Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program:
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Staff Member


Kevin Monteith

Dr. Kevin Monteith

PhD
Phone: (307) 766 - 2322
Email: kmonteit@uwyo.edu
Faculty Website

Biography

Kevin has been actively conducting research on large mammals since 1999 when he began his undergraduate education at South Dakota State University (SDSU). Since then, his research has taken him from the agriculturally dominated plains of eastern South Dakota to the rugged mountains of the Sierra Nevada, and finally to Wyoming in 2011. Kevin obtained an MSc in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at SDSU where his research focused on the growth, development, and nutritional ecology of white-tailed deer. He then obtained a PhD in Biological Sciences at Idaho State University and conducted research on mule deer in the Sierra Nevada.Kevin's research in the Sierra Nevada focused on the underlying effects of nutrition on the reproductive and population ecology of mule deer, with an emphasis to improving our understanding of the effects of mortality and their proximal cause on population dynamics, determining methods to estimate the level of a population with respect to nutritional carrying capacity, and the effects of nutrition on timing of life-history events.. As of 2015, Kevin is an Assistant Professor in a joint position with the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources and the Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit in the Department of Zoology and Physiology, after first joining the Coop Unit as a Postdoctoral Researcher in 2011. Kevin's primary research interests include nutritional ecology and its implications for understanding growth, behavior, life-histo...

Research Publications Publication Date
Ruprecht et al. The relationship between body condition and pregnancy in moose at their southern range limit December 2016
Oates and others. Spatially explicit demography reveals disparate influences of resource limitation and predation on population growth of a large herbivore December 2021
Monteith, K.L., R.W. Klaver, K.R. Hersey, A.A. Holland, T.P. Thomas, and M.J. Kauffman. 2015. Effects of climate and plant phenology on recruitment of moose at the southern extent of their range. Oecologia 178-1137-1148. | Abstract March 2015
Monteith, K.L., M.M. Hayes, M.J. Kauffman, H.E. Copeland, and H. Sawyer. Functional attributes of ungulate migration: landscape features facilitate movement and access to forage. Ecological Applications October 2018
Merkle, J. et al. Spatial memory shapes migration and its benefits: evidence from a large herbivore November 2019
Jones, J. and others. Winter feeding alters migration of elk in western Wyoming October 2014
Jesmer, BR, JR Goheen, KL Monteith, and MJ Kauffman. State-dependent foraging alters endocrine-energy relationships in a free-ranging large herbivore December 2017
Aikens, E.O., Monteith, K.L., Merkle, J.A., Dwinnell, S.P., Fralick, G.L., and Kauffman, M. J. (2020). Drought reshuffles plant phenology and reduces the foraging benefit of green‐wave surfing for a migratory ungulate. Global Change Biology, 26(8), 4215-4225. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15169. | Abstract June 2020
Hayes, Matthew
PhD
mhayes1@uwyo.edu

Huggler, Katey
Master's
khuggler@uwyo.edu

May, Alexander
Master's
amay7@uywo.edu

Presentations Presentation Date
Aikens EO, Kauffman MJ, Merkle JA, Dwinnell SP, Fralick GL, and Monteith KL. 2017. The greenscape shapes surfing of resource waves in a large migratory herbivore. Gordon Research Conference on the Movement Ecology of Animals, Ventura, CA, March 20th, 2017. March 2017
Technical Publications Publication Date
2012 Final - Shiras Moose Demography Project | Download December 2012
2012 Annual Report - Statewide Moose Habitat Study | Download December 2013
2012 Annual Report - Shiras Moose Demography Project | Download December 2012
2011 Annual Report - Shiras Moose Demography | Download December 2011