Jenny Green

The influence of human presence and footprint on animal space use in US national parks | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Given the importance of protected areas for biodiversity, the growth of visitation to many areas has raised concerns about the effects of humans on wildlife. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to temp...

How do large mammals 🦌🐺 respond to human presence 🥾 and infrastructure 🏕️ in protected areas?

With a fantastic team of collaborators across the US, we set out to answer this question—turns out, it's complicated!

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The Human Shield Hypothesis: Does Predator Avoidance of Humans Create Refuges for Prey? The human shield hypothesis posits that predators avoid areas of human disturbance due to perceived risk from humans, and prey therefore seeks refuge in these areas of perceived safety. Our systemati....

Have you ever cited or come across a mention of the 'human shield hypothesis' and wondered: what is the evidence for this hypothesis, and what is the quality of that evidence? Wonder no more!
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The Human Shield Hypothesis: Does Predator Avoidance of Humans Create Refuges for Prey? The human shield hypothesis posits that predators avoid areas of human disturbance due to perceived risk from humans, and prey therefore seeks refuge in these areas of perceived safety. Our systemati...

See our new systematic review in Ecology Letters on The Human Shield Hypothesis! It was a great collaboration between the UBC-V Gaynor Lab and the UBC-O Quantitative Ecology Lab!
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Postdoc seekers...join us in the Gaynor lab at UBC-V for a cool new position supported by the AI for Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Center! Apply by April 15, 2025. gaynorlab.weebly.com/join-us.html