Wildlife Coexistence Lab

I haven't posted here for awhile but we've had several papers come out that I'm excited about, so check out this #WildCo roundup of recent publications! @wildco.bsky.social @forestry.ubc.ca (thread: 1/6)

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TWS Journals Investigating the decline of a caribou population in central British Columbia, we found that 1) recent wildfires were a stronger draw for primary ungulate prey than cutblocks, 2) most predators were ...

#newpaper led by @wildco.bsky.social MSc Katie Tjaden-McClement: “Mixed evidence for disturbance-mediated apparent competition for declining caribou in western British Columbia, Canada” wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (thread: 1/7)

Image of coyote with its head between its legs

Blurry image of coyote in motion running as it is excited/agitated from chasing a small rodent like mammal

Coyote angrily slams paw of the ground trying to catch a small rodent like mammal and it screams at the ground in frustration

🧪 Further images for your pleasure showcasing the various measures taken to capture the small mammal.

🧪🦊 Just the usual shenanigans at 4AM in the middle of a provincial park.

It's difficult to see but there's a small mammal (we think a vole?) being chased/played with by the coyote (Canis latrans).

Image of a marmot on a mountain looking out into the valley in mount Robson provincial park

🧪🌎 Happy Earth Day from WildCo! Very much feeling the Marmot in the camera trap image below as it stares in awe at the beauty of the landscape (and of the ever retreating glaciers in the face of anthropogenic climate change).

📍📸 Photo taken at Mount Robson Provincial Park, British Columbia

Combining eDNA Metabarcoding, Hydrology‐Based Modeling and Camera Trap Datasets to Assess the Potential of River eDNA in Monitoring Terrestrial Mammals By applying the hydrology-based eDITH model to two mountainous catchments and comparing it with camera trap data, we found that for 9 out of 15 taxa, predicted distributions predominantly matched cam....

🧬 Can eDNA from rivers help us model biodiversity patterns on land?

Led by Goralczyk et al, eDNA data is compared with camera trap data, and out of 15 examined taxa, 9 had camera observations that matched eDNA model predictions, including mule deer and black bear.

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🐿️ Size does matter, and small mammals may be getting left behind due to clearcut logging in BC.

Constantinou et al compare five harvesting treatments to see how small mammal diversity varies along this spectrum, and if partial harvests are a viable middle ground. The answer — yes*

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🌎 Are conservation prioritization schemes effective in translating their recommendations into reality?

A new paper in @plos.org by Tjaden-McClement et al looks to see if schemes like Biodiversity Hotspots are working, or if human pressure is coming in the way of new protections.

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Image of mountain goat adult and it's young in à snowy forest in Mount Robson Provincial Park captured on a wildlife monitoring camera.

🧪 It’s great to be here on @bsky.app! It’s been a while, so it’s quite fitting for the lab’s inaugural BlueSky thread to be a string of recent papers put out by the lab’s folks!

📸 📍 Picture from Mount Robson Provincial Park, British Columbia.

Are conservation prioritization schemes effective in translating their recommendations into reality?

A new paper in @plos.org by Tjaden-McClement et al looks to see if schemes like Biodiversity Hotspots are working, or if human pressure is coming in the way of new protections.

bit.ly/42ogcAf

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We’re WildCo - a wildlife conservation and management research collective based out of @forestry.ubc.ca.

This is where we will continue sharing the latest in wildlife and the use of camera traps in their research!

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🐻 Image from Mt. Robson Provincial Park!