New Paper out on the ongoing #wolf expansion in Germany. Work led by Aimara Planillo at the IZW shows that there is still much suitable habitat available for wolves to colonize in Germany. Paper in diversity and Distributions --> https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13789
#rewilding #LargeCarnivores #Megafauna
Using 20 years of wolf data in a distribution modelling framework showed how habitat selection of the species changed along the recolonization since the early 2000s. Models using all data (telemetry and other data) = best.
The non-stationarity of wolf habitat selection towards human disturbance we show also means it is good to be careful about spatial extrapolation and space-for-time substitutions, for wolves and other range-expanding species. #SDM