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Dymit, E.<\/strong>, Griffin, K., Morton, E., Hower, J., Levi, T.<\/strong> In revision. Comparative foraging ecology of lynx and coyotes in the Gulf of Alaska national parks<\/p>\n\n\n\n Barry, B.<\/strong>, Smith, G., Eriksson, C.<\/strong>, Moriarty, K., Hartman, J., Delheimer, M, Martin, M., Anderson, E., Gunther, M., Schwartz, M., Pilgrim, K., Aubry, K., Levi, T.<\/strong> In review. <\/em>Apparent phenotypic mismatch limits the recovery of a reintroduced carnivore<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lesmeister, D.B., Ruff, Z.J., Duarte, A., Kohlberg, A.B.<\/strong>, Levi, T<\/strong>. In revision. <\/em>PNW-Cnet: An evolving convolutional neural network to support broad-scale passive acoustic monitoring<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ngosi, M., Ruprecht, J.S.<\/strong>, Lesmeister, D.B., Levi. T.<\/strong> In review. <\/em>Spatial Memory and Resource Selection Patterns in Translocated African Elephants<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fuques, E., Massey, A.L.<\/strong>, Qureshi, F., Campos-Silva, Joao, Ferreira da Silva, David., Peres, C., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Vega Thurber, R. In revision. <\/em>Large-scale metagenomic surveillance study expands the known diversity of RNA viruses in mosquito populations from the Amazon Basin<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tosa, M.<\/strong>, Weldy, M., Epps, C., Lesmeister, D., Levi, T.<\/strong> In revision. <\/em>Assessing unmarked models for estimating densities of small mammals using camera traps. Ecological Applications<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lesmeister, D.B., Chestnut, T., Ellis, T., Franklin, A., Gremel, S., Henson, E., Munger, T., Provost, C., Reffler, S., Ruff, Z., Tevini, E., Thomas, A., Weldy, M., Wert, K., Jenkins, J., David, R., Rugg, N., Appel, C.<\/strong>, Bailey, L., Bayne, E., Duchac, L., Dugger, K., Higley, M.J., Hines, J., Hollen, B., Kendall, W., Levi, T.<\/strong>, MacKenzie, D., McCafferty, C., Press, D., White, A., Yackulic, C. In revision. <\/em>Listening for extinction: Passive acoustic monitoring highlights critical risks and priorities for northern spotted owls<\/p>\n\n\n\n Twining, J., Barnas, A., Burton, C., Fuller, A., Stewart, F., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Kellner, K., Fisher, J.T. In review. <\/em>Are occupancy models always appropriate? Aligning state variables, model assumptions, and study objectives<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kohlberg, A., Levi, T., <\/strong>Hutchinson, R.A., Kim, J.B., Lesmeister, D.B. In review.<\/em> Leveraging acoustic bycatch to identify and map the distribution of a temperate forest sentinel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eriksson, C.E.<\/strong>, Shipley, L., Clark, D.A., Levi, T.<\/strong> In review. <\/em>Comparing accuracy and biases of DNA metabarcoding, hybridization capture, and metagenomic sequencing for quantifying herbivore diets<\/p>\n\n\n\n Binder, W.<\/strong>, Ruprecht, J.S.<\/strong>, Rabe, J., Metz, M., Hutchinson, R., Stahler, D.R., Levi, T. <\/strong>In revision. <\/em>Diets, dominance hierarchies, and kleptoparasitism drive asymmetrical interactions between wolves and cougars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Robleto-Quesada, J., Benavides, G., Solano-Barquero, A., Montenegro, V., Eriksson, C.E., Allen, J., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Rojas, A. In revision.<\/em> Metabarcoding versus parasite-specific real-time PCRs in the detection of nematodes of veterinary importance<\/p>\n\n\n\n Loonam, K.<\/strong>, Brown, C., Clark, D., Rowland, M.M., Wisdom, M., Levi, T.<\/strong> In revision. <\/em>The effects of predator recovery and climate change on the long-term demography of a large herbivore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wilmers, C.C., Levi, T., <\/strong>Ruprecht, J., Prugh, L.R., Stahler, D.R. 2025. The Ecological Impacts of Large-Carnivore Recovery in North America. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 56:337-363<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dymit, E.<\/strong>, Twining, J., Garcia-Anleu, R., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2025. Niche partitioning among Neotropical felids. Journal of Animal Ecology<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Martin, M., Delheimer, M., Roddy, A.M., Moriarty, K., Eriksson, C.<\/strong>, Szykman G.M., Hartman, J., Smith, B., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2025. From coastlines to mountain crests \u2013 regional and continental variation in North American marten diet and foraging. Ecosphere<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Field, K.A., Moody, J.E., Clapham, M., Clark, D.A., Khan, P.B., Levi, T., Paquet, P.C., Darimont, C.T. 2025. Integrating spatial and behavioral data provides comprehensive assessment of grizzly bear-ecotourism coexistence in Nuxalk Territory. Nature Scientific Reports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n White, K.S, Levi, T., <\/strong>Hood, E., Darimont, C.T. 2025. Snow avalanches and the impact of climate-linked extreme events on mountain ungulate population dynamics and resilience. Global Change Biology<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n White, K.S., Levi, T., <\/strong>Hood, E., Darimont, C.T. 2025. Life-history trade-offs and environmental variability shape reproductive demography in a mountain sentinel. Journal of Animal Ecology<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Keating, M.P, Rainwater, T.R., Singh, R., Priore, M.R., Platt, S.G., Wilkinson, P.M., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Jachowski, C.M.B, Jachowski, D.S. 2025. <\/em>Bobcat Predation on American Alligators in Coastal South Carolina. Southeastern Naturalist<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Fagan, W.F., \u2026 , Levi, T.,\u00a0<\/strong>\u2026 , Ruprecht, J.<\/strong> \u2026 , Calabrese, J.M.\u00a02025.\u00a0Wild canids and felids differ in their reliance on reused travel routeways. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rugg, N.M., Appel, C.L., <\/strong>Jenkins, J.M.A., McCafferty, C., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Lesmeister, D.B. 2025. Decoding owl calls: Refining occupancy inference from passive acoustic monitoring. Ecology and Evolution<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chestnut, T. Urbina, J., <\/strong>Hansen, M.E., McCaffery, R., Rhea-Fournier, D.J., Allen, J., Levi, T. <\/strong>2025. White-nose syndrome surveillance and bat monitoring activities in North Coast and Cascades network parks 2016-2024. Science Report. NPR\/SR-2025\/340. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado<\/p>\n\n\n\n Appel, C.L.<\/strong>, Subramanian, A.<\/strong>, Koning, J.S<\/strong>, Ngosi, M.<\/strong>, Sullivan, C.M., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Lesmeister, D.B. 2025. Developing custom computer vision models with Njobvu-AI: A collaborative, user-friendly platform for ecological research. Ecological Applications.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Martin, M., Matthews, S., Stock, S., Mackey, H., McDonald, M., Garrison, D., Smith, T., Townsend, A., Hartman, J., Smith, H., Vanderzwan, S.L., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Sacks, B. 2025. <\/em>Landscape heterogeneity shapes the spatial and diet partitioning of a montane carnivore guild. Oikos<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dymit, E.<\/strong>, Garcia-Anleu, R., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2025. Avoidance-attraction ratios incorrectly characterize behavioral interactions with camera trap data. Ecology<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ruprecht, J.<\/strong>, Forrester, T.D., Clark, D.A., Wisdom, M.J., Smith, J.B., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2025. <\/em>Variability and correlations among mule and black-tailed deer vital rates and their influence on lambda. Journal of Wildlife Management<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Eriksson, C.E.<\/strong>, Kantek, D.L.Z, Miyazaki, S.S, Barry, B.R., Muniz, C.C, dos Santos-Filho, M., Peres, C.A., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2025. Wildfire and drought alter the ecology of jaguars and co-occurring mammals in the world\u2019s largest wetland. Global Change Biology<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Delheimer, M.S., Martin, M.E., Hartman, J., Moriarty, K.M., Allen, J.M., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2025. <\/em>Describing diet of imperiled Sierra Nevada red foxes and a carnivoran competitor using DNA metabarcoding. Ecology and Evolution<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Massey, A.L.<\/strong>, Silva, D.J.F.d, Vieira C.J.S.P., Allen, J.<\/strong>, Canale, G.R., Bernardo, C.S.S., Bronzoni, R.V.d.M, Peres, C.A., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2025. <\/em>Using iDNA to determine impacts of Amazonian deforestation on Leishmania<\/em> hosts, vectors, and their interactions. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Field, K.A., Moody, J.E., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Darimont, C.T. 2025. <\/em>Grizzly bears detected at ecotourism sites are less likely than predicted by chance to encounter conflict. Canadian Journal of Zoology<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Baptista, I., Valois, E., Oliveira, N., #Patrick, L.R., Silva, D., Rotelli, R., Ferreira, L., Sobral, M.H., Bortolomai, B., Finardi, A., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Peres, C.A., Bronzoni, R. 2024. Molecular and spatial evaluation of small Rodents and Didelphimorphis infected with Mycobacterium leprae in the Southern Amazon, Brazil. Zoonoses and Public Health<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Forrester T.D., Spitz, D.B.<\/strong>, Merems, J.L., Wisdom, M.J., Rowland, M.M., Johnson, B.K., Smith, J.B., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Long, R.A., Clark, D.A. 2024. Mule deer selection of fuels reductions is restricted by site fidelity and structured by circadian and seasonal patterns. Forest Ecology and Management<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rojas, A., Robleto-Quesada, J., Uma\u00f1a-Blanco, A.S., Allen, J., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2024. <\/em>Seek, and you will find: cryptic diversity of the cardiopulmonary nematode Angiostrongylus vasorum<\/em> in the Americas. Acta tropica<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tosa, M.<\/strong>, Lesmeister, D.B., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2024. Western spotted skunk spatial ecology in the temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest. Ecosphere<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Whiles, L., Shipley, L., Akins, J., Christophersen, R., Ransom, J.I., Levi, T.,<\/strong> Thornton, D. 2024. Predation risk for hoary marmots in the changing climate of Washington\u2019s North Cascades. Journal of Mammalogy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Levi, T., <\/strong>Peres, C.A., Shepard, G.H. 2024. Hunting and trapping in the Americas: the assessment and projection of harvest on wildlife populations. in <\/em><\/em>Johnson, E.A. editor. Natural science and indigenous knowledge<\/em>. Cambridge University Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eriksson, C.E.<\/strong>, Roffler, G.H., Allen, J.M.<\/strong>, Lewis, A., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2024. The origin, connectivity, and individual specialization of island wolves after deer extirpation. Ecology and Evolution<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jensen R., Ruprecht<\/strong>, J.S.<\/strong>, Orning, E.K., Levi, T.<\/strong><\/strong>, Clark, D.A., Forrester, T.D. 2024. The effects of both habitat selection and avoidance of competitors on carnivore interactions. Journal of Mammalogy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yuanheng, L., Devenish, C., Tosa, M.<\/strong>, Luo, M. Bell, D., Lesmeister, D.B., Greenfield, P., Pichler, M., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Yu, D.W. 2024. Combining environmental DNA and remote sensing for efficient fine-scale mapping of arthropod biodiversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Adams, M.S, Levi, T.<\/strong>, Bourbonnais, M., Service, C., Artelle, K., Bryan, H., Paquet, P., Nelson, T., Darimont, C. 2024. <\/em>Human disturbance in riparian areas disrupts predator-prey interactions between grizzly bears and salmon. Ecology and Evolution<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bianco, M.D.<\/strong>, Ruprecht, J.<\/strong>, Clark, D.A., Forrester, T.D., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2024. Intraguild predation of cougar kittens following the aggregation of American black bears. Ecosphere<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sabal, M.<\/strong>, Richerson, K., Moran, P., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Tuttle, V.J., Banks, M. 2023. Warm oceans exacerbate Chinook salmon bycatch in the Pacific hake fishery driven by thermal and diel depth-use behaviors. Fish and Fisheries. 24(6), 910-923<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ortega, J., Hahlbeck, N., Derrickson, C., Tinniswood, W., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Armstrong, J. 2023. Thermal refuge use and parasitism: spatiotemporal variation in anchor worm and lamprey wounds on Klamath redband trout. Ecosphere<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Levi, T. Massey, A.L.<\/strong> 2023. Teasing apart the dilution effect by combining DNA metabarcoding and statistical modeling. Molecular Ecology<\/p>\n\n\n\n Appel, C.L.<\/strong>, Lesmeister, D.B., Duarte, A., Davis, R.J., Weldy, M.J., Levi, T. <\/strong>2023. Using passive acoustic monitoring to estimate Northern Spotted Owl landscape use and pair occupancy. Ecosphere. 14(2), e4421<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roffler, G.H., Eriksson, C.E., Allen, J.M., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2023. <\/em>Recovery of marine keystone predator transforms terrestrial predator-prey dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ruprecht, J.<\/strong>, Wisdom, M., Clark, D., Rowland, M., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2023. <\/em>Density-dependent changes in elk resource selection following timber harvest over successional time scales. Ecological Applications<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Roffler, G.H., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Pilgrim, K., Zarn, K.E., Schwartz, M.K. 2023. Variation in adult and pup wolf diets at natal den sites is influenced by forest composition and configuration. Ecology and Evolution<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Darimont, C.T., Cooke, R., Bourbonnais, M., Bryan, H., Carlson, S., Estes, J., Galetti, M., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Maclean, J.L., Paquet, P., Worm, B. 2023. Humanity’s diverse predator niche. Nature Communications<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dziedzic, E.<\/strong>, Sidlauskas, B., Cronn, R., Anthony, J., Cornwell, T., Friesen, T., Konstantinidis, P., Penaluna, B., Stein, S., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2023. Creating, curating, and evaluating a mitogenomic reference database to improve regional species identification using environmental DNA. Molecular Ecology Resources<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ruprecht, J.<\/strong>, Forester, T.D., Jackson, N.J., Clark, D.A., Wisdom, M.J., Rowland, M.W., Smith, J.B., Stewart, K.M., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2023. <\/em>A seasonal pulse of ungulate neonates influences predator space use in a multipredator-multiprey system. Ecology and Evolution<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tosa, M.<\/strong>, Lesmeister, D.B., Levi, T.<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>2023. Multi-locus DNA metabarcoding reveals seasonality of foraging ecology of western spotted skunks in the Pacific Northwest. Ecosphere<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Koning, J.S., Subramanian, A., Alotaibi, M., Appel, C.L.<\/strong>, Sullivan, C.M., Chao, T., Truong, L., Tanguay, R.L., Jaiswalf, P., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Lesmeister, D.B. 2023. Njobvu-AI: An open-source tool for collaborative image labeling and implementation of computer vision models. ArXiv<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tosa, M.<\/strong>, Lesmeister, D., Levi, T.<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>2022. Barred owl predation of western spotted skunks. Northwestern Naturalist<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lennox, R.J., Brownscomb, J.W. Darimont, C.T., Horodysky, A., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Raby, G.D., Cooke, S.J. 2022.<\/em> The roles of humans and apex predators in sustaining ecosystem structure and function: contrast, complementarity, and coexistence. Ecology and Society<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Parker-Shames, P., Choi, C., Bustic, V., Green, D., Brent, B.<\/strong>, Moriarty, K.M., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Brashares, J. 2022. <\/em>The spatial overlap of small-scale cannabis farms with aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity. Conservation Science and Practice<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Massey, A.L.<\/strong>, Bronzoni, R.V.d.M, Silva, D.J.F.d, Allen, J.<\/strong>, Lazari, P.R.d, Filho, M.d.S, Canale, G.R., Peres, C.A., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2022. Invertebrates for vertebrate biodiversity monitoring: comparisons using three insect taxa as iDNA samplers. Molecular Ecology Resources<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thorson, J.T., Arimitsu, M.L., Levi, T.<\/strong>, Roffler, G.H. 2022. <\/em>The multivariate Tweedie: A practical primer on generalized linear models for diet analysis derived from foraging theory. Ecology<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Eriksson, C.E.<\/strong>, Kantek, D.L., Miyazaki, S.S., Morato, R.G., dos Santos-Filho, M., Ruprecht, J.S., Peres, C.A., Levi, T. <\/strong>2022. Extensive aquatic subsidies lead to territorial breakdown and high density of an apex predator. Ecology<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Vieira C.J.S.P., Bernardo, C.S.S., Silva D.J.F., Kubiszeski, J.R., Barreto, E.S., Monteiro, H.A.O., Canale, G.R., Peres, C.A., Levi, T., Massey, A.L.<\/strong>, Bronzoni, R.V.M. 2022. Land use effects on mosquito biodiversity and potential arbovirus emergence in the Southern Amazon, Brazil. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/span>Barry, B.R.<\/strong>, Moriarty, K.M., Green, D., Hutchinson, R., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2021. Integrating multi-method surveys and recovery trajectories into species distribution models. Ecosphere<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Roffler, G.H., Allen, J.M., Massey A.L., Levi, T.<\/strong> 2021. Wolf dietary diversity in an island archipelago. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 102(1), 1-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tosa, M.I., Dziedzic, E.H., Appel, C.L., Urbina, J., Massey, A., Ruprecht, J., Eriksson, C.E.<\/strong>, Dolliver, J.E., Lesmeister, D.B., Betts, M.G., Peres, C.A., Levi. T<\/strong> 2021. The Rapid Rise of Next-Generation Natural History.