Scientific publications on wolverine conservation research

Hausleitner D, Kortello A, Barrueto M, Harrower W, Krebs J. “Guidelines for Winter Recreation near Wolverine Dens in Montane Western North America”. Journal of Ecosystems and Management. 2024 Mar 3; Vol. 24 No. 1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.22230/jem.2024v24n1a631 Download PDF. Download Infographic.

Barrueto M, Forshner A, Whittington J, Clevenger AP, Musiani M. “Protection status, human disturbance, snow cover and trapping drive density of a declining wolverine population in the Canadian Rocky Mountains”. Scientific Reports. 2022 Oct 24;12(1):1-5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21499-4 Download PDF.
Fisher, J.T., Murray, S., Barrueto, M., Carroll, K., Clevenger, A.P., Hausleitner, D., Harrower, W., Heim, N., Heinemeyer, K., Jacob, A.L., Jung, T.S. Wolverines (Gulo gulo) in a changing landscape and warming climate: a decadal synthesis of global conservation ecology research. Global Ecology and Conservation. 2022 Jan 22:e02019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02019 Download PDF.

Barrueto, M., Sawaya, M.A. & Clevenger, A.P.. "Low wolverine (Gulo gulo) density in a national park complex of the Canadian Rocky Mountains." Canadian Journal of Zoology 98, no. 5 (2020): 287-298. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2019-0165 Download PDF.
Mowat, Garth, Anthony P. Clevenger, Andrea D. Kortello, Doris Hausleitner, Mirjam Barrueto, Laura Smit, Clayton Lamb, Benjamin Dorsey, and Peter K. Ott. "The sustainability of wolverine trapping mortality in southern Canada." The Journal of Wildlife Management 84, no. 2 (2020): 213-226. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21787 Download PDF.

Sawaya, M.A., Clevenger, A.P., & Schwartz, M.K.. "Demographic fragmentation of a protected wolverine population bisected by a major transportation corridor." Biological Conservation 236 (2019): 616-625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.06.030 Download PDF.

Kortello, A, Hausleitner, D & Mowat, G. "Mechanisms influencing the winter distribution of wolverine Gulo gulo luscus in the southern Columbia Mountains, Canada." Wildlife Biology 2019, no. 1 (2019): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00480. Download PDF.
Heim, N., Fisher, J. T., Volpe, J., Clevenger, A., & Paczkowski, J. 2019. Carnivore community response to anthropogenic landscape change: species-specificity foils generalizations. Landscape Ecology, 34: 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00882-z. Download PDF.

Heim, N., Fisher, J. T., Clevenger, A., Paczkowski, J., & Volpe, J. 2017. Cumulative effects of climate and landscape change drive spatial distribution of Rocky Mountain wolverine (Gulo gulo L.). Ecology and Evolution, 7(21): 8903-8914. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.3337. Download PDF.

Stewart, Frances EC, Nicole A. Heim, Anthony P. Clevenger, John Paczkowski, John P. Volpe, and Jason T. Fisher. "Wolverine behavior varies spatially with anthropogenic footprint: implications for conservation and inferences about declines." Ecology and Evolution 6, no. 5 (2016): 1493-1503. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.1921/full. Download PDF.

Heim, Nicole. 2015. Complex effects of human-impacted landscapes on the spatial patterns of mammalian carnivores. Master of Science Thesis, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Download PDF.