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2026
Widespread ecological responses and cascading effects of the 2021 western North American heatwave
Julia K Baum, Margaret A Slein, Josef C Garen, Zihaohan Sang, Sandra Emry, Katie JA Goodwin, Courtney G Collins, Jayme Lewthwaite, Michelle Tseng, Sean T Michaletz, A Cole Burton, Christopher DG Harley, Diane S Srivastava
Nature Ecology & Evolution | 2026
Neonate mortality in mountain caribou: Patterns of predation during onset of a wolf reduction program
Tazarve Gharajehdaghipour, Marie Auger‐Méthé, A Cole Burton
The Journal of Wildlife Management | 2026
Free rein: Are feral horses competing with native ungulates in British Columbia?
Katie Tjaden‐McClement, Tazarve Gharajehdaghipour, Carolyn Shores, Shane White, Robin Steenweg, Mathieu Bourbonnais, Zoe Konanz, A Cole Burton
The Journal of Wildlife Management | 2026
2025
Intrapopulation variation in habitat use of an alpine ungulate: mountain goats in Kitasoo Xai’xais Territory
Tyler D Jessen, Christina N Service, Kevin S White, A Cole Burton, Paul C Paquet, Chris T Darimont
Canadian Journal of Zoology | 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
Cumulative and component impacts of the human footprint on remotely sensed biodiversity indicators using dissimilarity to high integrity reference states
Evan R Muise, Nicholas C Coops, Christopher Mulverhill, Txomin Hermosilla, A Cole Burton, Stephen S Ban
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation | 2025
Affirming Indigenous data sovereignty in collaborative wildlife conservation in the era of open data
Erin Tattersall, Warren Cardinal‐McTeague, Isla Myers‐Smith, Deborah A Jenkins, Andrew Cole Burton
People and Nature | 2025
Using data from camera traps and autonomous recording units to evaluate and improve species-habitat inferences
Laura N Stewart, Claudia A Haas, Samuel Haché, Kathy Martin, A Cole Burton
Avian Conservation and Ecology | 2025
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
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
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
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 | 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
2024
Effects of bear endozoochory on germination and dispersal of huckleberry in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Aza Fynley Kuijt, Cole Burton, Clayton T. Lamb
PLoS ONE | 2024
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 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
Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape
Solène Marion, Gonçalo Curveira Santos, Emily Herdman, Anne Hubbs, Sean Patrick Kearney, A Cole Burton
PloS one | 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, Laura Eliuk, Fabian Grey, Nicole Heim, John Paczkowski, Frances EC Stewart, Erin Tattersall, Jason T Fisher
Science of the Total Environment | 2024
2023
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, Christopher Beirne, Mark S Boyce, Emily Chow, Nicole Heim, Mitchell Fennell, Joanna Klees van Bommel, Robin Naidoo, Michael Procko, Frances EC Stewart, A Cole Burton
Ecology and Evolution | 2023
Human presence and infrastructure impact wildlife nocturnality differently across an assemblage of mammalian species
Michael Procko, Robin Naidoo, Valerie LeMay, A Cole Burton
PLoS ONE | 2023
Using Camera Traps to Estimate Medium and Large Mammal Density: Comparison of Methods and Recommendations for Wildlife Managers
Jamie Clarke, Holger Bohm, Cole Burton, Alexia Constantinou
WildCAM | 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
2022
Social media community groups support proactive mitigation of human-carnivore conflict in the wildland-urban interface
Alexander JF Martin, A Cole Burton
Trees, Forests and People| 2022
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
Using habitat suitability information from across a species range to inform understudied ecosystems
Cindy M Hurtado, A Cole Burton
Journal of Mammalogy | 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
Data from: 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
Borealis | 2022
Use of object detection in camera trap image identification: Assessing a method to rapidly and accurately classify human and animal detections for research and application in recreation ecology
Mitchell Fennell, Christopher Beirne, A Cole Burton
Global Ecology and Conservation | 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