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5814
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1979

Overview

Jay J. Rotella is affiliated with Montana State University in the United States and has a significant body of research focused on environmental science. Their work largely addresses topics in ecology, wildlife management, and marine studies, with a notable emphasis on diversity in life histories and population dynamics.

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science, with a substantial portion dedicated to subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecological Modeling.

Rotella's publications cover a variety of topics, including:

  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

The scientist has contributed research articles in several respected scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Antarctic Science
  • Ecosphere
  • Journal of Wildlife Management
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Jay J. Rotella span topics such as life history diversity, population estimates, and demographic correlations across species. These include:

  • "Individual life histories: neither slow nor fast, just diverse" (2023), Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Insights from the first global population estimate of Weddell seals in Antarctica" (2021), Science Advances
  • "Temporal correlations among demographic parameters are ubiquitous but highly variable across species" (2022), Ecology Letters
  • "Integrated Carnivore-Ungulate Management: A Case Study in West-Central Montana" (2020), Wildlife Monographs
  • "Estimates of regional annual abundance and population growth rates of white sharks off central California" (2021), Biological Conservation

Jay J. Rotella frequently collaborates with several researchers, notably including Robert A. Garrott, Kaitlin R. Macdonald, J. Terrill Paterson, Kelly M. Proffitt, and Michelle LaRue.

Best Publications

  • Modeling nest survival data: a comparison of recently developed methods that can be implemented in MARK and SAS

    Jay J. Rotella;Stephen J. Dinsmore;Terry L. Shaffer

  • Effects of habitat fragmentation on avian nesting success: a review of the evidence at multiple spatial scales

    Scott E Stephens;Scott E Stephens;David N Koons;David N Koons;Jay J Rotella;David W Willey

  • Population size estimation in Yellowstone wolves with error‐prone noninvasive microsatellite genotypes

    Scott Creel;Goran Spong;Jennifer L. Sands;Jay Rotella

  • Ecological Causes and Consequences of Demographic Change in the New West

    Andrew J. Hansen;Ray Rasker;Bruce Maxwell;Jay J. Rotella

  • Biophysical Factors, Land Use, and Species Viability in and around Nature Reserves

    Andrew J. Hansen;Jay J. Rotella

  • DUCK NEST SURVIVAL IN THE MISSOURI COTEAU OF NORTH DAKOTA: LANDSCAPE EFFECTS AT MULTIPLE SPATIAL SCALES

    Scott E. Stephens;Jay J. Rotella;Mark. S. Lindberg;Mark L. Taper

  • Opinion Projecting the effects of environmental change on Antarctic seals

    Donald B. Siniff;Robert A. Garrott;Jay J. Rotella;William R. Fraser

  • Climate-induced variation in vital rates of an unharvested large-herbivore population

    Robert A Garrott;L Lee Eberhardt;Patrick J White;Jay Rotella

  • Mallard brood survival and wetland habitat conditions in southwestern Manitoba

    Jay J. Rotella;John T. Ratti

  • Meta-Analysis of Relationships between Human Offtake, Total Mortality and Population Dynamics of Gray Wolves (Canis lupus)

    Scott Creel;Jay J. Rotella

  • Nesting effort by wild mallards with 3 types of radio transmitters

    Jay J. Rotella;David W. Howerter;Tomasz P. Sankowski;James H. Devries

  • Snag longevity in relation to wildfire and postfire salvage logging

    Robin E. Russell;Robin E. Russell;Victoria A. Saab;Victoria A. Saab;Jonathan G. Dudley;Jay J. Rotella

  • Satellite imagery can be used to detect variation in abundance of Weddell seals ( Leptonychotes weddellii ) in Erebus Bay, Antarctica

    Michelle A. LaRue;Jay J. Rotella;Robert A. Garrott;Donald B. Siniff

  • Factors Affecting Nest Survival of Greater Sage-Grouse in Northcentral Montana

    Brendan J. Moynahan;Mark S. Lindberg;Jay J. Rotella;Jack Ward Thomas

  • Mallard brood movements and wetland selection in southwestern Manitoba

    Jay J. Rotella;John T. Ratti

  • Evaluation of reproductive costs for Weddell seals in Erebus Bay, Antarctica.

    Gillian L. Hadley;Jay J. Rotella;Robert A. Garrott

  • Spatial patterns of primary productivity in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

    A.J. Hansen;J.J. Rotella;M.P.V. Kraska;D. Brown

  • An evaluation of density-dependent and density-independent influences on population growth rates in Weddell seals.

    Jay J. Rotella;William A. Link;James D. Nichols;Gillian L. Hadley

  • Variation in probability of first reproduction of Weddell seals

    Gillian L. Hadley;Jay J. Rotella;Robert A. Garrott;James D. Nichols

  • Individual heterogeneity in reproductive rates and cost of reproduction in a long-lived vertebrate.

    Thierry Chambert;Jay J. Rotella;Megan D. Higgs;Robert A. Garrott

  • Validity of using artificial nests to assess duck-nest success

    Michael A. Butler;Jay J. Rotella

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert A. Garrott
Robert A. Garrott Montana State University
David N. Koons
David N. Koons Colorado State University
Victoria A. Saab
Victoria A. Saab US Forest Service
Mark S. Lindberg
Mark S. Lindberg University of Alaska Fairbanks
William A. Link
William A. Link United States Geological Survey
Andrew J. Hansen
Andrew J. Hansen Montana State University
Mark L. Taper
Mark L. Taper Montana State University
Robin E. Russell
Robin E. Russell United States Geological Survey
David G. Ainley
David G. Ainley H.T. Harvey & Associates
Matt Lavin
Matt Lavin Montana State University

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