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15 summaries in Climate & Habitat Change on Canada lynx
Climate change reduces genetic diversity of Canada lynx at the trailing range edge
PaperThis study linked landscape genetics to climate projections for Canada lynx, asking how warming-driven habitat contraction would affect genetic diversity along the species' southern, trailing range ed…
Koen, E.L., Bowman, J., Murray, D.L., Wilson, P.J. · Ecography · 2014
Evidence for large-scale niche displacement between Canada lynx and bobcat
PaperThis study tested whether competition between Canada lynx and bobcat structures their distributions at a continental scale, with implications for how warming snowpack reshuffles the two species. Lynx…
Peers, M.J.L., Thornton, D.H., Murray, D.L. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B · 2013
Habitat loss, not fragmentation, drives Canada lynx occurrence at the southern range periphery
PaperWorking at the southern edge of the Canada lynx range, this study disentangled whether the amount of suitable habitat or its spatial fragmentation better explains where lynx persist. Using occurrence…
Hornseth, M.L., Walpole, A.A., Walton, L.R., Bowman, J., Ray, J.C., Fortin, M.-J., Murray, D.L. · PLoS ONE · 2014
Interacting effects of climate change, landscape conversion, and harvest on lynx at the range margin
PaperThis influential modeling study examined Canada lynx and American marten at the southern edge of their range in the northern Appalachians, asking how climate warming, forest conversion, and trapping p…
Carroll, C. · Conservation Biology · 2007
Research overview: boreal forest biome shift and Canada lynx habitat futures
OverviewCanada lynx depend on boreal and montane conifer forest, a biome projected to shift northward and upslope as climate warms. This overview surveys how vegetation models and downscaled climate projectio…
Research overview: fire, insect outbreaks, and snowpack in lynx forest
OverviewClimate is intensifying disturbance in boreal and montane forests through larger wildfires and bark-beetle outbreaks, reshaping the dense conifer stands and snow conditions Canada lynx and snowshoe ha…
Research overview: isolation risk for southern Canada lynx populations
OverviewLynx populations in the contiguous United States, in the Rockies, Cascades, Great Lakes region, and New England, sit at the warm, dry edge of the species' range and are unusually exposed to climate-dr…
Research overview: landscape fragmentation metrics in felid habitat analysis
OverviewQuantifying how habitat is broken apart requires landscape metrics that capture patch size, edge, isolation, and configuration. This overview surveys the metrics commonly applied to cat habitat, from…
Research overview: landscape genetics methods for fragmented felid populations
OverviewLandscape genetics links genetic patterns to the features of the terrain between populations, a toolkit central to studying fragmentation in cats. This overview surveys the methods, from microsatellit…
Research overview: maintaining north-south connectivity for shifting lynx ranges
OverviewIf suitable climate space for Canada lynx moves northward, populations can only follow it through connected habitat, making latitudinal corridors a conservation priority. This overview surveys how con…
Research overview: phenological shifts and breeding timing in wild cats
OverviewClimate change is shifting the timing of biological events, and while phenology is best studied in plants and birds, it bears on cats through their prey and reproductive timing. This overview surveys…
Research overview: seasonal coat-color mismatch in boreal mammals and predator implications
OverviewSeveral boreal mammals, notably snowshoe hare, molt between brown summer and white winter coats on a fixed photoperiod schedule, and shrinking snow duration creates a camouflage mismatch when white an…
Research overview: snowpack as the competitive boundary between lynx and bobcat
OverviewA central theme in northern felid climate research is that the dividing line between Canada lynx and bobcat tracks snow conditions. This overview surveys the morphological and ecological basis for tha…
Research overview: snowshoe hare cycles, climate, and lynx population dynamics
OverviewCanada lynx populations track the famous boom-bust cycle of snowshoe hare, so anything that alters hare dynamics propagates to the predator. This overview surveys how climate change may affect the har…
Research overview: surveying lynx-bobcat range dynamics with occupancy models
OverviewDetecting whether bobcats are advancing into lynx range requires repeated, detection-corrected surveys across the contact zone. This overview surveys the field and analytical methods, snow-track surve…