Identifying human–brown bear conflict hotspots for prioritizing critical habitat and corridor conservation in southwestern Iran

Identifying priority core habitats and corridors for effective conservation of brown bears in Iran

(2021) A. Mohammadi et al.   Scientific Reports

Prey availability modulates predicted range contraction of two large felids in response to changing climate

(2021) Rasoul Khosravi et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Brown bear and Persian leopard attacks on humans in Iran

(2021) Jamshid Parchizadeh et al.   PLoS One

Prioritizing habitat core areas and corridors for a large carnivore across its range

(2020) Ż. Kaszta et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

A multi-scale, multi-species approach for assessing effectiveness of habitat and connectivity conservation for endangered felids

(2020) Mohammad Reza Ashrafzadeh et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Species and space: a combined gap analysis to guide management planning of conservation areas

(2020) Mohsen Ahmadi et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Mapping connectivity and conflict risk to identify safe corridors for the Persian leopard

(2020) Arash Ghoddousi et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Large carnivores living alongside humans: Brown bears in human-modified landscapes

(2020) Ana Morales-González et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Seasonality, local resources and environmental factors influence patterns of brown bear damages: implications for management

(2020) A. Zarzo‐Arias et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Morphological diversity and ecological niche divergence in goitered and sand gazelles

(2020) Mahmoud‐Reza Hemami et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Predicting human-carnivore conflict at the urban-wildland interface

(2020) Joanna Klees van Bommel et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Mapping human‒wildlife conflict hotspots in a transboundary landscape, Eastern Himalaya

(2020) Prashanti Sharma et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Improving habitat and connectivity model predictions with multi-scale resource selection functions from two geographic areas

(2019) Ho Yi Wan et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Multi‐scale habitat modelling identifies spatial conservation priorities for mainland clouded leopards ( Neofelis nebulosa )

(2019) David W. Macdonald et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Habitat suitability and connectivity for the brown bear (Ursus arctos) along the Iran-Iraq border

(2019) Kamran Almasieh et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Combining multi-state species distribution models, mortality estimates, and landscape connectivity to model potential species distribution for endangered species in human dominated landscapes

(2019) Luigi Maiorano et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Identifying the risk regions of house break‐ins caused by Tibetan brown bears ( Ursus arctos pruinosus ) in the Sanjiangyuan region, China

(2019) Yunchuan Dai et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Counting bears in the Iranian Caucasus: Remarkable mismatch between scientifically-sound population estimates and perceptions

(2018) Ehsan M. Moqanaki et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Are all data types and connectivity models created equal? Validating common connectivity approaches with dispersal data

(2018) Katherine A. Zeller et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Density and distribution of a brown bear (Ursus arctos) population within the Caucasus biodiversity hotspot

(2018) A Cole Burton et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Prioritizing core areas, corridors and conflict hotspots for lion conservation in southern Africa

(2018) Samuel A. Cushman et al.   PLoS One

Optimizing ensembles of small models for predicting the distribution of species with few occurrences

(2018) Frank T. Breiner et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Landscape heterogeneity and ecological niche isolation shape the distribution of spatial genetic variation in Iranian brown bears, Ursus arctos (Carnivora: Ursidae)

(2018) Mohammad-Reza Ashrafzadeh et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Identifying Key Habitats to Conserve the Threatened Brown Bear in Northern Iran

(2018) Azita Farashi   RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A rule of thumb for widths of conservation corridors

(2018) Paul Beier   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Water availability limits brown bear distribution at the southern edge of its global range

(2018) Mehdi Ansari H. et al.   URSUS

Assessing landscape connectivity for large mammals in the Caucasus using Landsat 8 seasonal image composites

(2017) Benjamin Bleyhl et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Woody cover and proximity to water increase American black bear depredation on cattle in Coahuila, Mexico

(2017) Diana L. Doan-Crider et al.   URSUS

Identification of human-carnivore conflict hotspots to prioritize mitigation efforts

(2017) Femke Broekhuis et al.   Ecology and Evolution

All roads lead to Iran: Predicting landscape connectivity of the last stronghold for the critically endangered Asiatic cheetah

(2016) E. M. Moqanaki et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Anthropogenic food resources foster the coexistence of distinct life history strategies: year-round sedentary and migratory brown bears

(2016) G. Cozzi et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Scale dependence of felid predation risk: identifying predictors of livestock kills by tiger and leopard in Bhutan

(2016) Susana Rostro-García et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Mitochondrial DNA analysis of Iranian brown bears ( Ursus arctos ) reveals new phylogeographic lineage

(2016) Mohammad Reza Ashrafzadeh et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Mapping attack hotspots to mitigate human–carnivore conflict: approaches and applications of spatial predation risk modeling

(2015) Jennifer R. B. Miller   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

virtualspecies, an R package to generate virtual species distributions

(2015) Boris Leroy et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A comparative framework to infer landscape effects on population genetic structure: are habitat suitability models effective in explaining gene flow?

(2015) María C. Mateo-Sánchez et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Paying for an Endangered Predator Leads to Population Recovery

(2015) Jens Persson et al.   Conservation Letters

Landscape-scale accessibility of livestock to tigers: implications of spatial grain for modeling predation risk to mitigate human-carnivore conflict

(2015) Jennifer R. B. Miller et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Collapse of the world's largest herbivores

(2015) W. J. Ripple et al.   Science Advances

Spatial filtering to reduce sampling bias can improve the performance of ecological niche models

(2014) Robert A. Boria et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

The devil is in the dispersers: predictions of landscape connectivity change with demography

(2014) Nicholas B. Elliot et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Stochasticity in Natural Forage Production Affects Use of Urban Areas by Black Bears: Implications to Management of Human-Bear Conflicts

(2014) Sharon Baruch-Mordo et al.   PLoS One

Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’s modern human-dominated landscapes

(2014) Guillaume Chapron et al.   SCIENCE

Status and Ecological Effects of the World's Largest Carnivores

(2014) W. J. Ripple et al.   SCIENCE

SDMtoolbox: a python-based GIS toolkit for landscape genetic, biogeographic and species distribution model analyses

(2014) Jason L. Brown   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Evaluating population connectivity for species of conservation concern in the American Great Plains

(2013) Samuel A. Cushman et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Both forest composition and configuration influence landscape-scale habitat selection by fishers (Pekania pennanti) in mixed coniferous forests of the Northern Rocky Mountains

(2013) Joel D. Sauder et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Scale dependence in habitat selection: the case of the endangered brown bear (Ursus arctos) in the Cantabrian Range (NW Spain)

(2013) María C. Mateo Sánchez et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE

Native predators reduce harvest of reindeer by Sámi pastoralists

(2012) N. Thompson Hobbs et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

UNICOR: a species connectivity and corridor network simulator

(2011) E. L. Landguth et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A review of financial instruments to pay for predator conservation and encourage human-carnivore coexistence

(2011) A. J. Dickman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Complexities of conflict: the importance of considering social factors for effectively resolving human-wildlife conflict

(2010) A. J. Dickman   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Overcoming the rare species modelling paradox: A novel hierarchical framework applied to an Iberian endemic plant

(2010) A. Lomba et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Genetic diversity of endangered brown bear (Ursus arctos) populations at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa

(2009) Sébastien Calvignac et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

BIOMOD - a platform for ensemble forecasting of species distributions

(2009) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Assessing habitat quality for conservation using an integrated occurrence-mortality model

(2009) Alessandra Falcucci et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Human-felid conflict: a review of patterns and priorities worldwide

(2009) Chloe Inskip et al.   ORYX

Developing Payments for Ecosystem Services Approaches to Carnivore Conservation

(2009) Fred Nelson   HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF WILDLIFE

Use of Empirically Derived Source-Destination Models to Map Regional Conservation Corridors

(2008) SAMUEL A. CUSHMAN et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY