human-wildlife conflict

Males miss and females forgo: Auditory masking from vessel noise impairs foraging efficiency and success in killer whales

Authors: Jennifer B. Tennessen, Marla M. Holt, Brianna M. Wright, M. Bradley Hanson, Candice K. Emmons, Deborah A. Giles, Jeffrey T. Hogan, Sheila J. Thornton, Volker B. DeeckeJournal: Global Change BiologyDOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17490Photo credit: A male orca travels quickly near a large cargo ship transiting through the Salish Sea. Photo by Candice Emmons, NOAA Fisheries. Summary adapted from social media post by Anna Testorf: One of our recent studies […]

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Global expansion of human-wildlife overlap in the 21st century

Authors: Deqiang Ma, Briana Abrahms, Jacob Allgeier, Tim Newbold, Brian C. Weeks, and Neil H. CarterJournal: Science AdvancesDOI: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp7706Coverage: UW News, The Guardian “We show that the potential spatial overlap of global human populations and 22,374 terrestrial vertebrate species will increase across ~56.6% and decrease across only ~11.8% of the Earth’s terrestrial surface by 2070 […] The strong spatial heterogeneity

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