• A catch-22 conflict: Access to semi-domestic reindeer modulatesEurasian lynx depredation on domestic sheep 

      Mattisson, Jenny; Odden, John; Linnell, John Durrus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Conserving large carnivores in multi-use landscape is a global challenge. In northern Norway the presence of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) conflicts greatly with the current ways of keeping free-grazing, unguarded livestock ...
    • Activity patterns of Eurasian lynx are modulated by light regime and individual traits over a wide latitudinal range 

      Heurich, Marco; Hilger, Anton; Küchenhoff, Helmut; Andrén, Henrik; Bufka, Luděk; Krofel, Miha; Mattisson, Jenny; Odden, John; Persson, Jens; Rauset, Geir Rune; Schmidt, Krzysztof; Linnell, John Durrus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)
      The activity patterns of most terrestrial animals are regarded as being primarily influenced by light, although other factors, such as sexual cycle and climatic conditions, can modify the underlying patterns. However, most ...
    • Altitude, latitude, and climate zone as determinants of mountain hare (Lepus timidus) coat colour change 

      Stokes, Allan; Hofmeester, Tim R.; Thorsen, Neri Horntvedt; Odden, John; Linnell, John Durrus; Pedersen, Simen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
    • Caching Behavior of Large Prey by Eurasian Lynx: Quantifying the Anti-Scavenging Benefits 

      Teurlings, Ivonne; Odden, John; Linnell, John Durrus; Melis, Claudia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      caching; Capreolus capreolus; carrion; Eurasian lynx; Lynx lynx; Norway; predation; roe deer; scavenging
    • Density of Wild Prey Modulates Lynx Kill Rates on Free-Ranging Domestic Sheep 

      Odden, John; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; Linnell, John Durrus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)
      Understanding the factors shaping the dynamics of carnivore–livestock conflicts is vital to facilitate large carnivore conservation in multi-use landscapes. We investigated how the density of their main wild prey, roe deer ...
    • Eurasian lynx fitness shows little variation across Scandinavian human-dominated landscapes 

      López-Bao, José Vicente; Aronsson, Malin; Linnell, John Durrus; Odden, John; Persson, Jens; Andrén, Henrik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Despite extensive research on the ecology and behavioural adaptations of large carnivores in humandominated landscapes, information about the fitness consequences of sharing landscapes is still limited. We assessed the ...
    • Extreme home range sizes among Eurasian lynx at the northern edge of their biogeographic range 

      Linnell, John Durrus; Mattisson, Jenny; Odden, John (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) have a wide distribution across Eurasia. The northern edge of this distribution is in Norway, where they reach up to 72 degrees north. We conducted a study of lynx space use in this region from ...
    • Forestry and environmental conditions as determinants of pine marten Martes martes occurrence in Norway 

      Angoh, Siow Yan Jennifer; Thorsen, Neri Horntvedt; Hofmeester, Tim R.; Odden, John; Linnell, John Durrus; Brainerd, Scott Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The European pine marten Martes martes is often associated with late seral stage coniferous forest stands. Earlier research has indicated that this species may be nega-tively influenced by clearcutting practices. However, ...
    • Framing pictures: A conceptual framework to identify and correct for biases in detection probability of camera traps enabling multi‐species comparison 

      Hofmeester, Tim R.; Cromsigt, Joris P.G.M.; Odden, John; Andrén, Henrik; Kindberg, Jonas; Linnell, John Durrus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Obtaining reliable species observations is of great importance in animal ecology and wildlife conservation. An increasing number of studies use camera traps (CTs) to study wildlife communities, and an increasing effort is ...
    • Harvest models of small populations of a large carnivore using Bayesian forecasting 

      Andrén, Henrik; Hobbs, N. Thompson; Aronsson, Malin; Brøseth, Henrik; Chapron, Guillaume; Linnell, John Durrus; Odden, John; Persson, Jens; Nilssen, Erlend B. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Harvesting large carnivores can be a management tool for meeting politically set goals for their desired abundance. However, harvesting carnivores creates its own set of conflicts in both society and among conservation ...
    • Intensity of space use reveals conditional sex-specific effects of prey and conspecific density on home range size 

      Aronsson, Malin; Low, Matthew; López-Bao, José Vicente; Persson, Jens; Odden, John; Linnell, John Durrus; Andrén, Henrik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
    • Lynx predation on semi-domestic reindeer: do age and sex matter? 

      Mattisson, Jenny; Arntsen, Gustav Busch; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; Loe, Leif Egil; Linnell, John Durrus; Odden, John; Persson, J.; Andrén, H. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      The Eurasian lynx is an efficient stalking predator mainly selecting small-sized ungulates. In northern Scandinavia, semi-domestic reindeer are the only ungulate species available for Eurasian lynx year round and consequently ...
    • Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements 

      Tucker, Marlee A.; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Fagan, William F.; Fryxell, John M.; Van Moorter, Bram; Alberts, Susan C.; Ali, Abdullahi H.; Allen, Andrew M.; Attias, Nina; Avgar, Tal; Bartlam-Brooks, Hattie; Bayarbaatar, Buuveibaatar; Belant, Jerrold L.; Bertassoni, Alessandra; Beyer, Dean; Bidner, Laura; van Beest, Floris M.; Blake, Stephen; Blaum, Niels; Bracis, Chloe; Brown, Danielle; de Bruyn, P. J. Nico; Cagnacci, Francesca; Calabrese, Justin M.; Camilo-Alves, Constança; Chamaille-Jammes, Simon; Chiaradia, Andre; Davidson, Sarah C.; Todd, Dennis; DeStefano, Stephen; Diefenbach, Duane; Douglas-Hamilton, Iain; Fennesy, Julian; Fichtel, Claudia; Fiedler, Wolfgang; Fischer, Christina; Fischoff, Ilya; Fleming, Christen H.; Ford, Adam T.; Fritz, Susanne A.; Gehr, Benedikt; Goheen, Jacob R.; Gurarie, Eliezer; Hebblewhite, Mark; Heurich, Marco; Hewison, A.J.Mark; Hof, Christian; Hurme, Edward; Isbell, Lynne A.; Janssen, René; Jeltsch, Florian; Kaczensky, Petra; Linnell, John Durrus; Mattisson, Jenny; Mysterud, Atle; Odden, John; Rolandsen, Christer Moe; Solberg, Erling Johan; Strand, Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    • Parturition dates in wild Eurasian lynx: evidence of a second oestrus? 

      Mattisson, Jenny; Odden, John; Linnell, John Durrus; Painer, Johanna; Persson, Jens; Andrén, Henrik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Understanding reproductive physiology of a species is important to assess their potential to respond to environmental variation and perturbation of their social system during the mating or pre-mating seasons. We report 175 ...
    • Predation or scavenging? Prey body condition influences decision-making in a facultative predator, the wolverine. Photo gallery 

      Mattisson, Jenny; Rauset, Geir Rune; Odden, John; Andrén, Henrik; Linnell, John Durrus; Persson, Jens (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      What determines whether a predator scavenges or kills its own prey? Using data on wolverines ( Gulo gulo ) in Scandinavia, we studied variation in diet and feeding strategies along a gradient of environmental productivity, ...
    • Predation or scavenging? Prey body condition influencesdecision-making in a facultative predator, the wolverine 

      Mattisson, Jenny; Rauset, Geir Rune; Odden, John; Andren, Henrik; Linnell, John Durrus; Persson, Jens (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      The interaction between predators and their prey is a key factor driving population dynamics and shaping wildlife communities. Most predators will scavenge in addition to killing their own prey, which alters predation ...
    • Predicting kill sites of an apex predator from GPS data in different multi-prey systems 

      Oliveira, Teresa; Sanchez, David Carricondo; Mattisson, Jenny; Vogt, Kristina; Corradini, Andrea; Linnell, John Durrus; Odden, John; Heurich, Marco Dietmar; Rodríguez-Recio, Mariano; Krofel, Miha (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Kill rates are a central parameter to assess the impact of predation on prey species. An accurate estimation of kill rates requires a correct identification of kill sites, often achieved by field-checking GPS location ...
    • Quantifying the checks and balances of collaborative governance systems for adaptive carnivore management 

      Cusack, Jeremy J.; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; Israelsen, Markus Fjellstad; Andrén, Henrik; Grainger, Matthew; Linnell, John Durrus; Odden, John; Bunnefeld, Nils (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      1. Recovering or threatened carnivore populations are often harvested to minimise their impact on human activities, such as livestock farming or game hunting. Increasingly, harvest quota decisions involve a set of scientific, ...
    • Refrigeration or anti-theft? Food-caching behavior of Wolverines (Gulo gulo) in Scandinavia 

      van der Veen, Bert; Mattisson, Jenny; Zimmermann, Barbara; Odden, John; Persson, Jens (Journal article, 2020)
      Food-caching animals can gain nutritional advantages by buffering seasonality in food availability, especially during times of scarcity. The wolverine (Gulo gulo) is a facultative predator that occupies environments of low ...
    • Right on track? Performance of satellite telemetry in terrestrial wildlife research 

      Hofman, M.P.G.; Hayward, M.W.; Heim, Morten; Marchand, P.; Rolandsen, Christer Moe; Mattisson, Jenny; Urbano, Ferdinando; Heurich, Marco; Mysterud, Atle; Melzheimer, Jörg; Morellet, Nicolas; Voigt, Ulrich; Allen, B.L.; Gehr, B.; Rouco, C.; Ullmann, W.; Holand, Øystein; Jørgensen, Nicolai Hermann; Steinheim, Geir; Cagnacci, Fransesca; Kroeschel, Max; Kaczensky, Petra; Buuveibaatar, Bayarbaatar; Payne, J.C.; Palmegiani, I.; Jerina, K.; Kjellander, P.; Johansson, Ö.; LaPoint, S.; Bayrakcismith, R.; Linnell, John Durrus; Zaccaroni, M.; Jorge, M.L.S.; Oshima, J.E.F.; Songhurst, A.; Fischer, C.; Mc Bride Jr., R.T.; Thompson, J.J.; Streif, S.; Sandfordt, R.; Bonenfant, Christophe; Drouilly, M.; Klapproth, M.; Zinner, D.; Yarnell, R.; Stronza, A.; Wilmott, L.; Meisingset, Erling L.; Thaker, M.; Vanak, A.T.; Odden, John (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Satellite telemetry is an increasingly utilized technology in wildlife research, and current devices can track individual animal movements at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolutions. However, as we enter the golden ...