My name is Maria Persson, and I am the new Managing Editor for Wildlife biology. I studied to become a biologist at Lund University in Sweden, and I did my honours project in freshwater biology. After that I did my masters in marine biology in Canada and in Australia. Once back...
Save the date! The Nordic Board of Wildlife Research is organising a conference 20-23 April 2021, in Uppsala, Sweden. Theme: Bringing wildlife ecology, health and management together. Hope to see you there!
We are so happy to present our new cover! The fantastic photo of "a subadult male roedeer, Capreolus capreolus , alerted by a potential predator, is taken by Robin Sandfort www.capreolus.at
Herfindal et al. How does the overlap in the niche of wild and domestic animals vary in time, and are wild animals affected by the presence of domestic animals? Such questions have received increased focus in wildlife management, as the abundance of wild and domestic animals...
What's the best way for counting reindeers? Mathilde Le Moullec and colleagues have sorted it out in the paper "Ungulate population monitoring in an open tundra landscape: distance sampling versus total counts" . Read their summary here: Counting reindeer on the open tundra is...
We are very happy to welcome Dave Baines, Upland Research, Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, UK, to our editorial Board. Get to know Dave in my interview below: What's you main research focus at the moment? My research is primarily on wild game bird conservation and...
Humans are important agents of wildlife mortality, and understanding such mortality is paramount for effective population management and conservation. We investigated spatial patterns in human-caused mortality in Scandinavian brown bears and found that human-caused mortality was...
South Asia are home to some of the amazing gliding mammals. Among such are the group gliding squirrels. The name itself signifies what makes them unique. Yes. Gliding. They are so well adopted that they can glide upto 150m in a single shoot. Being nocturnal, these mammals remain...
Influence of phylogeny, migration, and type of diet on the presence of intestinal parasites in the faeces of European passerine birds (Passeriformes) Petra Bandelj, Rok Blagus, Tomi Trilar, Modest Vengust, Aleksandra Vergles Rataj The first week of September of every year is a...
Peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) are one of the most widely distributed terrestrial vertebrates on the planet inhabiting every continent except Antarctic. Many people do not realize that a subspecies of this magnificent bird of prey (F. p. tundrius) breeds in the Arctic...
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