Selected recent publications
- Factors influencing elk recruitment across ecotypes in the Western United States - The Journal of Wildlife Management - Paul Lukacs, Mike Mitchell, Mark Hebblewhite, Jedediah Brodie (faculty), Mark Hurly and Josh Nowak (former PhD students)
- Evolutionary Community Ecology: Time to Think Outside the (Taxonomic) Box - Trends in Ecology & Evolution - grad student Taylor Wilcox and professor Winsor Lowe and director of the National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation and adjunct faculty Mike Schwartz - Feb. 2018
- Winter color polymorphisms identify global hot spots for evolutionary rescue from climate change - Science - professors Scott Mills and Jeff Good and students Alexander Kumar, Marketa Zimova, Jennifer Feltner and Brandon Davis - Feb. 2018
- Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements - Science - professor Mark Hebblewhite - Feb. 2018
- Increased scientific rigor will improve reliability of research and effectiveness of management - Journal of Wildlife Management - grad students Sarah Sells, Sarah Bassing, Kristin Barker, Shannon Forshee, Allison Keever, James Goerz and Director of the Wildlife Co-op Unit Mike Mitchell - Jan. 2018
- Effects of rotational grazing management on nesting greater sage-grouse - Journal of Wildlife Management, Sept. 2017 - post-doc Joe Smith and his adviser professor Dave Naugle
- Contrasting latitudinal patterns of life-history divergence in two genera of new world thrushes (Turdinae) - Journal of Avian Biology, Jan. 2017 - Read a blog post PhD candidate Andy Boyce wrote about this research for the British Ornithologists' Union in Sept. 2017 - Taking it slow in the tropics
- Modeling large-scale winter recreation terrain selection with implications for recreation management and wildlife - Applied Geography, Sept. 2017
- Extending utility of hierarchical models to multi-scale habitat selection - Diversity and Distributions, June 2017
- Hierarchicial Nonlinear Spatio-temporal Agent-Based Models for Collective Animal Movement - Journal of Agriculture, Biological and Environmental Statistics, June 2017
- Generalized spatial mark-resight models with an application to grizzly bears - Journal of Applied Ecology, June 2017
- Range-Wide Snow Leopard Phylogeography Supports Three Subspecies - Journal of Heredity, May 2017
- Migration in geographic and ecological space by a large herbivore - Ecological Monographs - May 2017
- Regional-Scale Models for Predicting Overwinter Survival of Juvenile Ungulates - The Journal of Wildlife Management, April 2017
- Legacy introductions and climatic variation explain spatiotemporal patterns of invasive hybridization in a native trout - Global Change Biology, March 2017
- Assessing the importance of demographic parameters for population dynamics using Bayesian integrated population modeling - Ecological Applications, Feb. 2017
- Summer habitat selection by Dall’s sheep in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska - Journal of Mammalogy, Feb. 2017
- A large-scale perspective for managing prairie avifauna assemblages across the western US: influences of habitat, land ownership and latitude - PeerJ, Jan. 2017
- Behavioral connectivity among bighorn sheep suggests potential for disease spread - The Journal of Wildlife Management, Jan. 2017
- Scaling‐up camera traps: monitoring the planet's biodiversity with networks of remote sensors - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Dec. 2016
- A generalized integrated population model to estimate greater sage‐grouse population dynamics - Ecosphere - Dec. 2016
- Estimating Sonoran pronghorn abundance and survival with fecal DNA and capture–recapture methods - Conservation Biology, Oct. 2016
- Gravel-bed river floodplains are the ecological nexus of glaciated mountain landscapes - Science Advances, June 2016
- Assessing Potential Habitat and Carrying Capacity for Reintroduction of Plains Bison (Bison bison bison) in Banff National Park - PLOSOne, Feb. 2016
- Big Data for Big Game: Custom Web Apps to Automate and Simplify the Wildlife Workflow - The Wildlife Society
- Effects of recent decreases in arctic sea ice on an ice-associated marine bird - Progress in Oceanography, Aug. 2015
- Cows and Plows: Science-based Conservation for Grassland Songbirds in Agricultural Landscapes - PhD dissertation by Marisa K. Lipsey. May, 2015
- Social living mitigates the costs of a chronic illness in a cooperative carnivore - Ecology Letters, May 18, 2015
- Resource selection and connectivity reveal conservation challenges for reintroduced brown bears in the Italian Alps - Biological Conservation, June, 2015
- Does Whirling Disease Mediate Hybridization between a Native and Nonnative Trout? - North American Journal of Fisheries Management - April 2015
- Modeling multi-scale resource selection for bear rubs in northwestern Montana - Ursus - March, 2015
- Legacies of Past Exploitation and Climate Affect Mammalian Sexes Differently on the Roof of the World - The Case of the Wild Yaks in Scientific Reports, March 2, 2015
- Modeling risk of pneumonia epizootics in bighorn sheep in Journal of Wildlife Management, Feb. 2015.
- Integrated survival analysis using an event-time approach in a Bayesian framework - Ecology and Evolution, Feb. 2015
- Linking conservation actions to demography: grass height explains variation in greater sage-grouse nest survival Wildlife Biology, Dec. 2014. (pdf)
- Multi-state mark-recapture model to estimate survival of a dispersed nesting seabird, the Kittlitz's Murrelet - Journal of Wildlife Management Nov., 2014
- Managing wolves (Canis lupus) to receover threatened woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in Alberta - Canadian Journal of Zoology, Nov. 2014
- The Montana deer and Elk hunting population: The importance of cohort group, license price, and population dynamics on hunter retention, recruitment, and population change - The Journal of Wildlife Management, June 2014
- Sex differences in ecology of wild yaks at high elevation in the Kekexili Reserve, Tibetan Qinghai Plateau, China - Journal of Mammalogy, June 2014
- Invasive hybridization in a threatened species is accelerated by climate change in Nature Climate Change, May 2014
- Relative effects of climate change and wildfires on stream temperatures: a simulation modeling approach in a Rocky Mountain watershed - Climatic Change, May 2014
- Network analysis reveals multiscalecontrols on streamwater chemistry in PNAS, May 2014
- Contrasting aerial moose population estimation methods and evaluating sightability in west-central Alberta, Canada - Wildlife Society Bulletin, May 2014
- Combining demographic and genetic factors to assess population vulnerability in stream species - Ecological Applications
- Distance, flow and PCR inhibition: eDNA dynamics in two headwater streams - Molecular Ecology Resources
- Functional analysis of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index curves reveals overwinter mule deer survival is driven by both spring and autumn phenology - Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society, April 2014
- Consequences of a Refuge for the Predator-Prey Dynamics of a Wolf-Elk System in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada - PLOSone, March 2014
- Snowshoe hares display limited phenotypic plasticity to mismatch in seasonal camouflage - Proceedings of the Royal Society, March 2014
- Linking habitat selection and predation risk to spatial variation in survival - Journal of Animal Ecology, March 2014
- Breeding site heterogeneity reduces variability in frog recruitment and population dynamics - Biological Conservation, Feb. 2014
- Optimism and Challenge for Science-Based Conservation of Migratory Species in and out of U.S. National Parks - Conservation Biology, Feb. 2014
- Increased flexibility for modeling telemetry and nest-0survival data using the multistate framework - The Journal of Wildlife Management, Feb. 2014
- Status and Ecological Effects of the World's Largest Carnivores in Science, Jan. 2014
- Cottus schitsuumsh, a new species of sculpin (Scorpaeniformes: Cottidae) in the Columbia River basin, Idaho-Montana, USA in Zootaxa, Jan. 2014 (link to pdf)
View our recent publications in ScholarWorks from the Mansfield Library at the University of Montana