Staff Member
Kevin Monteith
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 |
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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 |
Project | Completion Date |
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Nutritional Carrying Capacity of Wyoming's Ungulates | December 2017 |
Population Dynamics in Moose in the Snowy Range | December 2018 |
Phenology Tracking in Migratory Mule Deer | December 2018 |
Statewide Moose Habitat Project | June 2018 |
Relating Mule Deer Corridors to Sage-Grouse Conservation | November 2015 |
Mule Deer Fitness Nutrition | December 2016 |
Wyoming Range Mule Deer Project | December 2019 |
Shiras Moose Demography Project | June 2013 |
Snowy Range Moose II | June 2019 |
Nutritional Carrying Capacity and Interactions with Disease in Bighorn Sheep | December 2018 |
Deer-Elk Ecology Project (DEER PRoject) | July 2020 |
Fawn Survival - WY Range Mule Deer | July 2019 |
Harvest Records: implications for understanding factors affecting horn and antler size in ungulates | June 2019 |
Presentations | Presentation Date |
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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 |
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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 |