Monday 2nd of June

*Please note that this program

is subject to change.

Last updated: 20-5-2025

Next Day

10:00 - 12:00 Conference Check-in

12:00 - 12:10 Opening Welcome to WAB

12:10 - 12:20 Opening Talk: VIP Guest

12:20 - 12:50 Opening Talk: David Mech

Plenary Presentations

12:50 - 13:20 Adrian Wydeven - North America

13:20 - 13:50 Break

13:50 - 14:20 Claudio Sillero - Africa

14:20 - 14:50 Geraldine Werhahn - Asia

14:50 - 15:20 Luigi Boitani - Europe

15:30 - 16:00 Break

16:00 - 18:00 Parallel Presentations

Themes

Behavioural dynamics Wolves and genetics Species interactions Spatial ecology Survival and mortality

16:00 - 16:20

Cecilia Di Bernardi

Can experience explain inter-territorial variation in wolf dietary response to ungulates abundance?

Arkadiusz Dziech

Identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms in 270 wolf genomes.

Veronika Braunisch

Interactions between recolonizing wolves and mammal communities based on long-term camera-trapping data.

Jesse Lewis

Wolf recolonization, ecology, and coexistence: comparison within and between North America and Europe.

Carmela Musto

Anthropogenic and natural factors causing wolf mortality in Italy.

16:20 - 16:40

Joseph Bump

Voyageurs Wolf Project: insights from a decade of research in northern Minnesota, USA.

Maciej Szewczyk

High diversity of grey wolf (Canis lupus) paternal lineages in central and eastern Europe.

Kerrian Chauvière

Influence of wolves on relative abundance and activity patterns of wild ungulates in human-influenced forested ecosystems.

Adrian Wydeven

Recovery of Gray Wolves in Wisconsin USA: from extirpation to coexistence.

Sabina Nowak

Road mortality of wolves in human-dominated landscapes in Poland.

16:40 - 17:00

Adwait Mahesh Deshpande

Francesca Rolle

Antonio Sampredo Garrido

Anna Treydte

Peter Rebholz
obo D. Ausband

Linking individual and collective behaviours: Insights from wild Indian wolves.

Who are the wolves that make the difference?: Genetic reconstruction of wolf recolonization history in the Italian Alps.

Comparing activity patterns of the Himalayan wolf with Himalayan marmots and kiangs in a high-altitude landscape.

How to connect? Possible movement corridors for wolf packs in a human-impacted Swedish landscape.

Breeder turnover and its cascading effects on wolf pack structure.

17:00 - 17:20

Jorgelina Marino

Barbora Černá Bolfíková

Pauline Arends

Goncalo Costa

Peter Sunde

Wolves in the clouds: Climate and breeding phenology in Ethiopian wolves.

Genetic admixture between Central European and Alpine wolf populations.

Badgers and wolves: close encounters on the set.

The use of spatial capture-recapture to improve environmental impact asssesments on wolves.

Apparent survival of mated wolves across West-central Europe.

17:20 - 17:40

Thomas Gable

How the temporal dynamics of wolf predation during summer are shaped by resource pulses, prey availability, and pup-rearing demands.

Sarah R. Hoy

How can changes in the genetic health of wolf populations cascade to influence boreal forests?

Melis Töke

Niche differentiation within a sympatric population of Wolves and Golden Jackals in the Eastern Marmara Region of Türkiye.

Peter Rebholz

Linking age and social status of wolves to vulnerability throughout the harvest season.

Ana Morales-González & Héctor Ruíz-Villar*

Patterns and determinants of mortality in grey wolves (Canis lupus).

17:40 - 18:00

*Please note that Thomas Gable's presentation takes up two time slots

Øystein Flagstad

The origin and spread of coat color anomalies in a highly inbred wolf population.

Dário Hipólito

Wolf and jackal interaction patterns in Croatia.

Ane Eriksen

Uncovering the triggers of wolf fatigue: From sports science to wolf energetics.

Camilla Wikenros

Impact of wolf predation as well as environmental and anthropogenic factors on moose harvest in Scandinavia.

A * means this is a prerecorded presentation. We aim to host a live Q&A after the presentation.