William Mark Ford

Exploratory Ecology of Reintroduced Elk in Virginia

Braiden A. Quinlan, Heather N. Abernathy, David M. Kalb, Jacalyn P. Rosenberger et autres

Reintroductions of extirpated species are an important tool in wildlife conservation. Understanding how reintroduced populations acclimatize to novel environments can lend insight into social learning that in turn is valuable for assessing reintroduction success and maximizing efficacy of subsequent efforts. During 2012, …

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Multiscale Resource Selection for a Reintroduced Elk Population

Braiden A. Quinlan, Brett R. Jesmer, Jacalyn P. Rosenberger, William Mark Ford et autres

Patterns of resource selection are driven by the decision-making processes of animals occurring at multiple scales from where to establish a home range (i.e., second order selection) to which resource patches to use within the home range (i.e., third order selection). Elk …

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Resource selection for an endangered flying squirrel, Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus, in a montane sky-island system

Katherine M. Gorman, Christine A. Kelly, Corinne A. Diggins, Mark J. Endries et autres

Geographically isolated endemic species and their habitats in montane systems face stressors of rapid climate change as well as legacy and contemporary land use change. In the case of endangered species in fragmented terrestrial montane habitats, effectively sky-islands, insight into habitat use …