island biogeography Archives - The Wildlife Society

Cameras reveal carnivore communities on Wisconsin islands

January 9, 2019

Northern Wisconsin is home to a dozen terrestrial carnivores, from gray wolves (Canis lupus) to red foxes (Vulpes vulpes), but the populations on the Apostle Islands stretching from the Bayfield Peninsula into Lake Superior have …

Climate change wipes out pikas on isolated peaks

September 12, 2016

Pikas are a textbook climate tragedy. As temperatures rise, the fluffy, cold-loving mammals retreat higher and higher up mountain slopes, eventually perishing on the too-warm peaks. But that isn’t happening everywhere, according to new research. …