Scientific Sources

Mammal, Marten, Minnesota, Mustelid

Martens

GilBert, J. H., P. A. Zollner, A. K. Green, J. L. Wright, and W. H. KaraSov. 2009. Seasonal field metabolic rates of American martens in Wisconsin. The American Midland Naturalist 162:327–334.

Joyce, M. J. (2013). Space use behavior and multi-scale habitat selection of American marten (Martes americana) in northeastern Minnesota (Doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota).

Long, R. A., P. MacKay, J. D. Sauder, M. Sinclair, K. B. Aubry, and C. M. Raley. (2024). An overwinter protocol for detecting wolverines and other carnivores at camera traps paired with automated scent dispensers. Ecology and Evolution 14:e11290.

Lucid, M., Cushman, S., Robinson, L., Kortello, A., Hausleitner, D., Mowat, G., ... & Paetkau, D. (2020). Carnivore contact: A species fracture zone delineated amongst genetically structured North American marten populations (Martes americana and Martes caurina). Frontiers in Genetics, 11, 557906.

McCann, N. P., Zollner, P. A., & Gilbert, J. H. (2017). Classifying carnivore tracks using dimensions that control for snow conditions. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 41(2), 278-285.

Slauson, K. M., & Zielinski, W. J. (2017). Seasonal specialization in diet of the Humboldt marten (Martes caurina humboldtensis) in California and the importance of prey size. Journal of Mammalogy, 98(6), 1697-1708.

Mammal, Mustelid, Washington, finished

Short and Long-tailed Weasels

Elsasser, S. C., & Parker, G. H. (2008). Morphometric criteria for distinguishing species and age-cohorts of Ermine (Mustela erminea) and long-tailed weasel (M. frenata). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 54(1), 75-88.

Lisgo, K. A. (1999). Ecology of the short-tailed weasel (Mustela erminea) in the mixedwood boreal forest of Alberta (Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia).

Mammal, Washington, finished, pika

American Pika

Galbreath, K. E., Hafner, D. J., & Zamudio, K. R. (2009). When cold is better: climate‐driven elevation shifts yield complex patterns of diversification and demography in an alpine specialist (American pika, Ochotona princeps). Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution, 63(11), 2848-2863.

Johnston, A. N., Bruggeman, J. E., Beers, A. T., Beever, E. A., Christophersen, R. G., & Ransom, J. I. (2019). Ecological consequences of anomalies in atmospheric moisture and snowpack. Ecology, 100(4), e02638.

Millar, C. I., Westfall, R. D., & Delany, D. L. (2016). Thermal components of American pika habitat—how does a small lagomorph encounter climate?. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 48(2), 327-343.

Ray, C., Beever, E., Loarie, S., Brodie, J. F., Post, E., & Doak, D. F. (2012). Retreat of the American pika: up the mountain or into the void. Wildlife conservation in a changing climate. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 245-270.