Darren A. Clark

This study uses an integrated population model to analyze how predator recovery and climate change affect elk demography over 36 years in eastern Oregon, finding that bottom-up factors like drought have a stronger impact than top-down predator effects.

This study identifies adult female survival as the key factor influencing population growth in mule and black-tailed deer, showing it explains 62% of variation in lambda, with populations declining when survival drops below 70%.