Ecology
The department's teaching and research addresses critical ecological and natural resources issues for Montana, but also tackles fundamental and applied questions around the globe. Undergraduate programs within the department include Fish & Wildlife Management and Ecology, Conservation Biology and Ecology, Organismal Biology, and Biology Teaching. Graduate programs (M.S. and P.hD.) include Fish & Wildlife Management or Biology and Biological Sciences and an intercollege PhD in Ecology and Environmental Sciences.
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A retrospective view of early research on dominance, stress and reproduction in cooperatively breeding carnivores
(Elsevier BV, 2022-04)Social carnivores have been central in studies of cooperative breeding, and research using noninvasive methods to examine behavioral and endocrine mechanisms of reproductive suppression started in the 1980s with dwarf ... -
Size-specific apparent survival rate estimates of white sharks using mark–recapture models
(Canadian Science Publishing, 2019-02)Abstract: For species that exist at low abundance or are otherwise difficult to study, it is challenging to estimate vital rates such as survival and fecundity and common to assume that survival rates are constant across ... -
Ectomycorrhizal and Dark Septate Fungal Associations of Pinyon Pine Are Differentially Affected by Experimental Drought and Warming
(Frontiers Media SA, 2020-10)Changing climates can cause shifts in temperature and precipitation, resulting in warming and drought in some regions. Although each of these factors has been shown to detrimentally affect forest ecosystems worldwide, ... -
Evaluating wildlife translocations using genomics: A bighorn sheep case study
(Wiley, 2020-12)Wildlife restoration often involves translocation efforts to reintroduce species and supplement small, fragmented populations. We examined the genomic consequences of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) translocations and ... -
Method for Integrating Components of a CURE into an Introductory Biology Traditional Laboratory
(American Society for Microbiology, 2020-01)Undergraduate biology instructors face the challenge of balancing critical thinking procedures with biology content (1). Evidence has revealed that directed “cookbook” laboratory exercises alone severely limit opportunities ... -
A retrospective view of early research on dominance, stress and reproduction in cooperatively breeding carnivores
(Elsevier BV, 2022-03)Social carnivores have been central in studies of cooperative breeding, and research using noninvasive methods to examine behavioral and endocrine mechanisms of reproductive suppression started in the 1980s with dwarf ... -
Uncovering process domains in large rivers: Patterns and potential drivers of benthic substrate heterogeneity in two North American riverscapes
(2021-02)Identifying and understanding functional process domains (sensu Montgomery, 1999) in rivers is paramount for linking the physical habitat template to ecosystem structure and function. To date, efforts to do this have been ... -
Leveraging public harvest to reduce invasive hybridization in Yellowstone National Park: field identification and harvest of cutthroat × rainbow trout hybrids
(2020)Leveraging public harvest can be a cost-effective invasive species management tool, but target taxa must be correctly identified and removed at rates that achieve biological objectives. We explored the potential role of ... -
Whitebark Pine Community Processes, Environment And Human Impacts: Revisiting MSU work of 1971-2000.
(Montana State University, 2022)Revisiting 30 years of whitebark pine (WBP, Pinus albicaulis)/30 WBP papers, using a sample of 47 stands, I document the remarkable openness of WBP stands. We show strong self thinning and seedling failure, related to ... -
Vegetation Distribution and Production in Rocky Mountain Climates—with Emphasis on Whitebark Pine
(International Workshop on Subalpine Stone Pines and Their Environment: the Status of Our Knowledge, 1992)The distribution and production of vegetation on the altitudinal J gradient (grassland-forest-alpine) was plotted against climatic parameters to evaluate hypothetical controlling factors. (1) Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) ... -
Climates Where Stone Pines Grow, A Comparison
(International Workshop on Subalpine Stone Pines and Their Environment: the Status of Our Knowledge, 1992)------ Abstract-While stone pine climates are similar adapted to relatively moderate climates may be excluded from, species the ranges of congeners by more severe climates, and species with longer warm-moiBt growing ... -
Restoration Potential of Bighorn Sheep in a Prairie Region
(2020-07)Efforts to recover Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis canadensis) throughout western North America have had limited success with the majority of current populations remaining in small and isolated areas on a ... -
Distribution of Exotic Plants in the N. Rocky Mountains by Environmental Type and Disturbance Condition
(Montana State Univeristy, 1989-06)This report lists seventy-three exotic species found in a systematic sampling of major environmental zones of the Rocky Mountains between the Canadian border and central Wyoming. For each exotic it states the regional ... -
PLANTS ESTABLISHING IN ROCKY MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENTS-- a manual for choosing native species for revegetation
(Montana State University, 1995)Species which have established naturally on a disturbed site in a given environment-- climate and disturbance level (defined below)-- are good candidates for revegetation plantings in that environment. On this basis we ... -
Root distribution and soil water regimes in nine habitat types of the northern Rocky Mountains
(Colorado State University, 1977)Root distribution and the annual cycle of' soil water availability were measured in nine habitat types of the northern Rocky Mountains. Water stress periods became progressively longer under Abies lasiooarpa forests, Populus ... -
Cone production in Pinus albicaulis Forests
(Inland Mountain West Symposium, 1985-08)Whitebark pine cone production was estimated for a 6 to 8 year period in each of 29 stands widespread in.the northern.Rocky Mountains. 1) One-time sampling was possible since the estimate was m2de by multiplying the number ... -
Changes in soils along a vegetational (altitudinal) gradient of the northern Rocky Mountains
(Soil Science Society of America, 1979)As one moves from the warm dry plains of eastern Montana to the cool moist peaks of the northern Rocky Mountains he might pass through a series of native vegetation types: Bouteloua gracilis, Agropyron spicatum, Featuca ... -
Resource Supply Governs the Apparent Temperature Dependence of Animal Production in Stream Ecosystems
(2020-10)Rising global temperatures are changing how energy and materials move through ecosystems, with potential consequences for the role of animals in these processes. We tested a central prediction of the metabolic scaling ... -
Bibliography of Montana vegetation description
(1988)Listed in alphabetical order by author are 549 references to literature that describes the native vegetation of Montana. This updates the 1965 list of Habeck and Hartley. A keyword subject index is included.
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