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Overview

Stephen Demarais is affiliated with Mississippi State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with an emphasis on wildlife ecology and conservation. Over the course of their career, Demarais has published extensively in the subfields of ecology, genetics, management, monitoring, policy and law, ecological modeling, and global and planetary change.

Demarais has contributed notably to topics including:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Bronson K. Strickland, Garrett M. Street, William T. McKinley, Randy W. DeYoung, and Jonathan R. Potts.

Demarais' research outputs have appeared repeatedly in the following publication venues:

  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Diversity
  • Wildlife Research
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Functional Ecology

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Demarais are:

  • Solving the sample size problem for resource selection functions, 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Relative reproductive phenology and synchrony affect neonate survival in a nonprecocial ungulate, 2020, Functional Ecology
  • Behavioral plasticity mitigates the effect of warming on white-tailed deer, 2020, Ecology and Evolution
  • Diet selection of white-tailed deer supports the nutrient balance hypothesis, 2020, Behavioural Processes
  • Wildlife agency responses to chronic wasting disease in free-ranging cervids, 2023, Wildlife Society Bulletin

Best Publications

  • Red Imported Fire Ant Impacts on Northern Bobwhite Populations

    Craig R. Allen;R. Scott Lutz;Stephen Demarais

  • Ecology and management of large mammals in North America

    Stephen Demarais;Paul R. Krausman

  • Red imported fire ant impact on wildlife: An overview

    C. R. Allen;S. Demarais;R. S. Lutz

  • Evaluation of a GPS collar for white-tailed deer.

    J. L. Bowman;C. O. Kochanny;S. Demarais;B. D. Leopold

  • Genetic consequences of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) restoration in Mississippi.

    Randy W. Deyoung;Stephen Demarais;Rodney L. Honeycutt;Alejandro P. Rooney

  • Age and regional differences in antlers and mass of white-tailed deer

    Bronson K. Strickland;Stephen Demarais

  • Measuring Fine-Scale White-Tailed Deer Movements and Environmental Influences Using GPS Collars

    Stephen L. Webb;Kenneth L. Gee;Bronson K. Strickland;Stephen Demarais

  • Home range of Desert Mule Deer : Testing the body-size and habitat-productivity hypotheses

    Rick A. Relyea;Richard K. Lawrence;Stephen Demarais

  • Tamm review: Terrestrial vertebrate biodiversity and intensive forest management in the U.S.

    Stephen Demarais;Jacob P. Verschuyl;Gary J. Roloff;Darren A. Miller

  • MULTIPLE PATERNITY IN WHITE-TAILED DEER ( ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS) REVEALED BY DNA MICROSATELLITES

    Randy W. DeYoung;Stephen Demarais;Robert A. Gonzales;Rodney L. Honeycutt

  • Hunting intensity alters movement behaviour of white-tailed deer

    Andrew R. Little;Stephen L. Webb;Stephen Demarais;Kenneth L. Gee

  • Using Fractal Analyses to Characterize Movement Paths of White-Tailed Deer and Response to Spatial Scale

    Stephen L. Webb;Samuel K. Riffell;Kenneth L. Gee;Stephen Demarais

  • Northern Bobwhite Chick Mortality Caused by Red Imported Fire Ants

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  • Molecular Evaluation of the White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus) Mating System

    Randy W. DeYoung;Stephen Demarais;Kenneth L. Gee;Rodney L. Honeycutt

  • Effects of red imported fire ants on northern bobwhite chicks

    W. M. Giuliano;W. M. Giuliano;C. R. Allen;C. R. Allen;R. S. Lutz;R. S. Lutz;S. Demarais

  • EFFECTS OF RED IMPORTED FIRE ANTS ON RECRUITMENT OF WHITE-TAILED DEER FAWNS

    Craig R. Allen;Craig R. Allen;Stephen Demarais;R. Scott Lutz;R. Scott Lutz

  • Spatial Scale Dependence of Rodent Habitat Use

    Eric E. Jorgensen;Stephen Demarais

  • DESERT MULE DEER SURVIVAL IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

    Richard K. Lawrence;Stephen Demarais;Rick A. Relyea;Shawn P. Haskell

  • Vegetation community responses to different establishment regimes in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) plantations in southern MS, USA.

    Phillip D. Jones;Scott L. Edwards;Stephen Demarais;Andrew W. Ezell

  • Evaluation of a DNA microsatellite panel useful for genetic exclusion studies in white-tailed deer

    Runty W. De Young;Stephen Demarais;Rodney L. Honeycutt;Robert A. Gonzales

  • Social Dominance and Male Breeding Success in Captive White‐Tailed Deer

    Randy W. DeYOUNG;Stephen Demarais;Rodney L. Honeycutt;Kenneth L. Gee

  • Does human predation risk affect harvest susceptibility of white‐tailed deer during hunting season?

    Andrew R. Little;Stephen Demarais;Kenneth L. Gee;Stephen L. Webb

  • Influence of Landscape Composition and Structure on Antler Size of White‐Tailed Deer

    Bronson K. Strickland;Stephen Demarais

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig R. Allen
Craig R. Allen University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Rodney L. Honeycutt
Rodney L. Honeycutt Pepperdine University
Jerrold L. Belant
Jerrold L. Belant SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
John M. Fryxell
John M. Fryxell University of Guelph
Philip D. McLoughlin
Philip D. McLoughlin University of Saskatchewan
James C. Beasley
James C. Beasley University of Georgia
Kevin L. Monteith
Kevin L. Monteith University of Wyoming
Bruce D. Leopold
Bruce D. Leopold Mississippi State University
Rick A. Relyea
Rick A. Relyea University of Missouri
James A. Pfister
James A. Pfister United States Department of Agriculture

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