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Montana Wildlife Research Activities
Much of the Unit research effort from 1970 through the present focused on interactions of predators with both wild and domestic prey species. During a decade when considerable public and scientific opinion held that predators seldom killed healthy wild ungulates or livestock, Unit studies initiated in the 1970�s helped to form the more realistic and useful viewpoint that is still evolving today. Serious economic losses of sheep and lambs to coyotes and golden eagles were documented in several Unit studies, and one study involved developing effective techniques for preventing depredation on lambs and kids by golden eagles. Continuing work on predator-prey interactions has involved demographic effects and life-history tradeoffs involved in nest predation on birds, both game and nongame species, as influenced by altered communities of generalist nest predators, habitat degradation and fragmentation, and other environmental perturbations.
Montana Wildlife Active Projects
- Linking resources selection to population dynamics of Mule Deer in Idaho
- Graduate student support on Salmon River Bighorn Sheep
- Monitoring the health of wolves by creating bio-fences and using DNA Analyses
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Montana Wildlife Completed Projects
- Ungulate Ecology in Idaho: understanding predator/prey interactions
- Surveying for wolves in the Selkirk Mountains
- Evaluating the influence of climate and predation on the survival of Rocky Mountain Elk: A regional synthesis across northwestern states.
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Montana Wildlife Peer Reviewed Publications
- Hammond, C. A. M., M. S. Mitchell, and G. N. Bissell. In press. Territory occupancy by common loons in response to disturbance, habitat, and intraspecific relationships. Journal of Wildlife Management.
- Gude, J. A., M. S. Mitchell, R. E. Russell, C. A. Sime, E. E. Bangs, L. D. Mech, and R. R. Ream. 2012. Wolf population dynamics in U.S. northern Rocky Mountains are affected by recruitment and human-caused mortality. Journal of Wildlife Management 76:108-118.
- Mitchell, M. S., and M. Hebblewhite. 2012. Carnivore habitat ecology: integrating theory and application. In Boitani and Powell, editors, Carnivore ecology and conservation: a handbook of techniques. Oxford University Press, London, UK.
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Montana Wildlife Technical Publications
- Ditchkoff, S.S., M.S. Mitchell, and J.B. Grand. 2004. Ecology and management of feral hogs on Fort Benning, Georgia. Annual Progress Report.
- Ball, I. J., J. E. Austin, and A. R. Henry. 2003. Population and nesting ecology of Sandhill Cranes at Grays Lake, Idaho, 1997-2000. U.S. Geological Survey.
- Mitchell, M. S. Integrated research on landscape scales. Auburn Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Alumni Association Newsletter. Fall 2001
Montana Wildlife Theses and Dissertations
- Johnson, A. 2010. Habitat influences on avian diversity and reproductive success in western aspen forests. M.S. Thesis, University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
- Rich, L. N. 2010. An assessment of territory size and the use of hunter surveys for monitoring wolves in Montana. MS Thesis, University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
- McCall, B. S. 2009. Noninvasive genetic sampling reveals black bear population dynamics driven by changes in food productivity. MS Thesis, University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
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Current Staff
Federal Staff: 2
Masters Students: 8
Phd Students: 1
Post Docs: 0
University Staff: 2
5 Year Summary
Students graduated: 12
Scientific Publications: 59
Presentations: 32
Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit Cooperators
