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Robert A. Garrott is affiliated with Montana State University in the United States, where their research primarily focuses on environmental science with an emphasis on ecology. Their scholarly work spans several related subfields, including ecology, genetics, small animals, ecological modeling, and agronomy and crop science.

Their scientific contributions frequently address key topics within wildlife ecology and conservation, rangeland and wildlife management, animal behavior and welfare studies, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, species distribution and climate change, marine animal studies, and metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Individual variation creates diverse migratory portfolios in native populations of a mountain ungulate, 2020, Ecological Applications
  • Evaluating wildlife translocations using genomics: A bighorn sheep case study, 2020, Ecology and Evolution
  • Integrated Carnivore-Ungulate Management: A Case Study in West-Central Montana, 2020, Wildlife Monographs
  • Drivers of variation in the population dynamics of bighorn sheep, 2021, Ecosphere
  • Is Habitat Constraining Bighorn Sheep Restoration? A Case Study, 2020, Journal of Wildlife Management

Garrott has collaborated extensively with several researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include Kelly M. Proffitt, Jay J. Rotella, J. Terrill Paterson, Blake Lowrey, and Jennifer M. Thomson.

Their research findings have been published in multiple venues with recurring contributions in Ecosphere, Journal of Wildlife Management, Marine Mammal Science, Ecological Applications, and Ecology and Evolution.

Best Publications

  • Analysis of Wildlife Radio-Tracking Data

    Gary C. White;Robert A. Garrott

  • Overabundance: An Issue for Conservation Biologists?

    Robert A. Garrott;P. J. White;Callie A. Vanderbilt White

  • Contrasting effects of wolves and human hunters on elk behavioral responses to predation risk.

    Kelly M. Proffitt;Jamin L. Grigg;Kenneth L. Hamlin;Robert A. Garrott

  • Opinion Projecting the effects of environmental change on Antarctic seals

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

  • Assessment of prey vulnerability through analysis of wolf movements and kill sites.

    Eric J. Bergman;Robert A. Garrott;Scott Creel;John J. Borkowski

  • Yellowstone’s ungulates after wolves – expectations, realizations, and predictions

    P.J. White;R.A. Garrott

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

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

  • Movements of female mule deer in northwest Colorado

    R. A. Garrott;G. C. White;R. M. Bartmann;L. H. Carpenter

  • Accessing accuracy of a radiotelemetry system for estimating animal locations

    J. E. Lee;G. C. White;R. A. Garrott;R. M. Bartmann

  • Effects of biotelemetry triangulation error on detecting habitat selection

    Gary C. White;Robert A. Garrott

  • Northern Yellowstone elk after wolf restoration

    P. J. White;Robert A. Garrott

  • Prey risk allocation in a grazing ecosystem.

    Justin A. Gude;Robert A. Garrott;John J. Borkowski;Fred King

  • Partial migration and philopatry of Yellowstone pronghorn

    P.J. White;Troy L. Davis;Kerey K. Barnowe-Meyer;Robert L. Crabtree

  • 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

  • Aerial Mark-Recapture Estimates of Confined Mule Deer in Pinyon-Juniper Woodland

    Richard M. Bartmann;Gary C. White;Len H. Carpenter;Robert A. Garrott

  • MORTALITY OF SEA OTTERS IN PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND FOLLOWING THE EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL

    Robert A. Garrott;L. Lee Eberhardt;Douglas M. Burn

  • Survival of mule deer in Northwest Colorado

    G. C. White;R. A. Garrott;R. M. Bartmann;L. H. Carpenter

  • Arctic fox home range characteristics in an oil-development area

    Lester E. Eberhardt;Wayne C. Hanson;John L. Bengtson;Robert A. Garrott

  • Evaluation of Aerial Line Transects for Estimating Mule Deer Densities

    Gary C. White;Richard M. Bartmann;Len H. Carpenter;Robert A. Garrott

  • Evaluating prey switching in wolf-ungulate systems.

    Robert A. Garrott;Jason E. Bruggeman;Matthew S. Becker;Steven T. Kalinowski

  • Analysis of Wildlife Radio-Tracking Data

    H. Dean Cluff;Gary C. White;Robert A. Garrott

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay J. Rotella
Jay J. Rotella Montana State University
Gary C. White
Gary C. White Colorado State University
Donald B. Siniff
Donald B. Siniff University of Minnesota
James G. Berardinelli
James G. Berardinelli Montana State University
William A. Link
William A. Link United States Geological Survey
Kevin L. Monteith
Kevin L. Monteith University of Wyoming
Steven L. Monfort
Steven L. Monfort Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
David G. Ainley
David G. Ainley H.T. Harvey & Associates
Kim T. Scribner
Kim T. Scribner Michigan State University
David R. Mertens
David R. Mertens Agricultural Research Service

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