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Recent News

Shawn Cleveland succesfully defended his Masters thesis on Jan 29, 2010 on "Human predation risk influences elk behavior in hetergeneous landscapes"

Canadian Rockies Caribou Project final report posted

Clay Miller wins a Panthera Kaplan Graduate Award for his Amur Tiger research

Nick DeCesare wins Bertha Morton scholarship, April 13, 09

Wibke Peters wins DAAD (German Academic Exchange Program) Fellowship, Mar 31, 09

Publications

  1. DeCesare, N.J., Hebblewhite, M., Robinson, H., Musiani, M. 2010. Endangered, apparently: the role of apparent competition in endangered species management. Animal Conservation, In Press, accepted Oct 12, 2009.
  2. Hebblewhite, M., White, C.A., & Musiani. M. 2009. Revisiting extinction in National Parks: Mountain caribou in Banff. Conservation Biology,24: 341-344.
  3. Hebblewhite, M., & Merrill, E.H. 2009. Trade-offs between wolf predation risk and forage at multiple spatial scales in a partially migratory ungulate. Ecology,90(12): 3445-3454.
  4. Hebblewhite, M. 2009. Linking wildlife populations with ecosystem change: state of the art satellite ecology for national park science. Park Science, 26(1): 54-59
  5. Eggeman, S., Hebblewhite, M., Cunningham, J., & Hamlin, K. 2009. Fluctuating asymmetry in elk antlers is unrelated to environmental conditions in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Wildlife Biology 15: 299-309.
  6. Post, E., Brodie, J., Wilmers, C.C., Hebblewhite, M., & Anders, A.D. 2009. Global population dynamics and hotpots of climate change. Bioscience, 59: 489-499.
  7. McDevitt, A., Mariani, S., Hebblewhite, M., DeCesare, N. J., Morgantini, L., Seip, D., Weckworth, B. V. & Musiani, M. 2009. Survival in the Rockies of an endangered hybrid swarm from diverged caribou (Rangifer tarandus) lineages. Molecular Ecology, 18: 665-679.
  8. Hebblewhite, M., Munro, R. & Merrill, E. H. 2009. Trophic consequences of post-fire logging in a wolf-elk system. Forest Ecology and Management, 257, 1053-1062.cover
  9. Hebblewhite, M., Merrill, E. H. & McDermid, G. 2008. A mutli-scale test of the forage maturation hypothesis for a partially migratory montane elk population. Ecological Monographs, 78(2): 141-166.
  10. Webb, N.F., Hebblewhite, M., & Merrill, E.H. 2008. Statistical methods for identifying wolf kill sites using global positioning systems. Journal of Wildlife Management, 72(3): 798- 807.
  11. Hebblewhite, M., & Merrill, E.H. 2008. Modelling wildlife-human relationships for social species with mixed-effects resource selection models. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45: 834-844.
  12. Hebblewhite, M., Whittington, J., Bradley, M., Skinner, G., Dibb, A. & White, C. A. 2007. Conditions for caribou persistence in the wolf-elk-caribou systems of the Canadian Rockies. Rangifer, 17, 79-91.
  13. Hebblewhite, M. 2007. Predator-prey management in the National park context: lessons from a transboundary wolf-elk, moose, and caribou system. Transactions of the North American Wildlife Conference, 72, 348-365.
  14. Hebblewhite, M., Percy, M. & Merrill, E. H. 2007. Are all GPS collars created equal? Correcting habitat-induced bias using three brands in the Central Canadian Rockies. Journal of Wildlife Management, 71: 2026-2033.
  15. Hebblewhite, M. & Merrill, E. H. 2007. Multiscale wolf predation risk for elk: does migration reduce risk? Oecologia, 152, 377-387.
  16. Hurford, A., Hebblewhite, M., & Lewis, M.A. 2006. A spatially explicit model for the Allee effect: why wolves recolonize so slowly in Greater Yellowstone. Theoretical Population Biology. 70: 244-254
  17. Gillies, C.S., Hebblewhite, M., Nielsen, S.E., Krawchuk, M.A., Aldridge, C.L., Frair, J.L., Saher, D.J., Stevens, & C.E., Jerde. 2006. Application of random effects to the study of resource selection by animals. Journal of Animal Ecology. 75: 887-898.
  18. Hebblewhite, M., Merrill, E. H., Morgantini, L. E., White, C. A., Allen, J. R., Bruns, E., Thurston, L. & Hurd, T. E. 2005, Is the migratory behavior of montane elk herds in peril? The case of Alberta’s Ya Ha Tinda elk herd. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 34: 1280-1295
  19. Hebblewhite, M., Merril, E.H., & McDonald, T.E. 2005. Spatial decomposition of predation risk using resource selection functions: an example in a wolf-elk predator-prey system. Oikos, 111:101-111.
  20. Hebblewhite, M., White, C. A., Nietvelt, C., McKenzie, J. M., Hurd, T. E., Fryxell, J. M., Bayley, S. & Paquet, P. C. 2005 Human activity mediates a trophic cascade caused by wolves. Ecology, 86: 2135-2144.
  21. Hebblewhite, M. 2005. Predation by wolves interacts with the North Pacific Oscillation (NPO) on a western North American elk population. Journal of Animal Ecology, 74: 226-233.
  22. Hebblewhite, M., Paquet, P.C., Pletscher, D.H., Lessard, R.J. & Callaghan, C. 2004. Development and application of a ratio-estimator to estimate wolf-killing rates and variance in a multi-prey ecosystem. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 31:933-945.
  23. Hebblewhite, M., Percy, M., & Serrouya, R. 2003. Black bear survival and demography in the Bow Valley of Banff National Park. Biological Conservation, 112: 415-425.
  24. Hebblewhite, M., Pletscher, D.H., & P.C. Paquet. 2003. Elk population dynamics following wolf recolonization of the Bow Valley of Banff National Park. Parks Canada Research Links 11: 10-12.
  25. Hebblewhite, M., & Pletscher, D.H. 2002. Effects of elk herding on predation by wolves: linking anti-predator behavior to population dynamics. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80: 800-809.
  26. Hebblewhite, M., Pletscher, D.H., & P.C. Paquet. 2002. Factors affecting elk population growth rate in areas with and without predation by recolonizing wolves in Banff National Park. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80:789-799.
  27. Duke, D., Hebblewhite, M., Paquet, P.C., & Callaghan, C. 2001. Restoration of a large carnivore corridor in Banff National Park, Alberta. In Large mammal restoration: ecological and sociological challenges in the 21st Century, Edited by Maehr, D.S., Noss, R.F., & Larkin, J.L., Island Press.

 



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