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John L. Hoogland is affiliated with the University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on Ecology. Their work touches on various subfields, including Ecology, Genetics, and studies related to Small Animals.

The main topics covered in Hoogland's research include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, research on the Yersinia bacterium, plague, and ectoparasites, as well as Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies.

Hoogland has contributed multiple publications, with recent papers appearing in recognized scientific journals. The following are examples of their work:

  • Relentless Predation on Gunnison's Prairie Dogs (Cynomys Gunnisoni) by a Single American Badger (Taxidea Taxus), 2020, Western North American Naturalist
  • Use of a portable ultrasound machine to determine pregnancy and uterine litter size for wild Gunnison's prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni), 2020, Mammal Research

They have published in venues such as Western North American Naturalist and Mammal Research.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Brittany A. Minnig, Samantha M. Kagel, Rachel S. Ziejka, and Lauren M. L. Averilla.

Best Publications

  • Sexual dimorphisms and breeding systems in pinnipeds, ungulates, primates, and humans

    Richard D. Alexander;John L. Hoogland;Richard D. Howard;Katharine M. Noonan

  • The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog: Social Life of a Burrowing Mammal

    John L. Hoogland

  • ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF BANK SWALLOW (RIPARIA RIPARIA) COLONIALITY

    John L. Hoogland;Paul W. Sherman

  • Population genetics meets behavioral ecology.

    Derrick W. Sugg;Ronald K. Chesser;F. Stephen Dobson;John L. Hoogland

  • THE EVOLUTION OF COLONIALITY IN WHITE-TAILED AND BLACK-TAILED PRAIRIE DOGS (SCIURIDAE: CYNOMYS LEUCURUS AND C. LUDOVICIANUS)

    John L. Hoogland

  • Aggression, ectoparasitism, and other possible costs of prairie dog (Sciuridae, Cynomys spp.) coloniality.

    John L. Hoogland

  • Prairie dogs avoid extreme inbreeding.

    John L. Hoogland

  • Nepotism and alarm calling in the black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus)

    John L. Hoogland

  • Infanticide in Prairie Dogs: Lactating Females Kill Offspring of Close Kin

    John L. Hoogland

  • The effect of colony size on individual alertness of prairie dogs (Sciuridae: Cynomys spp.)

    John L. Hoogland

  • Why do female Gunnison's prairie dogs copulate with more than one male?

    John L Hoogland

  • The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog: Social Life of a Burrowing Mammal

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  • The Role of Prairie Dogs as a Keystone Species: Response to Stapp

    B. Miller;R. Reading;J. Hoogland;T. Clark

  • Conservation of the black-tailed prairie dog : saving North America's western grasslands

    John L. Hoogland

  • DO BLACK-TAILED PRAIRIE DOGS MINIMIZE INBREEDING?

    F. Stephen Dobson;Ronald K. Chesser;John L. Hoogland;Derrick W. Sugg

  • Prairie Dogs: An Ecological Review and Current Biopolitics

    Brian J. Miller;Richard P. Reading;Dean E. Biggins;James K. Detling

  • Levels of inbreeding among prairie dogs

    John L. Hoogland

  • Selective Predation on Utah Prairie Dogs

    John L. Hoogland;Kristin E. Cannon;Lili M. DeBarbieri;Theodore G. Manno

  • Variance in male and female reproductive success in a harem-polygynous mammal, the black-tailed prairie dog (Sciuridae: Cynomys ludovicianus)

    John L. Hoogland;David W. Foltz

  • Demographic Differences Between an Old and a New Colony of Black-tailed Prairie Dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus)

    Monte G. Garrett;John L. Hoogland;William L. Franklin

  • BLACK-TAILED, GUNNISON'S, AND UTAH PRAIRIE DOGS REPRODUCE SLOWLY

    John L. Hoogland

  • The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog: Social Life of a Burrowing Mammal

    Rosie Woodroffe;John L. Hoogland

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Foltz
David W. Foltz Louisiana State University
F. Stephen Dobson
F. Stephen Dobson Auburn University
Ronald K. Chesser
Ronald K. Chesser Texas Tech University
Paul W. Sherman
Paul W. Sherman Cornell University
Richard P. Reading
Richard P. Reading University of Denver
Dean E. Biggins
Dean E. Biggins United States Geological Survey
Charles R. Brown
Charles R. Brown University of Tulsa
Gerardo Ceballos
Gerardo Ceballos National Autonomous University of Mexico
Rosie Woodroffe
Rosie Woodroffe Zoological Society of London
James K. Detling
James K. Detling Colorado State University

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