Katherine Kendall
Biography
Education
M.S. Fish and Wildlife Management. 1981. Montana State University
B.A. Environmental Sciences cum laude. 1974. University of Virginia
Science and Products
Brown Bear (Ursus arctos; North America)
This chapter comprises the following sections: names, taxonomy, subspecies and distribution, descriptive notes, habitat, movements and home range, activity patterns, feeding ecology, reproduction and growth, behavior, parasites and diseases, status in the wild, and status in captivity.
Haroldson, Mark A.; Clapham, Melanie; Costello, Cecily M.; Gunther, Kerry A.; Kendall, Kate; Miller, Sterling; Pigeon, Karine; Proctor, Michael F.; Rode, Karyn D.; Servheen, Christopher; Stenhouse, Gordon; van Manen, Frank T. Using spatially‐explicit capture–recapture models to explain variation in seasonal density patterns of sympatric ursids
Understanding how environmental factors interact to determine the abundance and distribution of animals is a primary goal of ecology, and fundamental to the conservation of wildlife populations. Studies of these relationships, however, often assume static environmental conditions, and rarely consider effects of competition with ecologically...
Stetz, Jeffrey B.; Mitchell, Michael S.; Kendall, Katherine C. Demographic mechanisms underpinning genetic assimilation of remnant groups of a large carnivore
Current range expansions of large terrestrial carnivores are occurring following human-induced range contraction. Contractions are often incomplete, leaving small remnant groups in refugia throughout the former range. Little is known about the underlying ecological and evolutionary processes that influence how remnant groups are affected during...
Mikle, Nathaniel; Graves, Tabitha A.; Kovach, Ryan P.; Kendall, Katherine C.; Macleod, Amy C. Modeling multi-scale resource selection for bear rub trees in northwestern Montana
Both black (Ursus americanus) and grizzly bears (U. arctos) are known to rub on trees and other objects, producing a network of repeatedly used and identifiable rub sites. In 2012, we used a resource selection function to evaluate hypothesized relationships between locations of 887 bear rubs in northwestern Montana, USA, and elevation, slope angle...
Morgan Henderson, Matthew J.; Hebblewhite, Mark; Mitchell, Michael S.; Stetz, Jeffrey B.; Kendall, Katherine C.; Carlson, Ross T. Estimating landscape resistance to dispersal
Dispersal is an inherently spatial process that can be affected by habitat conditions in sites encountered by dispersers. Understanding landscape resistance to dispersal is important in connectivity studies and reserve design, but most existing methods use resistance functions with cost parameters that are subjectively chosen by the investigator....
Graves, Tabitha A.; Chandler, Richard B.; Royle, J. Andrew; Beier, Paul; Kendall, Katherine C. Black bear density in Glacier National Park, Montana
We report the first abundance and density estimates for American black bears (Ursus americanus) in Glacier National Park (NP),Montana, USA.We used data from 2 independent and concurrent noninvasive genetic sampling methods—hair traps and bear rubs—collected during 2004 to generate individual black bear encounter histories for use in closed...
Stetz, Jeff B.; Kendall, Katherine C.; Macleod, Amy C. Balancing precision and risk: should multiple detection methods be analyzed separately in N-mixture models?
Using multiple detection methods can increase the number, kind, and distribution of individuals sampled, which may increase accuracy and precision and reduce cost of population abundance estimates. However, when variables influencing abundance are of interest, if individuals detected via different methods are influenced by the landscape...
Graves, Tabitha A.; Royle, J. Andrew; Kendall, Katherine C.; Beier, Paul; Stetz, Jeffrey B.; Macleod, Amy C. Guidelines for collecting and maintaining archives for genetic monitoring
Rapid advances in molecular genetic techniques and the statistical analysis of genetic data have revolutionized the way that populations of animals, plants and microorganisms can be monitored. Genetic monitoring is the practice of using molecular genetic markers to track changes in the abundance, diversity or distribution of populations, species...
Jackson, Jennifer A.; Laikre, Linda; Baker, C. Scott; Kendall, Katherine C. An ecosystem-scale model for the spread of a host-specific forest pathogen in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
The introduction of nonnative pathogens is altering the scale, magnitude, and persistence of forest disturbance regimes in the western United States. In the high-altitude whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) forests of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola) is an introduced fungal pathogen that is now...
Hatala, J.A.; Dietze, M.C.; Crabtree, R.L.; Kendall, Katherine C.; Six, D.; Moorcroft, P.R. Linking landscape characteristics to local grizzly bear abundance using multiple detection methods in a hierarchical model
Few studies link habitat to grizzly bear Ursus arctos abundance and these have not accounted for the variation in detection or spatial autocorrelation. We collected and genotyped bear hair in and around Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana during the summer of 2000. We developed a hierarchical Markov chain Monte Carlo model that...
Graves, T.A.; Kendall, Katherine C.; Royle, J. Andrew; Stetz, J.B.; Macleod, A.C. Genetic analysis of individual origins supports isolation of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) supports the southernmost of the 2 largest remaining grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) populations in the contiguous United States. Since the mid-1980s, this population has increased in numbers and expanded in range. However, concerns for its long-term genetic health remain because of its presumed continued...
Haroldson, Mark A.; Schwartz, Charles; Kendall, Katherine C.; Gunther, Kerry A.; Moody, David S.; Frey, Kevin L.; Paetkau, David Afterword
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