WILDLIFE BIOLOGY will be an exhibitor at the International Wildlife Congress (1-4 September 2025, Lillehammer Norway). The congress main theme is " How wild is wildlife ", and is organised by the University of Inland Norway , in association with IUGB , Euromammals , the Nordic...
by Theunis Piersma It has been an enormous privilege to contribute to ecological studies on the intertidal flats in the Bijagós Archipélago; better still, to experience a tropical tidal world where people have made livings for long times whilst leaving the ecosystems that they...
Please welcome our new subject editor ramiro Crego! Dr Ramiro Crego is an ecologist from Argentina. Ramiro research interests are primarily in the fields of applied animal ecology and conservation biology. He addresses critical research questions by integrating a combination of...
WILDLIFE BIOLOGY and JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY will be exhibitors at the Pan-European Duck Symposium (18-21 August 2025, Kristianstad, Sweden). The congress attracts duck researchers from Europe and beyond, as well as conservationists and wildfowl managers interested in the most...
We studied willow ptarmigan in a montane landscape in Lierne municipality in central Norway. During the study we captured and marked a total of 272 willow ptarmigan from 2015 to 2021. To capture the birds, we approached them from snowmobiles during the winter night, dazzled them...
I am Marco Basile from the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL located near the vibrant city of Zurich, where I live. I recently joined the editorial team at Wildlife Biology. I always enjoyed reading this journal as I am an animal ecologist with a strong interest in bird-...
By Ales Vorel On April 23, 2024 our team ( Czech University of Life Sciences from Prague ), which conducts telemetry research on wolves in the České Švýcarsko National Park as part of the Interreg Redema project, received information about the hunting of roe deer by at least two...
By Falko Brieger In Germany, the high risk of wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVC) is increasing due to increasing traffic volumes and road densities as well as the growing population densities of common ungulate species. To prevent WVC, wildlife fencing is a common tool in Germany...
An artificial nestbox installed to monitor and mitigate impacts to hazel dormice ( Muscardinus avellanarius ) and two hazel dormice (inset) found during one of our monitoring surveys (photo credits Clara Prieto and Joe Malyan). Hazel dormice are one of the UK’s rarest mammal...
Dusky grouse. Photo by Ken Archer. Guest Editors: Christian Hagen, Lance McNew and Emmanuel Menoni. Rationale: Grouse are ecologically significant species found in various forested habitats throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Efficient and unbiased methods for monitoring these...
My name is Manisha Bhardwaj and I am a wildlife ecologist, motivated to identify and mitigate the impacts of the built environment and human activity on wildlife. At present, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Freiburg, where I am exploring the influence of...
Photo 1. Photo by Caryl Buton. Trapdoors (in the front) or ramps (in the rear) and other escape devices are used to allow wild ungulates to exit fenced motorway or railway rights of way. By Caryl Buton, Nicolas Kaldonski, François Nowicki and Christine Saint-Andrieux The...
My name is Cecilia Di Bernardi and I am an early-career postdoctoral researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU. My work has so far focused on the ecology of meso- and large carnivores and how intrinsic and extrinsic factors drive their demography,...
As humans encroach into wild spaces, so too does our infrastructure. It is well known that linear infrastructure such as roads, fences, and power lines pose as barriers to wildlife movement, by both physical and behavioural means. However, what is more uncertain is if these...