PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
2020
Dominoni DM, W Halfwerk, E Baird, RT Buxton, E Fernandez-Juricic, KM Fristrup, MF McKenna, DJ Mennit, EK Perkin, BM Seymoure, DC Stoner, JB Tennessen, CA Toth, LP Tyrell, A Wilson, CD Francis, NH Carter & JR Barber. 2020. Why conservation biology can benefit from sensory ecology. Nature Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1135-4
Carter, N., Killion, A., Easter, T., Brandt, J., and Ford, A. 2020. Road development in Asia: range-wide risks to tigers. Science Advances. In press.
Belote, T., Faurby, S, Brennan, A, Carter, N, Dietz, M, Hahn, B, McShea, WJ, and Gage. J. 2020. Mammal species composition reveals new insights into Earth’s remaining wilderness. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. In press.
Carter, N.H., Baeza, A., and N. Magliocca. 2020. Emergent conservation outcomes of shared risk perception in human-wildlife systems. Conservation Biology. In press.
Lute, M.L. and N.H. Carter. 2020. Are We Coexisting with Carnivores in the American West? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 8:48. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00048
2019
Carter, N.H., Williamson, M.A., Gilbert, S., Lischka, S., Prugh, L.R., Lawler, J., Metcalf, A.L., Jacob, A., Beltran, B.J., Castro, A.J., Sage, A., and Burnham, M. 2019. Integrated spatial analysis for human-wildlife coexistence in the American West. Environmental Research Letters. 15: 021001
Expósito-Granados, M., Castro, A.J., Lozano, J., Aznar-Sanchez, J.A., Carter, N.H., Requena-Mullor, J.M., Malo, A.F., Olszańska, A., Morales-Reyes, Z., Moleon, M. and Sánchez-Zapata, J.A. 2019. Human-carnivore relations: conflicts, tolerance and coexistence in the American West. Environmental Research Letters. 14: 123005.
Marescot, L., Lyet, A., Singh, R., Carter, N.H., and O. Gimenez. 2019. Inferring wildlife poaching in southeast Asia with multispecies dynamic occupancy models. Ecography. doi: 10.1111/ecog.04536
Jones, K., Abrams, J., Belote, T., Beltran, B.J., Brandt, J., Carter, N.H., Castro, A.J., Chaffin, B.C., Metcalf, A.L., Roche-McNally, G. and Wallen, K.E., 2019. The American West as a social-ecological region: Drivers, dynamics and implications for nested social-ecological systems. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab4562
Carter, N.H., Grimm, V., and S. Levin. 2019. Effects of human-induced prey depletion on large carnivores in protected areas: lessons from modelling tiger populations in stylized spatial scenarios. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5632.
Killion, A.K., Dixon, A., Gilbert, J., Torralba, M., Greiner, P.T. and A.P. Behrer. 2019. Designing spatiotemporal multifunctional landscapes to support dynamic wildlife conservation. Journal of Land Use Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2019.1601780
Easter, T., Bouley, P., and N.H. Carter. 2019. Opportunities for biodiversity conservation outside of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique: A multispecies approach. Biological Conservation 232: 217-227
Bouyer, J., Carter, N.H, Batavia, C., and M. P. Nelson. 2019. The ethics of eradicating harmful species – the case of the tsetse fly. BioScience. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy155 (February issue cover).
2018
Killion, A. K., K. Sterle, E. Bondank, J. Drabik, A. Bera, S. Alian, K. Goodrich, M. Hale, R. A. Myer, Q. Phung, A. M. Shew, and A. W. Thayer. 2018. Preparing the next generation of sustainability scientists. Ecology and Society 23(4):39. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10395-230439
Ceausu, S., Graves, R., Killion, A., Svenning, J., and N.H. Carter. 2018. Governing trade-offs in ecosystem services and disservices to achieve human-wildlife coexistence. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13241
Killion, A., Lindquist, E., Melvin, T.A., and N.H. Carter. 2018. Tracking a half-century of media reporting on gray wolves. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13225
Bouley, P., M. Poulos, R. Branco, and N.H. Carter. 2018. Post-war recovery of the African lion in response to large-scale ecosystem restoration. Biological Conservation 227: 233-242.
Guerrero, A. M., N. J. Bennett, K. A. Wilson, N. Carter, D. Gill, M. Mills, C. D. Ives, M. J. Selinske, C. Larrosa, S. Bekessy, F. A. Januchowski-Hartley, H. Travers, C. A. Wyborn, and A. Nuno. 2018. Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: a review and prospectus. Ecology and Society 23(3):38.
Gaynor, K.M., Hojnowski, C.E., Carter, N.H., and J.S. Brashares. 2018. The influence of human disturbance on wildlife nocturnality. Science 360: 1232-1235
Carter, N.H., Bouley, P., Moore, S., Poulos, M., Bouyer, J., and S. Pimm. 2018. Climate change, disease range shifts, and the future of the Africa lion. Conservation Biology. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13102
Easter, T., Killion, A., and N.H. Carter. 2018. Climate change, cattle, and the challenge of sustainability in a telecoupled system in Africa. Ecology and Society. 23(1): 10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09872-230110
O’Bryan, C., Beyer, H.L., Braczkowski, A.R., Carter, N.H., Watson, J.E.M., and E. McDonald-Madden. 2018. The contribution of predators and scavengers to human health and well-being. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2: 229–236
Lute, M.L., Carter, N.H., López-Bao, J.V. and Linnell, J.D. 2018. Conservation professionals agree on challenges to coexisting with large carnivores but not on solutions. Biological Conservation 218: 223-232.
2017
Bruskotter, J. T., J. A. Vucetich, G. Karns, M. J. Manfredo, C. Wolf, K. Ard, N. H. Carter, J. Lopez-Bao, S. Gehrt, and W. J. Ripple. 2017. Modernization, risk and conservation of the world’s largest carnivores. BioScience. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/bix049.
Carter, N.H. 2017. Evolution and complexity in biotic systems and human cultures. Review of Book "Complexity" in BioScience 67: 92-95.
Carter, N.H., J.V. López-Bao, J.T. Bruskotter, M. Gore, G. Chapron, A. Johnson, Y. Epstein, M. Shrestha, J. Frank, O. Ohrens, and A. Treves. 2017. A conceptual framework for understanding illegal killing of large carnivores. AMBIO 46: 251-264.
2016
Carter, N.H. and J.D.C. Linnell. 2016. Mainstreaming Coexistence with Wildlife: Reply to Gallagher. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.08.007
Carter, N.H. and T. Allendorf. 2016. Gendered perceptions of tigers in Chitwan National Park, Nepal. Biological Conservation 202: 69-77.
Carter, N.H. and J.D.C. Linnell. 2016. Co-adaptation is key to coexisting with large carnivores. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.05.006.
Inskip, C., N.H. Carter, S.J. Riley, Z. Fahad, T. Roberts, and D. MacMillan. 2016. Towards human-carnivore coexistence: understanding tolerance for tigers in Bangladesh. PLoS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145913.
Carter, N., An, L., and Liu, J. 2016. Cross-site synthesis of complexity in coupled human and natural systems, in: Liu, J., Hull, V., Yang, W., Viña, A., Ouyang, Z., and Zhang, H. (Eds.), Pandas and People: Coupling Human and Natural Systems for Sustainability. Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 278.
Liu, J., Hull, V., Yang, W., Viña, A., An, L., Carter, N., Chen, X., Liu, W, Ouyang, Z., and Zhang, H. 2016. Lessons from local studies for global sustainability, in: Liu, J., Hull, V., Yang, W., Viña, A., Ouyang, Z., and Zhang, H. (Eds.), Pandas and People: Coupling Human and Natural Systems for Sustainability. Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 278.
Liu, J., Hull, V., Carter, N., Viña, A., and Yang, W., 2016. Framing sustainability of coupled human and natural systems, in: Liu, J., Hull, V., Yang, W., Viña, A., Ouyang, Z., and Zhang, H. (Eds.), Pandas and People: Coupling Human and Natural Systems for Sustainability. Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 278.
2015
Carter, N.H., S. Levin, A. Barlow, and V. Grimm. 2015. Modeling tiger population and territory dynamics using an agent-based approach. Ecological Modelling 312: 347-362.
Carter, N.H., M. Jasny, B. Gurung, and J. Liu. 2015. Impacts of people and tigers on leopard spatiotemporal activity patterns in a global biodiversity hotspot. Global Ecology and Conservation. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2014.11.013.
2014
Carter, N.H., A. Viña, V. Hull, W. McConnell, W. Axinn, D. Ghimire, and J. Liu. 2014. Coupled human and natural systems approach to wildlife research and conservation. Ecology and Society 19(3):43.
Carter, N.H., S.J. Riley, A. Shortridge, B. Shrestha, and J. Liu. 2014. Spatial assessment of attitudes toward tigers in Nepal. AMBIO 43: 125-137. (March cover issue)
2013
Carter, N.H., B. Gurung, A. Viña, H. Campa III, J. Liu, and J. Karki. 2013. Assessing spatiotemporal changes in tiger habitat across different land management regimes. Ecosphere 4:art124.
Carter, N.H., B. Shrestha, J. Karki, N. Pradhan, and J. Liu. 2013. Reply to Goswami et al., Karanth et al., and Harihar et al.: Fine-scale interactions between tigers and people. PNAS. doi:10.1073/pnas.1217414110.
2012
Carter, N.H., B. Shrestha, J. Karki, N. Pradhan, and J. Liu. 2012. Coexistence between wildlife and humans at fine spatial scales. PNAS 109: 15360-15365. (Highlight in Nature 489:181 and recommended by Faculty of 1000).
Carter, N.H., S.J. Riley, J. Liu. 2012. Utility of a psychological framework for carnivore conservation. Oryx 46: 525-535.
2010
Carter, N.H., Brown, D.G., Etter, D.R., and L.G. Visser. 2010. American black bear habitat selection in northern Lower Peninsula, Michigan, USA, using discrete-choice modeling. URSUS 21: 57-71.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS
Carter, N.H. 2012. Small Numbers – Large Impacts: Conserving Tigers in Nepal. Box 13.1, page 178 in Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management.
Decker, D. J., Riley, S. J., & Siemer, W. F. (Eds.). Johns Hopkins Univ. Press.
Carter, N.H. 2012. Coupled human and natural systems approach to tiger conservation in Chitwan National Park, Nepal and beyond. Final report for NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship Program project No. NNX09AO34H.
Carter, N.H., J. Liu. 2012. Coupled human and natural systems approach to tiger conservation in Chitwan National Park, Nepal and beyond. Final report for USFWS Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund project No. F10AP00320.
Carter, N.H. 2011. Tiger Tales: Evaluating wildlife acceptance capacity in Nepal. MSU Fisheries and Wildlife SPOTLIGHT. Issue 7. Pages 17 – 19.
2020
Dominoni DM, W Halfwerk, E Baird, RT Buxton, E Fernandez-Juricic, KM Fristrup, MF McKenna, DJ Mennit, EK Perkin, BM Seymoure, DC Stoner, JB Tennessen, CA Toth, LP Tyrell, A Wilson, CD Francis, NH Carter & JR Barber. 2020. Why conservation biology can benefit from sensory ecology. Nature Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1135-4
Carter, N., Killion, A., Easter, T., Brandt, J., and Ford, A. 2020. Road development in Asia: range-wide risks to tigers. Science Advances. In press.
Belote, T., Faurby, S, Brennan, A, Carter, N, Dietz, M, Hahn, B, McShea, WJ, and Gage. J. 2020. Mammal species composition reveals new insights into Earth’s remaining wilderness. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. In press.
Carter, N.H., Baeza, A., and N. Magliocca. 2020. Emergent conservation outcomes of shared risk perception in human-wildlife systems. Conservation Biology. In press.
Lute, M.L. and N.H. Carter. 2020. Are We Coexisting with Carnivores in the American West? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 8:48. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00048
2019
Carter, N.H., Williamson, M.A., Gilbert, S., Lischka, S., Prugh, L.R., Lawler, J., Metcalf, A.L., Jacob, A., Beltran, B.J., Castro, A.J., Sage, A., and Burnham, M. 2019. Integrated spatial analysis for human-wildlife coexistence in the American West. Environmental Research Letters. 15: 021001
Expósito-Granados, M., Castro, A.J., Lozano, J., Aznar-Sanchez, J.A., Carter, N.H., Requena-Mullor, J.M., Malo, A.F., Olszańska, A., Morales-Reyes, Z., Moleon, M. and Sánchez-Zapata, J.A. 2019. Human-carnivore relations: conflicts, tolerance and coexistence in the American West. Environmental Research Letters. 14: 123005.
Marescot, L., Lyet, A., Singh, R., Carter, N.H., and O. Gimenez. 2019. Inferring wildlife poaching in southeast Asia with multispecies dynamic occupancy models. Ecography. doi: 10.1111/ecog.04536
Jones, K., Abrams, J., Belote, T., Beltran, B.J., Brandt, J., Carter, N.H., Castro, A.J., Chaffin, B.C., Metcalf, A.L., Roche-McNally, G. and Wallen, K.E., 2019. The American West as a social-ecological region: Drivers, dynamics and implications for nested social-ecological systems. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab4562
Carter, N.H., Grimm, V., and S. Levin. 2019. Effects of human-induced prey depletion on large carnivores in protected areas: lessons from modelling tiger populations in stylized spatial scenarios. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5632.
Killion, A.K., Dixon, A., Gilbert, J., Torralba, M., Greiner, P.T. and A.P. Behrer. 2019. Designing spatiotemporal multifunctional landscapes to support dynamic wildlife conservation. Journal of Land Use Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2019.1601780
Easter, T., Bouley, P., and N.H. Carter. 2019. Opportunities for biodiversity conservation outside of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique: A multispecies approach. Biological Conservation 232: 217-227
Bouyer, J., Carter, N.H, Batavia, C., and M. P. Nelson. 2019. The ethics of eradicating harmful species – the case of the tsetse fly. BioScience. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy155 (February issue cover).
2018
Killion, A. K., K. Sterle, E. Bondank, J. Drabik, A. Bera, S. Alian, K. Goodrich, M. Hale, R. A. Myer, Q. Phung, A. M. Shew, and A. W. Thayer. 2018. Preparing the next generation of sustainability scientists. Ecology and Society 23(4):39. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10395-230439
Ceausu, S., Graves, R., Killion, A., Svenning, J., and N.H. Carter. 2018. Governing trade-offs in ecosystem services and disservices to achieve human-wildlife coexistence. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13241
Killion, A., Lindquist, E., Melvin, T.A., and N.H. Carter. 2018. Tracking a half-century of media reporting on gray wolves. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13225
Bouley, P., M. Poulos, R. Branco, and N.H. Carter. 2018. Post-war recovery of the African lion in response to large-scale ecosystem restoration. Biological Conservation 227: 233-242.
Guerrero, A. M., N. J. Bennett, K. A. Wilson, N. Carter, D. Gill, M. Mills, C. D. Ives, M. J. Selinske, C. Larrosa, S. Bekessy, F. A. Januchowski-Hartley, H. Travers, C. A. Wyborn, and A. Nuno. 2018. Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: a review and prospectus. Ecology and Society 23(3):38.
Gaynor, K.M., Hojnowski, C.E., Carter, N.H., and J.S. Brashares. 2018. The influence of human disturbance on wildlife nocturnality. Science 360: 1232-1235
Carter, N.H., Bouley, P., Moore, S., Poulos, M., Bouyer, J., and S. Pimm. 2018. Climate change, disease range shifts, and the future of the Africa lion. Conservation Biology. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13102
Easter, T., Killion, A., and N.H. Carter. 2018. Climate change, cattle, and the challenge of sustainability in a telecoupled system in Africa. Ecology and Society. 23(1): 10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09872-230110
O’Bryan, C., Beyer, H.L., Braczkowski, A.R., Carter, N.H., Watson, J.E.M., and E. McDonald-Madden. 2018. The contribution of predators and scavengers to human health and well-being. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2: 229–236
Lute, M.L., Carter, N.H., López-Bao, J.V. and Linnell, J.D. 2018. Conservation professionals agree on challenges to coexisting with large carnivores but not on solutions. Biological Conservation 218: 223-232.
2017
Bruskotter, J. T., J. A. Vucetich, G. Karns, M. J. Manfredo, C. Wolf, K. Ard, N. H. Carter, J. Lopez-Bao, S. Gehrt, and W. J. Ripple. 2017. Modernization, risk and conservation of the world’s largest carnivores. BioScience. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/bix049.
Carter, N.H. 2017. Evolution and complexity in biotic systems and human cultures. Review of Book "Complexity" in BioScience 67: 92-95.
Carter, N.H., J.V. López-Bao, J.T. Bruskotter, M. Gore, G. Chapron, A. Johnson, Y. Epstein, M. Shrestha, J. Frank, O. Ohrens, and A. Treves. 2017. A conceptual framework for understanding illegal killing of large carnivores. AMBIO 46: 251-264.
2016
Carter, N.H. and J.D.C. Linnell. 2016. Mainstreaming Coexistence with Wildlife: Reply to Gallagher. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.08.007
Carter, N.H. and T. Allendorf. 2016. Gendered perceptions of tigers in Chitwan National Park, Nepal. Biological Conservation 202: 69-77.
Carter, N.H. and J.D.C. Linnell. 2016. Co-adaptation is key to coexisting with large carnivores. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.05.006.
Inskip, C., N.H. Carter, S.J. Riley, Z. Fahad, T. Roberts, and D. MacMillan. 2016. Towards human-carnivore coexistence: understanding tolerance for tigers in Bangladesh. PLoS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145913.
Carter, N., An, L., and Liu, J. 2016. Cross-site synthesis of complexity in coupled human and natural systems, in: Liu, J., Hull, V., Yang, W., Viña, A., Ouyang, Z., and Zhang, H. (Eds.), Pandas and People: Coupling Human and Natural Systems for Sustainability. Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 278.
Liu, J., Hull, V., Yang, W., Viña, A., An, L., Carter, N., Chen, X., Liu, W, Ouyang, Z., and Zhang, H. 2016. Lessons from local studies for global sustainability, in: Liu, J., Hull, V., Yang, W., Viña, A., Ouyang, Z., and Zhang, H. (Eds.), Pandas and People: Coupling Human and Natural Systems for Sustainability. Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 278.
Liu, J., Hull, V., Carter, N., Viña, A., and Yang, W., 2016. Framing sustainability of coupled human and natural systems, in: Liu, J., Hull, V., Yang, W., Viña, A., Ouyang, Z., and Zhang, H. (Eds.), Pandas and People: Coupling Human and Natural Systems for Sustainability. Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 278.
2015
Carter, N.H., S. Levin, A. Barlow, and V. Grimm. 2015. Modeling tiger population and territory dynamics using an agent-based approach. Ecological Modelling 312: 347-362.
Carter, N.H., M. Jasny, B. Gurung, and J. Liu. 2015. Impacts of people and tigers on leopard spatiotemporal activity patterns in a global biodiversity hotspot. Global Ecology and Conservation. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2014.11.013.
2014
Carter, N.H., A. Viña, V. Hull, W. McConnell, W. Axinn, D. Ghimire, and J. Liu. 2014. Coupled human and natural systems approach to wildlife research and conservation. Ecology and Society 19(3):43.
Carter, N.H., S.J. Riley, A. Shortridge, B. Shrestha, and J. Liu. 2014. Spatial assessment of attitudes toward tigers in Nepal. AMBIO 43: 125-137. (March cover issue)
2013
Carter, N.H., B. Gurung, A. Viña, H. Campa III, J. Liu, and J. Karki. 2013. Assessing spatiotemporal changes in tiger habitat across different land management regimes. Ecosphere 4:art124.
Carter, N.H., B. Shrestha, J. Karki, N. Pradhan, and J. Liu. 2013. Reply to Goswami et al., Karanth et al., and Harihar et al.: Fine-scale interactions between tigers and people. PNAS. doi:10.1073/pnas.1217414110.
2012
Carter, N.H., B. Shrestha, J. Karki, N. Pradhan, and J. Liu. 2012. Coexistence between wildlife and humans at fine spatial scales. PNAS 109: 15360-15365. (Highlight in Nature 489:181 and recommended by Faculty of 1000).
Carter, N.H., S.J. Riley, J. Liu. 2012. Utility of a psychological framework for carnivore conservation. Oryx 46: 525-535.
2010
Carter, N.H., Brown, D.G., Etter, D.R., and L.G. Visser. 2010. American black bear habitat selection in northern Lower Peninsula, Michigan, USA, using discrete-choice modeling. URSUS 21: 57-71.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS
Carter, N.H. 2012. Small Numbers – Large Impacts: Conserving Tigers in Nepal. Box 13.1, page 178 in Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management.
Decker, D. J., Riley, S. J., & Siemer, W. F. (Eds.). Johns Hopkins Univ. Press.
Carter, N.H. 2012. Coupled human and natural systems approach to tiger conservation in Chitwan National Park, Nepal and beyond. Final report for NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship Program project No. NNX09AO34H.
Carter, N.H., J. Liu. 2012. Coupled human and natural systems approach to tiger conservation in Chitwan National Park, Nepal and beyond. Final report for USFWS Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund project No. F10AP00320.
Carter, N.H. 2011. Tiger Tales: Evaluating wildlife acceptance capacity in Nepal. MSU Fisheries and Wildlife SPOTLIGHT. Issue 7. Pages 17 – 19.
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