Wolves

Black, C. D. (1997). Habitat characteristics of the eastern timber wolf in the north central Upper Peninsula of Michigan [Master’s thesis, Northern Michigan University]. Olson Library upper floor, QL 737 .C22 B58 1997

Gable, T. D. (2016). Wolf predation: Where and how wolves kill beavers, and confronting the biases in scat-based diet studies [Master’s thesis, Northern Michigan University]. 

Millbrand, Z. (2019). Roads, trails, and grey wolf habitat selection in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula [Master’s thesis, University of Michigan]. 

Nush, K. (2017). Impact of habitat quality on gray wolves morphometrics in the Great Lakes region [Master’s thesis, Carthage College]. 

O’Neil, S. T. (n.d.). The spatial ecology of gray wolves in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, 1994- 2013 [Doctoral dissertation, Michigan Technological University]. 

Allen, D. L. (1979). Wolves of Minong: Their vital role in a wild community. Houghton Mifflin. Olson Library upper floor, QL 737 .C22 A44

Coleman, J. T. (2004). Vicious: Wolves and men in America. Yale University Press. Olson Library upper floor, QL737.C22 C62 2004

Ewing, C., & Cooley, R. H. (2012). Gray wolves and the Endangered Species Act. Nova Science Publishers. Olson Library upper floor, QL737.C22 G73 2012

Mech, L. D. (1966). The wolves of Isle Royale. US Government Printing Office. 

Mech, L. D. (2020). Wolf Island: Discovering the secrets of a mythic animal. University of Minnesota Press. Olson Library upper floor, QL737 .C22 M39985 2020

Mech, L. D., & Boitani, L. (2003). Wolves: Behavior, ecology, and conservation. University of Chicago Press. Olson Library upper floor, QL737.C22 W6477 2003 

Nie, M. A. (2003). Beyond wolves: The politics of wolf recovery and management. University of Minnesota Press. Olson Library upper floor, QL 737 .C22 N53 2003 

Peterson, R. O. (1958). Ecological studies of wolves on Isle Royale: Annual report, covering the ... year in the Isle Royale studies. Michigan Technological University. 

Peterson, R. O. (1977). Wolf ecology and prey relationships on Isle Royale. National Park Service. Olson Library upper floor, QL737 .C22 P47

Peterson, R. O. (2007). The wolves of Isle Royale: A broken balance. University of Michigan Press. Olson Library upper floor, QL 737 .C22 P475 2007

Thiel, R. P. (2001). Keepers of the wolves: The early years of wolf recovery in Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin Press. Olson Library upper floor, QL 737 .C22 T474 2001

Wydeven, A. P., Deelen, T. R. van, & Heske, E. J. (2009). Recovery of gray wolves in the Great Lakes Region of the United States: An endangered species success story. Springer. Olson Library upper floor, QL 737 .C22 R41 2009

Some material is restricted to NMU affiliated persons.

Benson, J. F., Loveless, K. M., Rutledge, L. Y., & Patterson, B. R. (2017). Ungulate predation and ecological roles of wolves and coyotes in eastern North America. Ecological Applications, 27(3), 718–733. [NMU affiliated]

Chambers, S. M., Fain, S. R., Fazio, B., & Amaral, M. (2012). An account of the taxonomy of North American wolves from morphological and genetic analyses. North American Fauna, 77(1), 1–67. 

Edge, J. L., Beyer, D. E., Belant, J. L., Jordan, M. J., & Roell, B. J. (2011). Adapting a predictive spatial model for wolf Canis spp. Predation on livestock in the Upper Peninsula, Michigan, USA. Wildlife Biology, 17(1), 1–10. 

Fain, S. R., Straughan, D. J., & Taylor, B. F. (2010). Genetic outcomes of wolf recovery in the western Great Lakes states. Conservation Genetics, 11(5), 1747–1765. [NMU affiliated]

Flagel, D. G., Belovsky, G. E., Cramer, M. J., Beyer, D. E., & Robertson, K. E. (2016). Fear and loathing in a Great Lakes forest: Cascading effects of competition between wolves and coyotes. Journal of Mammalogy, 98(1), 77–84. [NMU affiliated]

Gable, T. D., Windels, S. K., & Bump, J. K. (2018). Finding wolf homesites: Improving the efficacy of howl surveys to study wolves. PeerJ, 6, e5629. 

Gable, T. D., & Windels, S. K. (2018). Kill rates and predation rates of wolves on beavers. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 82(2), 466–472. [NMU affiliated]

Gable, T. D., Windels, S. K., Bruggink, J. G., & Barber-Meyer, S. M. (2018). Weekly summer diet of gray wolves (Canis lupus) in northeastern Minnesota. The American Midland Naturalist, 179(1), 15–27 [NMU affiliated]

Gehring, T. M., & Potter, B. A. (2005). Wolf habitat analysis in Michigan: An example of the need for proactive land management for carnivore species. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 33(4), 1237–1244. [NMU affiliated]

Hammill, J. (2007, March 20). Policy issues regarding wolves in the Great Lakes Region. Transactions of the 72nd North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference. North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, Portland, Oregon. 

Hawley, J. E., Gehring, T. M., Schultz, R. N., Rossler, S. T., & Wydeven, A. P. (2009). Assessment of shock collars as nonlethal management for wolves in Wisconsin. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 73(4), 518–525. [NMU affiliated]

Hedrick, P. W., Robinson, J. A., Peterson, R. O., & Vucetich, J. A. (2019). Genetics and extinction and the example of Isle Royale wolves. Animal Conservation, 22(3), 302–309. [NMU affiliated]

Heppenheimer, E., Harrigan, R. J., Rutledge, L. Y., Koepfli, K.-P., DeCandia, A. L., Brzeski, K. E., Benson, J. F., Wheeldon, T., Patterson, B. R., Kays, R., Hohenlohe, P. A., & Von Holdt, B. M. (2018). Population genomic analysis of North American eastern wolves (Canis lycaon) supports their conservation priority status. Genes, 9(12), 606. 

Hervey, S. D., Rutledge, L. Y., Patterson, B. R., Romanski, M. C., Vucetich, J. A., Belant, J. L., Beyer, D. E., Moore, S. A., & Brzeski, K. E. (2021). A first genetic assessment of the newly introduced Isle Royale gray wolves (Canis lupus). Conservation Genetics, 22, 913–926. [NMU affiliated]

Justin L Edge, Dean E Beyer, Jerrold L Belant, Mark J Jordan, & Brian J Roell. (2011). Livestock and domestic dog predations by wolves in Michigan. Human-Wildlife Interactions, 5(1), 66–78.

Lute, M. L., Bump, A., & Gore, M. L. (2014). Identity-driven differences in stakeholder concerns about hunting wolves. PloS One, 9(12), e114460–e114460. 

Lute, M. L., Navarrete, C. D., Nelson, M. P., & Gore, M. L. (2016). Moral dimensions of humanwildlife conflict. Conservation Biology, 30(6), 1200–1211. [NMU affiliated]

Miller, D. H., Jensen, A. L., & Hammill, J. H. (2002). Density dependent matrix model for gray wolf population projection. Ecological Modelling, 151(2), 271–278. [NMU affiliated]

Nie, M. A. (2001). The sociopolitical dimensions of wolf management and restoration in the United States. Human Ecology Review, 8(1), 1–12.

O’Neil, S. T., Bump, J. K., & Beyer, D. E. (2017). Spatially varying density dependence drives a shifting mosaic of survival in a recovering apex predator (Canis lupus). Ecology and Evolution, 7(22), 9518–9530.

O’Neil, S. T., Beyer, D. E., & Bump, J. K. (n.d.). Territorial landscapes: Incorporating densitydependence into wolf habitat selection studies. Royal Society Open Science, 6(11), 1–19.

O’Neil, S. T., Vucetich, J. A., Beyer, D. E., Hoy, S. R., Bump, J. K., & Vander Wal, E. (2020). Territoriality drives preemptive habitat selection in recovering wolves: Implications for carnivore conservation. The Journal of Animal Ecology, 89(6), 1433–1447. [NMU affiliated]

Petroelje, T. R., Belant, J. L., & Beyer, D. E. (2013). Factors affecting the elicitation of vocal responses from coyotes Canis latrans. Wildlife Biology, 19(1), 41–47.

Petroelje, T. R., Kautz, T. M., Beyer Jr., D. E., & Belant, J. L. (2021). Interference competition between wolves and coyotes during variable prey abundance. Ecology and Evolution, 11(3), 1413–1431.

Potvin, M. J., Drummer, T. D., Vucetich, J. A., Beyer Jr, D. E., Peterson, R. O., & Hammill, J. H. (2005). Monitoring and habitat analysis for wolves in upper Michigan. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 69(4), 1660–1669. [NMU affiliated]

Potvin, M. J., Peterson, R. O., & Vucetich, J. A. (2004). Wolf homesite attendance patterns. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 82(9), 1512–1518. [NMU affiliated]

Robinson, J. A., Räikkönen, J., Vucetich, L. M., Vucetich, J. A., Peterson, R. O., Lohmueller, K. E., & Wayne, R. K. (2019). Genomic signatures of extensive inbreeding in Isle Royale wolves, a population on the threshold of extinction. Science Advances, 5(5), 1–13.

Santiago-Avila, F. J., Cornman, A. M., & Treves, A. (2018). Killing wolves to prevent predation on livestock may protect one farm but harm neighbors. PloS One, 13(1), e0189729– e0189729.

Santiago-Ávila, F. J., Chappell, R. J., & Treves, A. (2020). Liberalizing the killing of endangered wolves was associated with more disappearances of collared individuals in Wisconsin, USA. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 13881.

Stauffer, G. E., Roberts, N. M., Macfarland, D. M., & Van Deelen, T. R. (2021). Scaling occupancy estimates up to abundance for wolves. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 85(7), 1410–1422.

Stebler, A. M. (1944). The status of the wolf in Michigan. Journal of Mammalogy, 25(1), 37–43. [NMU affiliated]

Stenglein, J. L., Gilbert, J. H., Wydeven, A. P., & Van Deelen, T. R. (2015). An individual-based model for southern Lake Superior wolves: A tool to explore the effect of human-caused mortality on a landscape of risk. Ecological Modelling, 302, 13–24. [NMU affiliated]

Stricker, H. K., Gehring, T. M., Donner, D., & Petroelje, T. (2019). Multi-scale habitat selection model assessing potential gray wolf den habitat and dispersal corridors in Michigan, USA. Ecological Modelling, 397, 84–94. [NMU affiliated]

Svoboda, N. J., Belant, J. L., Beyer, D. E., Duquette, J. F., & Lederle, P. E. (2019). Carnivore space use shifts in response to seasonal resource availability. Ecosphere, 10(7), 1-21.

Treves, A., Martin, K. A., Wydeven, A. P., & Wiedenhoeft, J. E. (2011). Forecasting environmental hazards and the application of risk maps to predator attacks on livestock. BioScience, 61(6), 451–458. [NMU affiliated]

Treves, A., & Rabenhorst, M. F. (2017). Risk map for wolf threats to livestock still predictive 5 years after construction. PLOS ONE, 12(6), e0180043.

Vucetich, J. A., Bruskotter, J. T., Nelson, M. P., Peterson, R. O., & Bump, J. K. (2017). Evaluating the principles of wildlife conservation: A case study of wolf (Canis lupus) hunting in Michigan, United States. Journal of Mammalogy, 98(1), 53–64. [NMU affiliated]

Vucetich, J. A., Huntzinger, B. A., Peterson, R. O., Vucetich, L. M., Hammill, J. H., & Beyer, D. E. (2012). Intra-seasonal variation in wolf Canis lupus kill rates. Wildlife Biology, 18(3), 235–245.

Williams, C. K., Ericsson, G., & Heberlein, T. A. (2002). A quantitative summary of attitudes toward wolves and their reintroduction (1972-2000).Wildlife Society Bulletin (1973- 2006), 30(2), 575–584. [NMU affiliated]

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