Library
Browse resources published by our research team.
In addition to full texts of our peer-reviewed articles, our library includes research digests that break down our peer-reviewed articles; in-depth reports that thoroughly examine a topic; commentaries that explain the significance of particular issues in wild animal welfare science; and short communications that briefly survey a field or topic.
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Quantifying the neglectedness of wild animal welfare
Michaël Beaulieu's deep dive examines the quality and quantity of mentions of wild animal welfare in the scientific literature and finds it to be a neglected research area.
Biotelemetry provides insight into a wild eagle’s death
Jane Capozzelli
Jane Capozzelli reviews how biologgers can provide information about welfare, but also pose risks to animals, following the case of a single eagle.
How wild animals die: what we know so far
In part three of this series, Luke Hecht gives an overview of what research in this field has taught us so far about how wild animals die and highlights gaps that seem especially important for welfare biology.
Methods for studying wild animals’ causes of death
In part two of this series, Luke Hecht introduces some of the tools and approaches used to study wild animals’ causes of death.
The relevance of trophic interactions to wild animal welfare
Luke Hecht explores the welfare implications of food chain length, biomass distribution, and predation.
Optimal population density: trading off the quality and quantity of welfare
Luke Hecht explains how, in some cases, reducing wild animals’ population densities by relatively small amounts might facilitate large increases in their welfare.
Age-specific survivorship frames the expected value of wild animal welfare
This research note is an extension of Luke Hecht’s paper, The importance of considering age when quantifying wild animals’ welfare, which was published in Biological Reviews in December 2021. Luke introduces “welfare expectancy” as a framework for summing up the different levels of well-being animals might experience over the course of their lives, helping to compare the welfare consequences of interventions and natural pressures that may disproportionately affect animals of particular ages.