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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Background
Many pathogens and parasites can infect multiple host species, and the competence of different hosts as pathogen reservoirs is key to understanding their epidemiology. Small mammals are important ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or prion diseases comprise diseases with different levels of contagiousness under natural conditions. The hypothesis has been raised that the chronic wasting disease (CWD) cases ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Wild boar Sus scrofa is increasing in numbers and extending its distribution across Europe and is difficult to control due to high reproductive potential. Dietary quality is a main determinant of wild boar population ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is well known among cervids in North America. Nevertheless, management faced different types and degrees of uncertainty when CWD was first detected in reindeer Rangifer tarandus in Nordfjella, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The management of infectious wildlife diseases often involves tackling pathogens that infect multiple host species. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease that can infect most cervid species. CWD was detected in ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Background
Although wild ungulate populations are heavily monitored throughout Europe, we understand little of how parasites affect population dynamics, and there is no systematic, long-term monitoring of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Climate change has had a major impact on seasonal weather patterns, resulting in marked phenological changes in a wide range of taxa. However, empirical studies of how changes in seasonality impact the emergence and seasonal ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
COVID-19 lockdowns in early 2020 reduced human mobility, providing an opportunity to disentangle its effects on animals from those of landscape modifications. Using GPS data, we compared movements and road avoidance of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Context The Complementary Habitat Hypothesis posits that animals access resources for different needs by moving between complementary habitats that can be seen as ‘resource composites’. These movements can occur over a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Human activity and associated landscape modifications alter the movements of animals with consequences for populations and ecosystems worldwide. Species performing long‐distance movements are thought to be ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Supplemental feeding of cervids during winter is a widespread management practice, but feeding may increase the risk of disease transmission. Therefore, legal regulations to limit supplemental feeding are often implemented ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Climate changes may lead to tipping points where the epidemiologicalcharacteristics of infectious wildlife diseases suddenly change, leading tooutbreaks. However, empirically documented cases of the extent to whichemerging ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
1. Surveillance of wildlife diseases poses considerable logistical challenges compared to that of humans or livestock. Citizen science can enable broader coverage, but building an efficient disease monitoring system that ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Lyme borreliosis, the most common vector‐borne disease in Europe and North America, is attracting growing concern due to its expanding geographic range. The growth in incidence and geographic spread is largely ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
1. Many pathogens can infect several host species, which complicates the management of wildlife diseases. Even for generalist pathogens, hosts are not equally competent, and variable niche overlap between hosts leads to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Heterogeneous aggregation of parasites between individual hosts is common and regarded as an important factor in understanding transmission dynamics of vector-borne diseases. Lyme disease is vectored by generalist ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The European Commission requested an analysis of the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) monitoring programme in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (9 January 2017–28 February 2022). Thirteen ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Enteric protozoan parasites Giardia duodenalis, Cryptosporidium spp., and, to a lesser extent, the ciliate Balantioides coli are responsible for severe human and animal intestinal disorders globally. However, limited ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Population densities of several cervid species have increased in recent decades in North America and Europe, and cervids frequently eat and damage agricultural crops. Competition and depletion of natural food resources are ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Many wild animals perceive humans as predators, and human disturbance,especially in the form of hunting, triggers antipredatory behavior among prey.Yet, knowledge of how game species react to different types of human ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Aim: Macroecological studies that require habitat suitability data for many species often derive this information from expert opinion. However, expert- based informa-tion is inherently subjective and thus prone to errors. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
1. Emerging wildlife diseases often comeswith negative cultural and economic impact. Limiting disease spread is a recurrent goal and challenge, but the efficacy of various mitigationmeasures is rarely assessed. 2. Chronic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Deer (Cervidae) are key components of many ecosystems and estimating deer abundance or density is important to understanding these roles. Many field methods have been used to estimate deer abundance and density, but the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
High host density combined with climate change may lead to invasion of harmful parasites in cervid (host) populations. Bot flies (Diptera: Oestridae) are a group of ectoparasites that may have strong impact on their hosts, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
1. International policy for the management of wildlife disease(s) plays an important role for concerted action, and changes to policy should be evidence-based and updated as new evidence accumulates. Management of chronic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Continuing geographic spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) poses a serious threat to the sustainable future of cervids and hunting in North America. Moreover, CWD has been detected in captive cervids in South Korea and, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Background
In Europe, the generalist tick, Ixodes ricinus, is the main vector of several tick-borne pathogens causing diseases in humans and livestock. Understanding how different species of hosts limit ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Background
Human disturbance alters animal movement globally and infrastructure, such as roads, can act as physical barriers that impact behaviour across multiple spatial scales. In ungulates, roads can ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Herbivores like cervids usually graze on widely scattered forage, but anthropogenic food sources may cause spatial revisitation and aggregation, posing a risk for transmission of infectious diseases. In 2016, chronic wasting ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Hunting of cervids is commonly regulated by quotas that are specific to sex and age groups. There is substantial cultural variation in how quotas are regulated. In Scandinavia, the entire quotas are often not shot making ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Reindeer pastoralism is a widespread practise across Fennoscandia and Russia. An outbreak of chronic wasting disease (CWD) among wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) poses a severe threat to the semi-domestic reindeer herding ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Herbivores shape vegetation by suppressing certain plant species while benefitting others. By thus modifying plant species functional composition, herbivores affect carbon cycling, albedo, vegetation structure and species' ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The intensive harvesting of hosts is often the only practicable strategy for controlling emerging wildlife diseases. Several harvesting approaches have been explored theoretically with the objective of lowering transmission ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Partial migration, whereby a proportion of a population migrates between distinct seasonal ranges, is common throughout the animal kingdom. However, studies linking existing theoretical models of migration probability, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The forage maturation hypothesis (FMH) states that energy intake for ungulates is maximised when forage biomass is at intermediate levels. Nevertheless, metabolic allometry and different digestive systems suggest that ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Space demanding mammalian species, such as reindeer, are in decline worldwide due to habitat loss and fragmentation. Policy to restore connectivity of reindeer habitat is now put to an abrupt halt in several areas because ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The successful mitigation of emerging wildlife diseases may involve controversial host culling. For livestock, ‘preemptive host culling’ is an accepted practice involving the removal of herds with known contact to infected ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Animals exhibit a diversity of movement tactics [1]. Tracking resources that change across space and time is predicted to be a fundamental driver of animal movement [2]. For example, some migratory ungulates (i.e., hooved ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Abstract Prion diseases constitute a class of invariably fatal and degenerative encephalopathies. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a contagious prion disease among cervids, which is spreading and causing marked population ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Background
Recent global changes have led to an increase in distribution of ticks towards higher elevation and latitude in Europe and livestock are at increasing risk of contracting tick-borne diseases, but psychological ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
1. Hunting and culling are frequently used to combat infectious wildlife diseases. The aim is to markedly lower population density in order to limit disease transmission or to eradicate the host. Massive host culling can ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Many animal populations providing ecosystem services, including harvest, live in seasonal environments and migrate between seasonally distinct ranges. Unfortunately, two major sources of human-induced global change threaten ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Human hunters are described as ‘superpredators’ with a unique ecology. Chronic wasting disease among cervids and African swine fever among wild boar are emerging wildlife diseases in Europe, with huge economic and cultural ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Arctic ungulates are experiencing the most rapid climate warming on Earth. While concerns have been raised that more frequent icing events may cause die-offs, and earlier springs may generate a trophic mismatch in phenology, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Background
Anaplasma phagocytophilum is currently regarded as a single species. However, molecular studies indicate that it can be subdivided into ecotypes, each with distinct but overlapping transmission ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Humans have widely extirpated large carnivores and simultaneously promoted overabundance of deer. The intense pressure imposed by these herbivores in forests has led to extremely low rates of natural forest regeneration. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; 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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Background
The geographical expansion of the tick Ixodes ricinus in northern Europe is a serious concern for animal and human health. The pathogen Anaplasma phagocytophilum is transmitted by ticks and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
With climate change, the effect of global warming on snow cover is expected to cause range expansion and enhance habitat suitability for species at their northern distribution limits. However, how this depends on landscape ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Wild animal populations experience selection pressures from both natural and anthropogenic sources. The availability of extensive pedigrees is increasing along with our ability to quantify the heritability and evolvability ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The costs of reproduction are important in shaping individual life histories, and hence population dynamics, but the mechanistic pathways of such costs are often unknown. Female reindeer have evolved antlers possibly due ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
In animals with long generation times, evolution of physiological and morphological traits may not be fast enough to keep up with rapid climate warming, but thermoregulatory behaviour can possibly serve as an important ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The pathogens causing Lyme disease are all vectored by generalist tick species found on a wide range of vertebrates, but spatial and annual variation in host use has rarely been quantified. We here compare the load of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
We present methodological advances to a recently developed framework to study sequential habitat use by animals using a visually-explicit and tree-based Sequence Analysis Method (SAM), derived from molecular biology and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Many vector-borne diseases are transmitted through complex pathogen–vector–host networks, which makes it challenging to identify the role of specific host groups in disease emergence. Lyme borreliosis in humans is now the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Infection patterns linked to age and sex are crucial to predict the population dynamic effects of diseases in long-lived species. How such demographic patterns of infection arise is often multifactorial, although the cause ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Most populations of large mammals in developed countries are managed by human hunting, but there are surprisingly few empirical studies about the benefits and limitations of using recreational hunters to achieve specific ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Lyme borreliosis is the most common vector-borne zoonosis in the northern hemisphere, and the pathogens causing Lyme borreliosis have distinct, incompletely described transmission cycles involving multiple host groups. The ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The supplementary feeding of cervids is a widespread practice across the northern hemisphere. There are few studies, however, regarding the extent of feeding in space and time. There are adverse effects of supplementary ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Ongoing global warming is now affecting migratory cycles in a large variety of taxa in seasonally variable environments. Disruption of migratory systems can cause population decline and affect ecosystem function across the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Cervids are keystone species in ecosystems and are associated with enormous cultural and economic value. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal prion disease spreading in North American cervid populations. The 2016 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Background
Emergence of tick-borne diseases is impacting humans and livestock across the Northern Hemisphere. There are, however, large regional variations in number of cases of tick-borne diseases. Some ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Much research on large herbivore movement has focused on the annual scale to distinguish between resident and migratory tactics, commonly assuming that individuals are sedentary at the within-season scale. However, apparently ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Intense selective harvest of large mammals who carry the largest weapons may lead to an evolutionary shrinkage of those weapons. Currently, evidence suggesting evolutionary effects of harvest is limited to a few species ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Migratory large herbivores in seasonal environments are known to follow the onset of new growth during spring, so‐called green‐wave surfing. This ensures prolonged access to forage with an optimal balance between forage ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)
1. Fencing is a contentious issue due to its impact on conservation. The Danish government aims to establish a 70 km fence towards the border of Germany and the agricultural ministry of Bulgaria erected 133 km fences along ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
1. Surveillance of wildlife diseases is logistically difficult, and imperfect detection is a recurrent challenge for disease estimation. Using citizen science can increase sample sizes, but it is associated with a cost in ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)
Management of large carnivores is among the most controversial topics in natural resource administration. Regulated hunting is a centrepiece of many carnivore management programmes and, although a number of hunting effects ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
1. Selective hunting can affect demographic characteristics and phenotypic traits of the targeted species. Hunting systems often involve harvesting quotas based on sex, age and/or size categories to avoid selective pressure. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
With the surge of GPS-technology, many studies uncovered space use of mobile animals and shed light on the underlying behavioral mechanisms of habitat selection. Habitat selection and variation in either occurrence or ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The complex interactions between different spatial, temporal, and functional scales in social-ecological systems are recognized as a key challenge in sustainable management of natural resources. We analyze scale mismatches ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Supplemental feeding for ungulates is a widespread practice in many human-dominated landscapes across Europe and North America, mainly intended to seasonally support populations. Surprisingly, little consideration was given ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Warming-induced range shifts along elevational and latitudinal gradients have been observed in several species from various taxa. The mobility and behavioral plasticity of large endothermic mammals, however, complicate the ...
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Large herbivores gain nutritional benefits from following the sequential flush of newly emergent, high-quality forage along environmental gradients in the landscape, termed green wave surfing. Which landscape characteristics ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Obligate herbivores dominate studies of the eff ects of climate change on mammals, however there is limited empirical evidence for how changes in the abundance or quality of plant food aff ect mammalian omnivores. Omnivores ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Wildlife management systems face growing challenges to cope with increasingly complex interactions between wildlife populations, the environment and human activities. In this position statement, we address the most important ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
1. Population-level management is difficult to achieve if wildlife routinely crosses administrative boundaries, as is particularly frequent for migratory populations. However, the degree of mismatch between management units ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The factors that drive the emergence of vector-borne diseases are difficult to identify due to the complexity of the pathogen-vector-host triad. We used a novel comparative approach to analyse four long-term datasets ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Partial migration is common in a large variety of taxa in seasonally variable environments. Understanding the mechanisms underlying migration is important, as migration affects individual fi tness. Migratory herbivores ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Background
Many wingless ectoparasites have a limited capacity for active movement and are therefore primarily dependent on hitchhiking on their hosts for transportation. The distribution of the tick Ixodes ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Background
The deer ked (Lipoptena cervi) is an ectoparasite on cervids that has invaded large parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland during recent decades. During their host-seeking flight activity, the adult ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Large herbivore consumption of forage is known to affect vegetation composition and thereby ecosystem functions. It is thus important to understand how diet composition arises as a mixture of individual variation in ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Global environmental changes are causing Lyme disease to emerge in Europe. The life cycle of Ixodes ricinus, the tick vector of Lyme disease, involves an ontogenetic niche shift, from the larval and nymphal stages utilizing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
As global warming advances, there is a growing concern about the impact of extreme weather events on ecosystems. In the Arctic, more frequent unseasonal warm spells and rain-on- snow events in winter cause changes in ...
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Avoiding predators most often entails a food cost. For the Scandinavian brown bear (Ursus arctos), the hunting season coincides with the period of hyperphagia. Hunting mortality risk is not uniformly distributed throughout ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Background
Understanding aggregation of ticks on hosts and attachment of life stages to different host species, are central components for understanding tick-borne disease epidemiology. The generalist tick, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Treelines differentiate vastly contrasting ecosystems: open tundra from closed forest. Treeline advance has implications for the climate system due to the impact of the transition from tundra to forest ecosystem on carbon ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Large carnivore populations are recovering in many parts of the world and this generates conflicts with humans, notably in terms of livestock depredation. Governmental programs of mitigation measures and compensation for ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Most cervid populations in Europe and North America are managed through selective harvesting, often with age- and sex-specific quotas, with a large influence on the population growth rate. Less well understood is how ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Background: Ticks and tick-borne diseases are increasing in many areas of Europe and North America due to climate change, while land use and the increased abundances of large hosts play a more controversial role. The pattern ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Background: Climate change can affect the activity and distribution of species, including pathogens and parasites. The densities and distribution range of the sheep tick (Ixodes ricinus) and it’s transmitted pathogens ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Herbivores may increase or decrease aboveground plant productivity depending on factors such as herbivore density and habitat productivity. The grazing optimization hypothesis predicts a peak in plant production at ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Determining the spatial distribution of large herbivores is a key challenge in ecology and management. However, our ability to accurately predict this is often hampered by inadequate data on available forage and structural ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
The number of pathogens known to infect humans is ever increasing. Whether such increase reflects improved surveillance and detection or actual emergence of novel pathogens is unclear. Nonetheless, infectious diseases are ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Partial migration is common among northern ungulates, typically involving an altitudinal movement for seasonally migratory individuals. The main driving force behind migration is the benefit of an extended period of access ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Background. Understanding the variation in prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (Lyme Borreliosis Spirochaetes, LBS) and Anaplasma phagocytophilum (causing tick-borne fever in ruminants and human granulocytic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Background. The Lévy flight foraging hypothesis predicts a transition from scale-free Lévy walk (LW) to scale-specific Brownian motion (BM) as an animal moves from resource-poor towards resource-rich environment. However, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
The widespread expansion of shrubs into arctic and alpine regions has frequently been linked to climatic warming, but herbivory can play a role in addition to, or in interaction with, climate. Willow (Salix spp.) shrubs ...