Are wolves losing their fear of humans? Changes in wolf behaviour and their consequences for prey species in human-dominated landscapes
2021/41/B/NZ8/00015
Keywords
Descriptors
- NZ8_002: Ekologia
- NZ8_003: Etologia
- NZ8_004: Różnorodność biologiczna
Panel
NZ8 – Evolutionary and environmental biology: evolution, ecology, population biology, biodiversity, biogeography
Host institution
Instytut Biologii Ssaków PAN
Voivodeship: podlaskie
Principal investigator (from the host institution)
dr hab. Dries Pieter Jan Kuijper
Number of co-investigators in the project: 10
Call
OPUS 21 – announced on 2021-03-15
- Amount awarded
- 1 592 092 PLN
- Project start date
- 2022-02-02
- Project end date
- 2027-01-01
- Project duration
- 59 months (the same as in the proposal)
- Project status
- Pending project
Project description
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Information in the final report
Publication in academic press/journals (4)
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Wolves and their prey all fear the human super predator
- Authors:
- Kasper, K., Say-Sallaz, E., Clinchy, M., Pallari, N., Szewczyk, M., Churski, M., Szafrańska, P.A., Gehrke, M., Kirsch, A.J., Dembek, P., Bates, P., Vila López, J.M., Zanette, L.Y., Kuijper, D.P.J.
- Academic press:
- Current Biology (year: 2025, volume: 35, pages: 5111-5117), Publisher: Cell Press
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.cub.2025.09.018 – link to the publication
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Wolves recolonize novel ecosystems leading to novel interactions.
- Authors:
- Kuijper, D.P.J., Diserens T.A., Say-Sallaz, E., Kasper, K., Szafrańska P.A., Szewczyk, M., Stępniak, K.M., Churski, M.
- Academic press:
- Journal of Applied Ecology (year: 2024, volume: 0, pages: 46038), Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.1111/1365-2664.14602 – link to the publication
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Reduced human disturbance increases diurnal activity in wolves, but not eurasian lynx
- Authors:
- Smith, A.F., Kasper, K., Lazzeri, L., Schulte, M., Kudrenko, S., Say-Sallaz, E., Churski, M., Shamovich, D., Obrizan, S., Domashevsky, S., Korepanova, K., Bashta, A.-T., Zhuravchak, R., Gahbauer,M., Pirga, B., Fenchuk, V., Kusak, J., Ferretti, F., Kuijper, D.P.J., Schmidt, K., Heurich, M.
- Academic press:
- Global Ecology and Conservation (year: 2024, volume: 53, pages: e02985), Publisher: Elsevier
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e02985 – link to the publication
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Free-ranging cattle and the return of the wolf: behavioral responses and implications for conservation management
- Authors:
- Smit, C., Kuijper, D.P.J.
- Academic press:
- Wildlife Biology (year: 2024, volume: 2024, pages: e01237), Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.1002/wlb3.01237 – link to the publication