Publications by authors named "Ursa Flezar"
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- Inbreeding depression significantly threatens small populations, leading to harmful mutations and lower survival rates.
- Reinforcement strategies, like translocating individuals from larger populations, can increase genetic diversity and help prevent extinction.
- After translocating Eurasian lynx to the Dinaric Mountains, genetic improvements were noted, but models predict that without ongoing management, inbreeding could recover to critical levels in just 45 years.
The estimation of foraging parameters is fundamental for understanding predator ecology. Predation and feeding can vary with multiple factors, such as prey availability, presence of kleptoparasites and human disturbance. However, our knowledge is mostly limited to local scales, which prevents studying effects of environmental factors across larger ecological gradients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWildlife must adapt to human presence to survive in the Anthropocene, so it is critical to understand species responses to humans in different contexts. We used camera trapping as a lens to view mammal responses to changes in human activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Across 163 species sampled in 102 projects around the world, changes in the amount and timing of animal activity varied widely.
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