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Overview

David L. Garshelis is affiliated with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in the United States. Their primary field of study lies within Environmental Science, with a strong focus on subfields including Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Social Psychology, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research spans several key topics such as Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, and Human-Animal Interaction Studies.

Garshelis has contributed to multiple recent papers, including:

  • "The occupancy-abundance relationship and sampling designs using occupancy to monitor populations of Asian bears," 2022, Global Ecology and Conservation
  • "Review of field methods for monitoring Asian bears," 2022, Global Ecology and Conservation
  • "The need to step-up monitoring of Asian bears," 2022, Global Ecology and Conservation
  • "Population reduction by hunting helps control human-wildlife conflicts for a species that is a conservation success story," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Three decades of declining natural foods alters bottom-up pressures on American black bears," 2021, Forest Ecology and Management

The scientist has strong collaborative links with coauthors including Karine E. Pigeon, Mei-Hsiu Hwang, Vincenzo Penteriani, Angela K. Fuller, and Dana J. Morin, demonstrating an active engagement in cooperative research efforts.

David L. Garshelis has published predominantly in venues such as Global Ecology and Conservation, Forest Ecology and Management, PLoS ONE, Current Biology, and Conservation Biology.

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to book literature. One notable publication is "Bears of the World," released in 2020 by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • The status of the world's land and marine mammals: diversity, threat, and knowledge

    Jan Schipper;Jan Schipper;Janice S. Chanson;Janice S. Chanson;Federica Chiozza;Neil A. Cox;Neil A. Cox

  • The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates

    Michael Hoffmann;Craig Hilton-Taylor;Ariadne Angulo;Monika Böhm

  • Bears Show a Physiological but Limited Behavioral Response to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Mark A. Ditmer;John B. Vincent;Leland K. Werden;Jessie C. Tanner

  • Movements of Black Bears in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    David L. Garshelis;Michael R. Pelton

  • Sport hunting, predator control and conservation of large carnivores

    Craig Packer;Margaret Kosmala;Hilary S. Cooley;Henry Brink

  • Human-wildlife conflicts influence attitudes but not necessarily behaviors: Factors driving the poaching of bears in China

    Fang Liu;William J. McShea;David L. Garshelis;Xiaojian Zhu

  • Activity of Black Bears in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    David L. Garshelis;Michael R. Pelton

  • Resolving Human‐Bear Conflict: A Global Survey of Countries, Experts, and Key Factors

    Özgün Emre Can;Neil D'Cruze;David L. Garshelis;John Beecham

  • GRIZZLY BEAR DEMOGRAPHICS IN AND AROUND BANFF NATIONAL PARK AND KANANASKIS COUNTRY, ALBERTA

    David L. Garshelis;Michael L. Gibeau;Stephen Herrero

  • Influence of natural food abundance on black bear harvests in Minnesota

    Karen V. Noyce;David L. Garshelis

  • Sea otter time budgets and prey relationships in Alaska

    David L. Garshelis;Judith A. Garshelis;Alan T. Kimker

  • State and provincial estimates of American black bear numbers versus assessments of population trend

    David L. Garshelis;Hank Hristienko

  • Reconstructing reproductive histories of black bears from the incremental layering in dental cementum

    Pamela L. Coy;David L. Garshelis

  • Monitoring the wild black bear's reaction to human and environmental stressors

    Timothy G Laske;David L Garshelis;Paul A Iaizzo

  • Variation in Reproductive Biology of Male Black Bears

    David L. Garshelis;Eric C. Hellgren

  • Body Size and Blood Characteristics as Indicators of Condition and Reproductive Performance in Black Bears

    Karen V. Noyce;David L. Garshelis

  • Movements and management of sea otters in Alaska

    David L. Garshelis;Judith A. Garshelis

  • Seasonal and Habitat-Related Diets of Sloth Bears in Nepal

    Anup R. Joshi;David L. Garshelis;James L. D. Smith

  • Revisiting Western Hudson Bay: Using aerial surveys to update polar bear abundance in a sentinel population

    Seth P Stapleton;Stephen Atkinson;Daryll Hedman;David Garshelis;David Garshelis

  • Seasonal migrations of black bears (Ursus americanus): causes and consequences

    Karen V. Noyce;David L. Garshelis

  • Home ranges of sloth bears in Nepal: implications for conservation

    Anup R. Joshi;David L. Garshelis;James L. D. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

John R Fieberg
John R Fieberg University of Minnesota
Thomas M. Brooks
Thomas M. Brooks International Union for Conservation of Nature
William J. McShea
William J. McShea Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Ana S. L. Rodrigues
Ana S. L. Rodrigues University of Montpellier
Simon N. Stuart
Simon N. Stuart Synchronicity Earth
Fang Liu
Fang Liu Beihang University
Thomas E. Lacher
Thomas E. Lacher Texas A&M University
Michael R. Hoffmann
Michael R. Hoffmann California Institute of Technology
Terry G. Unterman
Terry G. Unterman University of Illinois at Chicago
Georgina M. Mace
Georgina M. Mace University College London

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