Camilla Wikenros

My research includes both basic and applied scientific research questions regarding large carnivore and ungulate ecology and management. 

I work with basic scientific and applied research questions related to the management and conservation of the Scandinavian wolf population. I investigate the ecological impacts of wolf presence on other species, including humans, with a particular focus on predator-prey interactions and their cascading effects on scavenger communities and vegetation dynamics. Part of my research involves examining human use of natural resources, especially in relation to moose hunter harvest practices. Additional research areas include wolf population dynamics, predation on ungulates and smaller prey species, movement ecology, genetics, and broader ecosystem-level effects. 

I am a letcurer in the courses Wildlife Biology, Applied Conservation Biology, Wildlife Management and Implementation, and The Forests, the Soil, the Machine, and I mentor undergraduate and master's students on their thesis projects. I also give lectures for students at folk high schools, and at primary school level and upper secondary level. 

2025
Benson JF, Keiter DA, Mahoney PJ, ... Wikenros C, ... and Patterson BR. 2025. Intrinsic and environmental drivers of pairwise cohesion in wild Canis social groups. Ecology 106: e4492.

Sand H, Zimmermann B, Wabakken P, Eriksen A, and Wikenros C. 2025. Quantifying large carnivore predation relative to human harvest on moose in an intensively managed boreal ecosystem. Ecological Applications 35: e70000.

Weimer RN, Sundell-Bergman S, Sonesten L, Wikenros C, and Rosén K. 2025. Long-term trends of radiocaesium concentrations in moose (Alces alces) harvested in Sweden. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 286: 107696. 

Wikenros, C, Zimmermann B, Månsson J, Eriksen A, Wabakken P, and Sand H. 2025. Retrospective analyses to understand how wolf territory density impacts moose quotas, harvest and observation rate. European Journal of Wildlife Research: 71, 42. 

2024

Miltz C, Eriksen A, Wikenros C, Wabakken P, Sand H, and Zimmermann B. 2024. Will future wind power development in Scandinavia have an impact on wolves? Wildlife Biology: e01250.

Märtz J, Tallian A, Wikenros C, and Heeres R. 2024. “ClusterApp”: A Shiny R application to guide cluster studies based on GPS data. Ecology and Evolution, 14:e11695.

Nordli K, Walton Z, Eriksen A, Rogstad M, Zimmermann B, Wikenros C, Aronsson M, and Wabakken P. 2024. Carcass provisioning and intra-guild risk avoidance between two sympatric large carnivores. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiolog 78:17.53.

Wikenros C, Nordli K, Amato G, Persson J, Ausilio G, Versluijs E, Eriksen A, Wabakken P, and Aronsson M. 2024. Carnivore guild utilization of hunter-provided food sources in boreal forest. Wildlife Biology: e01249.

Wikenros C, Sand H, Di Bernardi C, and Zimmermann B. 2024. The role of predation, forestry and productivity on moose harvest at different spatiotemporal levels of management units. Wildlife Biology: e01248.