An individual-based model for southern Lake Superior wolves: A tool to explore the effect of human-caused mortality on a landscape of risk

• Main Authors: Stenglein, Jennifer L., Gilbert, Jonathan H., Wydeven, Adrian P., Van Deelen, Timothy R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Indian; Southern Lake; Canis lupus
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380015000411

Gray wolves (Canis lupus) have complex life-histories due, in part, to mating systems that depend on intra-group dominance hierarchies set within an inter-group (pack) social structure linked to philopatric territories. In addition to this spatially oriented social structure, mortality risk associat...