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Seasonal and diel movement patterns of brown bears in a population in southeastern Europe
Bogdanović, Neda; Hertel, Anne G.; Zedrosser, Andreas; Paunović, Milan; Plećaš, Milan; Ćirović, Duško (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Most animals concentrate their movement into certain hours of the day depending on drivers such as photoperiod, ambient temperature, inter- or intraspecific competition, and predation risk. The main activity periods of ... -
Sex discrimination via anal gland secretion in a territorial monogamous mammal
Cross, Hannah; Zedrosser, Andreas; Nevin, Owen; Rosell, Frank (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-07-12)Monogamy in mammals is relatively unusual, only occurring in 3-5% and to an even lesser degree in rodents. Monogamy exists in two forms, facultative which evolved due to female dispersion and obligate when male care is ... -
Social environment shapes female settlement decisions in a solitary carnivore
Hansen, Jennifer Eve; Hertel, Anne Gabriela; Frank, Shane C.; Kindberg, Jonas; Zedrosser, Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)How and where a female selects an area to settle and breed is of central importance in dispersal and population ecology as it governs range expansion and gene flow. Social structure and organization have been shown to ... -
Socio-ecological features other than sex affect habitat selection in the socially obligate monogamous Eurasian beaver
Steyaert, Sam; Zedrosser, Andreas; Rosell, Frank (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-08-11)Habitat selection is a context-dependent mechanism, in which both the internal state as well as external factors affect the behavior and decisions of an individual. This is well known for polygamous mammals, which are ... -
Sociodemographic factors modulate the spatial response of brown bears to vacancies created by hunting
Frank, Shane C.; Leclerc, Martin; Pelletier, Fanie; Rosell, Frank; Swenson, Jon; Bischof, Richard; Kindberg, Jonas; Eiken, Hans Geir; Hagen, Snorre; Zedrosser, Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)1. There is a growing recognition of the importance of indirect effects from hunting on wildlife populations, e.g. social and behavioural changes due to harvest, which occur after the initial offtake. Nonetheless, little ... -
Temporal effects of hunting on foraging behavior of an apex predator: Do bears forego foraging when risk is high?
Hertel, Anne Gabriela; Zedrosser, Andreas; Mysterud, Atle; Støen, Ole-Gunnar; Steyaert, Sam; Swenson, Jon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)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 ... -
The relative importance of direct and indirect effects of hunting mortality on the population dynamics of brown bears
Gosselin, Jacinthe; Zedrosser, Andreas; Swenson, Jon; Pelletier, Fanie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)There is increasing evidence of indirect effects of hunting on populations. In species with sexually selected infanticide (SSI), hunting may decrease juvenile survival by increasing male turnover. We aimed to evaluate the ... -
Toxic elements in arctic and sub-arctic brown bears: Blood concentrations of As, Cd, Hg and Pb in relation to diet, age, and human footprint
Fuchs, Boris; Joly, Kyle; Hilderbrand, Grant V.; Evans, Alina; Rodushkin, Ilia; Mangipane, Lindsey S.; Mangipane, Buck A.; Gustine, David D.; Zedrosser, Andreas; Brown, Ludovick; Arnemo, Jon Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Contamination with arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg) and lead (Pb) is a global concern impairing resilience of organisms and ecosystems. Proximity to emission sources increases exposure risk but remoteness does not ... -
Walking on the Dark Side: Anthropogenic Factors Limit Suitable Habitat for Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) in a Large Natural Area Covering Belarus and Ukraine
Kudrenko, Svitlana; Fenchuk, Viktar; Vollering, Julien Martin Marie; Zedrosser, Andreas; Selva, Nuria; Ostapowicz, Katarzyna Anna; Beasley, James C.; Heurich, Marco Dietmar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Due to successful conservation initiatives and legislations, the grey wolf (Canis lupus) is re-colonising its historic range in Europe. However, wolves have never been extirpated across large areas in Eastern Europe but ... -
Will Trespassers Be Prosecuted or Assessed According to Their Merits? A Consilient Interpretation of Territoriality in a Group-Living Carnivore, the European Badger (Meles meles)
Tinnesand, Helga Veronica; Buesching, Christina D.; Noonan, Michael J.; Newman, Chris; Zedrosser, Andreas; Rosell, Frank; Macdonald, David W. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-07-06)Socio-spatial interactions of Carnivores have traditionally been described using the vocabulary of territoriality and aggression, with scent marks interpreted as ‘scent fences’. Here, we investigate the role of olfactory ...