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  • Wildlife population estimation and monitoring

    Reliable data on animal distribution and abundance are required to advance ecological inquiry and guide wildlife management. Data must be collected at appropriately large spatial and temporal scales to capture relevant processes for wide-ranging species and regional planning. Robust models are needed to project inferences into unsampled space and time, and inherent uncertainty must be […]

  • Coexisting with large carnivores

    Large mammalian carnivores represent a particular challenge for wildlife management. They can generate significant support for conservation and their loss may cause cascading effects through an ecosystem. However, carnivore populations require large, interconnected habitats with abundant prey, and frequently create conflict with remote or expanding human communities. Coexisting with carnivores therefore requires a landscape-level perspective […]

  • Mammal community dynamics in altered ecosystems

    Despite their important ecological roles and socioeconomic significance, many terrestrial mammal populations are threatened by a range of anthropogenic stressors, including hunting, habitat loss, and climate change. Other mammals successfully exploit anthropogenic environments due to changes in habitat suitability or predation pressure. Wildlife management has typically focused on single-species assessments and actions, yet a fuller […]

  • Assessing and advancing conservation effectiveness

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Welcome to the Wildlife Coexistence Lab at UBC!

We are a group of researchers in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Our research is focused on human-wildlife coexistence across multiple species and scales, with a particular emphasis on large-bodied terrestrial mammals.

The lab is led by Dr. Cole Burton, Associate Professor in the Department of Forest Resources Management, and Canada Research Chair in Terrestrial Mammal Conservation.

 

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New Lab Paper: Behavioral “bycatch” from camera trap surveys yields insights on prey responses to human-mediated predation risk

September 26, 2022

We are so excited to share this paper investigating how human disturbance is affecting predator-prey relationships in Alberta’s boreal forest. We were able to use previously collected camera trap data to assess behavioural responses of prey species, moose (Alces alces), white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), and caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in areas with differing levels of industrial […]

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New Lab Paper: Behavioral “bycatch” from camera trap surveys yields insights on prey responses to human-mediated predation risk

September 26, 2022

We are so excited to share this paper investigating how human disturbance is affecting predator-prey relationships in Alberta’s boreal forest. We were able to use previously collected camera trap data to assess behavioural responses of prey species, moose (Alces alces), white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), and caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in areas with differing levels of industrial disturbance and predation risk. We found that the prey species were more risk-averse in the more disturbed landscape with higher predation risk. This is an important finding given that the caribou in this area area increasingly threatened by disturbance and predation.

This paper was truly a lab effort. It was started at the first WildCo Lab retreat in February of 2020, and involved now past and current undergrad, masters and PhD students, and post-doc researchers from the lab, with our PI Cole Burton leading the charge. We are so happy to have it out in the world and to showcase yet another use of camera trap data!

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Check out the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9108

 

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UBC Giving Day 2021

March 29, 2021

We are excited to share that the WildCo Lab is a part of UBC’s Giving Day on April 7! As Giving Day approaches, we’ll be on social media highlighting different projects in the lab and sharing how your donations could help support our work. Follow along on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to get the latest […]

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UBC Giving Day 2021

March 29, 2021

We are excited to share that the WildCo Lab is a part of UBC’s Giving Day on April 7! As Giving Day approaches, we’ll be on social media highlighting different projects in the lab and sharing how your donations could help support our work. Follow along on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to get the latest updates about the wildlife conservation work we’re doing and for a chance to win prizes with your wildlife knowledge! We hope you’ll join us on April 7 and help us reach our goal of 20 donations (big or small!) to unlock $2000 from the Faculty of Forestry. To make a donation or learn more about Giving Day, visit https://bit.ly/3ffhKWw.

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New paper: Predicting human-carnivore conflict at the urban-wildland interface

November 9, 2020

Joanna Klees van Bommel (WildCo masters student 2017-2019) has published the first chapter from her thesis: “Predicting human-carnivore conflict at the urban-wildland interface” in Global Ecology and Conservation. Congratulations Joanna! Check out the full article here and a great tweet thread summarising her main findings here!

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New paper: Predicting human-carnivore conflict at the urban-wildland interface

November 9, 2020

Joanna Klees van Bommel (WildCo masters student 2017-2019) has published the first chapter from her thesis: “Predicting human-carnivore conflict at the urban-wildland interface” in Global Ecology and Conservation.

Congratulations Joanna! Check out the full article here and a great tweet thread summarising her main findings here!

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Check out the WildCo Lab’s and Cole’s personal Twitter feeds and our Instagram for more information.

 

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