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Olof Liberg is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research spans across multiple fields, primarily focusing on Engineering and Environmental Science. Within these main fields, their work covers subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ecology, Computer Networks and Communications, Aerospace Engineering, and Media Technology.

Liberg's research topics are diverse and include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Satellite Communication Systems, IoT Networks and Protocols, Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization, Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies, Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies, and IoT and Edge/Fog Computing.

The scientist has contributed to various publication venues, with multiple papers appearing in Biological Conservation, arXiv (Cornell University), and IEEE Wireless Communications. Other venues include Ericsson Technology Review and Conservation Genetics.

Frequent co-authors of Liberg include Andreas Höglund, Johan Bergman, Mohammad Mozaffari, Sandeep Narayanan Kadan Veedu, and Yufei Blankenship.

Recent papers by Liberg and collaborators include the following:

  • 5G Evolution Toward 5G Advanced: An overview of 3GPP releases 17 and 18 (2021, Ericsson Technology Review)
  • Poaching-related disappearance rate of wolves in Sweden was positively related to population size and negatively to legal culling (2020, Biological Conservation)
  • Genetic signature of immigrants and their effect on genetic diversity in the recently established Scandinavian wolf population (2021, Conservation Genetics)
  • Numerical response of predator to prey: Dynamic interactions and population cycles in Eurasian lynx and roe deer (2023, Ecological Monographs)
  • Relaying Solutions For 5G-IoT Applications: A 3GPP Perspective (2024, IEEE Communications Standards Magazine)

Best Publications

  • Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’s modern human-dominated landscapes

    Guillaume Chapron;Petra Kaczensky;John D. C. Linnell;Manuela von Arx

  • The genomic signature of dog domestication reveals adaptation to a starch-rich diet

    Erik Axelsson;Abhirami Ratnakumar;Maja Louise Arendt;Khurram Maqbool

  • The recovery, distribution, and population dynamics of wolves on the Scandinavian peninsula, 1978-1998

    Petter Wabakken;Håkan Sand;Olof Liberg;Anders Bjärvall

  • Predation as a Regulating Factor on Small Rodent Populations in Southern Sweden

    Sam Erlinge;Görgen Göransson;Lennart Hansson;Göran Högstedt

  • Shoot, shovel and shut up: cryptic poaching slows restoration of a large carnivore in Europe

    Olof Liberg;Guillaume Chapron;Petter Wabakken;Hans Christian Pedersen

  • Severe inbreeding depression in a wild wolf (Canis lupus) population

    Olof Liberg;Henrik Andrén;Hans-Christian Pedersen;Håkan Sand

  • Genomic consequences of intensive inbreeding in an isolated wolf population

    Marty Kardos;Marty Kardos;Mikael Åkesson;Toby Fountain;Øystein Flagstad

  • The fear of wolves: A review of wolf attacks on humans

    John Linnell;Reidar Andersen;Zanete Andersone;Linas Balciauskas

  • Survival rates and causes of mortality in Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in multi-use landscapes

    Henrik Andrén;John D.C. Linnell;Olof Liberg;Reidar Andersen

  • CAN VERTEBRATE PREDATORS REGULATE THEIR PREY

    Sam Erlinge;Gorgen Goransson;Goran Hogstedt;Goran Jansson

  • Summer kill rates and predation pattern in a wolf-moose system: can we rely on winter estimates?

    Håkan Sand;Petter Wabakken;Barbara Zimmermann;Örjan Johansson

  • Variations in adult body mass in roe deer: the effects of population density at birth and of habitat quality

    Nathalie Pettorelli;Jean-Michel Gaillard;Guy Van Laere;Patrick Duncan

  • Antler size provides an honest signal of male phenotypic quality in roe deer.

    Cécile Vanpé;Jean‐Michel Gaillard;Petter Kjellander;Atle Mysterud

  • Home range size and choice of management strategy for lynx in Scandinavia.

    John D. C. Linnell;Reidar Andersen;Tor Kvam;Henrik Andrén

  • Experimental evidence for density-dependence of home-range size in roe deer (Capreolus capreolus L.): a comparison of two long-term studies.

    P. Kjellander;P. Kjellander;A. J. M. Hewison;O. Liberg;J.-M. Angibault

  • The Effects of Breeder Loss on Wolves

    Scott M. Brainerd;Henrik Andrén;Edward E. Bangs;Elizabeth H. Bradley

  • Biomedical Protocols for Free-ranging Brown Bears, Gray Wolves, Wolverines and Lynx Editors

    Jon M. Arnemo;Alina Evans;Åsa Fahlman;Per Ahlqvist

  • Spacing patterns in a population of rural free roaming domestic cats

    Olof Liberg

  • Behavioral responses of wolves to roads: scale-dependent ambivalence

    Barbara Zimmermann;Lindsey Nelson;Petter Wabakken;Håkan Sand

  • Food Habits and Prey Impact by Feral and House-Based Domestic Cats in a Rural Area in Southern Sweden

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  • Selection for heterozygosity gives hope to a wild population of inbred wolves.

    Staffan Bensch;Henrik Andrén;Bengt Hansson;Hans Chr. Pedersen

  • Sex-Biased Philopatry and Dispersal in Birds and Mammals: The Oedipus Hypothesis

    Olof Liberg;Torbjorn von Schantz

  • Predation as a regulating factor on small rodent populations in

    Sam Erlinge;Gorgen Goransson;Lennart Hansson;Goran Hogstedt

Frequent Co-Authors

Håkan Sand
Håkan Sand Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Petter Wabakken
Petter Wabakken Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Henrik Andrén
Henrik Andrén Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
John D. C. Linnell
John D. C. Linnell Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Petter Kjellander
Petter Kjellander Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
John Odden
John Odden Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Jean-Michel Gaillard
Jean-Michel Gaillard Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
A. J. Mark Hewison
A. J. Mark Hewison Comportement et Ecologie de la Faune Sauvage
Reidar Andersen
Reidar Andersen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Ilpo Kojola
Ilpo Kojola Natural Resources Institute Finland

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