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A call to action: standardizing white-tailed deer harvest data in the Midwestern United States and implications for quantitative analysis and disease management
Recreational hunting has been the dominant game management and conservation mechanism in the United States for the past century. However, there are numerous modern-day issues that reduce the viability and efficacy of hunting-based management, such as…
A field evaluation of the effectiveness of distance sampling and double independent observers to estimate detection probability in aural avian point counts
The time-of-detection method for aural avian point counts is a new method of estimating abundance, allowing for uncertain probability of detection. The method has been specifically designed to allow for variation in singing rates of birds. It…
A functional model for characterizing long-distance movement behaviour
Summary
Advancements in wildlife telemetry techniques have made it possible to collect large data sets of highly accurate animal locations at a fine temporal resolution. These data sets have prompted the development of a number of statistical…
A metapopulation model of social group dynamics and disease applied to Yellowstone wolves
The population structure of social species has important consequences for both their demography and transmission of their pathogens. We develop a metapopulation model that tracks two key components of a species’ social system: average group size and…
A multi‐property assessment of intensity of use provides a functional understanding of animal movement
Abstract
The intensity of use of a location is one of the most studied properties of animal movement, yet movement analyses generally focus on the overall use of a location without much consideration of how patterns in intensity of use emerge.…
A noninvasive automated device for remotely collaring and weighing mule deer
Wildlife biologists capture deer (Odocoileus spp.) annually to attach transmitters and collect basic information (e.g., animal mass and sex) as part of ongoing research and monitoring activities. Traditional capture techniques induce stress in…
A perspective on the Journal of Wildlife Management
The Journal of Wildlife Management (JWM) Editor-in-Chief, P. R. Krausman, invited the lead author of this editorial to convene other senior and mid-career scientists to assess the good, bad, and ugly aspects of publication in JWM relative to similar…
A specialized forest carnivore navigates landscape-level disturbance: Canada lynx in spruce-beetle impacted forests
Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) occupy cold wet forests (boreal and subalpine forest) that were structured by natural disturbance processes for millennia. In the Southern Rocky Mountains, at the species’ southern range periphery, Canada lynx habitat…
An objective approach to select surrogate species for connectivity conservation
Connected landscapes can increase the effectiveness of protected areas by facilitating individual movement and gene flow between populations, thereby increasing the persistence of species even in fragmented habitats. Connectivity planning is often…
Applying the transtheoretical model of change to legacy planning decisions
Approximately 1.2 million family forest landowners (FFOs) manage nearly 37 million acres of forestland in five New England states. This means that efforts to sustain and conserve forests in the region are contingent upon short- and long-term…