Shining the spotlight on small mammalian carnivores: Global status and threats

Drivers of taxonomic bias in conservation research: a global analysis of terrestrial mammals

(2020) J. W. dos Santos et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Ecological traits and the spatial structure of competitive coexistence among carnivores

(2020) Pedro Monterroso et al.   ECOLOGY

Enemies with benefits: integrating positive and negative interactions among terrestrial carnivores

(2020) Laura R. Prugh et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Declining invasive grey squirrel populations may persist in refugia as native predator recovery reverses squirrel species replacement

(2020) Joshua P. Twining et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Identifying mesopredator release in multi‐predator systems: a review of evidence from North America

(2020) David S. Jachowski et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Population density and habitat use of two sympatric small cats in a central Indian reserve

(2020) Nilanjan Chatterjee et al.   PLoS One

Disassembled Food Webs and Messy Projections: Modern Ungulate Communities in the Face of Unabating Human Population Growth

(2020) Joel Berger et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

The spatial distribution of illegal hunting of terrestrial mammals in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic map

(2020) Isla Duporge et al.   Environmental Evidence

Global habitat loss and extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrates under future land-use-change scenarios

(2019) Ryan P. Powers et al.   Nature Climate Change

Modelling potential habitat for snow leopards (Panthera uncia) in Ladakh, India

(2019) Sophie M. Watts et al.   PLoS One

Top-down limits on prey populations may be more severe in larger prey species, despite having fewer predators

(2019) Elizabeth le Roux et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A review of the major threats and challenges to global bat conservation

(2019) Winifred F. Frick et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Sampling design and analytical advances allow for simultaneous density estimation of seven sympatric carnivore species from camera trap data

(2019) Lindsey N. Rich et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

An assessment of the impact of artisanal and commercial gold mining on mercury and methylmercury levels in the environment and fish in Cote d'Ivoire

(2019) Robert P. Mason et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Wildlife Insights: A Platform to Maximize the Potential of Camera Trap and Other Passive Sensor Wildlife Data for the Planet

(2019) Jorge A Ahumada et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Competition and specialization in an African forest carnivore community

(2019) David R. Mills et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Growth in human population and consumption both need to be addressed to reach an ecologically sustainable future

(2019) Elias Ganivet   ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY

Restoring apex predators can reduce mesopredator abundances

(2019) José Jiménez et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The role of the anthropogenic Allee effect in the exotic pet trade on Facebook in Thailand

(2019) Penthai Siriwat et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

A framework for evaluating the impact of the IUCN Red List of threatened species

(2019) Jessica Betts et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

The endangered red panda ( Ailurus fulgens ): Ecology and conservation approaches across the entire range

(2018) Arjun Thapa et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Wildlife health indicators and mercury exposure: A case study of river otters ( Lontra canadensis ) in central British Columbia, Canada

(2018) Shannon M. Crowley et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Global patterns of current and future road infrastructure

(2018) Johan R Meijer et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Leopards provide public health benefits in Mumbai, India

(2018) Alexander R Braczkowski et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

A spatially integrated framework for assessing socioecological drivers of carnivore decline

(2018) Nicolás Gálvez et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The effects of a motorway on movement behaviour and gene flow in a forest carnivore: Joint evidence from road mortality, radio tracking and genetics

(2018) Filipe Carvalho et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

When roads appear jaguars decline: Increased access to an Amazonian wilderness area reduces potential for jaguar conservation

(2018) Santiago Espinosa et al.   PLoS One

Mapping the expansion of coyotes (Canis latrans) across North and Central America

(2018) James W. Hody et al.   ZooKeys

Present and future biodiversity risks from fossil fuel exploitation

(2018) Michael B. J. Harfoot et al.   Conservation Letters

High carnivore population density highlights the conservation value of industrialised sites

(2018) Daan J. E. Loock et al.   Scientific Reports

Mule deer and energy development-Long-term trends of habituation and abundance

(2017) Hall Sawyer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mammalian mesocarnivore visitation at tortoise burrows in a wind farm

(2017) Mickey Agha et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Carnivore abundance near motorways related to prey and roadkills

(2017) Aimara Planillo et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone

(2017) Noel Gorelick et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Estimating occupancy of the Vulnerable northern tiger cat Leopardus tigrinus in Caatinga drylands

(2017) Paulo Henrique Marinho et al.   Mammal Research

Range contractions of the world's large carnivores

(2017) Christopher Wolf et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Projecting range-wide sun bear population trends using tree cover and camera-trap bycatch data

(2017) Lorraine Scotson et al.   PLoS One

Effects of human land-use on Africa's only forest-dependent felid: The African golden cat Caracal aurata

(2016) Laila Bahaa-el-din et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Jackals as cleaners: Ecosystem services provided by a mesocarnivore in human-dominated landscapes

(2016) Duško Ćirović et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Fear, fire, and behaviorally mediated trophic cascades in a frequently burned savanna

(2016) Michael J. Cherry et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Tools and terms for understanding illegal wildlife trade

(2016) Jacob Phelps et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Response to agriculture by a woodland species depends on cover type and behavioural state: insights from resident and dispersing Iberian lynx

(2016) Aitor Gastón et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Paws without claws? Ecological effects of large carnivores in anthropogenic landscapes

(2016) D. P. J. Kuijper et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

From Poachers to Protectors: Engaging Local Communities in Solutions to Illegal Wildlife Trade

(2016) Rosie Cooney et al.   Conservation Letters

Fear of large carnivores causes a trophic cascade

(2016) Justin P. Suraci et al.   Nature Communications

Arctic foxes as ecosystem engineers: increased soil nutrients lead to increased plant productivity on fox dens

(2016) Tazarve Gharajehdaghipour et al.   Scientific Reports

Prey depletion as a threat to the world's large carnivores

(2016) Christopher Wolf et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals

(2016) William J. Ripple et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Global large carnivore conservation and international law

(2015) Arie Trouwborst   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

The Energy Footprint: How Oil, Natural Gas, and Wind Energy Affect Land for Biodiversity and the Flow of Ecosystem Services

(2015) Nathan F. Jones et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Toward a new understanding of the links between poverty and illegal wildlife hunting

(2015) Rosaleen Duffy et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Biotic responses of canids to the terminal Pleistocene megafauna extinction

(2015) Melissa I. Pardi et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Unraveling the consequences of the terminal Pleistocene megafauna extinction on mammal community assembly

(2015) Felisa A. Smith et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The bushmeat and food security nexus: A global account of the contributions, conundrums and ethical collisions

(2015) Donna-Mareè Cawthorn et al.   FOOD RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL

The relationships between land use change and demographic dynamics in western Jilin province

(2015) Fei Li et al.   Journal of Geographical Sciences

Pairing call-response surveys and distance sampling for a mammalian carnivore

(2015) Sara J. K. Hansen et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

When carnivores roam: temporal patterns and overlap among Madagascar's native and exotic carnivores

(2015) Z. J. Farris et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

What is an apex predator?

(2015) Arian D. Wallach et al.   OIKOS

letsR: a new R package for data handling and analysis in macroecology

(2015) Bruno Vilela et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Snapshot Serengeti, high-frequency annotated camera trap images of 40 mammalian species in an African savanna

(2015) Alexandra Swanson et al.   Scientific Data

A global boom in hydropower dam construction

(2014) Christiane Zarfl et al.   AQUATIC SCIENCES

Roads influence movement and home ranges of a fragmentation-sensitive carnivore, the bobcat, in an urban landscape

(2014) Sharon A. Poessel et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Predicting the conservation status of data-deficient species

(2014) Lucie M. Bland et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Invasive American Mink: Linking Pathogen Risk Between Domestic and Endangered Carnivores

(2014) Maximiliano A. Sepúlveda et al.   EcoHealth

Being the underdog: an elusive small carnivore uses space with prey and time without enemies

(2014) R. Bischof et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Local hunting of carnivores in forested Africa: a meta-analysis

(2014) Hunter L. Doughty et al.   ORYX

A Few Large Roads or Many Small Ones? How to Accommodate Growth in Vehicle Numbers to Minimise Impacts on Wildlife

(2014) Jonathan R. Rhodes et al.   PLoS One

Where and How Are Roads Endangering Mammals in Southeast Asia's Forests?

(2014) Gopalasamy Reuben Clements et al.   PLoS One

Tolerance for Predatory Wildlife

(2014) A. Treves et al.   SCIENCE

Status and Ecological Effects of the World's Largest Carnivores

(2014) W. J. Ripple et al.   SCIENCE

Poaching is more than an Enforcement Problem

(2014) Daniel W. S. Challender et al.   Conservation Letters

Regional distribution of mercury in sediments of the main rivers of French Guiana (Amazonian basin)

(2014) Valérie Laperche et al.   SpringerPlus

The biological potential of the raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides, Gray 1834) as an invasive species in Europe—new risks for disease spread?

(2013) Astrid Sutor et al.   ACTA THERIOLOGICA

The bushmeat trade in African savannas: Impacts, drivers, and possible solutions

(2013) Peter Andrew Lindsey et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The Reliance of the Golden Jackal (Canis aureus) on Anthropogenic Foods in winter in Central Bulgaria

(2013) Evgeniy G. Raichev et al.   MAMMAL STUDY

Forest cover outside protected areas plays an important role in the conservation of the Vulnerable guiña Leopardus guigna

(2013) Nicolás Gálvez et al.   ORYX

Population Ecology of Free-Roaming Cats and Interference Competition by Coyotes in Urban Parks

(2013) Stanley D. Gehrt et al.   PLoS One

Large predators limit herbivore densities in northern forest ecosystems

(2012) William J. Ripple et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Urban growth and transport infrastructure interaction in Jeddah between 1980 and 2007

(2012) Mohammed Aljoufie et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Predation by coyotes on white-tailed deer neonates in South Carolina

(2012) John C. Kilgo et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Big city life: carnivores in urban environments

(2012) P. W. Bateman et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

The impact of forest logging and fragmentation on carnivore species composition, density and occupancy in Madagascar's rainforests

(2012) Brian D. Gerber et al.   ORYX

Deer, predators, and the emergence of Lyme disease

(2012) T. Levi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Raccoons in Europe: disease hazards due to the establishment of an invasive species

(2011) Beatriz Beltrán-Beck et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Current status and distribution of golden jackals Canis aureus in Europe

(2011) Janosch ARNOLD et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Global patterns of fragmentation and connectivity of mammalian carnivore habitat

(2011) K. R. Crooks et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cat Dilemma: Too Protected To Escape Trophy Hunting?

(2011) Lucille Palazy et al.   PLoS One

A Meta-Analysis of Global Urban Land Expansion

(2011) Karen C. Seto et al.   PLoS One

Identifying indicators of illegal behaviour: carnivore killing in human-managed landscapes

(2011) F. A. V. St John et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

The faunal drugstore: Animal-based remedies used in traditional medicines in Latin America

(2011) Rômulo RN Alves et al.   Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Population structure and conservation of a high-altitude specialist, the Andean cat Leopardus jacobita

(2011) ED Cossíos et al.   Endangered Species Research

A Global overview of canids used in traditional medicines

(2010) Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Conservation and human behaviour: lessons from social psychology

(2010) Freya A. V. St John et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Management measures to control a feline leukemia virus outbreak in the endangered Iberian lynx

(2009) G. López et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

An overview of international wildlife trade from Southeast Asia

(2009) Vincent Nijman   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Data Deficient birds on the IUCN Red List: What don’t we know and why does it matter?

(2009) Stuart H.M. Butchart et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The Ecological Role of the Mammalian Mesocarnivore

(2009) Gary W. Roemer et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The Rise of the Mesopredator

(2009) Laura R. Prugh et al.   BIOSCIENCE

PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

(2009) Kate E. Jones et al.   ECOLOGY

Predator interactions, mesopredator release and biodiversity conservation

(2009) Euan G. Ritchie et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Dry Season Den Use by Pygmy Spotted Skunk (Spilogale pygmaea) in a Tropical Deciduous Forest of Mexico

(2008) Lisette Cantú-Salazar et al.   BIOTROPICA

How will oil palm expansion affect biodiversity?

(2008) E FITZHERBERT et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION