Publications

2026

  • Prugh, LR, P Mahajan, E Reese, SES Kreling, IM Rohan, RM Windell, Y Hentati. 2026. Urbanization increases coyote density 9-fold in Washington state despite negative effects of human density within Seattle, USA. Environmental Research Ecology https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-664X/ae9ffd

    Kreling, S, E Reese, O Cavalluzzi, A Renouard, Y Hentati, R Long, L Prugh. 2026. Urbanization drives patterns of resource partitioning among coyotes. Ecology and Evolution http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.74170

  • Lewis, T, A Prichard, M Sytsma, L Beck, L Prugh. 2026. Needle in a forest: Searching for thresholds to maximize coexistence between people and wildlife in a remote wilderness park. Biology 15: 1540 https://doi.org/10.3390/biology15171540

  • Nisi, A, L West, M Halabisky, N Jordan, R Kotze, A Loveridge, JW McNutt, J Neelo, L Prugh, K Rafiq, L Sousa, A Wilson, B Abrahms. 2026. Drought intensifies dominant competitor avoidance and risk-reward tradeoffs in a large carnivore guild. Oikos https://doi.org/10.1002/oik.12251

  • Prugh, LR, SES Kreling, TR Ganz, CX Cunningham, Y Hentati, B Sullender, CM Breen, M Procko. 2026. Cascading effects of humans on trophic dynamics. Pages 179 – 196 in RA Montgomery and RJ Moll, eds. Apex predators in the Anthropcene: How humans shape large carnivore populations. Oxford University Press, Oxford UK. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191996665.003.0010

  • Kreling, S, L Bartholomew, J Duling, T Tran, E Reese, Y Hentati, C Schell, L Prugh. 2026. Feast or famine: How food deserts, wealth, and greenspace influence coyote diets in Seattle, Washington. People and Nature 8: 3051–3065. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70390

  • Potts, J. et al. 2026. Understanding mammal avoidance of human settlements. Journal of Animal Ecology 95: 1504–1517. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70298

  • Breen, C, J Odden, JDC Linnell, NH Thorsen, IM Rivrud, L Prugh. 2026. Diel and seasonal cycles of snow hardness predict changes in activity patterns for roe deer but not mountain hares. Canadian Journal of Zoology https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2025-0165

  • Oliver, R et al. 2026. Interacting effects of human mobility and landscape modification on wildlife. Science 392: 879-884. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq3396

  • Rafiq, K, AC Nisi, NR Jordan, KA Golabek, JW McNutt, A Wilson, L Prugh, D Kedikilwe, B Abrahms. 2026. Warming temperatures increase close encounters between two top predator species via changes in spatial behaviour. Movement Ecology https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-026-00635-z  

  • Shively, KA, E Reese, JI Ransom, JC Lewis, T Chestnut, DO Werntz, T Levi, LR Prugh. 2026. Prey partitioning in a diverse carnivore community: Implications for reintroduced fishers in Washington. Animal Conservation https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.70062 

  • Hentati, Y, E Reese, CC Curran, EM Miller, DM Díaz-Morales, SES Kreling, GG Verocai, LR Prugh, CJ Schell, CL Wood. 2026. Detection of Echinococcus multilocularis in coyotes in Washington State, USA highlights need for increased global wildlife surveillance. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 20:e0013502 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0013502.

2025

  • Young, JK, R Kays, AM Green, RJ Moll, JT Schultz, JF Benson, S Benson-Amram, J Brown, G Cahal, BS Carr, JD Cepek, E Davis, KD Dougherty, T Gallo, S Gehrt, KO Goode, T Grace, M Henling, L Himes, S Keller, MT Kohl, S LaPoint, J Monzón, C Nagy, E Palmer, L Prugh, S Raber, K Ritzel, SPD Riley, CJ Schell, ÇH Şekercioğlu, L Stanton, and SW Breck. 2025. Large-scale experimental assessment of coyote behavior across urban and rural landscapes. Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-33189-y

  • Sullender, BK, CX Cunningham, AK Reinking, GE Liston, R Levine, T Verzuh, NT Boelman, S Boutin, M Suitor, K Monteith, M Hebblewhite, TJ Brinkman, LR Prugh. 2025. Warm winters, hot moose: temperature drives activity and habitat trade-offs across a cold-adapted species’ range. Environmental Research Letters 20: 124064. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae263a

  • Sullender, B, T Ganz, R Mower, J Lundquist, B Kertson, T Newsome, A Wirsing, L Prugh. 2025. Apex predators exploit advantageous snow conditions across hunting modes. Journal of Animal Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70170

  • Fagan, WF et al. 2025. Wild canids and felids differ in their reliance on travel routeways. PNAS 122: e2401042122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401042122

  • Wilmers, CC, T Levi, LR Prugh, J Ruprecht, DR Stahler. 2025. The ecological impacts of large carnivore recovery in North America. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 56:337-363. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102722-021139

  • Hentati, Y, C Estien, Z Hawn, M Jordan, R Long, R Mueller, K Remine, L Prugh, C Schell. 2025. Environmental contamination predicts mammal diversity and mesocarnivore activity in the Seattle-Tacoma metro area. Urban Ecosystems 28: 152. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-025-01758-8 (open access).

  • Cunningham, CX, R Windell, LC Satterfield, AJ Wirsing, TM Newsome, TR Ganz, LR Prugh. 2025. Navigating the risks and rewards of scavenging in multi-predator, human-impacted landscapes. Ecology 106: e70090. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70090 (open access)

  • Benson, JF et al. 2025. Intrinsic and environmental drivers of social cohesion in wild canids. Ecology 106: e4492. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4492 (open access)

  • Shively, KA,  E Reese, JI Ransom, AJ Wirsing, JC Lewis, DO Werntz, T Chestnut, DP Whiteside, LR Prugh. 2025. Metabarcoding reveals striking dietary variation in a reintroduced mesocarnivore. Journal of Mammalogy https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyaf018 (open access).

2024

Ganz et al. 2024

  • Prugh, LR, JD Lundquist, BK Sullender, CX Cunningham, J Dechow, BL Borg, PJ Sousanes, S Stehn, MT Durand. 2024. Landscape heterogeneity buffers the impact of an extreme weather event on wildlife. Communications Biology 7: 1515 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-07195-1 (open access)

  • Zhu, K,Y Song, JC Lesage, JC Luong, JW Bartolome, NR Chiariello, J Dudney, CB Field, LM Hallett, M Hammond, SP Harrison, GF Hayes, RJ Hobbs, KD Holl, P Hopkinson, L Larios, ME Loik, LR Prugh. 2024. Rapid shifts in grassland communities driven by climate change. Nature Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02552-z.

  • Challeat, S, N Farrugia, and 259 co-authors. 2024. Silent Cities dataset: acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Scientific Data 11 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03611-7#citeas | pdf. (data collected during ESRM 351 covid year, includes 15 undergraduate co-authors)

  • Breen, C, W Currier, C Vuyovich, Z Miao, L Prugh. 2024. Snow depth extraction from time-lapse imagery using a keypoint deep learning model. Water Resources Research 60:e2023WR036682 https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR036682 | pdf.

  • Malesis, A, R Windell, C Vanbianci, L Prugh. 2024. A scavenger’s paradise: Coyotes take advantage of ungulate carrion subsidies as wolves recolonize Washington. Canadian Journal of Zoology https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjz-2024-0019.

  • Ganz, TR, SB Bassing, M DeVivo, B Gardner, B Kertson, L Satterfield, L Shipley, BY Turnock, SL Walker, D Abrahamson, A Wirsing, L Prugh. 2024. White-tailed deer population dynamics in a multi-predator landscape shaped by humans. Ecological Applications e3003 https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.3003.

  • Procko, M, S Winder, S Wood, M Sevigny, D Collins, M Alves, L Prugh. 2024. Quantifying impacts of recreation on elk (Cervus canadensis) using novel modeling approaches. Ecosphere http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4873 | pdf.

  • Kreling, SES, EM Reese, OM Cavalluzzi, N Bozzi, R Messinger, RA Long, CJ Schell, LR Prugh. 2024. City divided: Unveiling family ties and genetic structuring of coyotes in Seattle. Molecular Ecology e17427 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17427 | pdf.

  • Ganz, T, M DeVivo, A Wirsing, S Bassing, B Kertson, S Walker, L Prugh. 2024. Cougars, wolves, and humans drive a dynamic landscape of fear for elk. Ecology 105: e4255. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4255 | pdf.

2023

Sullender et al. 2023

2022

  • Cunningham, CX, GE Liston, AK Reinking, NT Boelman, TJ Brinkman, K Joly, M Hebblewhite, S Boutin, S Czetwertynski, LE Sielecki, LR Prugh. 2022. Human and animal movements combine with snow to increase moose-vehicle collisions in winter. Environmental Research Letters. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aca8bf. pdf

  • Cunningham, CX, TA Nuñez, Y Hentati, B Sullender, C Breen, TR Ganz, SES Kreling, KA Shively, E Reese, J Miles, LR Prugh. 2022. Permanent daylight saving time would reduce deer-vehicle collisions. Current Biology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.10.007. pdf

  • Sytsma, M, T Lewis, B Gardner, LR Prugh. 2022. Low levels of outdoor recreation alter wildlife behavior. People and Nature 4: 1547– 1559 https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10402. pdf

  • Bassing, S, M Devivo, T Ganz, B Kertson, L Prugh, T Roussin, L Satterfield, R Windell, A Wirsing, B Gardner. 2022. Are we telling the same story? Comparing inferences made from camera trap and telemetry data for wildlife monitoring. Ecological Applications 33: e2745 https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2745. pdf

  • Ganz, TR, MT DeVivo, B Kertson, T Roussin, L Satterfield, A Wirsing, LR Prugh. 2022. Interactive effects of wildfires, season, and predator activity shape mule deer movements. Journal of Animal Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13810. pdf

  • Ganz, TR, MT Devivo, EM Reese, LR Prugh. 2022. Wildlife whodunnit: Forensic identification of predators to inform wildlife management and conservation. Wildlife Society Bulletin e1386 https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.1386. pdf

  • Zhou J, GP Kofinas, K Kielland, RB Boone, L Prugh and KD Tape. 2022. Climate change, moose, and subsistence harvest: social-ecological assessment of Nuiqsut, Alaska. Ecology and Society 27(3):29 https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13175-270329. pdf

  • Reinking, A, S. Højlund Pedersen, K Elder, N Boelman, T Glass, B Oates, S Bergen, S Roberts, L Prugh, T Brinkman, M Coughenour, J Feltner, K Barker, T Bentzen, A Pedersen, NM Schmidt, G Liston. 2022. Collaborative snow-wildlife science: Integrating snow and wildlife expertise to improve research and management. Ecosphere 13: e4094 https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4094. pdf

  • Young, KB, TM Lewis, LR Prugh. 2022. The composition and interactions of scavengers on a humpback whale carcass in Alaska. Northwestern Naturalist 103: 51-62. pdf

2021

  • Williams, K, DM Menning, E Wald, SL Talbot, K Rattenbury, LR Prugh. 2021. Using next generation sequencing of alpine plants to improve fecal metabarcoding diet analysis for Dall’s sheep. BMC Research Notes 14:173 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05590-z.

  • Suraci, JP, KM Gaynor, ML Allen, P Alexander, JS Brashares, S Cendejas-Zarelli, K Crooks, LM Elbroch, T Forester, AM Green, J Haight, N Harris, M Hebblewhite, F Isbell, B Johnston, R Kays, PE Lendrum, J Lewis, A McInturff, W McShea, TW Murphy, M Palmer, A Parsons, MA Parsons*, ME Pendergast, C Pekins, L Prugh, KA Sager-Fradkin, S Schuttler, CH Sekercioglu, B Shepherd, L Whipple, J Whittington, G Wittemyer, CC Wilmers. 2021. Disturbance type and species life history predict mammal responses to humans. Global Change Biology 27:3718-3731. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15650. pdf

  • Parsons, M, A Orloff, L Prugh. 2021. Evaluating live trapping and camera-based indices of small mammal density. Canadian Journal of Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2020-0298. pdf

  • Aycrigg, JL, AG Wells, JL Rachlow, EO Garton, B Magipane, GE Liston, LR Prugh. 2021. Habitat selection by Dall’s sheep is influenced by direct and indirect climate effects. PLoS One 16:e0248763. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248763.

  • Cosgrove, CL, J Wells, AW Nolin, J Putera, LR Prugh. 2021. Seasonal influence of snow conditions on Dall’s sheep productivity in Wrangell-St Elias National Park and Preserve. Plos One 16:e0244787. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244787.

  • Klauder, K, B Borg, LR Prugh. 2021. Living on the edge: coyote space use, survival, and response to wolves in the subarctic. Canadian Journal of Zoology https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2020-0050. pdf

  • Happe, PJ, SH Pace, LR Prugh, KJ Jenkins, JC Lewis, J Hagar. 2021. Food habits of fishers (Pekania pennanti) reintroduced on the Olympic Peninsula, WA. Northwestern Naturalist 102: 97-108. pdf

  • Klauder, K, B Borg, KJ Sivy, LR Prugh. In press. Gifts of an enemy: Scavenging dynamics in the presence of wolves. Journal of Mammalogy 102:558-573. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyab020. pdf

  • Mahoney, P, K Joly, B Borg, M Sorum, T Rinaldi, H Golden, D Saalfeld, A Latham, A Kelly, B Mangipane, C Lambert Koizumi, L Neufeld, M Hebblewhite, N Boelman, L Prugh. 2020. Denning phenology and reproductive success of wolves in response to climate signals. Environmental Research Letters https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abc1080ba. pdf

  • Davidson, SC, G Bohrer, E Gurarie, S LaPoint, PJ Mahoney*, NT Boelman, JUH Eitel, LR Prugh et al. 2020. New ecological insights from the Arctic Animal Movement Archive (AAMA). Science 370: 712-715 DOI: 10.1126/science.abb7080. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6517/712. pdf

  • Borg, BL, SM Arthur, JA Falke, LR Prugh. 2021. Spatially explicit dynamics of wolf sightings in Denali National Park. Arctic 74: 55-66. https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic72208. pdf

2020

  • Gaynor, K, M Cherry, S Gilbert, M Kohl, C Larson, T Newsome, L Prugh, J Suraci, J Young, J Smith. 2020. An applied ecology of fear: linking theory to management practice. Animal Conservation 24:308-321. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12629. pdf

  • Leorna, S, T Brinkman, J McIntyre, B Wendling, L Prugh. 2020. Association between weather and Dall’s sheep Ovis dalli dalli harvest success in Alaska. Wildlife Biology https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00660. pdf

  • Zhou, Jiake; Tape, Ken; Prugh, Laura; Kofinas, Gary; Carroll, Geoff; Kielland, Knut. 2020. Expansion of shrubs in the Arctic enhances habitat connectivity for browsing herbivores. Global Change Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15104. pdf

  • van de Kerk, M, S. Arthur , M Bertram, B Borg, J Herriges, J Lawler, B Mangipane, C Lambert Koizumi, B Wendling, L Prugh. 2020. Environmental drivers of Dall’s sheep survival. Journal of Wildlife Management 84:1127-1138 https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21873. pdf

  • Prugh, LR and KJ Sivy. 2020. Enemies with benefits: Integrating positive and negative interactions among terrestrial carnivores. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13489. pdf

  • Brambila, A, J Chesnut, L Prugh, L Hallett. 2020. Herbivory enhances the effect of environmental variability on plant community composition and beta-diversity. Journal of Vegetation Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12862. pdf

  • Parsons, M, J Lewis, J Pauli, T Chestnut, J Ransom, D Werntz, L Prugh. 2020. Prey of reintroduced fishers and their habitat relationships in the Cascades Range, Washington. Forest Ecology and Management 460: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.117888. pdf

2019

  • Carter, N, M Williamson, S Gilbert, S Lischka, L Prugh, J Lawler, A Metcalf, A Jacob, B Beltran, A Castro, A Sage, M Burnham. 2019. Integrated spatial analysis for human-wildlife coexistence in the American West. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab60e1. pdf

  • Parsons, M, J Lewis, B Gardner, T Chestnut, J Ransom, D Werntz, L Prugh. 2019. Habitat selection and spatiotemporal interactions of a reintroduced mesocarnivore. Journal of Wildlife Management. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21670. pdf

  • Kelt, DA, EJ Heske, X Lambin, MK Oli, JL Orrock, A Ozgul, JN Pauli, LR Prugh, R Sollmann, S Sommer. 2019. Advances in population biology and species interactions in mammals. Journal of Mammalogy 100: 965-1007. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz017. pdf

  • Montgomery, RA, RJ Moll, E Say-Sallaz, M Valeix, LR Prugh. 2019. A tendency to simplify complex systems. Biological Conservation 233:1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.02.001. pdf

  • Prugh, LR, KJ Sivy, PJ Mahoney, TR Ganz, MA Ditmer, M van de Kerk, SL Gilbert, RA Montgomery. 2019. Designing studies of predation risk for improved inference in carnivore-ungulate systems. Biological Conservation 232: 194-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.02.011. pdf

  • Grinath, J, L Prugh, J Brashares, K Suding. 2019. Environmental gradients determine the potential for ecosystem engineering effects. Oikos. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.05768. pdf

  • Boelman, N., Liston, G.E., Gurarie, E., Meddens, A.J.H., Mahoney, P.J., Kirchner, P.B., Bohrer, G., Brinkman, T.J., Cosgrove, C.L., Eitel, J., Hebblewhite, M., Kimball, J.S., LaPoint, S.D., Nolin, A.W., Pedersen, S.H., Prugh, L.R., Reinking, A.K., Vierling, L. 2019. Integrating snow science and wildlife ecology in Arctic-boreal North America. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaeec1. pdf

2018

  • Prugh, LR, N Deguines, JB Grinath, KN Suding, WT Bean, R Stafford, JS Brashares. 2018. Ecological winners and losers of extreme drought in California. Nature Climate Change 8: 819-824. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0255-1. pdf

  • van de Kerk, M, D Verbyla, AW Nolin, KJ Sivy and LR Prugh. 2018. Range-wide variation in the effect of spring snow phenology on Dall sheep population dynamics. Environmental Research Letters 13: 075008. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aace64. pdf

  • Mahoney, PJ, G Liston, S LaPoint, E Gurarie, B Mangipane, AG Wells, TJ Brinkman, JUH Eitel, N Boelman, LR Prugh. 2018. Navigating snowscapes: scale-dependent responses of mountain sheep to snowpack properties. Ecological Applications https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1773. pdf

  • Sivy, K. J., A. W. Nolin, C. Cosgrove, and L. Prugh. 2018. Critical snow density threshold for Dall sheep (Ovis dalli dalli). Canadian Journal of Zoology. DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2017-0259. pdf

  • Grinath, JB, N Deguines, JW Chesnut, LR Prugh, JS Brashares, KN Suding. 2018. Animals alter precipitation legacies: trophic and ecosystem engineering effects on plant community temporal dynamics. Journal of Ecology 106: 607-621. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12936. pdf

  • Sivy, K. J., C. B. Pozzanghera, K. E. Colson, M. A. Mumma, and L. R. Prugh. 2018. Apex predators and the facilitation of resource partitioning among mesopredators. Oikos 127: 607-621. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.04647. pdf

2017

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Gilbert et al. 2017

  • Verbyla, D., T. Hegel, A. Nolin, M. van de Kerk, T. Kurkowski, and L. Prugh. 2017. Remote Sensing of 2000–2016 Alpine Spring Snowline Elevation in Dall Sheep Mountain Ranges of Alaska and Western Canada. Remote Sensing 9: 1157 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9111157. pdf

  • Sivy, K. J., C. B. Pozzanghera, J. B. Grace, and L. R. Prugh. 2017. Fatal attraction? Intraguild facilitation and suppression among predators. The American Naturalist 190: 663-679. https://doi.org/10.1086/693996. pdf

  • Zhou, J, LR Prugh, KD Tape, G Kofinas, K Kielland. 2017. The role of vegetation structure in controlling distributions of vertebrate herbivores in Arctic Alaska. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 49: 291-304. pdf

  • Gilbert, SL, SJ Sivy, CB Pozzanghera, A DuBour, K Overduijn, MM Smith, J Zhou, JM Little, LR Prugh. 2017. Socioeconomic benefits of large carnivore recolonization through reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions. Conservation Letters 10: 431-439. pdf.

  • Deguines, N, JS Brashares, LR Prugh. 2017. Precipitation alters interactions in a grassland ecological community. Journal of Animal Ecology 86: 262-272. pdf

  • Keinath, D, D Doak, K Hodges, L Prugh, W Fagan, C Sekercioglu, S Butchart, M Kauffman. 2017. A global analysis of species sensitivity to habitat disturbance. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26: 115-127. pdf

2016

  • Pozzanghera, C, K Sivy, M Lindberg, L Prugh. 2016. Variable effects of snow conditions across boreal mesocarnivore species. Canadian Journal of Zoology 94: 697-705. pdf

  • Borg, B. L., S. M. Arthur, N. A. Bromen, K. A. Cassidy, R. McIntyre, D. W. Smith, and L. R. Prugh. 2016. Implications of harvest on the boundaries of protected areas for large carnivore viewing opportunities. PloS One 11:e0153808.

  • Dorendorf, RR, PJ Fix, and LR Prugh. 2016. Motivations of fur trappers in interior Alaska. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 21: 522-537. pdf

2015

  • Gurney, C. M., L. R. Prugh, and J. S. Brashares. 2015. Restoration of native plants is reduced by rodent-caused soil disturbance and seed removal. Rangeland Ecology & Management 68: 359-366. pdf

  • Prugh, LR and SM Arthur. 2015. Optimal predator management for mountain sheep conservation depends on the strength of mesopredator release. Oikos 124: 1241-1250. pdf

  • Borg, B, S Brainerd, T Meier, LR Prugh. 2015. Impacts of breeder loss on social structure, reproduction and population growth in a social canid. Journal of Animal Ecology 84: 177-187.  pdf

2014

  • Bean, WT, LR Prugh, R Stafford, HS Butterfield, M Westfall, JS Brashares. 2014. Species distribution models of an endangered rodent offer incomplete measures of habitat quality at multiple scales. Journal of Applied Ecology 51: 1116-1125. pdf

  • Endicott, RL, LR Prugh, JS Brashares. 2014. Surplus killing by endangered San Joaquin kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis mutica) is linked to a local population decline of endangered giant kangaroo rats (Dipodomys ingens). Southwestern Naturalist 59: 104-109. pdf

  • Prugh, LR and CD Golden. 2014. Does moonlight increase predation risk? Meta-analysis reveals divergent responses of nocturnal mammals to lunar cycles. Journal of Animal Ecology 83: 504-514. pdf

Prugh & Arthur 2010

2013 and earlier

  • McCune, JL, WL Harrower, S Avery-Gomm, JM Brogan, A Csergo, LN Davidson, A Garani, LR Halpin, LP Lipsen, C Lee, JC Nelson, LR Prugh, C Stinson, CK Whitney, J Whitton, 2013. Threats to Canadian species at risk: an analysis of finalized recovery strategies. Biological Conservation 166: 254-265. pdf

  • Bean, WT, R. Stafford, LR Prugh, S. Butterfield, JS Brashares 2012. An evaluation of monitoring methods for the endangered giant kangaroo rat. Wildlife Society Bulletin 36: 587-593. pdf

  • Prugh, LR and JS Brashares. 2012. Partitioning the keystone effects of an ecological engineer: kangaroo rats control community structure via multiple pathways. Journal of Animal Ecology 81: 667-678. pdf

  • Prugh, LR. 2011. Predators in our midst. Bioscience 61: 488-489 (invited book review)

  • Arthur, SM and LR Prugh. 2010. Predator-mediated indirect effects of snowshoe hares on Dall sheep in Alaska. Journal of Wildlife Management 74: 1709-1721. pdf

  • Prugh, LR and JS Brashares. 2010. Basking in the moonlight? Illumination increases the capture success of the endangered giant kangaroo rat. Journal of Mammalogy 91: 1205-1212. pdf

  • Prugh, LR, ARE Sinclair, KE Hodges, AL Jacob, DS Wilcove. 2010. Reducing threats to species: threat reversibility and links to industry. Conservation Letters 3: 267-276. pdf

  • Brashares, JS, LR Prugh, CJ Stoner, CW Epps. 2010. Ecological and conservation implications of mesopredator release. Pp. 221-240 in J.Terborgh and J. Estes, eds. Trophic cascades. Island Press, Washington DC. pdf

  • Prugh, LR, CJ Stoner, CW Epps, WT Bean, WJ Ripple, AS Laliberte, JS Brashares. 2009. The rise of the mesopredator. BioScience 59: 779-791. pdf

  • Prugh, LR. 2009. An evaluation of patch connectivity measures. Ecological Applications 19: 1300-1310. pdf

  • Prugh, LR. 2009. Kangaroo rats: the great farmer-engineers of our deserts. Sierra Club Desert Report (Sept 2009): 15-17. pdf

  • Prugh, LR, KE Hodges, ARE Sinclair, JS Brashares. 2008. Effect of habitat area and isolation on fragmented animal populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105: 20770-20775. pdf

  • Prugh, LR, SM Arthur, CE Ritland. 2008. Use of fecal genotyping to determine individual diet. Wildlife Biology 14: 318-330. pdf

  • Mooers, AO, LR Prugh, M Festa-Bianchet, and JA Hutchings. 2007. Biases in legal listing under Canadian endangered species legislation. Conservation Biology 21: 572-575. pdf

  • Prugh, LR, CE Ritland, SM Arthur, CJ Krebs. 2005. Monitoring coyote population dynamics by genotyping feces. Molecular Ecology 14: 1585-1596. pdf

  • Prugh, LR. 2005. Coyote prey selection and community stability during a decline in food supply. Oikos 110: 253-264. pdf

  • Prugh, LR and CE Ritland. 2005. Molecular testing of observer identification of carnivore feces in the field. Wildlife Society Bulletin 33: 189-194. pdf

  • Prugh, LR and CJ Krebs. 2004. Snowshoe hare pellet decay rates and aging in different habitats. Wildlife Society Bulletin 32: 386-393. pdf

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