My name is Pat White and I look forward to contributing to Wildlife Biology as a subject editor. I am a lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland and a member of our Centre for Conservation & Restoration Science. I have worked on various research projects relating...
Photo by Ilse Storch. Diseases have gained significant importance in wildlife ecology and management in recent years. Chronic wasting disease (CWD, a fatal prion disease in Cervids that has been known in North America for some time, has recently been found also in Norway and...
The editor’s choice is the article by Johnson et al.: “ Assessing the Implications of Sexual Segregation when Surveying White-Tailed Deer ( Odocoileus Virginianus )” Ungulates and many other game species are traditionally hunted during the mating season. As hunting planning...
Photo by Jim Peaco. Public domain National Park Service. Wolves have always been at the center of human-wildlife conflict, and their management is politically polarized and contentious. Furthermore, the world’s wolf population ranges across an incredibly diverse collection of...
The editor’s choice is the article by Lennox et al.: “ Predation research with electronic tagging ” In the early days of wildlife telemetry, using VHF receivers and hand-held antennas, the loss of a tagged animal due to predation was more of a nuisance than an interesting data...
The editor’s choice is the article by Leif-Egil Loe and Olav Hjeljord: “ The roles of climate and alternative prey in explaining 142 years of declining willow ptarmigan hunting yield ” This study is truly exceptional because it presents one of the longest wildlife time series...
Photo by Göran Borglin. Human-modification of the environment has resulted in a steady increase in human-wildlife spatial overlap and interactions. When these interactions threaten or result in damage to human property or safety, they are deemed to be “conflicts”. As a result, a...
Photo by Brutus Östling. Human-wildlife interactions are projected to increase globally in association with human population growth, expansion of settlements, human access to previously undisturbed areas, and increasing anthropogenic demand for resources. Some of the most...
The editor’s choice is the article by Burkholder et al. “ Winter habitat selection by female moose in southwestern Montana and effects of snow and temperature ” This paper resulted from the MSc thesis of the first author. Master’s theses too often do not get published, even when...
The editor’s choice is the article by Corlatti et al. Past, present and future of chamois science . Early generations of wildlife ecologists often focused their careers on specific taxonomic groups. They usually started working on a particular species as graduate students,...
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