Megafauna

Increasing forest disturbance enhances habitat suitability for Europe’s large herbivores
Forest disturbances have increased in many regions, but how they impact habitat suitability for wildlife remains poorly understood. …
Julian Oeser, Rafał Kowalczyk, Dries Kuijper, Wiebke Neumann, Rudolf Reiner, Rupert Seidl, Cornelius Senf, Hendrik Bluhm, Nadège C. Bonnot, Luca Börger, Tomasz Borowik, Francesca Cagnacci, Marcin Churski, Benedikt Gehr, Marco Heurich, A. J. Mark Hewison, Klemen Jerina, Max Kröschel, Nicolas Morellet, Atle Mysterud, Nives Pagon, Gabriele Retez, Sebastian Seibold, Rita T. Torres, Alba Viana-Soto, Adrian Mihai Aldea, Roksana Baryło, Sophie Baur, Sebastian Catanoiu, Rok Cerne, Marcin Grzegorzek, Dário Hipólito, Maciej Januszczak, Anders Jarnemo, Miloš Ježek, Artūras Kibiša, Daniel Klich, Alain Licoppe, Julien Lievens, Matthias-Claudio Loretto, Weronika Maslanko, Erling Meisingset, Rasmus Mohr Mortensen, András Náhlik, Wanda Olech, Astrid Olejarz, Federico Ossi, Algimantas Paulauskas, Maryline Pellerin, Kajetan Perzanowski, Wibke Peters, Mirosław Ratkiewicz, Thomas Rempfler, Sonia Saïd, Călin Constantin Șerban, Kastytis Šimkevičius, Jakub Skorupski, Maria Sobczuk, Nikica Šprem, Peter Sunde, Tamás Tari, Maciej Tracz, Magdalena Tracz, Aleksandra Wołoszyn-Gałęza, Tobias Kuemmerle
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Snow leopards, prey, and pastoralists: Understanding the impacts of climate change on human–wildlife coexistence in Central Asia
Fostering coexistence between people and wildlife requires understanding their interactions and how they might change in the future. …
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Habitat preferences of European bison in contemporary European landscapes
  1. Megafauna populations have been lost in many regions, and with them, their ecological roles. Restoring those species that have …
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Social-ecological determinants of contemporary megafauna distributions in Indian tropical dry woodlands

Megafauna are among the most challenging conservation targets, particularly in the world’s tropical dry woodlands, which are under high …

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Understanding multiple pathways of the impacts of socio-economic shocks on large carnivores
  1. Large carnivores are ecologically, economically and socially important, but they are also among the most threatened species worldwide. …
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Tropical dry woodland loss in India since 1880 and its relation to current megafauna distributions
Tropical dry woodlands provide ecosystem services to hundreds of millions of people and support high biodiversity. Despite their …
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Changes in grazing patterns explain post-Soviet fire trends on the Eurasian steppe better than climate
In grassland ecosystems, fire plays an important role in maintaining biodiversity and ecological functioning but also causes …
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Establishing viable European bison metapopulations in Central Europe
Restoring populations of large mammals in human-dominated landscapes requires careful planning of conservation strategies. To support …
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Hunting and habitat destruction drive widespread functional declines of top predators in a global deforestation hotspot

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We investigated the effects of habitat destruction and hunting on the functional decline of top predators, specifically jaguar and …

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Space use of a diverse megafauna community in a rewilding area in the southwestern Carpathians
Most landscapes today have lost much of their historical biodiversity, particularly the largest animals (mega-fauna). Yet, in some …
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