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The importance of snow cover (and elevation) on nest-box use in an alpine bird

Living at high elevations means having to cope with extreme and unpredictable conditions. It also means that evolution has shaped for you a special relationship with snow. In fact, many alpine species exhibit strong associations with snow-related environments, which affect many...

Editor's choice November/December 2025

The editor’s choice is the article by Smith et al.: “ Heading west: Ecology of swift foxes in a novel landscape beyond their range ” Habitat models have become an indispensable tool in wildlife ecology, influencing conservation priorities and management decisions. However, their...

International Moose Symposium Special Issue

Wildlife Biology is proud to be the official outlet of the International Moose Symposium 2025! We hereby invite papers for a Special Issue, as an outcome of the International Moose Symposium 2025 in Östersund, Sweden. You do not have to attend the conference in order to submit a...

Editor's choice July/August 2025

The editor’s choice is the article by Eriksen et al.: “ Climatic variation affects seasonal survival of an alpine bird species ” Ecologists have only just begun to understand the potential impact of climate change on wildlife. Perhaps the most obvious response expected of cold-...

Wolves Across Borders Special Issue

Wildlife Biology is proud to be the official outlet of the Wolves Across Borders 2025! The first Wolves Across Borders conference took place in Stockholm in 2023. It was the first wolf ecology conference ever to attempt to be global. Delegates came from 32 different countries,...

Benign, and currently sustainable, forms of shellfish-harvesting in the Bijagós Archipélago, Guinea-Bissau

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...

New Subject editor: Ramiro Crego

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...

Editor's choice mar/Apr 2025

The editor’s choice is the article by Willebrand and Newey: “ Reaching and implementing the best available knowledge in wildlife biology ” In a time when AI is dominating the discourse on how we generate knowledge, Tomas Willebrand and Scott Newey advocate for not forgetting old...

Pan European Duck symposium 2025

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...

International Wildlife Congress 2025

WILDLIFE BIOLOGY will be the scientific outlet from the International Wildlife Congress (held in Lillehammer, Norway 1-4 September 2025), and publish a special issue as an outcome of this congress. The congress main theme was " How wild is wildlife ", and was organised by the...

Climatic variation affects seasonal survival of an alpine bird species

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...

New Subject Editor: Marco Basile

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-...

Editor's choice September/October 2024

The editor’s choice is the article by Hagen et al. “Dead birds flying”: Can North American rehabilitated raptors released into the wild mitigate anthropogenic mortality? ” Conservation practice is full of untested paradigms, and wildlife rehabilitation is one of them. Rescuing,...

Editor's choice: July/August 2024

The editor’s choice is the article by Bison et al.: “ Camera traps reveal seasonal variation in activity and occupancy of the Alpine mountain hare ( Lepus timidus varronis ) ” Even in densely populated and well-studied regions, some elusive species have largely escaped...

Home range and habitat selection of wolves recolonising Central European human-dominated landscapes

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...

Wildlife fencing at German highways and federal roads – requirements and management implications

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...

Machine learning methods to predict occupancy of artificial nestboxes by hazel dormice

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...

Upcoming special issue: Montoring of grouse in forest ecosystems

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...

New Subject Editor: Manisha Bhardwaj

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...

What next? Some practical suggestions for future studies on fence ecology

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...

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