Search Results - "MURRAY, Dennis L."

Bridging the Gap: Comprehensive Boreal Forest Complexity Mapping through LVIS Full-Waveform LiDAR, Single-Year and Time Series Landsat Imagery by Diaz-Kloch, Nicolas, Murray, Dennis L.

“…The extrapolation of forest structural attributes from LiDAR has traditionally been restricted to local or regional scales, hindering a thorough assessment of…”
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Developing a classification system to assign activity states to two species of freshwater turtles by Auge, Anne-Christine, Blouin-Demers, Gabriel, Murray, Dennis L

“…Research in ecology often requires robust assessment of animal behaviour, but classifying behavioural patterns in free-ranging animals and in natural…”
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Balancing food acquisition and predation risk drives demographic changes in snowshoe hare population cycles by Majchrzak, Yasmine N., Peers, Michael J. L., Studd, Emily K., Menzies, Allyson K., Walker, Philip D., Shiratsuru, Shotaro, McCaw, Laura K., Boonstra, Rudy, Humphries, Murray, Jung, Thomas S., Kenney, Alice J., Krebs, Charles J., Murray, Dennis L., Boutin, Stan, Sih, Andrew

“…Snowshoe hare cycles are one of the most prominent phenomena in ecology. Experimental studies point to predation as the dominant driving factor, but previous…”
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Bias in Research Grant Evaluation Has Dire Consequences for Small Universities by Murray, Dennis L, Morris, Douglas, Lavoie, Claude, Leavitt, Peter R, MacIsaac, Hugh, Masson, Michael E J, Villard, Marc-Andre

“…Federal funding for basic scientific research is the cornerstone of societal progress, economy, health and well-being. There is a direct relationship between…”
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Assessing connectivity and the contribution of private lands to protected area networks in the United States by Bargelt, Lindsey, Fortin, Marie-Josée, Murray, Dennis L

“…Current targets for protected area network coverage call for increased protection but lack specificity in terms of criteria for parcel type, placement, and…”
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Increasing availability of palatable prey induces predator-dependence and increases predation on unpalatable prey by Hossie, Thomas J., Chan, Kevin, Murray, Dennis L.

“…Understanding the factors governing predation remains a top priority in ecology. Using a dragonfly nymph-tadpole system, we experimentally varied predator…”
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Canada lynx foraging strategies: Facultative specialists become obligate generalists toward the distribution edge by Szumski, Christa M., Roth, James D., Murray, Dennis L.

“…Spatial and temporal variation in prey availability can affect predator foraging strategies, but it is unclear how large‐scale gradients in prey availability…”
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Editorial: New perspectives and emerging directions in predator–prey functional response research: hommage to C.S. Holling (1930–2019) by Hossie, Thomas J., Murray, Dennis L.

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Influence of hybridization on animal space use: a case study using coyote range expansion by Ellington, E. Hance, Murray, Dennis L.

“…Hybridization between animal species is likely to increase as distributional and reproductive barriers continue to break down due to anthropogenically driven…”
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Investment into defensive traits by anuran prey (Lithobates pipiens) is mediated by the starvation-predation risk trade-off by Bennett, Amanda M, Pereira, David, Murray, Dennis L

“…Prey can invest in a variety of defensive traits when balancing risk of predation against that of starvation. What remains unknown is the relative costs of…”
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Reconsidering the specialist-generalist paradigm in niche breadth dynamics: resource gradient selection by Canada lynx and bobcat by Peers, Michael J L, Thornton, Daniel H, Murray, Dennis L

“…The long-standing view in ecology is that disparity in overall resource selection is the basis for identifying niche breadth patterns, with species having…”
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Continental divide: Predicting climate-mediated fragmentation and biodiversity loss in the boreal forest by Murray, Dennis L, Peers, Michael J L, Majchrzak, Yasmine N, Wehtje, Morgan, Ferreira, Catarina, Pickles, Rob S A, Row, Jeffrey R, Thornton, Daniel H

“…Climate change threatens natural landscapes through shifting distribution and abundance of species and attendant change in the structure and function of…”
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Unveiling trade-offs in resource selection of migratory caribou using a mechanistic movement model of availability by Bastille-Rousseau, Guillaume, Potts, Jonathan R., Schaefer, James A., Lewis, Mark A., Ellington, E. Hance, Rayl, Nathaniel D., Mahoney, Shane P., Murray, Dennis L.

“…Habitat selection is a multi-level, hierarchical process that should be a key component in the balance between food acquisition and predation risk avoidance…”
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The genetic underpinnings of population cyclicity: establishing expectations for the genetic anatomy of cycling populations by Row, Jeffrey R., Wilson, Paul J., Murray, Dennis L.

“…Despite extensive research into the mechanisms underlying population cyclicity, we have little understanding of the impacts of numerical fluctuations on the…”
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Predicting local and non‐local effects of resources on animal space use using a mechanistic step selection model by Potts, Jonathan R., Bastille‐Rousseau, Guillaume, Murray, Dennis L., Schaefer, James A., Lewis, Mark A., Rands, Sean

“…Summary Predicting space use patterns of animals from their interactions with the environment is fundamental for understanding the effect of habitat changes on…”
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Niche determinants in a salamander complex: Does hybridism or reproductive parasitism explain patterns of distribution? by Mills, Peter B., Hossie, Thomas J., Murray, Dennis L.

“…Organisms with multiple biotic attributes may also have conflicting niche determinants, and we assessed whether the realized niche reflects single or multiple…”
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Testing the effectiveness of environmental DNA (eDNA) to quantify larval amphibian abundance by Breton, Brie‐Anne A., Beaty, Lynne, Bennett, Amanda M., Kyle, Christopher J., Lesbarrères, David, Vilaça, Sibelle Torres, Wikston, Madison J. H., Wilson, Chris C., Murray, Dennis L.

“…Environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring is rapidly becoming an established approach for detecting the presence of aquatic organisms and may also be useful for…”
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Social and demographic effects of anthropogenic mortality: a test of the compensatory mortality hypothesis in the red wolf by Sparkman, Amanda M, Waits, Lisette P, Murray, Dennis L

“…Whether anthropogenic mortality is additive or compensatory to natural mortality in animal populations has long been a question of theoretical and practical…”
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Detection of spatiotemporal variation in ranavirus distribution using eDNA by Vilaça, Sibelle Torres, Grant, Samantha A., Beaty, Lynne, Brunetti, Craig R., Congram, Megan, Murray, Dennis L., Wilson, Chris C., Kyle, Christopher J.

“…Amphibian population declines have been associated with emerging diseases including ranaviruses, which can cause mass die‐offs across entire amphibian…”
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Tracking the prevalence of a fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (chytrid fungus), using environmental DNA by Congram, Megan, Torres Vilaça, Sibelle, Wilson, Chris C., Kyle, Chris J., Lesbarrères, David, Wikston, Madison J. H., Beaty, Lynne, Murray, Dennis L.

“…Chytridiomycosis, a primary disease driving widespread and unprecedented amphibian declines, is caused by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis…”
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