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1443

Overview

Jerrold L. Belant is affiliated with the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in the United States. Their research predominantly lies within the field of Environmental Science, with a specialized focus on Ecology. The subfields they explore include Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Genetics, Social Psychology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers a range of research topics, notably:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies

Jerrold L. Belant has published extensively, contributing to various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Global Ecology and Conservation
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • PLoS ONE
  • Ecology

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Belant include:

  • "Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic," published in 2020 in Science
  • "The unmarked R package: Twelve years of advances in occurrence and abundance modelling in ecology," published in 2023 in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "A review of ecological factors promoting road use by mammals," published in 2020 in Mammal Review
  • "ubms: An R package for fitting hierarchical occupancy and N-mixture abundance models in a Bayesian framework," published in 2021 in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements," published in 2020 in Conservation Biology

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers in their field. Some of the most frequent co-authors include:

  • Kenneth F. Kellner
  • Dean E. Beyer
  • Hari Prasad Sharma
  • Tyler R. Petroelje
  • Nicholas L. Fowler

Best Publications

  • The importance of correcting for sampling bias in MaxEnt species distribution models

    Stephanie Kramer-Schadt;Jürgen Niedballa;John D. Pilgrim;Boris Schröder;Boris Schröder

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

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

  • Gulls in urban environments: landscape-level management to reduce conflict

    Jerrold L. Belant

  • The changing fates of the world's mammals

    Michael Hoffmann;Jerrold L. Belant;Janice S. Chanson;Neil A. Cox;Neil A. Cox

  • A comprehensive analysis of autocorrelation and bias in home range estimation

    Michael J. Noonan;Michael J. Noonan;Marlee A. Tucker;Christen H. Fleming;Christen H. Fleming;Thomas S. Akre

  • How Does Spatial Study Design Influence Density Estimates from Spatial Capture-Recapture Models?

    Rahel Sollmann;Beth Gardner;Jerrold L. Belant

  • Cause‐specific mortality of the world’s terrestrial vertebrates

    Jacob E. Hill;Travis L. DeVault;Jerrold L. Belant

  • Interspecific variation in wildlife hazards to aircraft: Implications for airport wildlife management

    Travis L. DeVault;Jerrold L. Belant;Bradley F. Blackwell;Thomas W. Seamans

  • Targeted Conservation to Safeguard a Biodiversity Hotspot from Climate and Land-Cover Change

    Matthew J. Struebig;Matthew J. Struebig;Andreas Wilting;David L.A. Gaveau;Erik Meijaard

  • Importance of landfills to urban-nesting herring and ring-billed gulls

    Jerrold L Belant;Sheri K Ickes;Thomas W Seamans

  • Importance of Landfills to Nesting Herring Gulls

    Jerrold L. Belant;Thomas W. Seamans;Steven W. Gabrey;Sheri K. Ickes

  • The unmarked R package: Twelve years of advances in occurrence and abundance modelling in ecology

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  • Dry weather induces outbreaks of human West Nile virus infections

    Guiming Wang;Richard B Minnis;Richard B Minnis;Jerrold L Belant;Charles L Wax

  • SHOOTING GULLS REDUCES STRIKES WITH AIRCRAFT AT JOHN F. KENNEDY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

    Richard A. Dolbeer;Jerrold L. Belant;Janet L. Sillings

  • Interspecific resource partitioning in sympatric ursids.

    Jerrold L. Belant;Knut Kielland;Erich H. Follmann;Layne G. Adams

  • Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic

    Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson;Gil Bohrer;Eliezer Gurarie;Eliezer Gurarie;Scott LaPoint;Scott LaPoint

  • ubms: An R package for fitting hierarchical occupancy and N‐mixture abundance models in a Bayesian framework

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  • Heavy metals in laughing gulls: Gender, age and tissue differences

    Michael Gochfeld;Jerrold L. Belant;Tara Shukla;Tom Benson

  • When top predators become prey: Black bears alter movement behaviour in response to hunting pressure

    Milena Stillfried;Jerrold L. Belant;Nathan J. Svoboda;Dean E. Beyer

  • Why South-east Asia should be the world’s priority for averting imminent species extinctions, and a call to join a developing cross-institutional programme to tackle this urgent issue

    J. W. Duckworth;G. Batters;J. L. Belant;E. L. Bennett

  • Population-level resource selection by sympatric brown and American black bears in Alaska

    Jerrold L. Belant;Brad Griffith;Yingte Zhang;Erich H. Follmann

  • Anthraquinone formulation (Flight Control) shows promise as avian feeding repellent.

    Richard A. Dolbeer;Thomas W. Seamans;Bradley F. Blackwell;Jerrold L. Belant

Frequent Co-Authors

Travis L. DeVault
Travis L. DeVault University of Georgia
Andreas Wilting
Andreas Wilting Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Stephanie Kramer-Schadt
Stephanie Kramer-Schadt Leibniz Association
David W. Macdonald
David W. Macdonald University of Oxford
Andrew J. Marshall
Andrew J. Marshall University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Susan M. Cheyne
Susan M. Cheyne Oxford Brookes University
Bruce D. Leopold
Bruce D. Leopold Mississippi State University
Roland Kays
Roland Kays North Carolina State University
Erik A. Beever
Erik A. Beever United States Geological Survey
Joshua J. Millspaugh
Joshua J. Millspaugh University of Montana

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