerable snow leopard Panthera uncia , wild prey reduction, intensifying human–wildlife conflicts and retaliatory killings are severe threats potentially exacerbated by presence livestock. Elucidating patterns co-occurrence leopards, ungulate prey, livestock, can be used to assess compatibility pastoralism with conservation. We camera trapping study interactions Siberian ibex Capra...
Monitoring the status of endangered species is essential to guide conservation and management measures, especially for populations facing isolation small numbers. The Balkan lynx (Lynx balcanicus), most subspecies Eurasian lynx, survives in southwestern Balkans with fewer than 50 mature individuals. Obtaining accurate population estimates challenging such a rare, wide ranging elusive species. We used camera-trapping Spatial Capture-Recapture (SCR) modelling provide first reliable density its...
Abstract Survival and cause‐specific mortality rates are vital for evidence‐based population forecasting conservation, particularly large carnivores, whose populations often vulnerable to human‐caused mortalities. It is therefore important know the relationship between anthropogenic natural causes evaluate whether they additive or compensatory. Further, relation survival environmental covariates could reveal specific landscape characteristics influence demographic performance. We used...
Understanding predator-prey interactions is crucial for wildlife management and human-wildlife coexistence, particularly in multi-use landscapes such as Western Europe. As wolves (Canis lupus) recolonize their former habitats, knowledge of diet essential conservation planning public acceptance. However, data regions so far scarce, particular the Alpine region Jura Mountains. opportunistic hunters, adapt to local prey structure, suggesting that abundant wild ungulates are main source. We also...
ABSTRACT For conservation or management programs, basic data on vital rates are important but often hard to acquire for long‐lived and elusive wildlife species such as large carnivores. In this study, we analyzed long‐term changes in survival different sexes age classes (juvenile, subadult, adult) three reintroduced Swiss lynx populations (Alps, Jura, Northeastern Switzerland). A novel modeling approach allowed us combine picture from camera trapping pictures resulting chance observations,...
Abstract Dispersal influences the dynamics and persistence of populations, distribution abundance species, gives communities ecosystems their characteristic texture in space time. The Eurasian lynx Lynx is a medium‐sized solitary carnivore that has been re‐introduced central Europe currently occurs rather small where dispersal believed to play prominent role for recolonization unsettled areas subpopulations. Between 1988 2001 spatio‐temporal behaviour sub‐adult was studied two populations...
Abstract The future of wild tigers is dire, and the G lobal T iger I nitiative's ( GTI ) goal doubling tiger population size by next year in 2022 will be challenging. has identified 20 conservation landscapes TCL within which recovery actions needed to achieve these goals. A mur landscape offers best hope for C hina where all other subspecies have most likely become extirpated. To prioritize planning this , we used occurrence data from adjacent areas R ussian F ar E ast develop two empirical...
Eurasian lynx are individually identifiable by their unique coat markings, making them ideal candidates for capture–recapture (CMR) surveys. We evaluated the use of digital photography to estimate population abundance and density within Bavarian Forest National Park. From November 2008 January 2009 we placed 24 camera trap sites, each with two cameras facing other on well–used walking tracks). The units were based a systematic grid 2.7 km. captured five independent three juvenile calculated...
Use of photographic capture—recapture analyses to estimate abundance species with distinctive natural marks has become an important tool for monitoring rare or cryptic species, both. Two different methods are available density: nonspatial models where the trap polygon is buffered half full mean maximum distance moved by animals captured at more than 1 (1/2 MMDM MMDM, respectively); spatial (SCR) that explicitly incorporate movement into model. We used data from radiotracked Eurasian lynx...
Wolves have large spatial requirements and their expansion in Europe is occurring over national boundaries, hence the need to develop monitoring programs at population level. Alps are defined as a functional management unit. The range of this wolf Alpine now covers seven countries: Italy, France, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Liechtenstein Germany, making development joint coordinated program particularly challenging. In framework Wolf Group (WAG), researchers developed uniform criteria...
To analyse the factors responsible for interplay of Eurasian lynx Lynx predation and home-range size, we reviewed patterns in Switzerland by comparing prey spectrum five studies performed following study areas: northwestern Alps, where were studied both 1980s 1990s, central Jura Mountains, northeastern Switzerland. We then compared size female with two indirect measures abundance, roe deer Capreolus capreolus chamois Rupicapra rupicapra harvested per km2 habitat suitability as derived from a...
To estimate the potential population size of Eurasian lynx Lynx in Jura Mountains and to assess possible corridors between this adjacent areas (the Vosges Mountains, Black Forest Alps), we adapted a previously developed Geographic Information system (GIS) probability model for distribution extrapolated it over entire mountain range. The was based on knowledge habitat use land tenure resident animals from central part where were followed by means radio-telemetry. Corridors computed GIS using...
Abstract Habitat selection is strongly scale‐dependent, and inferring the characteristic scale at which an organism responds to environmental variation necessary obtain reliable predictions. The occupancy framework frequently used model species distribution with advantage of accounting for imperfect observation, but studies typically do not define modelled variables. We camera trap data from winter wildlife surveys in Swiss part Jura Mountains wild boar ( Sus scrofa ) roe deer Capreolus...
Abstract Camera trapping has revolutionized wildlife ecology and conservation by providing automated data acquisition, leading to the accumulation of massive amounts camera trap worldwide. Although management processing trap‐derived Big Data are becoming increasingly solvable with help scalable cyber‐infrastructures, harmonization exchange remain limited, hindering its full potential. There is currently no widely accepted standard for exchanging data. The only existing proposal, “Camera Trap...