Abrupt height growth setbacks show overbrowsing of tree saplings, which can be reduced by raising deer harvest

K Bödeker, C Jordan-Fragstein, T Vor, C Ammer… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Intensive ungulate browsing significantly impacts forests worldwide. However, it is usually
not single browsing events that lead to sapling mortality, but the little-researched interactions …

Restoration of bighorn sheep: History, successes, and remaining conservation issues

JC Whiting, VC Bleich, RT Bowyer… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Mammals are imperiled worldwide, primarily from habitat loss or modification, and exhibit
downward trends in their populations and distributions. Likewise, large-bodied herbivores …

Spatially and temporally explicit environmental drivers of fawn recruitment in a native ungulate

EM Gese, CA Bleke, P Atwood, SB Roberts… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recruitment is one of the fundamental drivers of ungulate population dynamics. Recruitment
of neonates into an ungulate population can be influenced by a wide range of abiotic, biotic …

A review of population and landscape level dynamics associated with pneumonia outbreaks in bighorn sheep with implications for land management

KE Paolini, MK Schwartz, MM Friggens… - … Science and Practice, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildlife conservation necessitates understanding spatiotemporal drivers that facilitate
disease outbreaks. Wildlife diseases are influenced by population and landscape level …

Variation in diet of desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni): Tradeoffs associated with parturition

ME Blum, KM Stewart, M Cox… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Selection of forage and habitats is driven by nutritional needs of individuals. Some species
may sacrifice nutritional quality of forage for the mother in favor of safety of offspring (risk …

Incorporating vital rates and harvest into stochastic population models to forecast elk population dynamics

JT Paterson, KM Proffitt… - The Journal of Wildlife …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The dynamics of ungulate populations across variable ecosystems and management
strategies demonstrate disparate trajectories such that some populations are overabundant …

Efficacy of Killing Large Carnivores to Enhance Moose Harvests: New Insights from a Long-Term View

SD Miller, DK Person, RT Bowyer - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
We analyzed harvest data to test hypotheses that nearly 4 decades of effort to reduce
abundance of brown bears (Ursus arctos), black bears (U. americanus) and gray wolves …

Comparing contemporary models to traditional indices to estimate abundance of desert bighorn sheep

ME Blum, FE Buderman, JR Bennett… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aerial surveys for large ungulates produce count data that often underrepresent the number
of animals. Errors in count data can lead to erroneous estimates of abundance if they are not …

Mule deer fawn recruitment dynamics in an energy disturbed landscape

KJ Murphy, DR Roberts, WF Jensen… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildlife population dynamics are modulated by abiotic and biotic factors, typically climate,
resource availability, density‐dependent effects, and predator–prey interactions …

Population characteristics, morphometry, and growth of harvested gray wolves and coyotes in Alaska

CD Mitchell, R Chaney, K Aho, RT Bowyer - Arctic, 2022 - JSTOR
Few concurrent studies exist of sympatric gray wolf (Canis lupus) and coyote (C. latrans)
harvest at far northern latitudes. Moreover, no studies explicitly examine effects of concurrent …