Utah Division of Wildlife Resources

Recent papers from Utah Division of Wildlife Resources

1. Burned habitats facilitate predation and lead to long‐term reductions in prey successJournal of Animal Ecology · 2026
2. Smoke signals: Measuring wildlife smoke exposure with animal‐borne and stationary sensorsMethods in Ecology and Evolution · 2026
3. Monitoring wolverine ( Gulo gulo ) distribution across the western United States for regional and national assessmentJournal of Wildlife Management · 2026
4. A Functional Flows Framework for the Terminal Great Salt Lake Basin: Can We Have Our Lake and Drink It Too?River Research and Applications · 2026
5. Habitat Restoration Efforts Increase Patch Retention Times in Migratory Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus)Rangeland Ecology & Management · 2026
6. Considering the Resistance and Resilience Framework as a Tool for Building Site-Appropriate Restoration Seed MixesRangeland Ecology & Management · 2026
7. Extreme droughts shrink suitable habitats and reduce fitness for large mammals in the American WestCommunications Earth & Environment · 2026
8. Heart rate biologgers reveal individual-specific energy landscapes for mule deerMovement Ecology · 2026
9. Oxygen Isotopes Indicate That Rocky Mountain Mule Deer ( Odocoileus hemionus hemionus ) Can Be Seasonally Nonobligate DrinkersEcological and Evolutionary Physiology · 2026
10. Resolving the Evolutionary History of Bighorn Sheep to Inform Future Management: An Answer to the California Bighorn Lineage QuestionEvolutionary Applications · 2026
11. Roads as dynamic stressors: physiological response of mule deer to roads differs during range residency and migrationLandscape Ecology · 2026
12. Effects of Seeding Rate and Sowing Season on the Establishment Success of Wyoming Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata subsp. wyomingensis)Rangeland Ecology & Management · 2025
13. Linking behavior and predation data improves inference on interspecific risk perception in carnivoresEcosphere · 2025
14. Acute drought desiccates highly used habitat and drives herbivores into irrigated croplandsEcological Applications · 2025
15. Effects of emergency winter supplemental feeding on survival of mule deerJournal of Wildlife Management · 2025
16. Differential effects of environmental predictability on ungulate movement behavior in disparate ecosystemsWildlife Biology · 2025
17. The influence of human presence and footprint on animal space use in US national parksProceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2025
18. Genetic Analysis of Recently Discovered Least Chub Populations in the Upper Snake River and Bonneville DrainagesEcology and Evolution · 2025
19. Sample size guidelines for mapping migration corridors and population distributions using tracking dataEcological Solutions and Evidence · 2025
20. Dynamic riskscapes for prey: disentangling the impact of human and cougar presence on deer behavior using GPS smartphone locationsEcography · 2025