Wolves recolonize novel ecosystems leading to novel interactions - Kuijper - 2024 - Journal of Applied Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Performance of five statistical methods to infer interactions among moving individuals in a predator–prey system

🐆The South Texas Lion Project within the SPEC Lab & Patton Center for Deer Research Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute is hiring a summer technician, with possibility for extension. This position will be open for ten days. Link to apply is here:
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Is there an repository like Movebank for scat samples? If not, has anyone used Movebank for scat locations?

On my reading list

Great reminder for those of us that get wrapped up in our lab and computer work.

🥳So excited to share our new publication 'Social-ecological predictors of spotted hyena navigation through a shared landscape', out today in Ecology and Evolution ! 🍪(1/)
doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1…

Wenjing Xü 徐雯靓, Amalie Luneng Solli, Justin Brashares, Christine Chepkisich, Gerald Osuka, Maggi Kelly

If you're thinking about going on the faculty job market, take a look at this advice doc I just shared with helpimascientist.com: I collected my thoughts about the whole dang thing, from finding positions to negotiating a contract, & I hope y'all find it helpful!

This is so great! Ha!

NEW PAPER: We followed the fate of 40 caribou herds —the southern mountain caribou population—to assess their trajectory and response to recovery actions. What we found was surprising and bitter sweet: dramatic declines but recent recovery due to controversial measures. 🧵 (1/n)

This is definitely going on my reading list. Group dynamics influence habitat selection and movement in a social carnivore. So cool.

Wow! Incredible amount of work with some pretty interesting results.

I love seeing #WAPredatorPreyProject ungulate data included here!

PAPER: We ran sims with Spatial Count and Spatial Partial Identity Models to assess performance when animals are nonindependent. Increased aggregation (group sizes) cohesion (movement together). Take Home: Apply v. carefully, avoid SC for group species! bit.ly/unmarked_WB⤵️

New paper by Ryan Stephens showing how deer habitat selection is scale-dependent & varies across dispersal periods

As usual, Ryan provides a masterclass in quality science with incredible visualizations, check out these figures!

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📢Applications are still open for these graduate positions on large mammal monitoring in Montana!

On my reading list!

Cannot recommend these people enough! Cool MS opportunity with even cooler people.

Well this looks helpful!

So neat seeing one of my #CameraTrap photos on the cover of Ecology featuring a very cool study on human and predator impacts on elk! Another awesome study by Taylor Renee Ganz and the #WAPredatorPreyProject .