Wolves : behavior, ecology, and conservation

By L. Mech, L. Boitani. 2003

784 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, General Health Professions

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f9be6426def402d75302a8ad04f926cf97f5ed4a

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecology

In General Health Professions

Citations in the corpus

Nonlinear effects of group size on the success of wolves hunting elk (2012, background): “And given that wolves live in cooperatively breeding family groups (Mech and Boitani 2003), we also expected performance to decline more rapidly in nonbreeding wolves than in breeding wolves because nonbreeders lack dependent offspring (i.e., pups), and this should discourage an all-out hunting…”
Correlates of territorial boundary patrol behaviour in wild chimpanzees (2005, background): “Finally, territorial boundary patrol behaviour is unusual among gregarious mammals, having been documented only in chimpanzees and some social carnivores such as hyaenas and wolves (Sillero-Zubiri & Macdonald 1998; Boydston et al. 2001; Mech & Boitani 2003).”
Spatial decomposition of predation risk using resource selection functions: an example in a wolf /elk predator /prey system (2005, methodology): “Moreover, pack-size kill-rate relationships (Mech and Boitani 2003) or mechanistic models of predator functional responses (Messier 1994) could be used to rescale the relative encounter probability a(x) to a true probability in combination with prey density data.”
Carnivore-specific stable isotope variables and variation in the foraging ecology of modern and ancient wolf populations: case studies from Isle Royale, Minnesota, and La Brea (2007, background): “[Traduit par la Rédaction] Introduction Terrestrial carnivores generally exist at low densities, move frequently within large home ranges, and feed opportunistically (Mech and Boitani 2003; Peterson and Ciucci 2003).”
The role of human-related risk in breeding site selection by wolves (2016, methodology): “As a consequence, they have traditionally been considered habitat generalists, being habitat tolerance mainly shaped by food availability and mortality risk (Mech and Boitani, 2003).”
Estimating gray wolf pack size and family relationships using noninvasive genetic sampling at rendezvous sites (2011, background): “Second, because pack pedigrees can diverge from the simple pack structure of an unrelated breeding pair with their offspring (Mech and Boitani 2003), we assessed whether NGS could reveal the prevalence of multiple breeding and inbreeding.”
Insights into wolf presence in human‐dominated landscapes: the relative role of food availability, humans and landscape attributes (2012, background): “…along transects, on foot or using a vehicle (< 10 km h)1) following paths, dirt roads, forest trails, firebreaks and crossroads, because wolves locate most of their faecal marking sites (territorial marking sites) in these places (Mech & Boitani, 2003; Barja et al., 2004; Llaneza et al., 2005b).”