All of these and more are available via our Google Scholar page - check them out and let us know what you think! scholar.google.ca/citations?hl... (6/6)

Collaborator Robin Naidoo led a powerful study using 6 years of camera trap data, natural experiments reducing outdoor recreation, and causal inference methods to show that recreation was reducing grizzly bear activity in the South Chilcotin mountains doi.org/10.1111/conl... (5/6)

Postdoc Laura Griffin collab'd w @lfinnegal.bsky.social @friresearch.bsky.social and analyzed telemetry data for caribou and moose in AB to show nuanced responses to forest disturbances from pine beetle, harvest & fire, including avoidance by caribou and female moose doi.org/10.1002/jwmg... (4/6)

PhD Cindy Hurtado led evaluation of richness and occupancy for 12 carnivores in 23 landscapes in N Peru and W Ecuador, highlighting importance of habitat connectivity in maintaining carnivore communities (esp impt for forest mesocarnivores) (3/6) conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PhD candidate Erin Tattersall led this perspective on upholding Indigenous data sovereignty in an era of open science - particularly important for emerging collaborative wildlife surveys with camera traps and other sensors doi.org/10.1002/pan3... (2/6)

Thanks to Katie and the many supporters and collaborators, including the WildCo Lab (especially Tazarve Gharajehdaghipour and Zoe Konanz), @forestry.ubc.ca‬, BC Caribou Recovery Program, BC Parks, Robin Steenweg and Mathieu Bourbonnais. Check out the infographic☝️and open access paper (7/7)

The generality of DMAC as a driver of caribou decline requires more study across varied ecosystems to guide management actions. #Cameratraps provide a valuable tool for monitoring the responses of caribou and interacting species to habitat disturbance and recovery. (6/7)

Wolves and other predators tracked their prey but were not consistently associated with disturbed habitats, which caribou did not avoid. While disturbances from fire and logging are influencing the dynamics of this wildlife community, their direct and indirect effects on caribou are less clear (5/7)

Satellite data and #cameratrap surveys provided mixed evidence. Burnt and logged areas had low vegetation productivity but some pulse following disturbance and were used more by moose and deer (especially burnt areas). (4/7)

The importance of DMAC has been questioned in low productivity boreal ecosystems (eg. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...), but not widely tested in varied contexts. We evaluated it in British Columbia’s Chilcotin Plateau, within the range of the declining Itcha-Ilgachuz caribou herd. (3/7)

#Caribou are declining across much of Canada. A key hypothesis of decline is disturbance-mediated apparent competition (DMAC), whereby forest disturbances (such as from resource extraction) provide more food for prey like moose and deer, allowing wolves to increase and eat more caribou. (2/7)

Link to open access paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...