Hannah Boczulak, Nicole P Boucher, Andrew Ladle, Mark S Boyce, Jason T Fisher
Increasing resource extraction and human activity are reshaping species' spatial distributions in human-altered landscape and consequently shaping the dynamics of interspecific interactions, such as between predators and prey. To evaluate the effects of industrial features and human activity on the occurrence of wolves ( Canis lupus ), we used wildlife detection data collected in 2014 from an array of 122 remote wildlife camera traps in Alberta's Rocky Mountains and foothills near Hinton, Canada. Using generalized linear models, we compared the occurrence frequency of wolves at camera sites to natural land cover, industrial disturbance (forestry and oil/gas exploration), human activity (motorized and non-motorized), and prey availability (moose, Alces alces ; elk, Cervus elaphus ; mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus ; and white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus )...
June 2023: Ecology and Evolution