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Habitat and herbivore density: response of mule deer to habitat management
The suite of demands competing for wildlife management funds necessitates direct assessment of management decisions, especially when these decisions have direct costs, as well as tangible opportunity costs. We conducted a mark–resight study that…
Herbivore body condition response in altered environments: mule deer and habitat management
The relationships between habitat, body condition, life history characteristics, and fitness components of ungulates are interwoven and of interest to researchers as they strive to understand the impacts of a changing environment. With the increased…
Habitat management influences overwinter survival of mule deer fawns in Colorado
In the absence of natural or anthropogenic disturbance, many pinyon pine (Pinus edulis)–Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma) woodland habitats reach late seral stages that encroach into forest openings. This encroachment typically occurs at the…
Biological and socio-economic effects of statewide limitation of deer licenses in Colorado
We evaluated the biological and socio-economic effects of statewide limitation of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) hunting licenses, which began in Colorado in 1999. We implemented a before-after-control-impact (BACI) analysis of annual helicopter sex…
Building a systems framework to facilitate adaptive organizational change in state fish and wildlife agencies
State fish and wildlife agencies in the United States are confronted with the realities of a rapidly changing society. With declines in historical sources of revenue and the growth of diverse voices with values that differ from those emphasized by…
Three pathogens in sympatric populations of pumas, bobcats, and domestic cats: implications for infectious disease transmission
Anthropogenic landscape change can lead to increased opportunities for pathogen transmission between domestic and non-domestic animals. Pumas, bobcats, and domestic cats are sympatric in many areas of North America and share many of the same…
Wild felids as hosts for human plague, Western United States
Plague seroprevalence was estimated in populations of pumas and bobcats in the western United States. High levels of exposure in plague-endemic regions indicate the need to consider the ecology and pathobiology of plague in nondomestic felid hosts to…
Effectiveness of a redesigned vaginal implant transmitter in mule deer
Our understanding of factors that limit mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) populations may be improved by evaluating neonatal survival as a function of dam characteristics under free-ranging conditions, which generally requires that both neonates and…
A noninvasive automated device for remotely collaring and weighing mule deer
Wildlife biologists capture deer (Odocoileus spp.) annually to attach transmitters and collect basic information (e.g., animal mass and sex) as part of ongoing research and monitoring activities. Traditional capture techniques induce stress in…
Hunger mediates apex predator's risk avoidance response in wildland–urban interface
Puma (Puma concolor), an apex predator, can live at the edge of cities where pockets of low-density human dwellings form residential patches in the wildland–urban interface. Blecha, Boone, and Alldredge (2018) tracked puma via global positioning…