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36
Citations
6094
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7074
National Ranking
2380

Overview

Hall Sawyer is affiliated with the University of Wyoming in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on Ecology as well as associated subfields such as Small Animals, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecological Modeling.

The main topics of Hall Sawyer's work explore areas related to wildlife and ecosystem dynamics, including:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Their frequent publication venues reflect their focus on wildlife ecology and management and include:

  • Journal of Wildlife Management
  • Scientific Investigations Report
  • Ecology
  • Ecology Letters
  • Ecosphere

Hall Sawyer has contributed to a number of recent scientific papers, often collaborating with notable co-authors. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations," 2021, published in Science
  • "Site fidelity as a maladaptive behavior in the Anthropocene," 2022, published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • "Causes, Consequences, and Conservation of Ungulate Migration," 2021, published in Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • "Drivers of site fidelity in ungulates," 2021, published in Journal of Animal Ecology
  • "Wave-like Patterns of Plant Phenology Determine Ungulate Movement Tactics," 2020, published in Current Biology

Frequent collaborators in Sawyer's work include:

  • Jerod A. Merkle
  • Matthew J. Kauffman
  • Kevin L. Monteith
  • Arthur D. Middleton
  • Ellen O. Aikens

Best Publications

  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

    Marlee A. Tucker;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;William F. Fagan;John M. Fryxell

  • Winter Habitat Selection of Mule Deer Before and During Development of a Natural Gas Field

    Hall Sawyer;Ryan M. Nielson;Fred Lindzey;Lyman L. McDONALD

  • Identifying and prioritizing ungulate migration routes for landscape-level conservation.

    Hall Sawyer;Matthew J. Kauffman;Ryan M. Nielson;Jon S. Horne

  • Large herbivores surf waves of green-up during spring.

    Jerod A. Merkle;Kevin L. Monteith;Ellen O. Aikens;Matthew M. Hayes

  • Stopover ecology of a migratory ungulate

    Hall Sawyer;Matthew J. Kauffman

  • Influence of Well Pad Activity on Winter Habitat Selection Patterns of Mule Deer

    Hall Sawyer;Matthew J. Kauffman;Ryan M. Nielson

  • Linking anti-predator behaviour to prey demography reveals limited risk effects of an actively hunting large carnivore.

    Arthur D. Middleton;Matthew J. Kauffman;Matthew J. Kauffman;Douglas E. McWhirter;Michael D. Jimenez

  • A framework for understanding semi-permeable barrier effects on migratory ungulates

    Hall Sawyer;Matthew J. Kauffman;Arthur D. Middleton;Thomas A. Morrison

  • Mule deer and pronghorn migration in western Wyoming

    Hall Sawyer;Fred Lindzey;Doug McWhirter

  • Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations.

    Matthew J. Kauffman;Francesca Cagnacci;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Mark Hebblewhite

  • Relative influence of human harvest, carnivores, and weather on adult female elk survival across western North America

    Jedediah Brodie;Heather E. Johnson;Michael Mitchell;Peter Zager

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

    Jerod A. Merkle;Hall Sawyer;Kevin L. Monteith;Samantha P. H. Dwinnell

  • Habitat selection of Rocky Mountain elk in a nonforested environment

    Hall Sawyer;Ryan M. Nielson;Fred G. Lindzey;Lorraine Keith

  • Mule deer and energy development-Long-term trends of habituation and abundance.

    Hall Sawyer;Nicole M. Korfanta;Ryan M. Nielson;Kevin L. Monteith

  • Causes, Consequences, and Conservation of Ungulate Migration

    Matthew J. Kauffman;Ellen O. Aikens;Ellen O. Aikens;Saeideh Esmaeili;Saeideh Esmaeili;Petra Kaczensky

  • Estimating habitat selection when GPS fix success is less than 100

    Ryan M. Nielson;Bryan F. J. Manly;Lyman L. McDonald;Hall Sawyer

  • Drivers of site fidelity in ungulates

    Thomas A. Morrison;Jerod A. Merkle;J. Grant C. Hopcraft;Ellen O. Aikens;Ellen O. Aikens

  • Migratory plasticity is not ubiquitous among large herbivores.

    Hall Sawyer;Jerod A. Merkle;Arthur D. Middleton;Samantha P. H. Dwinnell

  • Mitigating roadway impacts to migratory mule deer—A case study with underpasses and continuous fencing

    Hall Sawyer;Chad Lebeau;Thomas Hart

  • Wave-like Patterns of Plant Phenology Determine Ungulate Movement Tactics.

    Ellen O. Aikens;Atle Mysterud;Jerod A. Merkle;Francesca Cagnacci

  • The extra mile: Ungulate migration distance alters the use of seasonal range and exposure to anthropogenic risk

    Hall Sawyer;Arthur D. Middleton;Matthew M. Hayes;Matthew J. Kauffman

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew J. Kauffman
Matthew J. Kauffman University of Wyoming
Kevin L. Monteith
Kevin L. Monteith University of Wyoming
Thomas Mueller
Thomas Mueller Goethe University Frankfurt
Francesca Cagnacci
Francesca Cagnacci Fondazione Edmund Mach
Mark Hebblewhite
Mark Hebblewhite University of Montana
Marco Heurich
Marco Heurich University of Freiburg
Jeffrey L. Beck
Jeffrey L. Beck University of Wyoming
Petra Kaczensky
Petra Kaczensky Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Atle Mysterud
Atle Mysterud University of Oslo
Joel Berger
Joel Berger Colorado State University

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