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List of works by Jerod A. Merkle

A memory-based foraging tactic reveals an adaptive mechanism for restricted space use.

scientific article published on 9 May 2014

A statistical framework for modelling migration corridors

scientific article published on 18 September 2022

A test of the green wave hypothesis in omnivorous brown bears across North America

scientific article published in 2023

Bison distribution under conflicting foraging strategies: site fidelity vs. energy maximization

scientific article published on July 2015

Body size and digestive system shape resource selection by ungulates: A cross‐taxa test of the forage maturation hypothesis

scientific article

Chronic wasting disease undermines efforts to control the spread of brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

scientific article published on 28 March 2020

Collective decision-making promotes fitness loss in a fusion-fission society

scientific article published on 22 November 2016

Comparative Quality and Trend of Remotely Sensed Phenology and Productivity Metrics across the Western United States

scientific article published on 7 August 2020

Conserving habitat for migratory ungulates: How wide is a migration corridor?

scientific article published in 2023

Detecting Resource Limitation in a Large Herbivore Population Is Enhanced With Measures of Nutritional Condition

scientific article published in 2021

Determinants of elephant foraging behavior in a coupled human-natural system: is brown the new green?

scientific article published on 26 March 2019

Drought reshuffles plant phenology and reduces the foraging benefit of green-wave surfing for a migratory ungulate

scientific article published on 11 June 2020

Elk migration influences the risk of disease spillover in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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Emerging Perspectives on Resource Tracking and Animal Movement Ecology

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Examining speed versus selection in connectivity models using elk migration as an example

scientific article published in 2018

Experimentally derived δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N discrimination factors for gray wolves and the impact of prior information in Bayesian mixing models

scientific article published on 24 March 2015

Getting cited early: influence of visibility strategies, structure, and focal system on early citation rates

scientific article published in 2022

Green-wave surfing increases fat gain in a migratory ungulate

scientific article published in 2018

Is ungulate migration culturally transmitted? Evidence of social learning from translocated animals

scientific article published in Science

Large herbivores surf waves of green-up during spring.

scientific article published in June 2016

Learning and Animal Movement

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Linking spring phenology with mechanistic models of host movement to predict disease transmission risk

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Managing Genetic Diversity and Extinction Risk for a Rare Plains Bison (Bison bison bison) Population

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations

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Migrating bison engineer the green wave

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

Migratory plasticity is not ubiquitous among large herbivores

scientific article published on 07 December 2018

Modeling elk‐to‐livestock transmission risk to predict hotspots of brucellosis spillover

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Multi-mode movement decisions across widely ranging behavioral processes

scientific article published in 2022

Multi‐scale habitat selection of elk in response to beetle‐killed forest

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

Parsing the effects of demography, climate and management on recurrent brucellosis outbreaks in elk

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Plasticity in elk migration timing is a response to changing environmental conditions

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Reply to Craine: Bison redefine what it means to move to find food

scientific article published on 21 April 2020

Spatial memory shapes migration and its benefits: evidence from a large herbivore

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Summer Diet of the Mexican Gray Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi)

scientific article published in December 2009

The greenscape shapes surfing of resource waves in a large migratory herbivore.

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To follow or not? How animals in fusion-fission societies handle conflicting information during group decision-making

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Ungulate migrations of the Western United States, volume 4

Ungulate migrations of the western United States, Volume 1

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Vegetation responses to sagebrush-reduction treatments measured by satellites

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Wave-like Patterns of Plant Phenology Determine Ungulate Movement Tactics

scientific article published on 26 June 2020