Joel Berger ( edit )

John J. Craighead Professor

Contact Joel Berger

Phone: 406-243-5540

E-mail Address: joel.berger@mso.umt.edu

Office : # 205 Natural Sciences

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship Smithsonian Institution (1979)
PhD University of Colorado, Boulder; (1978)
MS California State University, Northridge (1975)
BA California State University, Northridge (1974)

Publications

Berger, J. 2008. Undetected Species Losses, Food Webs, and Ecological Baselines: A Cautionary Tale from Yellowstone. Oryx (In Press)

Berger, J. 2007. Fear, Human Shields, and the Re-Distribution of Prey and Predators in Protected Areas. Biology Letters 3:620-623.

Berger, J. 2007. Carnivore Repatriation and Holarctic Prey: Narrowing the Deficit in Ecological Effectiveness. Conservation Biology 21:1105-1116.

Reeves, R. R., J. Berger, and P. J. Clapham. 2007. Killer Whales as Predators of Large Baleen Whales And Sperm Whales.. In Whaling, Oceans, and Food Webs (Ed. J. Estes). University of California Press. Pp. 172-186.

Berger, J. S. L. Cain, and K. Berger. 2006. Connecting the Dots: An Invariant Migration Corridor Links the Holocene to the Present. Biology Letters 2:528-531.

Donlan, C. J., J. Berger, et al. 2006. Pleistocene Re-wilding: an Optimistic Agenda for 21^st Century Conservation. American Naturalist 168:660-681

Berger, J. and D. Smith. 2005. Restoring Functionality in Yellowstone with Recovering Carnivores: Gains and Uncertainties. In Ray, J., K. H. Redford, R. Steneck, and J. Berger. (eds.) 2005. Large Carnivores and Conservation of Biodiversity. Island Press. Covello, Calif. Pp. 100-109.

Berger, J. 2005. Hunting by Carnivores and by Humans: Is Functional Redundancy Possible and Who Really Cares? In Ray, J., K. H. Redford, R. Steneck, and J. Berger. (eds.) 2005. Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity. Island Press. Pp. 316-341.

Donlan, J., H. W. Greene, J. Berger, et al. 2005. Re-Wildling North America. Nature 436:913-914.

Ray, J. C., K. H. Redford, J. Berger, and R. Steneck. 2005. Is Large Carnivore Conservation Equivalent to Biodiversity Conservation, and How Can We Achieve Both? In Ray, J., K. H. Redford, R. Steneck, and J. Berger. (eds.) 2005. Large Carnivores and Conservation of Biodiversity. Island Press. Covello, Calif. Pp. 400-428.

Berger, J. 2004. The Longest Mile: How to Sustain Long Distance Migration in Mammals. Conservation Biology 18:320-332.

Berger, J. 2004. Long Distance Migrations: Yellowstone in a Global Context. Pp 18-23. In: 7^th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Yellowstone National Park.

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