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Animal movement and space-use ecology, consumer-resource interactions, ecological modelling and biometry

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Animal movement and space-use ecology, consumer-resource interactions, ecological modelling and biometry

Present	Assistant Professor, Utah State University ‐ Wildland Resources
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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Natural Resources and Conservation

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Movement Patterns of Resident and Translocated Beavers at Multiple Spatiotemporal ...

Frontiers in Conservation Science (2022)

Emma Doden, Phaedra Budy, Tal Avgar and Julie Young

Wildlife translocations alter animal movement behavior, so identifying common movement patterns post-translocation will help set expectations about animal behavior in ...

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A ‘How to’ Guide for Interpreting Parameters in Habitat-Selection Analyses

Journal of Animal Ecology (2021)

John Fieberg, Johannes Signer, Brian Smith and Tal Avgar

Habitat-selection analyses allow researchers to link animals to their environment via habitat-selection or step-selection functions, and are commonly used to ...

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Random Encounter and Staying Time Model Testing with Human Volunteers

The Journal of Wildlife Management (2020)

Laura Garland, Eric Neilson, Tal Avgar, Erin Bayne, et al.

Ecology and management programs designed to track population trends over time increasingly are using passive monitoring methods to estimate terrestrial ...

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Anthropogenic Disturbance and Population Viability of Woodland Caribou in Ontario

The Journal of Wildlife Management (2020)

John M Fryxell, Tal Avgar, Boyan Liu, James A. Baker, et al.

One of the most challenging tasks in wildlife conservation and management is to clarify how spatial variation in land cover ...

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Food Availability Modulates Temperature-Dependent Effects on Growth, Reproduction, and Survival ...

Ecology and Evolution (2019)

Gustavo S. Betini, Xueqi Wang, Tal Avgar, Matthew M. Guzzo, et al.

Reduced body size and accelerated life cycle due to warming are considered major ecological responses to climate change with fitness ...

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Corridors or Risk? Movement Along, and Use of, Linear Features ...

Journal of Animal Ecology (2019)

Melanie Dickie, Scott R. McNay, Glenn D. Sutherland, Michael Cody, et al.

Space‐use behaviour reflects trade‐offs in meeting ecological needs and can have consequences for individual survival and population demographics. The mechanisms ...

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Temperature Triggers a Non-Linear Response in Resource–Consumer Interaction Strength

Ecosphere (2019)

Gustavo S. Betini, Tal Avgar, Kevin S. McCann and John M. Fryxell

Although temperature is recognized as a major determinant of many ecological processes, it is still not clear whether temperature increase ...

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Woodland Caribou Habitat Selection Patterns in Relation to Predation Risk ...

Ecology and Evolution (2018)

Rebecca Viejou, Tal Avgar, Glen S. Brown, Brent R. Patterson, et al.

The ideal free distribution assumes that animals select habitats that are beneficial to their fitness. When the needs of dependent ...

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Roads Elicit Negative Movement and Habitat-Selection Responses by Wolverines (Gulo ...

Behavioral Ecology (2018)

Matthew A. Scrafford, Tal Avgar, Rick Heeres and Mark S. Boyce

The fine-scale behavior of wildlife when crossing roads and interacting with traffic is likely to mirror natural responses to predation ...

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Net Displacement and Temporal Scaling: Model Fitting, Interpretation, and Implementation

Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2018)

Garrett M. Street, Tal Avgar and Luca Börger

Net displacement is an integral component of numerous ecological processes and is critically dependent on the tortuosity of a movement ...

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Animal Movement AffectsInterpretation of Occupancy Models From Camera Trap Surveys ...

Ecosphere (2018)

Eric W. Neilson, Tal Avgar, A. Cole Burton, Kate Broadley, et al.

Occupancy models are increasingly applied to data from wildlife camera-trap (CT) surveys to estimate distribution, habitat use, or relative abundance ...

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Moving in the Anthropocene: Global Reductions in Terrestrial Mammalian Movements

Science (2018)

Marlee A. Tucker, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, William F. Fagan, John M. Fryxell, et al.

Animal movement is fundamental for ecosystem functioning and species survival, yet the effects of the anthropogenic footprint on animal movements ...

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Relative Selection Strength: Quantifying EffectSize in Habitat- and Step-Selection Inference

Ecology and Evolution (2017)

Tal Avgar, Subhash R. Lele, Jonah L. Keim and Mark S. Boyce

Habitat-selection analysis lacks an appropriate measure of the ecological significance of the statistical estimates-a practical interpretation of the magnitude of ...

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Landscape-Level Wolf Space Use is Correlated With Prey Abundance, Ease ...

Ecosphere (2017)

Andrew M. Kittle, Morgan Anderson, Tal Avgar, James A. Baker, et al.

Predator space use influences ecosystem dynamics, and a fundamental goal assumed for a foraging predator is to maximize encounter rate ...

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Estimating Utilization Distributions From Fitted Step-SelectionFunctions

Ecosphere (2017)

Johannes Signer, John Fieberg and Tal Avgar

Habitat-selection analyses are often used to link environmental covariates, measured within some spatial domain of assumed availability, to animal location ...

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Wolverine HabitatSelection in Response to Anthropogenic Disturbance in the Western ...

Forest Ecology and Management (2017)

Matthew A. Scrafford, Tal Avgar, Bill Abercrombie, Jesse Tigner, et al.

We evaluated alternative hypotheses that anthropogenic disturbance can attract versus displace wolverines (Gulo gulo luscus). Our research took place in ...

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Daphnia Inhibits the Emergence of Spatial Pattern in a Simple ...

Ecology (2017)

Gustavo S. Betini, Tal Avgar, Kevin S. McCann and John M. Fryxell

Spatial self-organization can occur in many ecosystems with important effects on food web dynamics and the maintenance of biodiversity. The ...

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Why Are We Not Evaluating Multiple CompetingHypotheses in Ecology and ...

Royal Society Open Science (2017)

Gustavo S. Betini, Tal Avgar and John M. Fryxell

The use of multiple working hypotheses to gain strong inference is widely promoted as a means to enhance the effectiveness ...

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Extent-Dependent Habitat Selection in a MigratoryLarge Herbivore: Road Avoidance Across ...

Landscape Ecology (2016)

Christina M. Prokopenko, Mark S. Boyce and Tal Avgar

Context In southwestern Alberta, human development, including roads, is encroaching on the landscape and into the range of a partially ...

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ComparingResource Selection and Demographic Models for Predicting Animal Density

Journal of Wildlife Management (2016)

Garrett M. Street, Arthur R. Rodgers, Tal Avgar, Lucas M. Vander Vennen, et al.

Habitat-based prediction of population density relies on relationships between landscape configuration (i.e., abundance of land-cover types) and equilibrium density. This ...

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Predictive Modeling of Ecological Patterns Along Llinear-Feature Networks

Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2016)

Andrew Ladle, Tal Avgar, Matthew Wheatley and Mark S. Boyce

Ecological patterns and processes often take place within linear‐feature networks, and this has implications when analysing the spatial configuration of ...

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Characterizing Wildlife Behavioural Responses to Roads Using Integrated Step Selection ...

Journal of Applied Ecology (2016)

Christina M. Prokopenko, Mark S. Boyce and Tal Avgar

Roads are a prevalent, ever‐increasing form of human disturbance on the landscape. In many places in western North America, energy ...

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Selection for Forage and Avoidance of Risk by Woodland Caribou ...

Ecosphere (2015)

Madeleine T. McGreer, Erin E. Mallon, Lucas M. Vander Vennen, Philip A. Wiebe, et al.

The relationship between selection at coarse and fine spatiotemporal spatial scales is still poorly understood. Some authors claim that, to ...

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Integrated Step Selection Analysis: Bridgingthe Gap Between Resource Selection and ...

Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2015)

Tal Avgar, Jonathan R. Potts, Mark A. Lewis and Mark S. Boyce

A resource selection function is a model of the likelihood that an available spatial unit will be used by an ...

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Habitat Selection Following Recent Disturbance: Model Transferability WithImplications for Management ...

Canadian Journal of Zoology (2015)

Garrett M. Street, Lucas M. Vander Vennen, Tal Avgar, Anna Mosser, et al.

Site-specific variation in relative habitat abundance and disturbance regimes may produce differences in habitat preferences of associated populations. An evaluation ...

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