Publications

blood does not buy goodwill: allowing culling increases poaching of a large carnivore.	quantifying environmental crime and the effectiveness of policy interventions is difficult because perpetrators typically conceal evidence. to prevent illegal uses of natural resources, such as poaching endangered species, governments have advocated granting policy flexibility to local authorities by liberalizing culling or hunting of large carnivores. we present the first quantitative evaluation of the hypothesis that liberalizing culling will reduce poaching and improve population status of an ...	2016	27170719
moral dimensions of human-wildlife conflict.	despite increasing support for conservation globally, controversy over specific conservation policies persists among diverse stakeholders. investigating the links between morals in relation to conservation can help increase understanding about why humans support or oppose policy, especially related to human-wildlife conflict or human conflict over wildlife. yet the moral dimension of human-wildlife conflict has mostly gone unconsidered and unmeasured; thus, policy and programmatic efforts to red ...	2016	27062105
demographic and component allee effects in southern lake superior gray wolves.	recovering populations of carnivores suffering allee effects risk extinction because positive population growth requires a minimum number of cooperating individuals. conservationists seldom consider these issues in planning for carnivore recovery because of data limitations, but ignoring allee effects could lead to overly optimistic predictions for growth and underestimates of extinction risk. we used bayesian splines to document a demographic allee effect in the time series of gray wolf (canis ...	2016	26930665
sympatric wolf and coyote populations of the western great lakes region are reproductively isolated.	interpretation of the genetic composition and taxonomic history of wolves in the western great lakes region (wglr) of the united states has long been debated and has become more important to their conservation given the recent changes in their status under the endangered species act. currently, the two competing hypotheses on wglr wolves are that they resulted from hybridization between (i) grey wolves (canis lupus) and western coyotes (c. latrans) or (ii) between grey wolves and eastern wolves ...	2010	20854277