Wolves and human-caused mortality — A reply to Cassidy et al.
Caudill D, Schmidt J, Frye GG, Gallenberg ED, Caudill G, Belant JL. 2025. Wolves and human-caused mortality — A reply to Cassidy et al.. Frontiers In Ecology and the Environment. 23(1):2
Cassidy et al. (2023) evaluated the effect of mortality on aspects of gray wolf (Canis lupus) demography, concluding that “…human activities can have major negative effects on the biological processes…”. We agree that the effects of human-caused mortalities on wildlife are of broad interest (eg Caudill et al. 2017; Schmidt et al. 2017; Frye et al. 2022). However, we contend Cassidy et al.'s study has shortcomings with regard to its data, design, biological inference, and statistical interpretation.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Caudill, Danny; Schmidt, Joshua; Frye, Graham; Gallenberg, Elaine; Caudill, Gretchen; Belant, Jerrold
- Units
- DENA , YUCH
- Keywords
- harvest management, inference, recruitment, survival, wolves