Publications

Estimating Causal Impacts of Human Recreation on Wildlife in the Absence of Experimental Controls

Robin Naidoo, Sumeet Gulati, James Vercammen, Cole Burton

Conservation Letters | 2025

Vulnerable caribou and moose populations display varying responses to mountain pine beetle outbreaks and management

Laura L. Griffin, Laura Finnegan, Julie Duval, Simone Ciuti, Virginia Morera-Pujol, Haitao Li, A. Cole Burton

Journal of Wildlife Management | 2025

A Biodiversity Observation Network to support conservation action and mainstream knowledge in Canada

Andrew Gonzalez, Mary I. O’Connor, Amanda E. Bates, Kyle Bobiwash, A. Cole Burton, …

FACETS | 2025

Inferring bird communities on remote freshwater lakes through time-lapse imagery

Sarah Sanderson, Grant E. Haines, Thomas E. Reimchen, A. Cole Burton, Christopher Beirne, and Andrew P. Hendry

Canadian Journal of Zoology | 2025

Climate change mitigation through woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus) habitat restoration in British Columbia

James C Maltman, Nicholas C Coops, Gregory J M Rickbeil, Txomin Hermosilla and A Cole Burton

Environmental Research: Ecology | 2025

Combining eDNA Metabarcoding, Hydrology-Based Modeling and Camera Trap Datasets to Assess the Potential of River eDNA in Monitoring Terrestrial Mammals

Monika Goralczyk, Arnaud Lyet, Robin Naidoo, Cole Burton, Loïc Pellissier, Luca Carraro

Environmental DNA | 2025

Initial Effects of Clearcutting and Partial Retention Forest Harvesting Methods on Some Small Mammals in Northern British Columbia

Alexia Constantinou, Cole Burton, Suzanne Simmard, Dexter Hodder

Journal of Ecosystems and Management | 2025

Global prioritization schemes vary in their impact on the placement of protected areas

Katie Tjaden-McClement, Robin Naidoo, Angela Brennan, A. Cole Burton

PLoS ONE | 2025

Vulnerable caribou and moose populations display varying responses to mountain pine beetle outbreaks and management

Laura L. Griffin, Laura Finnegan, Julie Duval, Simone Ciuti, Virginia Morera-Pujol, Haitao Li, A. Cole Burton

Journal of Wildlife Management | 2025

Importance of connectivity for carnivore richness and occupancy in fragmented biodiversity hotspots

Cindy M. Hurtado, Gonçalo Curveira-Santos, Alvaro Garcia-Olaechea, Robyn Appleton, Cristian Barros-Diaz, Txomin Hermosilla, Diego J. Lizcano, Jaime Salas, Diego Balbuena, Zoila Vega-Guarderas, Ana Benítez-López, Angela Brennan, A. Cole Burton

Conservation Biology | 2025

Mixed evidence for disturbance-mediated apparent competition for declining caribou in western British Columbia, Canada

Katie Tjaden-McClement, Tazarve Gharajehdaghipour, Carolyn Shores, Shane White, Robin Steenweg, Mathieu Bourbonnais, Zoe Konanz, A. Cole Burton

Journal of Wildlife Management | 2025

The influence of habitat alteration on density of invading white‐tailed deer should not be discounted

Andrew Barnas, Brad Anholt, A Cole Burton, Kathleen Carroll, Steeve D Côté, Marco Festa-Bianchet, John Fryxell, Martin-Hugues St-Laurent, Jason T Fisher

Global Change Biology | 2024

Disturbance-mediated changes to boreal mammal spatial networks in industrializing landscapes

Gonçalo Curveira-Santos, Solène Marion, Chris Sutherland, Christopher Beirne, Emily J Herdman, Erin R Tattersall, Joanna M Burgar, Jason T Fisher, A Cole Burton

Ecological Applications | 2024

A toolbox to quantify human activity in protected areas for park management

Alys Granados, Christopher Bierne, Sean Kearney, Catherine Sun, Courtney Hughes, Solène Marion, Annie Loosen, Anne Hubbs, Dan Farr, Mitchell Fennell, Michael Procko, Melanie Percy, John Paczkowski, Keegan Hoffman, Regan Kohlhardt, Jesse Whittington, Benjamin Curry, A Cole Burton

EcoEvoRxiv | 2024

Grey wolves (Canis lupus) shift selection of anthropogenic landscape features following predator control in the Nearctic boreal forest

Katherine Baillie-David, John P Volpe, A Cole Burton, Jason T Fisher

Biological Conservation | 2024

Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape

A Cole Burton, Christopher Beirne, Kaitlyn M Gaynor, Catherine Sun, Alys Granados,…

Nature Ecology & Evolution | 2024

How landscape traits affect boreal mammal responses to anthropogenic disturbance

Andrew F Barnas, Andrew Ladle, Joanna M Burgar, A Cole Burton, Mark S Boyce, Laura Eliuk, Fabian Grey, Nicole Heim, John Paczkowski, Frances EC Stewart, Erin Tattersall, Jason T Fisher

Science of the Total Environment | 2024

Mammal responses to human recreation depend on landscape context

Solène Marion, Gonçalo Curveira Santos, Emily Herdman, Anne Hubbs, Sean Patrick Kearney, A Cole Burton

PLoS ONE | 2024

Disentangling linkages between satellite-derived indicators of forest structure and productivity for ecosystem monitoring

Evan R Muise, Margaret E Andrew, Nicholas C Coops, Txomin Hermosilla, A Cole Burton, Stephen S Ban

Scientific Reports | 2024

Combining camera trap surveys and IUCN range maps to improve knowledge of species distributions

Cheng Chen, Alys Granados, Jedediah F Brodie, Roland Kays, T Jonathan Davies,…, A Cole Burton

Conservation Biology | 2024

A toolkit for greater equity, diversity, and inclusion in early-career ecology funding

Catherine Sun, Alys Granados, Christopher Beirne, Gillian Chow-Fraser, Abraham Francis, Lian Kwong, Peter Soroye, Helen Yip, Anita Miettunen, Jeff Bowman, A Cole Burton

FACETS | 2024

The importance of independence in unmarked spatial capture-recapture analysis

Catherine Sun, A Cole Burton

Wildlife Biology | 2024

Quantifying forest disturbance regimes within caribou (Rangifer tarandus) range in British Columbia

James C Maltman, Nicholas C Coops, Gregory JM Rickbeil, Txomin Hermosilla, A Cole Burton

Scientific Reports | 2024

Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape

A Cole Burton, Christopher Beirne, Kaitlyn M Gaynor, Catherine Sun, Alys Granados, …

Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2024

How landscape traits affect boreal mammal responses to anthropogenic disturbance

Andrew F Barnas, Andrew Ladle, Joanna M Burgar, A Cole Burton, Mark S Boyce, …

Science of The Total Environment | 2024

Assessing the impacts of recreation on the spatial and temporal activity of mammals in an isolated alpine protected area

Mitchell JE Fennell, Adam T Ford, Tara G Martin, A Cole Burton

Ecology and Evolution | 2023

Density estimates of unmarked mammals: comparing two models and assumptions across multiple species and years

Jason Thomas Fisher, Melanie Dickie, JM Burgar, AC Burton, R Serrouya

Canadian Journal of Zoology | 2023

Comparing wildlife habitat suitability models based on expert opinion with camera trap detection

Cindy Hurtado, Victoria Hemming, Cole Burton

Conservation Biology | 2023

Mammalian predator and prey responses to recreation and land use across multiple scales provide limited support for the human shield hypothesis

Alys Granados, Catherine Sun, Jason T Fisher, Andrew Ladle, Kimberly Dawe, …

Ecology and Evolution | 2023

Testing umbrella species and food-web properties of large carnivores in the Rocky Mountains

Robin Steenweg, Mark Hebblewhite, Cole Burton, Jesse Whittington, Nikki Heim,…

Biological Conservation | 2023

Testing umbrella species and food-web properties of large carnivores in the Rocky Mountains

Robin Steenweg, Mark Hebblewhite, Cole Burton, Jesse Whittington, Nikki Heim,…

Biological Conservation | 2023

Coexistence or conflict: Black bear habitat use along an urban-wildland gradient

Joanna Klees van Bommel, Catherine Sun, Adam T Ford, Melissa Todd, A Cole Burton

PLoS ONE | 2022

A cautionary tale comparing spatial count and partial identity models for estimating densities of threatened and unmarked populations

Catherine Sun, Joanna M Burgar, Jason T Fisher, A Cole Burton

Global Ecology and Conservation | 2022

Understanding the distribution and fine-scale habitat selection of mesocarnivores along a habitat quality gradient in western Himalaya

Meghna Bandyopadhyay, A Cole Burton, Sandeep Kumar Gupta, Ramesh Krishnamurthy

PeerJ | 2022

Predator control alters wolf interactions with prey and competitor species over the diel cycle

Sandra Frey, Daniel Tejero, Katherine Baillie-David, A Cole Burton, Jason T Fisher

Oikos | 2022

Behavioral “bycatch” from camera trap surveys yields insights on prey responses to human‐mediated predation risk

A Cole Burton, Christopher Beirne, Catherine Sun, Alys Granados, Michael Procko, …

Ecology and Evolution | 2022

Human impacts on mammals in and around a protected area before, during, and after COVID-19 lockdowns

Michael Procko, Robin Naidoo, Valerie LeMay, A Cole Burton

Conservation Science and Practice | 2022

Attitudes towards the Sri Lankan leopard Panthera pardus kotiya in two rural communities

Aisha Uduman, Shannon Hagerman, Edward Kroc, Anjali Watson, Andrew Kittle, A Cole Burton

Oryx | 2022

Indigenous peoples as sentinels of change in human-wildlife relationships: Conservation status of mountain goats in Kitasoo Xai’xais territory and beyond

Tyler D Jessen, Christina N Service, Kim G Poole, A Cole Burton, Andrew W Bateman, Paul C Paquet, Chris T Darimont

Conservation Science and Practice | 2022

Global camera trap synthesis highlights the importance of protected areas in maintaining mammal diversity

Cheng Chen, Jedediah F Brodie, Roland Kays, T Jonathan Davies, Runzhe Liu, …

Conservation Letters | 2022

Threatened Andean bears are negatively affected by human disturbance and free-ranging cattle in a protected area in northwest Peru

Francis Aurich-Rodriguez, Renzo P Piana, Robyn D Appleton, A Cole Burton

Mammalian Biology | 2022

Cumulative effects of human footprint, natural features and predation risk best predict seasonal resource selection by white-tailed deer

Siobhan Darlington, Andrew Ladle, A Cole Burton, John P Volpe, Jason T Fisher

Scientific Reports | 2022