Human-Carnivore Coexistence on Southern Vancouver Island

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Human-Carnivore Coexistence on Southern Vancouver Island

55 cameras have been deployed along an urban to wild gradient in order to calculate relative abundance along the gradient and to investigate potential correlation with human attractants and how many conflicts each area experiences. This project will demonstrate what areas black bears are using within an urban-wild interface, what impacts can have on that usage, and how that usage changes daily and seasonally.

Project Leads: Joanna Klees van Bommel ; Cole Burton

Affiliations: Wildlife Coexistence Laboratory (University of British Columbia); Coexisting with Carnivores Alliance; Capital Regional District

Project Collaborators: Todd Golumbia

Focal Species: Black Bear; Cougar; Grey Wolf

Publications:

Combining camera trap surveys and IUCN range maps to improve knowledge of species distributions

Cheng Chen, Alys Granados, Jedediah F. Brodie, Roland Kays, T. Jonathan Davies, Runzhe Liu, Jason T. Fisher, Jorge Ahumada, William McShea, Douglas Sheil, Jayasilan Mohd-Azlan, Bernard Agwanda, Mahandry H. Andrianarisoa, Robyn D. Appleton, Robert Bitariho, Santiago Espinosa, Melissa M. Grigione, Kristofer M. Helgen, Andy Hubbard, Cindy M. Hurtado, Patrick A. Jansen, Xuelong Jiang, Alex Jones, Elizabeth L. Kalies, Cisquet Kiebou-Opepa, Xueyou Li, Marcela Guimarães Moreira Lima, Erik Meyer, Anna B. Miller, Thomas Murphy, Renzo Piana, Rui-Chang Quan, Christopher T. Rota, Francesco Rovero, Fernanda Santos, Stephanie Schuttler, Aisha Uduman, Joanna Klees van Bommel, Hilary Young, A. Cole Burton

Conservation Biology | 2023

Mammalian predator and prey responses to recreation and land use across multiple scales provide limited support for the human shield hypothesis

Alys Granados, Catherine Sun, Jason T. Fisher, Andrew Ladle, Kimberly Dawe, Christopher Beirne, Mark S. Boyce, Emily Chow, Nicole Heim, Mitchell Fennell, Joanna Klees van Bommel, Robin Naidoo, Michael Procko, Frances E. C. Stewart, A. Cole Burton

Ecology and Evolution | 2023

Planning for coexistence : assessing predictors of human-carnivore conflict on Southern Vancouver Island (T)

Joanna Klees van Bommel

University of British Columbia | 2019