• Quiet islands in a world of fear: Wolves seek core zones of protected areas to escape human disturbance 

      Smith, Adam F.; Ciuti, Simone; Shamovich, Dmitry; Fenchuk, Viktar; Zimmermann, Barbara; Heurich, Marco Dietmar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The Anthropocene continuously escalates the challenges and threats faced by large carnivores in human-dominated landscapes. Given their unique conservation and management requirements, detailed insights into their behaviour ...
    • Reduced human disturbance increases diurnal activity in wolves, but not Eurasian lynx 

      Smith, Adam F.; Kasper, Katharina; Lazzeri, Lorenzo; Schulte, Michael; Kudrenko, Svitlana; Say-Sallaz, Elise; Churski, Marcin; Shamovich, Dmitry; Obrizan, Serhii; Domashevsky, Serhii; Korepanova, Kateryna; Bashta, Andriy-Taras; Zhuravchak, Rostyslav; Gahbauer, Martin; Pirga, Bartosz; Fenchuk, Viktar; Kusak, Josip; Ferretti, Francesco; Kuijper, Dries P.J.; Schmidt, Krzysztof; Heurich, Marco Dietmar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Wildlife in the Anthropocene is increasingly spatially and temporally constrained by lethal and non-lethal human disturbance. For large carnivores with extensive space requirements, like wolves and Eurasian lynx, avoiding ...
    • Shining a light on elusive lynx: Density estimation of three Eurasian lynx populations in Ukraine and Belarus 

      Palmero, Stefano; Smith, Adam F.; Kudrenko, Svitlana; Gahbauer, Martin; Dachs, Dominik; Weingarth-Dachs, Kirsten; Kashpei, Irina; Shamovich, Dmitry; Vyshnevskiy, Denys; Borsuk, Oleksandr; Korepanova, Kateryna; Bashta, Andriy-Taras; Zhuravchak, Rostyslav; Fenchuk, Viktar; Heurich, Marco Dietmar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The Eurasian lynx is a large carnivore widely distributed across Eurasia. However, our understanding of population status is heterogeneous across their range, with some populations isolated that are at risk of reduced ...