Conservation and Management of Wild-Living Carnivorous Mammals
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Diversity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 December 2024 | Viewed by 458
Special Issue Editors
Interests: the evolutionary ecology of carnivorous mammals and how it can help in their conservation and management in a context of global human-induced environmental changes
Interests: wildlife conservation and its connections with modern technologies, like artificial intelligence, camera trapping and radio-tracking, for improving our understanding of the processes shaping the demography, ecology and ethology of threatened species/taxa at the local and global scales
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will focus on the conservation biology and management of carnivorous mammals across Europe and will consider any habitats and ecosystems, from urban to agricultural and to wilderness. We expect contributions covering several aspects of the ecology of this guild of species, from the cellular and sub-cellular levels to community ecology and inter-specific analyses with a particular emphasis on those where front-edge sampling methods are applied Particular attention will be paid to the translation into applied terms of conservation and management strategies, as well as to those where conservation actions are derived from a variety of approaches, like behavioral ecology, trophic ecology, population dynamics, genetics and genomics, epidemiology and spatial ecology. Single-species studies will be considered as well as community studies at a larger spatial scale, and both short-term and long-term projects will be of interest. Finally, the species concerned may be of varying IUCN status, ranging from ordinary, non-threatened biodiversity to species of more precarious status according to IUCN classification, as well as invasive or over-abundant species. Overall, this Special Issue aims to synthesize conservation biology and management research on carnivorous mammals and to identify key conservation actions and management principles. It also aims to promote a close collaboration between researchers and wildlife managers from various fields to foster wildlife conservation, reduce human–wildlife conflicts and improve the management of wildlife.
Dr. Sébastien Devillard
Dr. Stefano Anile
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carnivorous mammals
- conservation
- human–wildlife conflict
- spatial ecology
- density
- occupancy
- diet
- trophic ecology
- population dynamics
- vital rates
- population genetics
- connectivity
- population genomics
- adaptation
- evidence-based conservation and management
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