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2024

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Reinforcements of a Greater Sage-Grouse Population in Utah: Applications for Range-Wide and Local Conservation Translocation Efforts, Melissa S. Chelak

2023

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Opening the Black Box: Soil Microbial Communities in Field-Based Plant-Soil Feedback Experiments, Julia Kate Aaronson

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Are Plant–Soil Feedbacks Caused by Many Weak Microbial Interactions?, Julia K. Aaronson, Andrew Kulmatiski, Leslie E. Forero, Josephine Grenzer, and Jeanette M. Norton; Biology

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Local and Regional Landscape Characteristics Driving Habitat Selection by Greater Sage-Grouse Along a Fragmented Range Margin, Aidan T. Beers

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Happy or SAD? Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) on Cedar Mountain, Southern Utah, Jaycee Cappaert

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A Mechanistic Examination of Interspecific Competition Between Wild and Domestic Herbivores, Courtney Check

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An Evaluation of Stress Tolerance in Restoration Plant Species in Response to Fire, Drought, and Invasive Plants Through the Lens of Functional Traits, Adam M. Clifford

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Greater Sage-Grouse Response to Tree Canopy Removal: Habitat Vegetation Composition and Sage-Grouse Use 10–15 Years Post Treatment in the Southern Periphery of the Species Range, Benjamen Donnelly

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The Barriers to Movement: The Effects of Anthropogenic Linear Features on the Space-Use Behaviors of Mule Deer and Pronghorn in Utah, Ronan B. Hart

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Mountain Lion (Puma concolor) and Feral Horse (Equus ferus) Interactions: Examining the Influence of a Non-Native Ungulate on Predator Behavior in a Semi-Arid Environment, Peter C. Iacono

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Balsam Woolly Adelgid and Host Forest Characteristics: Impacts and Interactions in Recently Invaded Areas of Northern Utah and Southeastern Idaho, Grayson B. Jordan

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A Fine-Scale Understanding of Sagebrush Islands to Improve Restoration Outcomes in the Intermountain West, Sofia Koutzoukis

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Dusky Grouse Population Ecology and Thermal Landscape Ecology in the Great Basin Ecosystem, Stephanie M. Landry

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Anthropogenic Factors Affecting Common Raven Occurrence and Depredation of Artificial Nests Within Greater Sage‐Grouse Habitat in Southern Utah, Zoë S. Moffett

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Evaluating Quaking Aspen's Influence on Fire Behavior, Kristin A. Nesbit

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Habitat Selection by Desert Carnivores: How Water, Intraguild Predation, and Prey Impact Animal Space Use, Nadine A. Pershyn

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Social Factors Driving Grouping Dynamics in Bighorn Sheep Ewe, Toni Proescholdt

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Evaluating Beaver Translocation Methods for Desert River Restoration, Christine E. Sandbach

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The Influence of Watershed Restoration Initiative Habitat Treatments on Mule Deer Relative Use and Fawn Production in Utah, Jaylin Solberg

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Quantifying the Impacts and Assessing the Permeability of a Divided Four-Lane Highway on Migratory Mule Deer, Daniel P. Taylor

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Precipitation and Soil Properties Determine Long-Term Consequences of Disturbance and Invasion in Drylands, Tyson Terry

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A Statewide Evaluation of Fuel Treatment Effectiveness in Altering Wildfire Outcomes on Public Lands in Utah, Jamela Charmaine Thompson

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Regeneration of Quaking Aspen and Understory Vegetation Change After Fire Risk Reduction Treatment, Allison M. Trudgeon

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From Flames to Forage: How Wildfire Affects Elk Behavior and Abundance, Megan M. Whetzel

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Evaluating Methods for Pathogen Spillover Detection and Forecasting in Desert Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni), Grete E. Wilson-Henjum

2022

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Comparative Studies in Rangeland Management: Examining the Foundational Assessments Relationship to the Greater Sage-Grouse Habitat Assessment Framework and Assessment of Predicted Cattle Distributions Using GPS Collars in Rich County, Utah, Michael T. Anderson

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Old-Growth Forest Dynamics After Fire and Drought in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA, Kendall M.L. Becker

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Nest‐Site Selection, Success, and Response to Predators by Cinnamon Teal and Other Ground‐Nesting Ducks in the Wetlands of Great Salt Lake, Utah, Mark E. Bell

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Evaluation of Noninvasive Methods for Determining Pregnancy, Diet, Nutrition, and Stress Among Pronghorn Antelope: Implications for Population Monitoring, Cole Bleke

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Quantifying the Indirect Effect of Wolves on Aspen in Northern Yellowstone National Park: Evidence for a Trophic Cascade?, Elaine M. Brice

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Assessing Post-Fire Revegetation Efforts in Box Elder County, Utah, Using the Rangeland Analysis Platform, Rayce Bryan

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Conservation Conflict: Rare Plant Conservation and Energy Development and Potential in the Colorado Plateau, Joshua Carrell

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Forecasting Fine Fuels in the Intermountain West Rangelands, Mira Ensley-Field

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Investigating Cause-Specific Mortality of Sheep to Determine the Impacts of Carnivores on Domestic Livestock, Nathan Jacob Floyd

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Hidden Mechanisms of Climate Impacts in Western Forests: Integrating Theory and Observation for Climate Adaptation, Sara J. Germain

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The Impacts of Increased Precipitation Intensity on Dryland Ecosystems in the Western United States, Martin C. Holdrege

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Population Ecology of Spruce-Fir Forests of the Interior West, Katheryn Little

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Spatial-Temporal Responses of Cow Elk to Targeted and Non-Targeted Hunting Risk, Randall McBride

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Conservation Genetics of a Declining Bumble Bee in Western North America; The Influence of Geography, Dispersal Limitation, and Anthopogenic Activity, Ashley T. Rohde

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Characterizing the Migratory Phenology and Routes of the Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena) in Northern Utah, Kim Savides

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Comparing Fecal DNA Capture-Recapture Methods to Traditional Mark-Resight Methods for Estimating Abundance of Mule Deer on Winter Ranges, Andi M. Stewart

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Greater Sage-Grouse Brood Responses to Livestock Grazing in Sagebrush Rangelands, Hailey Peatross Wayment

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Pronghorn Space-Use Ecology in Utah, Veronica A. Winter

2021

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Transplanting Mature Mountain Big Sagebrush Plants Yields High First-Year Survival in Dryland Pasture Restoration, Elizabeth C. Bailey

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Methods to Improve Our Understanding of Aspen Regeneration and Aspen Distribution Across the Intermountain West, Robert Joseph Julius Bidner

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Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Quantify Erosion Control Measures on a Reclaimed Central Utah Coal Mine, Christopher R. Brown

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Monitoring Populations and Movement of Bobcats (Lynx rufus) on the Eastern Slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, Michael Brown

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Climate-Driven Impacts of Warming and Grazing on Sub-Arctic Coastal Wetlands in Alaska, Ryan T. Choi

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An Eulerian Perspective on Spring Migration in Mule Deer, Tatum Del Bosco

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A Comparison of the Ecology of Resident and Translocated Beavers Used for Passive Restoration in Degraded Desert Rivers, Emma Doden

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Mechanisms of Overyielding and Coexistence in Diverse Tallgrass Prairie Communities, Leslie E. Forero

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Plant-Soil Feedbacks Help Explain Biodiversity-Productivity Relationships, Leslie E. Forero, Andrew Kulmatiski, Josephine Grenzer, and Jeanette M. Norton; Communications Biology

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Big Fires, Big Trees, and Big Plots: Enhancing our Ecological Understanding of Fire With Unprecedented Field Data, Tucker J. Furniss

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Moderate Plant–Soil Feedbacks Have Small Effects on the Biodiversity–Productivity Relationship: A Field Experiment, Josephine Grenzer, Andrew Kulmatiski, Leslie Forero, Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer, and Jeanette Norton; Ecology and Evolution

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Dietary Shifts Related to Water Availability and the Demographic Response to Changing Prey Abundance of Carnivores in the West Desert, Utah, Ashley E. Hodge

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Patterns of Post-Fire Aspen Seedling Establishment, Growth, and Mortality in the Western United States, Mark Regier Kreider

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Interactive Effects of Soil and Browsing on Big Sagebrush: Implications for Restoration Success, Kyle Nehring

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Range-Wide Migratory Connectivity of Painted Buntings, Andrew J. Sharp

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Bighorn Sheep Demographics Following Pneumonia Die-Off Events, Kylie Sinclair

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Greater Sage-Grouse and Community Responses to Strategies to Mitigate Environmental Resistance in an Anthropogenic Altered Sagebrush Landscape, Justin R. Small

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Responses of Pacific Fishers to Habitat Changes as a Result of Forestry Practices in Southwestern Oregon, Tessa R. Smith

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Susceptibility of High-Elevation Forests to Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) Under Climate Change, David N. Soderberg

2020

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Harvest Efficiency of Forage Grazed by Cattle and The Effect of Pinyon and Juniper Treatments on Vegetation Cover on the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Ruger P. Carter

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Early Goose Arrival Increases Soil Nitrogen Availability More Than an Advancing Spring in Coastal Western Alaska, Ryan T. Choi, Karen H. Beard, Katharine C. Kelsey, A. Joshua Leffler, Joel A. Schmutz, and Jeffrey M. Welker; Ecosystems

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Estimating Population Abundance with a Mixture of Physical Capture and PIT Tag Antenna Detection Data, Mary M. Conner, Phaedra E. Budy, Richard A. Wilkison, Michael Mills, Peter D. MacKinnon, and Mark C. Mckinstry; Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

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Disease Ecology and Adaptive Management of Brucellosis in Greater Yellowstone Elk, Gavin G. Cotterill

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Influences of Forest Edges on the Growth and Health of Old-Growth Coast Redwood Forests, Cody R. Dangerfield

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Ecoacoustic Methods for Multi-Taxa Animal Surveys in the Amazon, Leandro A. Do Nascimento

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Forest Grouse Ecology and Management in the Bear River Range Northern Utah, Skyler Y. Farnsworth

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Western Bumble Bee: Declines in the Continental United States and Range-Wide Information Gaps, Tabitha A. Graves, William M. Janousek, Sarah M. Gaulke, Amy C. Nicholas, Douglas A. Keinath, Christine M. Bell, Syd Cannings, Richard G. Hatfield, Jennifer M. Heron, Jonathan B. Koch, Helen L. Loffland, Leif L. Richardson, Ashley T. Rohde, Jessica Rykken, James P. Strange, and et al.; Ecosphere

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Space Use and Relative Habitat Selection for Immature Green Turtles Within a Caribbean Marine Protected Area, Lucas P. Griffin, Brian J. Smith, Michael S. Cherkiss, Andrew G. Crowder, Clayton G. Pollock, Zandy Hillis-Starr, Andy J. Danylchuk, and Kristen M. Hart; Animal Biotelemetry

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The Importance of the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico to Foraging Loggerhead Sea Turtles, Kristen M. Hart, Margaret M. Lamont, Autumn R. Iverson, and Brian J. Smith; Frontiers in Marine Science

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Snow Processes in Mountain Forests: Interception Modeling for Coarse-Scale Applications, Nora Helbig, David Moeser, Michaela Teich, Laure Vincent, Yves Lejeune, Jean-Emmanuel Sicart, and Jean-Matthieu Monnet; Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

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Influence of Forage Diversity and Condensed Tannins on Livestock Foraging Behavior, Production and Environmental Impact, Sebastian P. Lagrange

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North Dakota Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) Recovery Project: Using Translocation to Prevent State-Wide Extirpation and Develop Rangewide Protocols, Kade D. Lazenby

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Large-Diameter Trees Dominate Snag and Surface Biomass Following Reintroduced Fire, James A. Lutz, Soren Struckman, Tucker J. Furniss, C. Alina Cansler, Sara J. Germain, Larissa L. Yocom Kent, Darren McAvoy, Crystal A. Kolden, Alistair M. S. Smith, Mark E. Swanson, and Andrew J. Larson; Ecological Processes

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Effect of Biocrust Development on Establishment of Native Plants in a Salt Desert System, Merran Owen

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The Consequences of Environmental Properties and Tree Spatial Neighborhood on Post-Fire Structure of Forest in Yosemite National Park, Jelveh Tamjidi

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Human-Wildlife Interactions in Bryce Canyon National Park, Chad H. Wildermuth

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Forage Inventory and Modeling in Uintah and Ouray Reservation Rangelands, Scott N. Zimmer

2019

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Enteric Methane and Nitrogen Emissions in Beef Cattle Grazing a Tannin-Containing Legume Relative to Feedlot and Traditional Pasture-Based Production Systems, Raúl David Guevara Ballesteros

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Migratory Goose Arrival Time Plays a Larger Role in Influencing Forage Quality Than Advancing Springs in an Arctic Coastal Wetland, Karen H. Beard, Ryan T. Choi, A. Joshua Leffler, Lindsay G. Carlson, Katharine C. Kelsey, Joel A. Schmutz, and Jeffrey M. Welker; PLoS ONE

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Genetic and Spatial Structuring of Populus tremuloides in a Mixed-Species Forest of Southwestern Utah, USA, Matthew Bishop, Tucker J. Furniss, Karen E. Mock, and Jim A. Lutz; Western North American Naturalist

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Fuel Dynamics After Reintroduced Fire in an Old-Growth Sierra Nevada Mixed-Conifer Forest, C. Alina Cansler, Mark E. Swanson, Tucker J. Furniss, Andrew J. Larson, and James A. Lutz; Fire Ecology

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Parsing the Effects of Demography, Climate, and Management on Recurrent Brucellosis Outbreaks in Elk, Gavin C. Cotterill, Paul C. Cross, Jerod A. Merkle, Jared D. Rogerson, Brandon M. Scurlock, and Johan T. du Toit; Journal of Applied Ecology

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Eared Grebe Nesting Ecology and Chronology Along the Great Salt Lake, Utah, Leah M. Delahoussaye

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Antipredator Mechanisms of Post-Metamorphic Anurans: A Global Database and Classification System, Rodrigo B. Ferreira, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Moraes, Cássio Zocca, Charles Duca, Karen H. Beard, and Edmund D. Brodie Jr.; Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

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Greenhouse- and Field-Measured Plant-Soil Feedbacks Are Not Correlated, Leslie Forero, Josephine Grenzer, Johannes Heinze, Conrad Schittko, and Andrew Kulmatiski; Frontiers in Environmental Science

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Detecting Tree Mortality with Landsat-Derived Spectral Indices: Improving Ecological Accuracy by Examining Uncertainty, Tucker J. Furniss, Van R. Kane, Andrew J. Larson, and James A. Lutz; Remote Sensing of Environment

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Contrasting Development of Canopy Structure and Primary Production in Planted and Naturally Regenerated Red Pine Forests, Laura J. Hickey, Jeff Atkins, Robert T. Fahey, Mark R. Kreider, Shea B. Wales, and Christopher M. Gough; Forests

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Livestock Guardian Dogs: Loss-Prevention, Behavior, Space-Use, and Human Dimensions, Daniel Kinka

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The Tail Wagging the Dog: Positive Attitude Towards Livestock Guarding Dogs Do Not Mitigate Pastoralists’ Opinions of Wolves or Grizzly Bears, Daniel Kinka and Julie K. Young; Palgrave Communications

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Group Effects of a Non-Native Plant Invasion on Rodent Abundance, Bryan M. Kluever, Trinity N. Smith, and Eric M. Gese; Ecosphere

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The Spatial Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions: A Case Study of Yellowstone Elk, Wolves, and Cougars, Michel T. Kohl

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The Effects of Electric Power Lines on the Breeding Ecology of Greater Sage-Grouse, Michel T. Kohl, Terry A. Messmer, Benjamin A. Crabb, Michael R. Guttery, David K. Dahlgren, Randy T. Larsen, Shandra Nicole Frey, Sherry Liguori, and Rick J. Baxter; PLoS ONE

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Landscape of Stress: Does Drought Prevail Over Anthropogenic Activity in Influencing Cortisol Levels and Fitness in the Pacific Fisher?, Jennifer R. Kordosky

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Gas Production Kinetics and in vitro Degradability of Tannin-Containing Legumes, Alfalfa and Their Mixtures., Sebastian Lagrange, S. Lobón, and Juan J. Villalba; Animal Feed Science and Technology

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Fire - Herbivory Interactions in an East African Savanna: Effects on Acacia Drepanolobium Trees, Eric M. LaMalfa

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Cloud Cover and Delayed Herbivory Relative to Timing of Spring Onset Interact to Dampen Climate Change Impacts on Net Ecosystem Exchange in a Coastal Alaskan Wetland, A. Joshua Leffler, Karen H. Beard, Katharine C. Kelsey, Ryan T. Choi, Joel A. Schmutz, and Jeffrey M. Welker; Environmental Research Letters

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Urban Alaskan Moose: An Analysis of Factors Associated with Moose-Vehicle Collisions, Lucian R. McDonald