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Overview

Petra Kaczensky is affiliated with the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to subfields such as ecology, management, monitoring, policy and law, genetics, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and ecological modeling.

The main topics of their work include wildlife ecology and conservation, rangeland management and livestock ecology, ecology and biodiversity studies, species distribution and climate change, rangeland and wildlife management, animal diversity and health studies, and animal behavior and welfare studies.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Petra Kaczensky cover a range of subjects related to ungulate ecology and conservation. These include:

  • The challenges and opportunities of coexisting with wild ungulates in the human-dominated landscapes of Europe's Anthropocene, 2020, published in Biological Conservation
  • Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations, 2021, published in Science
  • Causes, Consequences, and Conservation of Ungulate Migration, 2021, published in Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements, 2020, published in Conservation Biology
  • Behavioral responses of terrestrial mammals to COVID-19 lockdowns, 2023, published in Science

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Chris Walzer
  • Bayarbaatar Buuveibaatar
  • John D. C. Linnell
  • Jacob R. Goheen
  • Thomas Mueller

Kaczensky has published multiple papers in various scientific venues, with some of the most frequent publication venues being:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Biological Conservation
  • Science
  • Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • Conservation Biology

Best Publications

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

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

  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

    Marlee A. Tucker;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;William F. Fagan;John M. Fryxell

  • Assessing the suitability of central European landscapes for the reintroduction of Eurasian lynx

    Stephanie Schadt;Stephanie Schadt;Eloy Revilla;Eloy Revilla;Thorsten Wiegand;Felix Knauer

  • The challenges and opportunities of coexisting with wild ungulates in the human-dominated landscapes of Europe’s Anthropocene

    John Durrus Linnell;Benjamin Cretois;Erlend Birkeland Nilsen;Christer Moe Rolandsen

  • RULE-BASED ASSESSMENT OF SUITABLE HABITAT AND PATCH CONNECTIVITY FOR THE EURASIAN LYNX

    Stephanie Schadt;Stephanie Schadt;Felix Knauer;Petra Kaczensky;Eloy Revilla;Eloy Revilla

  • Public attitudes towards brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Slovenia

    Petra Kaczensky;Petra Kaczensky;Mateja Blazic;Hartmut Gossow

  • Global assessment of the non-equilibrium concept in rangelands.

    Henrik von Wehrden;Jan Hanspach;Jan Hanspach;Petra Kaczensky;Joern Fischer

  • The impact of high speed, high volume traffic axes on brown bears in Slovenia

    Petra Kaczensky;Petra Kaczensky;Felix Knauer;Blaz Krze;Marco Jonozovic

  • Resource selection by sympatric wild equids in the Mongolian Gobi

    P. Kaczensky;O. Ganbaatar;H. Von Wehrden;H. Von Wehrden;C. Walzer

  • Border Security Fencing and Wildlife: The End of the Transboundary Paradigm in Eurasia?

    John Durrus Linnell;Arie Trouwborst;Luigi Boitani;Petra Kaczensky

  • Status, management and distribution of large carnivores – bear, lynx, wolf & wolverine – in Europe

    M. Adamec;F. Álvares;O. Anders;H. Andrén

  • Framing the relationship between people and nature in the context of European conservation.

    John D. C. Linnell;Petra Kaczensky;Ulrich Wotschikowsky;Nicolas Lescureux

  • Longest terrestrial migrations and movements around the world

    Kyle Joly;Eliezer Gurarie;Mathew S. Sorum;Petra Kaczensky

  • Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations.

    Matthew J. Kauffman;Francesca Cagnacci;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Mark Hebblewhite

  • Activity patterns of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Slovenia and Croatia

    P. Kaczensky;D. Huber;F. Knauer;H. Roth

  • Attitudes towards returning wolves (Canis lupus) in Germany: exposure, information sources and trust matter

    Ugo Arbieu;Marion Mehring;Nils Bunnefeld;Petra Kaczensky

  • Connectivity of the Asiatic wild ass population in the Mongolian Gobi

    Petra Kaczensky;Ralph Kuehn;Badamjav Lhagvasuren;Stephanie Pietsch

  • Fast food bears: brown bear diet in a human-dominated landscape with intensive supplemental feeding

    Irena Kavčič;Miha Adamič;Petra Kaczensky;Miha Krofel

  • The danger of having all your eggs in one basket--winter crash of the re-introduced Przewalski's horses in the Mongolian Gobi.

    Petra Kaczensky;Oyunsaikhan Ganbataar;Nanjid Altansukh;Namtar Enkhsaikhan

  • Behavioral responses of terrestrial mammals to COVID-19 lockdowns

    Unknown

  • Causes, Consequences, and Conservation of Ungulate Migration

    Matthew J. Kauffman;Ellen O. Aikens;Ellen O. Aikens;Saeideh Esmaeili;Saeideh Esmaeili;Petra Kaczensky

  • Expansion of brown bears (Ursus arctos) into the eastern Alps: a spatially explicit population model

    Thorsten Wiegand;Felix Knauer;Petra Kaczensky;Javier Naves

  • Human influence on the choice of winter dens by European brown bears in Slovenia

    Welf Petram;Felix Knauer;Petra Kaczensky

Frequent Co-Authors

John D. C. Linnell
John D. C. Linnell Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Thomas Mueller
Thomas Mueller Goethe University Frankfurt
Peter Leimgruber
Peter Leimgruber Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Justin M. Calabrese
Justin M. Calabrese University of Maryland, College Park
William F. Fagan
William F. Fagan University of Maryland, College Park
Christian C. Voigt
Christian C. Voigt Leibniz Association
Marco Heurich
Marco Heurich University of Freiburg
Francesca Cagnacci
Francesca Cagnacci Fondazione Edmund Mach
Mark Hebblewhite
Mark Hebblewhite University of Montana
Henrik von Wehrden
Henrik von Wehrden Leuphana University of Lüneburg

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