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Overview

Per Wegge is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Norway and has contributed to research primarily in Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their body of work focuses on several interconnected subfields including Ecology, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Social Psychology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's research topics cover a spectrum of areas such as Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Human-Animal Interaction Studies, Avian Ecology and Behavior, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies.

Recent publications by Per Wegge include:

  • Multiple factors influence local perceptions of snow leopards and Himalayan wolves in the central Himalayas, Nepal (2020, PeerJ)
  • Annual variation in breeding success in boreal forest grouse: Four decades of monitoring reveals bottom-up drivers to be more important than predation (2022, Ecology and Evolution)
  • Bilberry seed production explains spatiotemporal synchronicity in bank vole population fluctuations in Norway (2021, Ecological Research)

Frequent co-authors associated with Per Wegge's work include:

  • Jørund Rolstad
  • Madhu Chetri
  • Morten Odden
  • Olivier Devineau
  • Thomas M. McCarthy

Publication venues where Per Wegge has contributed multiple papers include:

  • PeerJ
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Ecological Research

Best Publications

  • Effects of trapping effort and trap shyness on estimates of tiger abundance from camera trap studies

    Per Wegge;Chiranjibi Pd. Pokheral;Shant Raj Jnawali

  • Predicting space use responses to habitat fragmentation: can voles Microtus oeconomus serve as an experimental model system (EMS) for capercaillie grouse Tetrao urogallus in boreal forest?

    Rolf Anker Ims;Jørund Rolstad;Per Wegge

  • The Return of the Giants: Ecological Effects of an Increasing Elephant Population

    Christina Skarpe;Per Arild Aarrestad;Harry P. Andreassen;Shivcharn S. Dhillion

  • Predator–prey relationships and responses of ungulates and their predators to the establishment of protected areas: A case study of tigers, leopards and their prey in Bardia National Park, Nepal

    Per Wegge;Morten Odden;Chiranjibi Pd. Pokharel;Torstein Storaas

  • Park-People Relationships: The Case of Damage Caused by Park Animals Around the Royal Bardia National Park, Nepal

    Jan Erik Studsrød;Per Wegge

  • Do tigers displace leopards? If so, why?

    Morten Odden;Morten Odden;Per Wegge;Trude Fredriksen

  • Size and spacing of capercaillie leks in relation to social behavior and habitat

    Per Wegge;Jørund Rolstad

  • Snow Leopard and Himalayan Wolf: Food Habits and Prey Selection in the Central Himalayas, Nepal.

    Madhu Chetri;Morten Odden;Per Wegge

  • Spacing and activity patterns of leopards Panthera pardus in the Royal Bardia National Park, Nepal

    Morten Odden;Per Wegge

  • Nesting habitats and nest predation in sympatric populations of capercaillie and black grouse

    Torstein Storaas;Per Wegge

  • Seed dispersal of the Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa) by scatter-hoarding rodents in a central amazonian forest

    Joanne M. Tuck Haugaasen;Torbjørn Haugaasen;Carlos A. Peres;Rogerio Gribel

  • Distribution and size of capercaillie leks in relation to old forest fragmentation

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  • Spacing of adult and subadult male Common Capercaillie during the breeding season.

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  • Dry season diets of sympatric ungulates in lowland Nepal: competition and facilitation in alluvial tall grasslands

    Per Wegge;Anil K. Shrestha;Stein R. Moe

  • Spacing and habitat use of capercaillie during summer

    Jørund Rolstad;Per Wegge;Bjørn Bjerke Larsen

  • Habitat and diet of young grouse broods: resource partitioning between Capercaillie ( Tetrao urogallus ) and Black Grouse ( Tetrao tetrix ) in boreal forests

    Per Wegge;Leif Kastdalen

  • Spacing behaviour and habitat use of axis deer (Axis axis) in lowland Nepal

    Stein R. Moe;Per Wegge

  • Snow leopard Panthera uncia predation on livestock and wild prey in a mountain valley in northern Nepal: implications for conservation management

    Per Wegge;Rinjan Shrestha;Øystein Flagstad

  • Large carnivores and low diversity of optimal prey: a comparison of the diets of snow leopards Panthera uncia and wolves Canis lupus in Sarychat-Ertash Reserve in Kyrgyzstan

    Kubanychbek Jumabay-Uulu;Per Wegge;Charudutt Mishra;Koustubh Sharma

  • Detection of forest grouse by mammalian predators: A possible explanation for high brood losses in fragmented landscapes

    Torstein Storaas;Leif Kastdalen;Per Wegge

  • Socially induced delayed primiparity in brown bears Ursus arctos

    Ole-Gunnar Støen;Andreas Zedrosser;Per Wegge;Jon E. Swenson

  • Prey selection and prey removal by tiger (Panthera tigris) during the dry season in lowland Nepal

    O.G. Støen;P. Wegge

Frequent Co-Authors

Stein R. Moe
Stein R. Moe Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Harry P. Andreassen
Harry P. Andreassen Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Torbjørn Haugaasen
Torbjørn Haugaasen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Anil Shrestha
Anil Shrestha California State University, Fresno
Charudutt Mishra
Charudutt Mishra Nature Conservation Foundation
Jon E. Swenson
Jon E. Swenson Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Ole-Gunnar Støen
Ole-Gunnar Støen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
John D. C. Linnell
John D. C. Linnell Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Rogério Gribel
Rogério Gribel National Institute of Amazonian Research
Carlos A. Peres
Carlos A. Peres University of East Anglia

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