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Overview

Michael J. Sheriff is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in the United States. Their research spans environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a focus on ecological and behavioral studies related to wildlife.

Their research includes work in several subfields such as ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, small animals, nature and landscape conservation, and social psychology. Main topics of interest include animal behavior and reproduction, wildlife ecology and conservation, animal behavior and welfare studies, species distribution and climate change, bat biology and ecology studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and plant and animal studies.

Frequent coauthors in their work include Louis Hunninck, Scott D. Peacor, Justine A. Smith, Andrew Sih, and Kirsty J. MacLeod.

Publication venues where Michael J. Sheriff has frequently contributed include Conservation Physiology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Ecology, Oecologia, and Behavioral Ecology.

Notable recent papers by Michael J. Sheriff include:

  • Non-consumptive predator effects on prey population size: A dearth of evidence, 2020, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Beyond spatial overlap: harnessing new technologies to resolve the complexities of predator-prey interactions, 2022, Oikos
  • A framework and standardized terminology to facilitate the study of predation-risk effects, 2020, Ecology
  • Where and when to hunt? Decomposing predation success of an ambush carnivore, 2020, Ecology
  • Population and community consequences of perceived risk from humans in wildlife, 2024, Ecology Letters

Best Publications

  • Measuring stress in wildlife: techniques for quantifying glucocorticoids

    Michael J. Sheriff;Michael J. Sheriff;Ben Dantzer;Brendan Delehanty;Rupert Palme

  • Predator‐induced stress and the ecology of fear

    Michael Clinchy;Michael J. Sheriff;Liana Y. Zanette

  • The sensitive hare: sublethal effects of predator stress on reproduction in snowshoe hares.

    Michael J. Sheriff;Michael J. Sheriff;Charles J. Krebs;Rudy Boonstra

  • Measures of physiological stress: a transparent or opaque window into the status, management and conservation of species?

    Ben Dantzer;Ben Dantzer;Quinn E. Fletcher;Rudy Boonstra;Michael J. Sheriff

  • Determining the adaptive potential of maternal stress.

    M. J. Sheriff;Oliver P. Love

  • Annual rhythms that underlie phenology: biological time-keeping meets environmental change

    Barbara Helm;Rachel Ben-Shlomo;Michael J. Sheriff;Roelof A. Hut

  • The ghosts of predators past: population cycles and the role of maternal programming under fluctuating predation risk

    Michael J. Sheriff;Michael J. Sheriff;Charles J. Krebs;Rudy Boonstra

  • Maternal adversity and ecological stressors in natural populations: the role of stress axis programming in individuals, with implications for populations and communities

    Oliver P. Love;Patrick O. McGowan;Michael J. Sheriff

  • Assessing stress in animal populations: Do fecal and plasma glucocorticoids tell the same story?

    Michael J. Sheriff;Charles J. Krebs;Rudy Boonstra

  • From process to pattern: how fluctuating predation risk impacts the stress axis of snowshoe hares during the 10-year cycle

    Michael J. Sheriff;Michael J. Sheriff;Charles J. Krebs;Rudy Boonstra

  • Non-consumptive predator effects on prey population size: A dearth of evidence.

    Michael J. Sheriff;Scott D. Peacor;Dror Hawlena;Maria Thaker

  • Transgenerational Plasticity in Human-Altered Environments.

    Sarah C. Donelan;Jennifer K. Hellmann;Alison M. Bell;Barney Luttbeg

  • Phenological variation in annual timing of hibernation and breeding in nearby populations of Arctic ground squirrels

    Michael J. Sheriff;G. Jim Kenagy;Melanie Richter;Melanie Richter;Trixie Lee;Trixie Lee

  • Beyond spatial overlap: harnessing new technologies to resolve the complexities of predator–prey interactions

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  • Integrating temporal refugia into landscapes of fear: prey exploit predator downtimes to forage in risky places.

    Justine A. Smith;Emiliano Donadio;Jonathan N. Pauli;Michael J. Sheriff

  • Metabolic rate and prehibernation fattening in free-living arctic ground squirrels.

    Michael J. Sheriff;Robert W. Fridinger;Øivind Tøien;Brian M. Barnes

  • Integrating Ecological and Evolutionary Context in the Study of Maternal Stress.

    Michael J. Sheriff;Alison Marie Bell;Rudy Boonstra;Ben Dantzer

  • The Neurological Ecology of Fear: Insights Neuroscientists and Ecologists Have to Offer one Another

    Michael Clinchy;Jay Schulkin;Liana Y. Zanette;Michael J. Sheriff

  • Habitat complexity mediates the predator–prey space race

    Justine A. Smith;Emiliano Donadio;Jonathan N. Pauli;Michael J. Sheriff

  • A non-invasive technique for analyzing fecal cortisol metabolites in snowshoe hares ( Lepus americanus )

    Michael J. Sheriff;Michael J. Sheriff;Curtis O. Bosson;Charles J. Krebs;Rudy Boonstra

  • A framework and standardized terminology to facilitate the study of predation-risk effects.

    Scott D. Peacor;Brandon T. Barton;David L. Kimbro;Andrew Sih

  • Ecophysiological effects of predation risk; an integration across disciplines

    Michael J. Sheriff;Jennifer S. Thaler

  • Fear and lethality in snowshoe hares: the deadly effects of non-consumptive predation risk

    Kirsty J. MacLeod;Charles J. Krebs;Rudy Boonstra;Michael J. Sheriff

  • Themed Issue Article: Stress in Vertebrates Measures of physiological stress: a transparent or opaque window into the status, management and conservation of species?

    Ben Dantzer;Quinn E. Fletcher;Rudy Boonstra;Michael J. Sheriff

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudy Boonstra
Rudy Boonstra University of Toronto
Charles J. Krebs
Charles J. Krebs University of British Columbia
Brian M. Barnes
Brian M. Barnes University of Alaska Fairbanks
C. Loren Buck
C. Loren Buck Northern Arizona University
Tracy Langkilde
Tracy Langkilde Pennsylvania State University
Jonathan N. Pauli
Jonathan N. Pauli University of Wisconsin–Madison
Rupert Palme
Rupert Palme University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
John L. Orrock
John L. Orrock University of Wisconsin–Madison
Andrew Sih
Andrew Sih University of California, Davis
Oliver P. Love
Oliver P. Love University of Windsor

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