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Population ecology of free-roaming cats and interference competition by coyotes in urban parks by Gehrt, Stanley D, Wilson, Evan C, Brown, Justin L, Anchor, Chris

“…Free-roaming cats are a common element of urban landscapes worldwide, often causing controversy regarding their impacts on ecological systems and public…”
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Individual variation in anthropogenic resource use in an urban carnivore by Newsome, Seth D., Garbe, Heidi M., Wilson, Evan C., Gehrt, Stanley D.

“…With increasing urbanization, some animals are adapting to human-dominated systems, offering unique opportunities to study individual adaptation to novel…”
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Behavioral responses by an apex predator to urbanization by Ellington, E Hance, Gehrt, Stanley D

“…Wildlife can respond to urbanization positively (synanthropic) or negatively (misanthropic), and for some species, this is a nonlinear process, whereby low…”
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Seasonal and daily shifts in behavior and resource selection: how a carnivore navigates costly landscapes by Ellington, E. Hance, Muntz, Erich M., Gehrt, Stanley D.

“…The dynamic environmental conditions in highly seasonal systems likely have a strong influence on how species use the landscape. Animals must balance seasonal…”
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Behavior‐specific habitat selection by raccoons in the Prairie Pothole Region of Manitoba by Milling, Charlotte R., Gehrt, Stanley D.

“…Patterns of resource selection depend upon an animal's behavioral state. Because management strategies are often crafted from an understanding of animal space…”
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Stress in the city? Coyote hair cortisol varies with intrinsic and extrinsic factors within a heavily urbanized landscape by Robertson, Katie E., Ellington, E. Hance, Tonra, Christopher M., Gehrt, Stanley D.

“…Wildlife living in proximity to people are exposed to both natural and anthropogenic factors that may influence cortisol production associated with stress…”
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Home Range and Landscape Use of Coyotes in a Metropolitan Landscape: Conflict or Coexistence? by Gehrt, Stanley D., Anchor, Chris, White, Lynsey A.

“…An understanding of how top mammalian carnivores respond to urbanization is important for conservation and management of human–wildlife conflicts. Coyotes…”
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Roosting and foraging social structure of the endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) by Silvis, Alexander, Kniowski, Andrew B, Gehrt, Stanley D, Ford, W Mark

“…Social dynamics are an important but poorly understood aspect of bat ecology. Herein we use a combination of graph theoretic and spatial approaches to describe…”
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Raccoon social networks and the potential for disease transmission by Hirsch, Ben T, Prange, Suzanne, Hauver, Stephanie A, Gehrt, Stanley D

“…Raccoons are an important vector of rabies and other pathogens. The degree to which these pathogens can spread through a raccoon population should be closely…”
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Severe environmental conditions create severe conflicts: A novel ecological pathway to extreme coyote attacks on humans by Gehrt, Stanley D., Muntz, Erich M., Wilson, Evan C., Power, Jason W. B., Newsome, Seth D.

“…Identifying the circumstances and causes of carnivore attacks on humans is important for prevention of future incidents as well as employing effective wildlife…”
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Effects of shelterwood harvest and prescribed fire in upland Appalachian hardwood forests on bat activity by Silvis, Alexander, Gehrt, Stanley D., Williams, Roger A.

“…•Harvested stands had higher total activity than controls.•Bat activity increased from one to three growing seasons post-harvest.•Total activity decreased in…”
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Serosurvey for Canine Influenza in Coyotes (Canis latrans) in Illinois, USA, 2000–23 by Winter, John M., Anchor, Chris, Gehrt, Stanley D., Landolfi, Jennifer, Allender, Matthew C.

“…Coyotes (Canis latrans) share urban habitats with domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris), providing opportunities for pathogen transmission. In Chicago,…”
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Modernization, Risk, and Conservation of the World’s Largest Carnivores by BRUSKOTTER, JEREMY T., VUCETICH, JOHN A., MANFREDO, MICHAEL J., KARNS, GABRIEL R., WOLF, CHRISTOPHER, ARD, KERRY, CARTER, NEIL H., LÓPEZ-BAO, JOSÉ VICENTE, CHAPRON, GUILLAUME, GEHRT, STANLEY D., RIPPLE, WILLIAM J.

“…Large carnivores are threatened worldwide by a variety of human-driven factors, including persecution, which regularly results when they come into conflict…”
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Raccoon contact networks predict seasonal susceptibility to rabies outbreaks and limitations of vaccination by Reynolds, Jennifer J. H, Hirsch, Ben T, Gehrt, Stanley D, Craft, Meggan E, Altizer, Sonia

“…Infectious disease transmission often depends on the contact structure of host populations. Although it is often challenging to capture the contact structure…”
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Genetic relatedness does not predict racoon social network structure by Hirsch, Ben T., Prange, Suzanne, Hauver, Stephanie A., Gehrt, Stanley D.

“…Social assortativity, preferentially associating with certain individuals, is a widespread behaviour among a diverse range of taxa. Animals often choose to…”
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Optimizing free-roaming dog control programs using agent-based models by Yoak, Andrew J., Reece, John F., Gehrt, Stanley D., Hamilton, Ian M.

“…•A model of an Indian free roaming dog population’s dynamics is presented.•Lethal means are less effective at reducing population size than fertility…”
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Home range and habitat selection of the Indiana bat in an agricultural landscape by Kniowski, Andrew B., Gehrt, Stanley D.

“…Agricultural intensification has led to widespread declines in wildlife biodiversity across many taxa. North American bats provide valuable services for…”
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Infection risk varies within urbanized landscapes: the case of coyotes and heartworm by Worsley-Tonks, Katherine E L, Gehrt, Stanley D, Anchor, Chris, Escobar, Luis E, Craft, Meggan E

“…Urbanization can have profound effects on ecological interactions. For host-pathogen interactions, differences have been detected between urban and non-urban…”
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Which mechanisms drive seasonal rabies outbreaks in raccoons? A test using dynamic social network models by Hirsch, Ben T., Reynolds, Jennifer J.H., Gehrt, Stanley D., Craft, Meggan E.

“…The timing of raccoon rabies outbreaks in the eastern USA is non‐random and often exhibits a seasonal peak. While fluctuations in disease transmission can be…”
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Comparison of Antimicrobial-Resistant Escherichia coli Isolates from Urban Raccoons and Domestic Dogs by Worsley-Tonks, Katherine E L, Gehrt, Stanley D, Miller, Elizabeth A, Singer, Randall S, Bender, Jeff B, Forester, James D, McKenzie, Shane C, Travis, Dominic A, Johnson, Timothy J, Craft, Meggan E

“…Wildlife can be exposed to antimicrobial-resistant bacteria (ARB) via multiple pathways. Spatial overlap with domestic animals is a prominent exposure pathway…”
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