Effects of Social Structure and Prey Dynamics on Extinction Risk in Gray Wolves

• Published in: Conservation Biology
• Main Authors: Vucetich, John A., Peterson, Rolf O., Waite, Thomas A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1997
• Subjects: Lobos; Canis lupus; gray wolf
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.1997.95366.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1523-1739.1997.95366.x; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1046/j.1523-1739.1997.95366.x/fullpdf

Extinction models based on diffusion theory generally fail to incorporate two important aspects of population biology—social structure and prey dynamics. We include these aspects in an individual‐based extinction model for small, isolated populations of the gray wolf (Canis lupus). Our model predict...