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Kevin McGarigal is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily spans environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with notable contributions in genetics, ecology, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, and related subfields.

The scientist's published work addresses a range of topics, prominently including wildlife ecology and conservation, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, genetic diversity and population structure, forest management and policy, amphibian and reptile biology, animal behavior and reproduction, and species distribution in the context of climate change.

Kevin McGarigal has published research in several journals, with recent papers appearing in these venues:

  • "Evaluation of the R package 'resistancega': A promising approach towards the accurate optimization of landscape resistance surfaces" (2020), Molecular Ecology Resources
  • "Multiscale assessment of functional connectivity: Landscape genetics of eastern indigo snakes in an anthropogenically fragmented landscape in central Florida" (2021), Molecular Ecology
  • "Movement barriers, habitat heterogeneity or both? Testing hypothesized effects of landscape features on home range sizes in eastern indigo snakes" (2020), Journal of Zoology
  • "Contrasting Species Distribution Model Predictability Under Novel Temperature Conditions" (2025), Diversity and Distributions

Their frequent collaborators include William E. Peterman, Javan M. Bauder, Christopher L. Jenkins, Kristopher J. Winiarski, and Stephen F. Spear. Several of these coauthors have contributed repeatedly to McGarigal's research, highlighting ongoing collaborative efforts.

The research topics developed by Kevin McGarigal reflect an interdisciplinary approach bridging field ecology and molecular biology, emphasizing landscape genetics and species distribution under changing environmental conditions. The scientist's work on genetic diversity and animal movement contributes to understanding habitat fragmentation and conservation challenges in wildlife populations.

Best Publications

  • FRAGSTATS: spatial pattern analysis program for quantifying landscape structure.

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  • Multivariate statistics for wildlife and ecology research

    Kevin. McGarigal;Sam. Cushman;Susan G. Stafford

  • Estimating landscape resistance to movement: a review

    Katherine A. Zeller;Katherine A. Zeller;Kevin McGarigal;Andrew R. Whiteley

  • Relationships Between Landscape Structure and Breeding Birds in the Oregon Coast Range

    Kevin McGarigal;William C. McComb

  • COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF HABITAT FRAGMENTATION EFFECTS

    Kevin McGarigal;Samuel A. Cushman

  • Parsimony in landscape metrics: Strength, universality, and consistency

    Samuel A. Cushman;Kevin McGarigal;Maile C. Neel

  • Multi-scale habitat selection modeling: a review and outlook

    Kevin McGarigal;Ho Yi Wan;Kathy A. Zeller;Brad C. Timm

  • Surface metrics: an alternative to patch metrics for the quantification of landscape structure

    Kevin McGarigal;Sermin Tagil;Samuel A. Cushman

  • Behavior of class-level landscape metrics across gradients of class aggregation and area

    Maile C. Neel;Kevin McGarigal;Samuel A. Cushman

  • Hierarchical, Multi-scale decomposition of species-environment relationships

    Samuel A. Cushman;Kevin McGarigal

  • A resistant-kernel model of connectivity for amphibians that breed in vernal pools.

    Bradley W. Compton;Kevin McGARIGAL;Samuel A. Cushman;Lloyd R. Gamble

  • Issues and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology: The gradient concept of landscape structure

    Kevin McGarigal;Samuel A. Cushman

  • Fidelity and dispersal in the pond-breeding amphibian, Ambystoma opacum: Implications for spatio-temporal population dynamics and conservation

    Lloyd R. Gamble;Kevin McGarigal;Bradley W. Compton

  • Landscape Pattern Metrics

    Kevin McGarigal

  • The influence of research scale on bald eagle habitat selection along the lower Hudson River, New York (USA)

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  • Patterns in the species–environment relationship depend on both scale and choice of response variables

    Samuel A. Cushman;Kevin McGarigal

  • Cumulative effects of roads and logging on landscape structure in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado (USA)

    Kevin McGarigal;William H. Romme;Michele Crist;Ed Roworth

  • The Gradient Paradigm: A Conceptual and Analytical Framework for Landscape Ecology

    Samuel A. Cushman;Kevin Gutzweiler;Jeffrey S. Evans;Kevin McGarigal

  • HIERARCHICAL ANALYSIS OF FOREST BIRD SPECIES–ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS IN THE OREGON COAST RANGE

    Samuel A. Cushman;Kevin McGarigal

  • Multi‐scale features for identifying individuals in large biological databases: an application of pattern recognition technology to the marbled salamander Ambystoma opacum

    Lloyd Gamble;Sai Ravela;Kevin McGarigal

  • Effects of landscape patterns of fire severity on regenerating ponderosa pine forests (Pinus ponderosa) in New Mexico and Arizona, USA

    Sandra L. Haire;Kevin McGarigal

  • Streamside versus upslope breeding bird communities in the central Oregon coast range

    Kevin McGarigal;William C. McComb

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel A. Cushman
Samuel A. Cushman University of Oxford
Jeffrey S. Evans
Jeffrey S. Evans The Nature Conservancy
Matthew G. Betts
Matthew G. Betts Oregon State University
Walter M. Boyce
Walter M. Boyce University of California, Davis
Paul Beier
Paul Beier Northern Arizona University
Francis Juanes
Francis Juanes University of Victoria
Benjamin Zuckerberg
Benjamin Zuckerberg University of Wisconsin–Madison
Carol Miller
Carol Miller US Forest Service
Zhiqiang Yang
Zhiqiang Yang United States Department of Agriculture
Hugh D. Safford
Hugh D. Safford University of California, Davis

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