Scat detection dogs in wildlife research and management: application to grizzly and black bears in the Yellowhead ecosystem, Alberta, Canada

By S. Wasser, B. Davenport, Elizabeth Ramage, K. Hunt, M. Parker, Christine Clarke, Gordon B. Stenhouse. 2004

324 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Small Animals

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In Ecology

1. T. Donovan
2. P. Mackay
3. R. Long
4. J. Buzas
5. W. Zielinski
6. C. L. Roever
7. Gordon B. Stenhouse
8. M. Boyce

In Genetics

1. C. L. Roever
2. R. L. Harrison
3. Gordon B. Stenhouse
4. M. Boyce
5. David W. Macdonald
6. R. J. Aarde
7. Y. D. Beer

In Small Animals

1. R. L. Harrison
2. M. Boyce
3. L. Hayward
4. D. Busch
5. David W. Macdonald

Citations in the corpus

• The influences of wolf predation, habitat loss, and human activity on caribou and moose in the Alberta oil sands (2011, unknown): “Human activity across much of the study area is largely confined to winter, when “ice roads” permit vehicular access. n Methods Field sampling and laboratory analyses Trained domestic dogs were used to detect scat from caribou, moose, and wolves (Wasser et al. 2004).”
• Grizzly bears and forestry: II: Grizzly bear habitat selection and conflicts with road placement (2008, background): “Grizzly bears are adaptable to development, and even benefit from some development practices such as forestry (Bratkovich, 1986; Hillis, 1986; Nielsen et al., 2004c; Wasser et al., 2004), but grizzly bear populations cannot sustain high rates of mortality (Servheen, 1990; McLellan, 1998).”
• Comparing Scat Detection Dogs, Cameras, and Hair Snares for Surveying Carnivores (2007, methodology): “Despite growing interest in this method, few studies (Smith et al. 2001, 2003, 2005; Wasser et al. 2004; Harrison 2006) have quantitatively explored its effectiveness.”
• Stress in a conservation context: A discussion of glucocorticoid actions and how levels change with conservation-relevant variables (2009, background): “Forestry-induced habitat changes likely impact species differently: fecal GC metabolites in bears are lower in landscapes with forestry activity (Wasser et al., 2004) and are higher in Carolina chickadees (Poecile carolinensis) in logged forests (Lucas et al.”
• The accuracy of scat identification in distribution surveys: American mink, Neovison vison, in the northern highlands of Scotland (2010, background): “…organic components) of scats (Burnham et al. 2008), microscopic analysis of groomed hair in scats (e.g. Harrington et al. [2008a] found polecat hairs in putative mink scats indicating that they were, in fact, polecat scats), and trained sniffer dogs (e.g. Smith et al. 2003; Wasser et al. 2004).”
• A Comparison of Survey Methods for Detecting Bobcats (2006, methodology): “…to find scats have been used in studies of kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis; Smith et al. 2003), grizzly and black bears (Ursus arctos, U. americanus; Wasser et al. 2004), forest carnivores including bobcats, black bears, and fishers (Martes pennanti; R. Long, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA,…”