Publications
Coexisting with Cougars:
Public Perceptions, Attitudes and Awareness of Cougars on the Urban-Rural Fringe of Calgary, Canada
; 2009
Interactions between humans and cougars have been steadily increasing over the past 20 years largely due to human encroachment into cougar habitat and an increase in the human...
Long-Distance Dispersal of a Male Puma in Patagonia
; 2009
Pumas have the largest geographic range of any terrestrial mammal in the Americas. Despite this large distribution, pumas are a species of conservation concern and believed in decline...
Impacts of Rural Development on Puma Ecology in the Sierra Nevada
; 2008
In Western North America, many rural areas are being converted to ranchette style residential development, potentially degrading habitat for large carnivores including pumas, and impacting ecosystem integrity. In...
Trophic Cascades Involving Cougar, Mule Deer and Black Oaks in Yosemite National Park
; 2008
Using a historical reconstruction, we discovered a potential trophic cascade involving cougar, mule deer and California black oak in Yosemite National Park in California. Our objective was to...
Linking a Cougar Decline, Trophic Cascade and Catastrophic Regime Shift in Zion National Park
; 2006
The strength of top-down forces in terrestrial food webs is highly debated as there are few examples illustrating the role of large mammalian carnivores in structuring biotic...
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