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Advances in population ecology and species interactions in mammals

  • Kelt, Douglas A Department of Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
  • Heske, Edward J Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
  • Lambin, Xavier School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
  • Oli, Madan K Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
  • Orrock, John L Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
  • Ozgul, Arpat Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Pauli, Jonathan N Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
  • Prugh, Laura R School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  • Sollmann, Rahel Department of Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
  • Sommer, Stefan ORCID Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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  • 2019-5-23
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  • Journal of Mammalogy. - Oxford University Press (OUP). - 2019, vol. 100, no. 3, p. 965-1007
English AbstractThe study of mammals has promoted the development and testing of many ideas in contemporary ecology. Here we address recent developments in foraging and habitat selection, source–sink dynamics, competition (both within and between species), population cycles, predation (including apparent competition), mutualism, and biological invasions. Because mammals are appealing to the public, ecological insight gleaned from the study of mammals has disproportionate potential in educating the public about ecological principles and their application to wise management. Mammals have been central to many computational and statistical developments in recent years, including refinements to traditional approaches and metrics (e.g., capture-recapture) as well as advancements of novel and developing fields (e.g., spatial capture-recapture, occupancy modeling, integrated population models). The study of mammals also poses challenges in terms of fully characterizing dynamics in natural conditions. Ongoing climate change threatens to affect global ecosystems, and mammals provide visible and charismatic subjects for research on local and regional effects of such change as well as predictive modeling of the long-term effects on ecosystem function and stability. Although much remains to be done, the population ecology of mammals continues to be a vibrant and rapidly developing field. We anticipate that the next quarter century will prove as exciting and productive for the study of mammals as has the recent one.
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