Browsing USN Open Archive by Author "Hackländer, Klaus"

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    • Diving behavior in a free-living, semi-aquatic herbivore, the Eurasian beaver Castor fiber 

      Graf, Patricia Maria; Wilson, Rory Paul; Sanchez, Lea Cohen; Hackländer, Klaus; Rosell, Frank (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Semi-aquatic mammals have secondarily returned to the aquatic environment, although they spend a major part of their life operating in air. Moving both on land, as well as in, and under water is challenging because such ...

    • Do Scandinavian brown bears approach settlements to obtain high-quality food? 

      Elfström, Marcus; Davey, Marie Louise; Zedrosser, Andreas; Müller, Martin; De Barba, Marta; Støen, Ole-Gunnar; Miquel, Christian; Taberlet, Pierre; Hackländer, Klaus; Swenson, Jon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Large carnivores that approach human settlements are usually considered a threat to human property and safety. The prevailing paradigm, that such ‘problem’ animals approach settlements in search of food, ignores their ...

    • Faecal spectroscopy: a practical tool to assess diet quality in an opportunistic omnivore 

      Steyaert, Sam; Hütter, Franziska J.; Elfström, Marcus; Zedrosser, Andreas; Hackländer, Klaus; Le, Minh Hung; Windisch, Wilhelm M.; Swenson, Jon; Isaksson, Tomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Faecal indices of dietary quality can provide useful knowledge about the general ecology of a species, but only if the measurements are accurate and the results are interpreted with caution. In this article, we evaluated ...

    • Forests buffer the climate-induced decline of body mass in a mountain herbivore 

      Reiner, Rudolf; Zedrosser, Andreas; Zeiler, Hubert; Hackländer, Klaus; Corlatti, Luca (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Climate change is known to affect key life-history traits, such as body mass, reproduction, and survival in many species. Animal populations inhabiting mountain habitats are adapted to extreme seasonal environmental ...

    • Infanticide as a male reproductive strategy has a nutritive risk effect in brown bears 

      Steyaert, Sam; Reusch, Christine; Brunberg, Sven; Swenson, Jon; Hackländer, Klaus; Zedrosser, Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-10-02)
      Behavioural strategies to reduce predation risk can incur costs, which are often referred to as risk effects. A common strategy to avoid predation is spatio-temporal avoidance of predators, in which prey typically trade ...

    • The Use of Acceleration to Code for Animal Behaviours; A Case Study in Free-Ranging Eurasian Beavers Castor fiber 

      Graf, Patricia Maria; Wilson, Rory Paul; Qasem, Lama; Hackländer, Klaus; Rosell, Frank (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-08-28)
      Recent technological innovations have led to the development of miniature, accelerometercontaining electronic loggers which can be attached to free-living animals. Accelerometers provide information on both body posture ...