Peer-reviewed Publications
Petroelje, T.R., T.M. Kautz, D.E. Beyer, Jr., and J.L Belant. 2021. Interference competition between wolves and coyotes during variable prey abundance. Ecology and Evolution 11:1413-1431.
Kautz, T.M., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., B.K. Strickland, and J.F. Duquette. 2020. Influence of biological and environmental conditions on winter survival of a northern ungulate: evidence for a late-winter survival bottleneck. Ecology and Evolution 10:1666-1677.
Petroelje, T.R., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., and N.J. Svoboda. 2020. Identification of carnivore kill sites are improved by verified accelerometer data. Animal Biotelemetry 8:18.
Croose, E., F. Bled, N.L. Fowler, D.E. Beyer, and J.L. Belant. 2019. American marten and fisher do not segregate in space and time during winter in a mixed-forest system. Ecology and Evolution 9:4906-4916.
Kautz, T.M., J.L. Belant, D.E Beyer, Jr., B.K. Strickland, T. R. Petroelje, and R. Sollmann. 2019. Predator densities and white-tailed deer fawn survival in a four-predator system. Journal of Wildlife Management 83:1261-1270.
Petroelje, T.R., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., and Nathan J. Svoboda. 2019. Subsidies from anthropogenic resources alter diet, activity, and ranging behavior of an apex predator (Canis lupus). Scientific Reports 9:e13438.
Svoboda, N.J., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., J.F. Duquette, and P.E. Lederle. 2019. Carnivore space use shifts in response to seasonal resource availability. Ecosphere 10:e02817.
Norton, D.C., J.L. Belant, J.G. Bruggink, D.E. Beyer, Jr., N.J. Svoboda, and T.R. Petroelje. 2018. Female American black bears do not alter space use or movements to reduce infanticide risk. PLoS ONE 13:e0203651.
Scharf, A.K., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., M. Wikelski, and K. Safi. 2018. Habitat suitability cannot capture the essence of animal-defined corridors. Movement Ecology 6:18.
Duquette, J.F., J.L. Belant, C.M. Wilton, N. Fowler, B.W. Waller, D.E. Beyer, Jr., N.J. Svoboda, S.L. Simek, J. Beringer. 2017. Black bear functional resource selection relative to intraspecific competition and human risk. Canadian Journal of Zoology 95:203-212.
Bled, F., S. Summers, D. Martell, T.R. Petroelje, D.E. Beyer, Jr., and J.L. Belant. 2015. Effects of prey presence and scale on bobcat resource selection during winter. Plos One 10:e0143347.
Bowman, B., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., and D. Martel. 2015. Characterizing nontarget species use at bait sites for white-tailed deer. Human-Wildlife Interactions 9:110-118.
Duquette, J.F., J.L. Belant, N.J. Svoboda, D.E. Beyer, Jr., and P.E. Lederle. 2015. Scale dependence of female ungulate reproductive success in relation to nutritional condition, resource selection and multi-predator avoidance. PLoS One 10:e0140433.
Stillfried, M., J.L. Belant, N.J. Svoboda, D.E. Beyer, and S. Kramer-Schadt. 2015. When top predators become prey: Black bears alter movement behavior in response to hunting pressure. Behavioural Processes 120:30-39.
Duquette, J.F., J.L. Belant, N.J. Svoboda, D.E. Beyer, Jr., and C.A. Albright. 2014. Comparison of occupancy modeling and radiotelemetry to estimate ungulate population dynamics. Population Ecology 56:481-492.
Duquette, J.F., J.L. Belant, N.J. Svoboda, D.E. Beyer, Jr., and P.E. Lederle. 2014. Effects of maternal nutrition, resource use and multi-predator risk on neonatal white-tailed deer survival. Plos One 9:e100841.
Petroelje, T.R., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., G. Wang, and B.D. Leopold. 2014. Population-level response of coyotes to a pulsed resource event. Population Ecology 56:349-358.
Wegan, M.T., D.R. Etter, J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., N.J. Svoboda, and T.R. Petroelje. 2014. A cable neck-restraint to live-capture coyotes. Wildlife Society Bulletin 38:160-164.
Petroelje, T.R., J.L. Belant, and D.E. Beyer, Jr. 2013. Factors affecting the elicitation of vocal responses from coyotes. Wildlife Biology 19:41-47.
Svoboda, N.J., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., J.F. Duquette, and J.A. Martin. 2013. Identifying bobcat kill sites using a global positioning system. Wildlife Biology 19:78-86.
Duquette, J.F., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., and N.J. Svoboda. 2012. Body condition and dosage effects on ketamine-xylazine immobilization of female white-tailed deer. Wildlife Society Bulletin 37:162-167.
Duquette, J.F., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., and N.J. Svoboda. 2012. Comparison of pregnancy detection methods in live-white-tailed deer. Wildlife Society Bulletin 36:115-118.
Stricker, H.K., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., J. Kanefsky, K.T. Scribner, D.R. Etter, and J. Fierke. 2012. Use of modified snares to estimate bobcat abundance. Wildlife Society Bulletin 36:257-263.
Svoboda, N.J., J.L. Belant, S. D. Fitzgerald, D.E. Beyer, Jr., J.F. Duquette, and T. Cooley. 2012. Aspiration pneumonia in an American black bear. Ursus 23:1-5.
Duquette, J.F., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., N.J. Svoboda, and C.A. Albright. 2011. Bald eagle predation of a white-tailed deer fawn. Northeastern Naturalist 18:87-94.
Svoboda, N.J., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., J.F. Duquette, H.K. Stricker, and C.A. Albright. 2011. American black bear predation of an adult white-tailed deer. Ursus 22:91-94.
Annual Reports
- Annual Report 2019 (PDF, 3.0 MB)
- Annual Report 2018 (PDF, 2.6 MB)
- Annual Report 2017 (PDF, 2.6 MB)
- Annual Report 2016 (PDF 3.9 MB)
- Annual Report 2015 (PDF 2.1 MB)
- Annual Report 2014 (PDF 1.5 MB)
- Annual Report 2013 (PDF 4.1 MB)
- Annual Report 2011 (PDF 1.2 MB)
- Annual Report 2010 (PDF 3.5 MB)
- Annual Report 2009 (PDF, 1. MB)
Quarterly Reports
- Quarterly report (Mar-Jun 2019) (PDF, 2.5 MB)
- Quarterly report (Dec 2018-Mar 2019) (PDF, 1.9 MB)
- Quarterly report (Sep-Dec 2018) (PDF, 1.7 MB)
- Quarterly report (Mar-Jun 2018) (PDF, 2.0 MB)
- Quarterly report (Dec 2017-Mar 2018) (PDF, 2.2 MB)
- Quarterly report (Sep-Dec 2017) (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- Quarterly report (Mar-Jun 2017) (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- Quarterly report (Dec 2016-Mar 2017) (PDF, 2.4 MB)
- Quarterly report (Sep-Dec 2016) (PDF, 1.4 MB)
- Quarterly report (Sep-Dec 2015) (PDF, 928 KB)
- Quarterly report (Mar-Jun 2015) (PDF, 521 KB)
- Quarterly report (Dec 2015-Mar 2015) (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Quarterly report (Sep-Dec 2014) (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Quarterly report (Mar-Jun 2014) (PDF, 743 KB)
- Quarterly report (Dec 2013-Mar 2014) (PDF, 1.4 MB)
- Quarterly report (Sep-Dec 2013) (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Quarterly report (Mar-Jun 2013) (PDF, 3 MB)
- Quarterly report (Dec 2012-Mar 2013) (PDF, 903 KB)
- Quarterly report (Sep-Dec 2012) (PDF, 1.4 MB)
- Quarterly report (May-Aug 2012) (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Quarterly report (Sep-Dec 2011) (PDF, 1.5 MB)
- Quarterly report (Mar–May 2011) (PDF, 793 KB)
- Quarterly report (Dec 2010-Feb 2011) (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- Quarterly report (Sep-Nov 2010) (PDF, 302 KB)
- Quarterly report (Apr-Jun 2010) (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Quarterly report (Jan-Mar 2010) (PDF, 2.1 MB)
- Quarterly report (Oct-Dec 2009) (PDF, 1 MB)
- Quarterly report (Apr-Jun 2009) (PDF, 2.2 MB)
- Quarterly report (Jan-Mar 2009) (PDF, 97 KB)
- Quarterly report (Oct-Dec 2008) (PDF, 80 KB)
Other Reports
- Phase I findings and management implications (PDF, 144 KB)
Popular Media
- 906 Outdoors Discovering. Television segment
- Daily Mining Gazette ‘Researchers lowered in bear dens in predator-prey study’. Newspaper article
- Dave Schneider, freelance outdoor writer
- 2018 (23 Feb). The Mining Journal. ‘Waking a sleeping giant- Bear den checked as part of predator-prey study’.
- The L’anse Sentinel
- Richard P. Smith, freelance outdoor writer
- 2018 (21 Feb). ABC 10 News – Bear den checks with the DNR. News segment
- WJMN-TV3 News segment
- WLUC-TV6 News segment
- 2017 (May) Keweenaw Report. ‘Preliminary results of region’s predator-prey study to be detailed’.
- 2017 (Mar). TV 6. ‘First of four ‘Wildlife through Forestry’ forums held’
- 2017 (Mar). TV 6. ‘DNR wildlife forum will look at Predator-Prey Project’.
- 2017 (17 Mar). The Mining Journal. ‘Predator-prey study ongoing for U.P.’
- 2017 (Feb). State of Michigan. ‘DNR to offer first in ‘Wildlife Through Forestry’ forums in western UP’. https://www.michigan.gov/som/0,4669,7-192-26847-405628–,00.html
- 2016 (Nov). Safari Club International Foundation – Conservation. ‘The Michigan Predator-Prey Story’
- 2016 (25 Jul). The Mining Journal. ‘Project looks at deer mortality rates in U.P.’
- 2015 (Apr). Michigan Out-of-Doors TV. ‘Michigan Predator Prey Project’.
- 2015 (Mar). 906 Outdoors. ‘Predator Prey Study’.
- 2014 (Nov). Safari Club International Foundation First for Wildlife blog. ‘Weekly Update: Michigan Predator-Prey Project’.
- 2014 (11 May). The Mining Journal. ‘DNR Study: The last 2 winters were hard on deer’.
- 2014 (Mar). Safari Club International Foundation First for Wildlife blog. ‘Weekly Update: Michigan Predator-Prey Project’.
- 2013 (Sep). Safari Club International Foundation First for Wildlife blog. ‘Estimating White-Tailed Deer Fawn Survival in Michigan’. www.firstforwildlife.wordpress.com
- 2013 (Aug). Iron County Reporter, Autumn in the Woods 2013. ‘Predator-prey study taking place in Crystal Falls area’.
- 2013 (Jul). Safari Club International Foundation First for Wildlife blog. “Estimating Bobcat Abundance in Michigan”. www.firstforwildlife.wordpress.com.
- Westphal Productions. ‘Michigan Predator-Prey Project – Phase 2’ (video).
- 2012 (Nov). Woods-N-Water News. ‘Part two. Fawn predation study’.
- 2011 (3 Ju). Trails & Tales Outdoor Journal. ‘Phase I of Predator-Prey Study Close to Completion’.
- 2011 (20 Mar). Outdoor Life magazine (online). ‘What’s killing your deer?’
- 2011 (12 Mar). Detroit Free Press. ‘Wildlife researcher studies predators, prey in the U.P.’.
- 2011 (7 Mar). The Daily Press. ‘Walking on the Wild Side’.
- 2011 (7 Mar). The Mining Journal. ‘U.P. predator/prey research project finds good data’.
- 2011 (25 Feb). Menominee Eagle Herald. ‘Studying predators from ground zero’
- 2011 (2 Feb). Wisconsin Journal Sentinel. ‘Coyotes lead way in deer deaths’.
- 2010 (2 Dec). Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment. ‘DNRE Researches Fawn Predation in Upper Peninsula’.
- 2010 (27 Nov). The Daily Press. ‘Fawn, predator link being probed in U.P.’
- 2010 (14 Jun). Michigan Outdoor News. ‘Early results in from U.P. fawn study’.
- 2010 (11 Jun). Gaylord Herald Times. ‘Predators & prey: Fawn survival in Northern Michigan’.
- 2009. Daily Press. 2 newspaper articles
- 2009. Mining Journal. 1 newspaper article
- 2009. Associated Press article
- 2009. ‘Discovering’ with Buck Lavasseur. Television
- 2009. ‘Trails & Tails Outdoors Radio Show’ with Tim Kobasic