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2025
Greater Sage-Grouse Habitat Dynamics and Grazing, A Study of Vegetation Indices and Survival, Codi R. Backen
Assessing Long-Term Changes in Aspen Forest Cover in Northern Yellowstone National Park Before and After Carnivore Recovery, Nicholas J. Bergeron
Supplementing Tannins to Increase Performance and Reduce Methane Emissions in Cows Grazing on Western Grasslands, Horacio Pedro Blanchard
Ecology and Management of Forest Grouse: Breeding Acoustic Monitoring, Spatial Behavior, And Harvest, Logan Clark
Maximizing Dryland Seed-Based Restoration Success Via Retrospective Analyses of Species-Use Patterns and Field Testing of Seed Mix Composition, Spencer J. Good
Effects of Elevation, Fire Age, Burn Severity, And Pre-Fire Vegetation on Post-Fire Sagebrush Songbird Communities, William D. Harrod
Linking Variation in Mule Deer Nutritional Condition and Age to Population Performance in a Temperate Environment, Kent R. Hersey
Modeling for Functional Traits in Bluebunch Wheatgrass Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) High-Throughput Phenotyping, Brittany L. Johnson
Seasonal and Temporal Influences on Successful Crossing Rates by Ungulates of a North Utah Wildlife Overpass, Blake Ledbetter
Disentangling Factors Contributing to Population Performance of Zion Bighorn Sheep, Ian Montgomery
Multi-Sensor Integration and Machine Learning for High-Resolution Classification of Herbivore Foraging Behavior, Bashiri Iddy Muzzo, Kelvyn Bladen, Andres Perea, Shelemia Nyamuryekung’e, and Juan J. Villalba; Animals
Effects of Tannin-Rich Supplements on Immune Response in Goats and Beef Cattle: A Collection of Controlled Feeding Trials, Sebastian P. Schreiber, Rebecca D. Burson, Cody B. Scott, and Corey J. Owens; Agriculture
Potential Epigenetic Impacts of Phytochemicals on Ruminant Health and Production: Connecting Lines of Evidence, Sebastian P. Schreiber, Juan Villalba, and Mirella L. Meyer-Ficca; Animals
Cutting Propagation and Out-Planting of White-Margined Beardtongue (Penstemon albomarginatus M.E. Jones), A Vulnerable Herbaceous Perennial of the Mojave Desert), Alexander Stosich
Habitat Selection Analysis of Mule Deer to Determine Efficacy of the Coyote Bounty Program in Utah, Xaela M. Walden
Intra-Stand Movement of Balsam Woolly Adelgid (Adelges piceae) in the Intermountain West, Michael S. Wayman
2024
California Condor Feeding Habitat, Vigilance, and Competition With Avian Scavengers in Southern Utah, USA, Alex Blanche
Temporal and Spatial Influences on Fawn Summer Survival in Pronghorn Populations: Management Implications From Noninvasive Monitoring, Cole A. Bleke, Eric M. Gese, Juan J. Villalba, Shane B. Roberts, and Susannah S. French; Animals
Reinforcements of a Greater Sage-Grouse Population in Utah: Applications for Range-Wide and Local Conservation Translocation Efforts, Melissa S. Chelak
Evaluating Bluebunch Wheatgrass Plant Materials for the Central Great Basin and Range, McKenna Delton
The Influence of Individual Strategies on Cougar Ecology: Insights From Predation, Space Use, and Reproduction, Kristin Nicole Engebretsen
Resilience of Birds to Habitat Change: Identification of Interspecific Variation in Avian Resilience and its Possible Mechanisms, Amanda L. Hayes-Puttfarcken
Evaluating Aspen Seedling Outplanting Success Following High Severity Wildfire in the Southwest, Sarah M. Kapel
Moose Movement in an Urbanizing Landscape, Lucian R. McDonald
Reburns of High Severity Patches: Effects on Ponderosa Pine Regeneration and Plant Community Composition, Nadav Mouallem
Ecological Interactions of Cougars, Deer, And Wild Pigs in the Central Coast Range, California, Mitchell A. Parsons
Movement Behavior and Habitat Selection of Juvenile Mountain Lions (Puma concolor) During Three Behavioral States of Dispersal, John F. Randolph
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Disease: Social and Environmental Drivers of Movement, Connectivity, and Disease Transmission in Bighorn Sheep, Lauren E. Ricci
Effects of Winter Ticks (Dermacentor albipictus) on the Reproduction of Utah Moose (Alces alces shirasi), Samuel D. Robertson
Herbivore Effects on Litter Quality and Quantity and Influences on Carbon Cycling, Taylor Saunders
Spatial Ecology of Mule Deer Migrations From Grand Teton National Park and the Teton Range, Justin K. Schwabedissen
Causes and Consequences of Space-Use Behavior Under Predation Risk in a Free-Living System, Brian J. Smith
Are Universities Adequately Preparing Undergraduate Students for Careers as Professional Wildlife Biologists?, Trevon D. Strange
Citizen Science Project on Urban Canids Provides Different Results From Camera Traps but Generates Interest and Revenue, Neville F. Taraporevala
Survival and Cause-Specific Mortality of Mule Deer in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, California, USA, Glenden Taylor
Advancing Quantitative Approaches for Estimating Avian Population Responses to Environmental Change Using a Data-Rich Species: The American White Pelican, Aimee Michele Van Tatenhove
Environmental Factors Associated With Triploid Aspen Occurrence in Intermountain West Landscapes, James A. Walton
2023
Opening the Black Box: Soil Microbial Communities in Field-Based Plant-Soil Feedback Experiments, Julia Kate Aaronson
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
Local and Regional Landscape Characteristics Driving Habitat Selection by Greater Sage-Grouse Along a Fragmented Range Margin, Aidan T. Beers
Happy or SAD? Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) on Cedar Mountain, Southern Utah, Jaycee Cappaert
A Mechanistic Examination of Interspecific Competition Between Wild and Domestic Herbivores, Courtney Check
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
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
Balsam Woolly Adelgid and Host Forest Characteristics: Impacts and Interactions in Recently Invaded Areas of Northern Utah and Southeastern Idaho, Grayson B. Jordan
A Fine-Scale Understanding of Sagebrush Islands to Improve Restoration Outcomes in the Intermountain West, Sofia Koutzoukis
Dusky Grouse Population Ecology and Thermal Landscape Ecology in the Great Basin Ecosystem, Stephanie M. Landry
Anthropogenic Factors Affecting Common Raven Occurrence and Depredation of Artificial Nests Within Greater Sage‐Grouse Habitat in Southern Utah, Zoë S. Moffett
Evaluating Quaking Aspen's Influence on Fire Behavior, Kristin A. Nesbit
Habitat Selection by Desert Carnivores: How Water, Intraguild Predation, and Prey Impact Animal Space Use, Nadine A. Pershyn
Social Factors Driving Grouping Dynamics in Bighorn Sheep Ewe, Toni Proescholdt
Evaluating Beaver Translocation Methods for Desert River Restoration, Christine E. Sandbach
The Influence of Watershed Restoration Initiative Habitat Treatments on Mule Deer Relative Use and Fawn Production in Utah, Jaylin Solberg
Quantifying the Impacts and Assessing the Permeability of a Divided Four-Lane Highway on Migratory Mule Deer, Daniel P. Taylor
Precipitation and Soil Properties Determine Long-Term Consequences of Disturbance and Invasion in Drylands, Tyson Terry
A Statewide Evaluation of Fuel Treatment Effectiveness in Altering Wildfire Outcomes on Public Lands in Utah, Jamela Charmaine Thompson
Regeneration of Quaking Aspen and Understory Vegetation Change After Fire Risk Reduction Treatment, Allison M. Trudgeon
From Flames to Forage: How Wildfire Affects Elk Behavior and Abundance, Megan M. Whetzel
Evaluating Methods for Pathogen Spillover Detection and Forecasting in Desert Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni), Grete E. Wilson-Henjum
2022
Old-Growth Forest Dynamics After Fire and Drought in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA, Kendall M.L. Becker
Quantifying the Indirect Effect of Wolves on Aspen in Northern Yellowstone National Park: Evidence for a Trophic Cascade?, Elaine M. Brice
Assessing Post-Fire Revegetation Efforts in Box Elder County, Utah, Using the Rangeland Analysis Platform, Rayce Bryan
Conservation Conflict: Rare Plant Conservation and Energy Development and Potential in the Colorado Plateau, Joshua Carrell
Forecasting Fine Fuels in the Intermountain West Rangelands, Mira Ensley-Field
Investigating Cause-Specific Mortality of Sheep to Determine the Impacts of Carnivores on Domestic Livestock, Nathan Jacob Floyd
Hidden Mechanisms of Climate Impacts in Western Forests: Integrating Theory and Observation for Climate Adaptation, Sara J. Germain
The Impacts of Increased Precipitation Intensity on Dryland Ecosystems in the Western United States, Martin C. Holdrege
Population Ecology of Spruce-Fir Forests of the Interior West, Katheryn Little
Spatial-Temporal Responses of Cow Elk to Targeted and Non-Targeted Hunting Risk, Randall McBride
Conservation Genetics of a Declining Bumble Bee in Western North America; The Influence of Geography, Dispersal Limitation, and Anthopogenic Activity, Ashley T. Rohde
Characterizing the Migratory Phenology and Routes of the Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena) in Northern Utah, Kim Savides
Comparing Fecal DNA Capture-Recapture Methods to Traditional Mark-Resight Methods for Estimating Abundance of Mule Deer on Winter Ranges, Andi M. Stewart
Greater Sage-Grouse Brood Responses to Livestock Grazing in Sagebrush Rangelands, Hailey Peatross Wayment
Pronghorn Space-Use Ecology in Utah, Veronica A. Winter
2021
Transplanting Mature Mountain Big Sagebrush Plants Yields High First-Year Survival in Dryland Pasture Restoration, Elizabeth C. Bailey
Methods to Improve Our Understanding of Aspen Regeneration and Aspen Distribution Across the Intermountain West, Robert Joseph Julius Bidner
Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Quantify Erosion Control Measures on a Reclaimed Central Utah Coal Mine, Christopher R. Brown
Monitoring Populations and Movement of Bobcats (Lynx rufus) on the Eastern Slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, Michael Brown
Climate-Driven Impacts of Warming and Grazing on Sub-Arctic Coastal Wetlands in Alaska, Ryan T. Choi
An Eulerian Perspective on Spring Migration in Mule Deer, Tatum Del Bosco
Mechanisms of Overyielding and Coexistence in Diverse Tallgrass Prairie Communities, Leslie E. Forero
Plant-Soil Feedbacks Help Explain Biodiversity-Productivity Relationships, Leslie E. Forero, Andrew Kulmatiski, Josephine Grenzer, and Jeanette M. Norton; Communications Biology
Big Fires, Big Trees, and Big Plots: Enhancing our Ecological Understanding of Fire With Unprecedented Field Data, Tucker J. Furniss
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
Dietary Shifts Related to Water Availability and the Demographic Response to Changing Prey Abundance of Carnivores in the West Desert, Utah, Ashley E. Hodge
Patterns of Post-Fire Aspen Seedling Establishment, Growth, and Mortality in the Western United States, Mark Regier Kreider
Interactive Effects of Soil and Browsing on Big Sagebrush: Implications for Restoration Success, Kyle Nehring
Range-Wide Migratory Connectivity of Painted Buntings, Andrew J. Sharp
Bighorn Sheep Demographics Following Pneumonia Die-Off Events, Kylie Sinclair
Greater Sage-Grouse and Community Responses to Strategies to Mitigate Environmental Resistance in an Anthropogenic Altered Sagebrush Landscape, Justin R. Small
Responses of Pacific Fishers to Habitat Changes as a Result of Forestry Practices in Southwestern Oregon, Tessa R. Smith
Susceptibility of High-Elevation Forests to Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) Under Climate Change, David N. Soderberg