[HTML][HTML] Genetic networks in ecology: A guide to population, relatedness, and pedigree networks and their applications in conservation biology

TB Jones, M Manseau - Biological Conservation, 2022 - Elsevier
Network analysis is a highly flexible statistical framework with a diversity of uses across both
ecology and other fields of study. Recent developments in ecological-based network …

[HTML][HTML] A cautionary tale comparing spatial count and partial identity models for estimating densities of threatened and unmarked populations

C Sun, JM Burgar, JT Fisher, AC Burton - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022 - Elsevier
Population monitoring is critical to wildlife conservation, but density estimation is difficult for
wide-ranging, unmarked species inhabiting remote habitats. Furthermore, recent …

Effectiveness of population‐based recovery actions for threatened southern mountain caribou

CT Lamb, S Williams, S Boutin, M Bridger… - Ecological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat loss is affecting many species, including the southern mountain caribou (Rangifer
tarandus caribou) population in western North America. Over the last half century, this …

Incorporating mechanism into conservation actions in an age of multiple and emerging threats: The case of boreal caribou

CA DeMars, CJ Johnson, M Dickie, TJ Habib… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation strategies for imperiled species are frequently based on identifying and
addressing the probable causes of population decline, an approach known as the declining …

Demographic responses of a threatened, low-density ungulate to annual variation in meteorological and phenological conditions

CA DeMars, S Gilbert, R Serrouya, AP Kelly… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
As global climate change progresses, wildlife management will benefit from knowledge of
demographic responses to climatic variation, particularly for species already endangered by …

An evaluation of spatial capture‐recapture models applied to ungulate non‐invasive genetic sampling data

PPA Dupont, R Bischof, C Milleret… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐invasive genetic sampling (NGS) methods are becoming a mainstay in wildlife
monitoring and can be used with spatial capture‐recapture (SCR) methods to estimate …

Whole genome sequences from non-invasively collected caribou faecal samples

RS Taylor, M Manseau, B Redquest… - Conservation Genetics …, 2021 - Springer
Conservation genomics is an important tool to manage threatened species under current
biodiversity loss. Recent advances in sequencing technology mean that we can now use …

Density estimates of unmarked mammals: comparing two models and assumptions across multiple species and years

JT Fisher, M Dickie, JM Burgar… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Density estimation is a key goal in ecology, but accurate estimates for unmarked animals
remain elusive. Camera trap data can bridge this gap, but accuracy, precision, and …

[HTML][HTML] Novel multilayer network analysis to assess variation in the spatial co-occurrences of close kin in wild caribou populations

TB Jones, M Manseau, B Merriell, G Pittoello… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding how individuals within populations are connected genetically and through
shared space-use is critical to understanding the demographic patterns of at-risk …

Integrating counts, telemetry, and non‐invasive DNA data to improve demographic monitoring of an endangered species

AK Moeller, JJ Nowak, L Neufeld, M Bradley… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Population monitoring can take many different forms, and monitoring elusive and
endangered species frequently involves a variety of sparse data from different sources …