• Impacts of wolves on rural economies from recreational small game hunting 

      Pedersen, Simen; Angelstam, Per; Ferguson, Michael Arthur Darrell; Wabakken, Petter; Storaas, Torstein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
    • Individual variation in predatory behavior, scavenging and seasonal prey availability as potential drivers of coexistence between wolves and bears 

      Ordiz, Andres; Milleret, Cyril Pierre; Uzal, Antonio; Zimmermann, Barbara; Wabakken, Petter; Wikenros, Camilla; Sand, Håkan; Swenson, Jon; Kindberg, Jonas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Several large carnivore populations are recovering former ranges, and it is important to understand interspecific interactions between overlapping species. In Scandinavia, recent research has reported that brown bear ...
    • Individual Variation in Predatory Behavior, Scavenging and Seasonal Prey Availability as Potential Drivers of Coexistence between Wolves and Bears 

      Ordiz Fernandez, Andres Avelino; Milleret, Cyril Pierre; Uzal, Antonio; Zimmermann, Barbara; Wabakken, Petter; Wikenros, Camilla; Sand, Håkan; Swenson, Jon; Kindberg, Jonas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09-15)
      Several large carnivore populations are recovering former ranges, and it is important to understand interspecific interactions between overlapping species. In Scandinavia, recent research has reported that brown bear ...
    • Integrated population models poorly estimate the demographic contribution of immigration 

      Paquet, Matthieu; Knape, Jonas; Arlt, Debora; Forslund, Pär; Pärt, Tomas; Flagstad, Øystein; Jones, Carl; Nicoll, MAC; Norris, K; Pemberton, Josephine M.; Sand, Håkan; Svensson, Linn; Tatayah, Vikash; Wabakken, Petter; Wikenros, Camilla; Åkesson, Mikael; Low, Matthew (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      1. Estimating the contribution of demographic parameters to changes in population growth is essential for understanding why populations fluctuate. Integrated population models (IPMs) offer a possibility to estimate the ...
    • Integrated spatially-explicit models predict pervasive risks to recolonizing wolves in Scandinavia from human-driven mortality 

      Recio, Mariano R; Zimmermann, Barbara; Wikenros, Camilla; Zetterberg, Andreas; Wabakken, Petter; Sand, Håkan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
    • Isolation, characterization and predicted genome locations of Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) microsatellite loci 

      Kleven, Oddmund; Dawson, Deborah A.; Gjershaug, Jan Ove; Horsburgh, Gavin J.; Jacobsen, Karl-Otto; Wabakken, Petter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)
      We isolated 134 eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) microsatellite sequences. Eight of these newly isolated loci were characterized in 38 Eurasian eagle-owls in a northern European population. Sequence homology was used to assign a ...
    • Legacy and emerging organohalogenated compounds in feathers of Eurasian eagle-owls (Bubo bubo) in Norway: Spatiotemporal variations and associations with dietary proxies (δ13C and δ15N) 

      Monclús, Laura; Løseth, Mari Engvig; Dahlberg Persson, Marie Johanne; Eulaers, Igor; Kleven, Oddmund; Covaci, Adrian; Benskin, Jonathan P.; Awad, Raed; Zubrod, Jochen P.; Schulz, Ralf; Wabakken, Petter; Heggøy, Oddvar; Øien, Ingar Jostein; Steinsvåg, Magnus Johan; Jaspers, Veerle; Nygård, Torgeir (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The occurrence of organohalogenated compounds (OHCs) in wildlife has received considerable attention over the last decades. Among the matrices used for OHCs biomonitoring, feathers are particularly useful as they can be ...
    • Let’s stay together? Intrinsic and extrinsic factors involved in pair bond dissolution in a recolonizing wolf population 

      Milleret, Cyril; Wabakken, Petter; Liberg, Olof; Åkesson, Mikael; Flagstad, Øystein; Andreassen, Harry Peter; Sand, Håkan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      For socially monogamous species, breeder bond dissolution has important consequences for population dynamics, but the extent to which extrinsic or intrinsic population factors causes pair dissolution remain poorly understood, ...
    • Monitoring of wolves in Scandinavia 

      Liberg, Olof; Aronson, Åke; Sand, Håkan; Wabakken, Petter; Maartmann, Erling; Svensson, Linn; Åkesson, Mikael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The Scandinavian wolf population is jointly monitored by Norwegian and Swedish authorities. Monitoring is made annually. Wolves are classified in different categories. Family groups ( 3 animals sharing a territory), ...
    • Network structure of vertebrate scavenger assemblages at the global scale: drivers and ecosystem functioning implications 

      Sebastián-González, Esther; Morales-Reyes, Zebensui; Botella, Francisco; Naves-Alegre, Lara; Pérez-García, Juan M.; Mateo-Tomás, Patricia; Olea, Pedro P.; Moleón, Marcos; Barbosa, Jomar M.; Hiraldo, Fernando; Arrondo, Eneko; Donázar, José Antonio; Cortés-Avizanda, Ainara; Selva, Nuria; Lambertucci, Sergio A.; Bhattacharjee, Aishwarya; Brewer, Alexis; Abernethy, Erin; Turner, Kelsey; Beasley, James C.; DeVault, Travis L.; Gerke, Hannah C.; Rhodes Jr, Olin E.; Ordiz, Andres; Wikenros, Camilla; Zimmermann, Barbara; Wabakken, Petter; Wilmers, Christopher C.; Smith, Justine A.; Kendall, Corinne J.; Ogada, Darcy; Frehner, Ethan; Allen, Maximilian L.; Wittmer, Heiko U.; Butler, James R.A.; du Toit, Johan T.; Margalida, Antoni; Oliva-Vidal, Pilar; Wilson, David; Jerina, Klemen; Krofel, Miha; Kostecke, Rich; Inger, Richard; Per, Esra; Ayhan, Yunus; Ulusoy, Hasan; Vural, Doğanay; Inagaki, Akino; Koike, Shinsuke; Samson, Arockianathan; Perrig, Paula L.; Spencer, Emma; Newsome, Thomas M.; Heurich, Marco; Anadón, José D.; Buechley, Evan R.; Sánchez-Zapata, José A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The organization of ecological assemblages has important implications for ecosystem functioning, but little is known about how scavenger communities organize at the global scale. Here, we test four hypotheses on the factors ...
    • No place like home? A test of the natal habitat-biased dispersal hypothesis in Scandinavian wolves 

      Sanz Perez, Ana; Ordiz Fernandez, Andres Avelino; Sand, Håkan; Swenson, Jon; Wabakken, Petter; Wikenros, Camilla; Zimmermann, Barbara; Åkesson, Mikael; Milleret, Cyril Pierre (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
    • Of wolves and bears: Seasonal drivers of interference and exploitation competition between apex predators 

      Tallian, Aimee Grace; Ordiz, Andres; Metz, Matthew C.; Zimmermann, Barbara; Wikenros, Camilla; Smith, Douglas W.; Stahler, Daniel R.; Wabakken, Petter; Swenson, Jon; Sand, Håkan; Kindberg, Jonas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Competition between apex predators can alter the strength of top-down forcing, yet we know little about the behavioral mechanisms that drive competition in multipredator ecosystems. Interactions between predators can be ...
    • Of wolves and bears: Seasonal drivers of interference and exploitation competition between apex predators 

      Tallian, Aimee Grace; Ordiz, Andres; Metz, Matthew C.; Zimmermann, Barbara; Wikenros, Camilla; Smith, Douglas W.; Stahler, Daniel R.; Wabakken, Petter; Swenson, Jon; Sand, Håkan; Kindberg, Jonas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Competition between apex predators can alter the strength of top-down forcing, yet we know little about the behavioral mechanisms that drive competition in multipredator ecosystems. Interactions between predators can be ...
    • Phenology of brown bear breeding season and related geographical cues 

      Garcia-Rodriguez, A; Rigg, R.; Elguero-Claramunt, I.; Bojarska, Katarzyna; Krofel, M.; Parchizadeh, Jamshid; Pataky, T.; Seryodkin, I.; Skuban, M.; Wabakken, Petter; Zieba, F.; Zwijacz-Kozica, T.; Selva, N. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Knowledge about breeding biology is often incomplete in species with complex reproductive strategies. The brown bear Ursus arctos is a polygamous seasonal breeder inhabiting a wide variety of habitats and environmental ...
    • Poaching-related disappearance rate of wolves in Sweden was positively related to population size and negatively to legal culling 

      Liberg, Olof; Suutarinen, Johanna; Åkesson, Mikael; Andrén, Henrik; Wabakken, Petter; Wikenros, Camilla; Sand, Håkan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-03-14)
      Poaching is an important limiting factor for many large carnivore populations worldwide and the effect that legal culling has on poaching rate on wolf (Canis lupus) is debated. We used data linked to population monitoring ...
    • Predator-dependent functional response in wolves: from food limitation to surplus killing 

      Zimmermann, Barbara; Sand, Håkan; Wabakken, Petter; Liberg, Olof; Andreassen, Harry Peter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      The functional response of a predator describes the change in per capita kill rate to changes in prey density. This response can be influenced by predator densities, giving a predator-dependent functional response. In ...
    • Prey Selection of Scandinavian Wolves: Single Large or Several Small? 

      Sand, Håkan; Eklund, Ann; Zimmermann, Barbara; Wikenros, Camilla; Wabakken, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Research on large predator-prey interactions are often limited to the predators' primary prey, with the potential for prey switching in systems with multiple ungulate species rarely investigated. We evaluated wolf (Canis ...
    • The return of large carnivores: Using hunter observation data to understand the role of predators on ungulate populations 

      Tallian, Aimee Grace; Ordiz Fernandez, Andres Avelino; Zimmermann, Barbara; Sand, Håkan; Wikenros, Camilla; Wabakken, Petter; Bergqvist, Göran; Kindberg, Jonas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Large carnivores play a key ecological role in nature, yet quantifying the effects of predation at large spatiotemporal scales remains challenging. Wolves and brown bears have recovered in Sweden, where they share the same ...
    • Sarcoptic mange in the Scandinavian wolf Canis lupus population 

      Fuchs, Boris; Zimmermann, Barbara; Wabakken, Petter; Bornstein, Set; Månsson, Johan; Evans, Alina L.; Liberg, Olof; Sand, Håkan; Kindberg, Jonas; Ågren, Erik O.; Arnemo, Jon Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Background: Sarcoptic mange, a parasitic disease caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei, is regularly reported on wolves Canis lupus in Scandinavia. We describe the distribution and transmission of this parasite within the ...
    • Scavenging patterns of an inbred wolf population in a landscape with a pulse of human-provided carrion 

      Wikenros, Camilla; Di Bernardi, Cecilia; Zimmermann, Barbara; Åkesson, Mikael; Demski, Maike; Flagstad, Øystein; Mattisson, Jenny; Tallian, Aimee Grace; Wabakken, Petter; Sand, Håkan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Scavenging is an important part of food acquisition for many carnivore species that switch between scavenging and predation. In landscapes with anthropogenic impact, humans provide food that scavenging species can utilize. ...