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Overview

Scott Creel is affiliated with Montana State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science with an emphasis on Ecology and related subfields. The subfields of study where Creel has contributed include Ecology, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecological Modeling.

Their research topics cover multiple areas within wildlife and environmental studies. Key topics include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Human-Animal Interaction Studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health, and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies.

Scott Creel has published frequently in several academic venues. The most common publication venues include Biological Conservation, Ecology and Evolution, Mammal Review, Ecological Applications, and Biology Letters.

Recent publications by Creel include:

  • "Assessing the performance of index calibration survey methods to monitor populations of wide-ranging low-density carnivores" (2020, Ecology and Evolution)
  • "Response of lion demography and dynamics to the loss of preferred larger prey" (2021, Ecological Applications)
  • "Loss of an apex predator in the wild induces physiological and behavioural changes in prey" (2022, Biology Letters)
  • "Spatial patterns of large African cats: a large-scale study on density, home range size, and home range overlap of lions Panthera leo and leopards Panthera pardus" (2023, Mammal Review)
  • "Effects of exposure to large sharks on the abundance and behavior of mobile prey fishes along a temperate coastal gradient" (2020, PLoS ONE)

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Matthew S. Becker, Ben Goodheart, Johnathan Reyes de Merkle, Kambwiri Banda, and Milan A. Vinks.

Best Publications

  • Relationships between direct predation and risk effects

    Scott Creel;David Christianson

  • Social dominance and stress hormones

    Scott Creel

  • Elk alter habitat selection as an antipredator response to wolves

    Scott Creel;John Winnie;Bruce Maxwell;Ken Hamlin

  • Communal hunting and pack size in African wild dogs, Lycaon pictus

    Scott Creel;Scott Creel;Nancy Marusha Creel

  • Predation risk affects reproductive physiology and demography of elk.

    Scott Creel;David Christianson;Stewart Liley;John A. Winnie

  • The African Wild Dog: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation

    Scott Creel;Nancy Marusha Creel

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • Snowmobile activity and glucocorticoid stress responses in wolves and elk

    Scott Creel;Jennifer E. Fox;Amanda Hardy;Jennifer Sands

  • Limitation of African Wild Dogs by Competition with Larger Carnivores

    Scott Creel;Nancy Marusha Creel

  • The ecology of stress: effects of the social environment

    Scott Creel;Ben Dantzer;Wolfgang Goymann;Dustin R. Rubenstein

  • Rank and reproduction in cooperatively breeding African wild dogs: behavioral and endocrine correlates

    Scott Creel;Scott Creel;Nancy Marusha Creel;Nancy Marusha Creel;Michael G. L. Mills;Steven L. Monfort

  • Population size estimation in Yellowstone wolves with error‐prone noninvasive microsatellite genotypes

    Scott Creel;Goran Spong;Jennifer L. Sands;Jay Rotella

  • Responses of elk herd size to fine-scale spatial and temporal variation in the risk of predation by wolves

    Scott Creel;John A. Winnie

  • Effects of predation risk on group size, vigilance, and foraging behavior in an African ungulate community

    Scott Creel;Paul Schuette;David Christianson

  • Social dominance, aggression and faecal glucocorticoid levels in a wild population of wolves, Canis lupus

    Jennifer Sands;Scott Creel

  • Social stress and dominance

    Scott Creel;Nancy MarushaCreel;Steven L. Monfort

  • Glucocorticoid stress hormones and the effect of predation risk on elk reproduction.

    Scott Creel;John A. Winnie;David Christianson

  • Occupancy patterns and niche partitioning within a diverse carnivore community exposed to anthropogenic pressures

    Paul Schuette;Aaron P. Wagner;Meredith E. Wagner;Scott Creel

  • Dominance, Aggression, and Glucocorticoid Levels in Social Carnivores

    Scott Creel

  • Sociality, Group Size, and Reproductive, Suppression among Carnivores

    Scott Creel;David Macdonald

  • Energy Landscapes and the Landscape of Fear

    Austin J. Gallagher;Austin J. Gallagher;Scott Creel;Rory P. Wilson;Steven J. Cooke

Frequent Co-Authors

Austin J. Gallagher
Austin J. Gallagher University of Miami
Sarah M. Durant
Sarah M. Durant Zoological Society of London
David W. Macdonald
David W. Macdonald University of Oxford
Paul C. Cross
Paul C. Cross United States Geological Survey
Andrew J. Loveridge
Andrew J. Loveridge University of Oxford
Iain Douglas-Hamilton
Iain Douglas-Hamilton Save the Elephants
George Wittemyer
George Wittemyer Colorado State University
Marcella J. Kelly
Marcella J. Kelly Virginia Tech
Stephen Blake
Stephen Blake Saint Louis University
Ray Hilborn
Ray Hilborn University of Washington

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