ArticleEcological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America2021
Living in the concrete jungle: carnivore spatial ecology in urban parks.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The Human Shield Hypothesis: Does Predator Avoidance of Humans Create Refuges for Prey?Ecology letters · 2025Pooled it
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- Differential effects of human density, environmental health, and group size on urban coyote detection, boldness, and exploration.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Network dynamics revealed from eDNA highlight seasonal variation in urban mammal communities.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Carnivore activity across landuse gradients in a Mexican biosphere reserve.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Human recreational activity does not influence open cup avian nest survival in urban green spaces.Urban ecosystems · 2025Article
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- Mammalian predator and prey responses to recreation and land use across multiple scales provide limited support for the human shield hypothesis.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Anthropogenic activities and age class mediate carnivore habitat selection in a human-dominated landscape.iScience · 2023Article
- ScavengingPeerJ · 2022Article
- Living in the concrete jungle: carnivore spatial ecology in urban parks.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
People and wildlife are living in an increasingly urban world, replete with unprecedented human densities, sprawling built environments, and altered landscapes. Such anthropogenic pressures can affect multiple processes within an ecological community, from spatial patterns to interspecific interactions. We tested two competing hypotheses, human shields vs. human competitors, to characterize how humans affect the carnivore community using multispecies occupancy models. From 2017 to 2020, we conducted the first camera survey of city parks in Detroit, Michigan, and collected spatial occurrence data of the local native carnivore community. Our 12,106-trap night survey captured detection data for coyotes (Canis latrans), red foxes (Vulpes vulpes), raccoons (Procyon lotor), and striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis). Overall occupancy varied across species (Ψ
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