Graduate Students

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Thesis Topic: Assessing Relatedness and Connectivity of Bighorn Sheep in the Salmon River Drainage in Idaho

Thesis Topic: Identifying environmental factors influencing density and productivity of a breeding Golden Eagle population in South Central Montana

Thesis Topic: Shifts in caribou calving habitat and space-use in Newfoundland

Thesis Topic: Nutrient dynamics and ecosystem function in headwaters systems during a mountain pine beetle infestation of whitebark pine

Thesis Topic: Using rub stations to noninvasively collect hair samples from Idaho gray wolves for genetic analysis

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Thesis Topic: Survival rates and causes of mortality of Canada lynx juveniles in northwestern Montana

Thesis Topic: Effects of Forest Stand Structure on Movement and Coat Color Change in Snowshoe Hares

Thesis Topic: Underlying invasion: do the effects of exotic invaders on biogeochemical processes and productivity correspond with the relative abundance of nitrogen cycling bacteria?

Thesis Topic: Otter population size and habitat assessment in the Upper Clark Fork River

Thesis Topic: Ungulate disease dynamics

Thesis Topic: Parental investment in offspring size: is it determined by numbers of parents contributing care?

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Thesis Topic: Examining what life stage male bias arises in Mountain Plovers (Charadrius montanus)

Thesis Topic: Addressing the challenges of monitoring a declining seabird

Thesis Topic: Proactive management of pneumonia epizootics in bighorn sheep in Montana

Thesis Topic: Using GPS technology to track migration pathways and transitional habitat use of greater sage-grouse in northeastern Montana and southern Saskatchewan

Thesis Topic: Female caribou responses to clear-cutting in Newfoundland

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Thesis Topic: Fitness Costs of Color Mismatch and Adaptation of Snowshoe Hares to Decreasing Snowpack through Behavioral Plasticity

Dissertation Topic:How stream salamanders connect terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems

Dissertation Topic: Disease transmission and physiology of wild felid hosts in relation to landscape use at the human-wildlife interface

Dissertation Topic: Understanding how abiotic and biotic mechanisms limit species ranges and determine phylogenetic community structure in a tropical montane ecosystem.

Dissertation Topic: Evaluating genetic impacts of different management strategies for the protection of Montana's westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi)

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Dissertation Topic: Ecology of white-tailed jackrabbits (Lepus townsendii) and their dynamics in food webs of the southern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Dissertation Topic: The use of population models in conservation planning and management, specifically the importance of short-term dynamics in matrix population models

Dissertation Topic: Which biotic factors influence territory selection in coexisting bird species and why?

Dissertation Topic: Linking resource selection to population dynamics of mule deer in Idaho

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Dissertation Topic: Conservation of threatened Philippine flying-foxes through effective monitoring and prioritization

Dissertation Topic: Maternal trade-off on habitat use of Siberian ibex (Capra sibirica) in Mongolia

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Dissertation Topic: Detecting selection across spatial scales: How do landscape and environment influence adaptive and neutral genetic variation among Dall’s sheep (Ovis dalli dalli)

Dissertation Topic: Roads, Spatial Ecology, and Long Distance Ungulate Migration in the Southwestern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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Dissertation Topic: Monitoring multiple carnivores and their prey using remote-camera-based occupancy modeling

Dissertation Topic: Investigating the application of trail surveys in long-term monitoring of the Grizzly Bear (Ursula arctos) population in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem.

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Dissertation Topic: Genetic substructure in the Sierra Nevada population of the Pacific Fisher (Martes pennanti).

Dissertation Topic: Developing a conservation radar for Bhutan: testing spatial distribution of biodiversity richness using predator-prey assemblages to build a monitoring system that addresses threats.

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