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Tal Avgar
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Research
Latest papers
Interacting effects of human presence and landscape modification on birds and mammals.
Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2026
The impacts of anthropogenic linear features on the space-use patterns of two sympatric ungulates.
Movement ecology · 2026 · senior author
A call for increased integration of experimental approaches in movement ecology.
Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025
Latest funding
- $12,500
From wildlife space-use patterns to population viability
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $52,000
From wildlife space-use patterns to population viability
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
8 publications.
Interacting effects of human presence and landscape modification on birds and mammals.
Oliver RY, Yanco SW, Ellis-Soto D, Jesmer BR, Cohen J, Gao S, Patchett R, Avgar T, Bildstein K, Bakner NW, Barber D, Barker K, Barnes JG, Bastille-Rousseau G, Belant JL, Benson JF, Bêty J, Beyer DE, Bird D, Bowersock N, Boyce AJ, Carlson BS, Casazza ML, Chamberlain MJ, Cherry MJ, Collier BA, Courtemanch A, Davidson SC, DeBloois D, DeNicola V, DeSorbo CR, Dowler RC, Dupont D, Elbroch LM, Elliott J, Evans BA, Ford WM, Hancock D, Hardesty-Moore M, Hawley JE, Jeffress MR, Jennings S, Kauffman MJ, Kays R, Kelly MJ, Kluever BM, Lamont M, LaPoint S, LaSharr TN, Lefebvre J, Legagneux P, Loretto MC, Lumpkin D, Martinez LA, Marzluff JM, McCauley D, McDuie F, Mong TW, Monteith KL, Mueller T, Newediuk L, Ortega AC, Ossi F, Overton C, Perkins JC, Petroelje TR, Prugh L, Sager-Fradkin KA, Seer M, Shawler AL, Skalos S, Smiley RA, Sommerfeld J, Stahler DR, Stephenson JA, Stevens RD, Svoboda NJ, Therrien JF, Thomas PJ, VanAcker M, Vander Wal E, Varland DE, Verzuh TL, Wagler BL, Warnock N, Webb SL, Williams CK, Wilmers CC, Wolfson DW, Young JK, Rutz C, Jetz W
The impacts of anthropogenic linear features on the space-use patterns of two sympatric ungulates.
Hart RB, Picardi S, Avgar T
A call for increased integration of experimental approaches in movement ecology.
Hansen KW, Brand JA, Aimon C, Avgar T, Bertram MG, Bontekoe ID, Brodin T, Hegemann A, Koger B, Lourie E, Menezes JFS, Serota M, Attias N, Aikens E
A call for using rangeland-based livestock operations as model systems for studying the movement ecology of terrestrial animals.
Stahl MK, Veblen KE, Avgar T
Age-dependent response to anthropogenic habitat during migration of an endangered raptor.
Efrat R, Lehnardt Y, Bragin A, Bragin E, Avgar T, Katzner T, Sapir N
Identifying signals of memory from observations of animal movements.
Kim D, Thompson PR, Wolfson DW, Merkle JA, Oliveira-Santos LGR, Forester JD, Avgar T, Lewis MA, Fieberg J
Pursuit and escape drive fine-scale movement variation during migration in a temperate alpine ungulate.
John C, Avgar T, Rittger K, Smith JA, Stephenson LW, Stephenson TR, Post E
Density-dependent habitat selection alters drivers of population distribution in northern Yellowstone elk.
Smith BJ, MacNulty DR, Stahler DR, Smith DW, Avgar T
From wildlife space-use patterns to population viability
Principal investigators: Avgar, Tal
Keywords: space-use ecology; animal movement; habitat selection; tracking data; demographic rates; density dependence; monitoring; population viability; early warning signals; growth rate
From wildlife space-use patterns to population viability
Principal investigators: Avgar, Tal
Keywords: space-use ecology; animal movement; habitat selection; tracking data; demographic rates; density dependence; monitoring; population viability; early warning signals; growth rate
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Eric Vander Wal and Pierre Legagneux: 1 shared paper
- Eric Vander Wal and Tal Avgar: 1 shared paper
- Pierre Legagneux and Tal Avgar: 1 shared paper
- Department of Biology
- Biology
- Biologie
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