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Is your ad hoc model selection strategy affecting your multimodel inference? by Morin, Dana J., Yackulic, Charles B., Diffendorfer, Jay E., Lesmeister, Damon B., Nielsen, Clayton K., Reid, Janice, Schauber, Eric M.

“…Ecologists routinely fit complex models with multiple parameters of interest, where hundreds or more competing models are plausible. To limit the number of…”
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Mesocarnivore landscape use along a gradient of urban, rural, and forest cover by Rodriguez, Jordan T, Lesmeister, Damon B, Levi, Taal

“…Mesocarnivores fill a vital role in ecosystems through effects on community health and structure. Anthropogenic-altered landscapes can benefit some species and…”
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Differential Habitat Use or Intraguild Interactions: What Structures a Carnivore Community? by Gompper, Matthew E, Lesmeister, Damon B, Ray, Justina C, Malcolm, Jay R, Kays, Roland

“…Differential habitat use and intraguild competition are both thought to be important drivers of animal population sizes and distributions. Habitat associations…”
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Western spotted skunk spatial ecology in the temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest by Tosa, Marie I., Lesmeister, Damon B., Levi, Taal

“…A major threat to small mammalian carnivore populations is human‐induced land use change, but conservation and management are inhibited by limited knowledge…”
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Predator–prey interactions in the canopy by Linnell, Mark A., Lesmeister, Damon B.

“…Small mammal abundances are frequently limited by resource availability, but predators can exert strong lethal (mortality) and nonlethal (e.g., nest…”
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Automated identification of avian vocalizations with deep convolutional neural networks by Ruff, Zachary J., Lesmeister, Damon B., Duchac, Leila S., Padmaraju, Bharath K., Sullivan, Christopher M., Pettorelli, Nathalie, Lecours, Vincent

“…Passive acoustic monitoring is an emerging approach to wildlife monitoring that leverages recent improvements in automated recording units and other…”
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Asymmetrical intraguild interactions with coyotes, red foxes, and domestic dogs may contribute to competitive exclusion of declining gray foxes by Morin, Dana J., Lesmeister, Damon B., Nielsen, Clayton K., Schauber, Eric M.

“…Species coexistence is governed by availability of resources and intraguild interactions including strategies to reduce ecological overlap. Gray foxes are…”
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Emigration effects on estimates of age‐ and sex‐specific survival of two sciurids by Weldy, Matthew J., Lesmeister, Damon B., Epps, Clinton W.

“…Age‐ and sex‐specific survival estimates are crucial to understanding important life history characteristics, and variation in these estimates can be a key…”
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Nest trees of northern spotted owls (Strix occidentalis caurina) in Washington and Oregon, USA by Wilk, Randall J, Lesmeister, Damon B, Forsman, Eric D

“…The northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) is a federally-threatened subspecies in the United States associated with late-successional forests. In…”
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Using passive acoustic monitoring to estimate northern spotted owl landscape use and pair occupancy by Appel, Cara L., Lesmeister, Damon B., Duarte, Adam, Davis, Raymond J., Weldy, Matthew J., Levi, Taal

“…Managing forests for biodiversity conservation while maintaining economic output is a major challenge globally and requires accurate and timely monitoring of…”
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Differential landscape use by forest owls two years after a mixed‐severity wildfire by Duchac, Leila S., Lesmeister, Damon B., Dugger, Katie M., Davis, Raymond J.

“…Owls are important avian predators in forested systems, but little is known about landscape use by most forest‐adapted owl species in environments impacted by…”
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Multi‐locus DNA metabarcoding reveals seasonality of foraging ecology of western spotted skunks in the Pacific Northwest by Tosa, Marie I., Lesmeister, Damon B., Allen, Jennifer M., Levi, Taal

“…There are increasing concerns about the declining population trends of small mammalian carnivores around the world. Their conservation and management are often…”
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Characterizing long‐term population conditions of the elusive red tree vole with dynamic individual‐based modeling by Heinrichs, Julie A., Marcot, Bruce G., Linnell, Mark A., Lesmeister, Damon B.

“…Old growth forests are declining globally, threatening dependent wildlife. Many arboreal old‐growth obligates, such as the threatened red tree vole, are…”
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Effects of trapping effort and trap placement on estimating abundance of Humboldt’s flying squirrels by Weldy, Matthew J, Wilson, Todd M, Lesmeister, Damon B, Epps, Clinton W

“…Live trapping is a common tool used to assess demography of small mammals. However, live-trapping is often expensive and stressful to captured individuals…”
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Workflow and convolutional neural network for automated identification of animal sounds by Ruff, Zachary J., Lesmeister, Damon B., Appel, Cara L., Sullivan, Christopher M.

“…•We developed a deep neural network to identify sounds made by 14 animal species.•We built an efficient pipeline for processing large amounts of audio.•Output…”
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Spatial and temporal partitioning between eastern gray and fox squirrels in a Central Hardwood forest by Remmers, Justin J, Lesmeister, Damon B, Nielsen, Clayton K

“…Abstract Congeneric fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) and eastern gray squirrels (S. carolinensis) compete for resources within North American temperate forests…”
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Spatial and temporal structure of a mesocarnivore guild in midwestern north America by Lesmeister, Damon B., Nielsen, Clayton K., Schauber, Eric M., Hellgren, Eric C.

“…Carnivore guilds play a vital role in ecological communities by cascading trophic effects, energy and nutrient transfer, and stabilizing or destabilizing food…”
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Combining environmental DNA and remote sensing for efficient, fine-scale mapping of arthropod biodiversity by Li, Yuanheng, Devenish, Christian, Tosa, Marie I, Luo, Mingjie, Bell, David M, Lesmeister, Damon B, Greenfield, Paul, Pichler, Maximilian, Levi, Taal, Yu, Douglas W

“…Arthropods contribute importantly to ecosystem functioning but remain understudied. This undermines the validity of conservation decisions. Modern methods are…”
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Twenty-five years of the Northwest Forest Plan: what have we learned? by Spies, Thomas A, Long, Jonathan W, Charnley, Susan, Hessburg, Paul F, Marcot, Bruce G, Reeves, Gordon H, Lesmeister, Damon B, Reilly, Matthew J, Cerveny, Lee K, Stine, Peter A, Raphael, Martin G

“…The Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) has guided the management of 17 federal forests in the US Pacific Northwest for the past 25 years. The existing management…”
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Feather corticosterone reveals developmental challenges in a long‐term study of juvenile northern spotted owls by Mikkelsen, Ashlee J., Lesmeister, Damon B., O’Reilly, Kathleen M., Dugger, Katie M.

“…Corticosterone is a steroid hormone integral to a variety of physiological pathways and is strongly associated with the vertebrate stress response. In avian…”
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