This blog post is provided by Heather N. Abernathy and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper ‘Rain, recreation and risk: Human activity and ecological disturbance create seasonal risk landscapes for the prey of an ambush predator’, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, they show how panthers’ avoidance of human recreation and flooding create distinct schedules of risk for deer, … Continue reading Unveiling Seasonal Risk Landscapes: How Ecological Disturbance and Human Recreation Shape Panther and Deer Responses