WERC Lab Publications
(*mentee; ‡ equal contribution first authorship; manuscript number for those in press)
Oliver, R., S. Yanco, *D. Ellis-Soto, B. R. Jesmer et al. (59 authors). In Press. Interacting effects of human mobility and landscape modification on wildlife. Science adq3396.
*Newediuk, L., Brett R. Jesmer, G. Mastromonaco, E. Vander Wal. In Press. Landscapes of fearlessness revealed through hormonal responses to putatively risky places. Behavioral Ecology BEHECO-2025-0253.
*Satter, C. B., B. R. Jesmer, M. J. Cherry, M. J. Kelly. 2025. The Spatial Ecology of Wild Pigs (Sus scrofa) in Southwest Florida. Wildlife Research 52(12): WR25082. https://doi.org/10.1071/WR25082
Jesmer, B.R., *J. Fugate, M. J. Kauffman. 2025. On the interface between cultural transmission, phenotypic diversity, demography, and the conservation of migratory ungulates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 380(1925):20240131. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0131
Greggor, A. L., S. de Silva, C. Brown, B. R. Jesmer, T. Müller, D. W. A. Noble, C. R. Ruiz-Miranda, C. Rutz, S. Scott, J. Williams. 2025. Strategies for integrating animal social learning and culture into conservation translocation practice. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 380(1925):20240138. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0138
*Fugate, J., C. Wallace, E. O. Aikens, B. R. Jesmer and M. J. Kauffman. 2024. Origin stories: How does learned migratory behavior arise in populations? Biological Reviews 100:996-1014. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13171
Jesmer B. R. and M. J. Kauffman. The cultural basis of ungulate migration. 2023. In: Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals: Specialist Group on Conservation Implications of Animal Culture and Social Complexity. United Nations Report.
*Ellis-Soto, D., R. Oliver, V. Brum-Bastos, U. Demšar, B. R. Jesmer, J. Long, F. Cagnacci, F. Ossi, N. Queiroz, M. Hindell, R. Kays, M. C. Loretto, T. Mueller, R. Patchett, D. Sims, M. Tucker, Y. Ropert-Coudert, C. Rutz, and W. Jetz. 2023. A vision for incorporating human mobility in the study of human-wildlife interactions. Nature Ecology and Evolution 7: 1362–1372. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02125-6
Levine, R. L., R. A. Smiley, B. R. Jesmer, B. A. Oates, J. R. Goheen, T. R. Stephenson, M. J. Kauffman, G. L. Fralick, and K. L. Monteith. 2022. Extending body condition scoring beyond measurable rump fat to estimate full range of nutritional condition for moose. Alces 58:91-99.
*Abraham, J. O., N. S. Upham, A. Damian-Serrano, and B. R. Jesmer. 2022. Evolutionary causes and consequences of ungulate migration. Nature Ecology and Evolution 6: 998–1006. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01749-4
Stuber, E. F., *B. Carlson, and B. R. Jesmer. 2022. Many avenues for spatial personality research: a response to comments on Stuber et al. (2022), Behavioral Ecology 33: 492-493. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arac018
Stuber, E., *B. Carlson, and B. R. Jesmer. 2022. Spatial Personalities: a meta-analysis of consistent individual differences in spatial behavior. Behavioral Ecology 33: 477-486. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab147
‡Costa-Pereira, R., ‡R. J. Moll, ‡B. R. Jesmer, and ‡W. Jetz. 2022. Animal tracking moves community ecology: opportunities and challenges. Journal of Animal Ecology 91: 1334–1344. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13698
Jetz, W., G. Tertitski, R. Kays, U. Mueller, M. Wikelski, S. Åkesson, … B. R. Jesmer et al. (123 authors). 2022. Biological Earth observation with animal sensors. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 37:293-298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.11.011
*Esmaeili, S., B. R. Jesmer et al. (38 authors). 2021. Body size and digestive system shape resource selection by ungulates: a cross-taxa test of the Forage Maturation Hypothesis. Ecology Letters 24: 2178-2191. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13848
Jesmer B. R., M. J. Kauffman, S. Kilpatrick, K. L. Monteith, T. Thomas, J. Yost, and J. R. Goheen. 2021. Life history theory provides a framework for detecting resource limitation: a test of the Nutritional Buffer Hypothesis. Ecological Applications 31(4): e02299. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2299
Jesmer B. R., M. J. Kauffman, M. A. Murphy, and J. R. Goheen. 2020. A test of the Niche Variation Hypothesis in a ruminant herbivore. Journal of Animal Ecology 89:2825-2839. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13351
DeCesare, N., K. Pilgrim, B. Weckworth, A. Walker, E. Bergman, K. Colson, R. Corrigan, R. Harris, M. Hebblewhite, B. R. Jesmer, J. Newby, J. Smith, R. Tether, T. Thomas, and M. K. Schwartz. 2020. Phylogeography of moose in western North America. Journal of Mammalogy 101(1): 10-23. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz163
‡Billerman, S. M., ‡B. R. Jesmer, A. G. Watts, P. Schlichting, M. J. Fortin, C. Funk, P. Hapeman, E. L. Muths, and M. A. Murphy. 2019. Testing theoretical metapopulation conditions with genotypic data from Boreal Chorus Frogs (Pseudacris maculata). Canadian Journal of Zoology 97: 1042–1053. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2018-0275
Alston, J. M., B. M. Maitland, B. T. Britto, S. Esmaeili, A. T. Ford, B. Hays, B. R. Jesmer, F. J. Molina, and J. R. Goheen. 2019. Reciprocity in restoration ecology: when might large carnivore reintroductions restore ecosystems? Biological Conservation 234: 82-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.03.021
Jesmer, B. R., J. A. Merkle, J. R. Goheen, E. O. Aikens, D. E. McWhirter, A. B. Courtemanch, M. A. Hurley, H. M. Miyasaki, K. L. Monteith, J. L. Beck, and M. J. Kauffman. 2018. Is ungulate migration culturally transmitted? Evidence of social learning from translocated animals. Science 361(6406): 1023-1025. DOI: 10.1126/science.aat0985
Jachowski, D. S., M. J. Kauffman, B. R. Jesmer, H. Sawyer, J. J. Millspaugh. 2018. Integrating physiological stress into the movement ecology of migratory ungulates: a spatial analysis with mule deer. Conservation Physiology 6(1): 54-64. https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coy054
Jesmer, B. R., J. R. Goheen, K. L. Monteith, and M. J. Kauffman. 2017. State-dependent behavior alters endocrine-energy relationship: implications for conservation and management. Ecological Applications 27(8): 2303-2312. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1608
Sikes, R. S., J. A. Bryan, D. Byman, B. J. Danielson, J. Eggleston, M. R. Gannon, W. L. Gannon, D. W. Hale, B. R. Jesmer, D. K. Odell, L. E. Olson, R. D. Stevens, T. A. Thompson, R. M. Timm, S. A. Trewhitt, J. R. Willoughby. 2016. Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research and education. Journal of Mammalogy 97(3): 663-688.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyw078
Watts, A. G., P. Schlichting, S. Billerman, B. R. Jesmer, S. Micheletti, M.-J. Fortin, C. Funk, P. Hapeman, E. L. Muths, and M. A. Murphy. 2015. How spatio-temporal habitat connectivity affects amphibian genetic structure. Frontiers in Genetics 6:275.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2015.00275
Kelt, D. A., D. H. Van Vuren, M. L. Johnson, J. A. Wilson, R. J. Innes, B. R. Jesmer, K. P. Ingram, J. R. Smith, S. W. Bigelow, and R. D. Burnett. 2013. Small mammals exhibit limited spatiotemporal structure in Sierra Nevada forests. Journal of Mammalogy 94:1197-1213.
https://doi.org/10.1644/12-MAMM-A-303
Jesmer, B. R., D. H. Van Vuren, J. A. Wilson, D. A. Kelt, and M. L. Johnson. 2011. Spatial organization in female golden-mantled ground squirrels. The American Midland Naturalist 165:162-168.