This paper introduces the Wolverine Optimization Algorithm(WoOA),a biomimetic method inspired by the foraging behaviors of wolverines in their natural habitats.WoOA innovatively integrates two primary strategies:scave...
support fromthe U.S. National Park Service,the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Siléns Foundation;Hunters in the Kotzebue area kindly provided us with harvest materialon wolverines,caribou and moose;Dan Stevenson and the local staff at the U.S.National Park Service office in Kotzebue for logistical support;to Gene Peltola for help during aninitial stage of the Noatak wolverine project
Knowledge of carnivore diets is essential to understand how carnivore populations respond demographically to variations in prey abundance. Analysis of stable isotopes is a useful complement to traditional methods of a...