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Mary M. Conner
Researcher at Utah State University
Publications - 67
Citations - 2700
Mary M. Conner is an academic researcher from Utah State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Chronic wasting disease. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 61 publications receiving 2318 citations. Previous affiliations of Mary M. Conner include Colorado State University & California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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Methods to quantify variable importance: implications for the analysis of noisy ecological data.
TL;DR: Using zero-order correlations to eliminate predictor variables with correlations near zero, followed by the use of independent effects to assign overlap areas and rank variable importance is recommended.
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Life-History Characteristics of Mule Deer: Effects of Nutrition in a Variable Environment
Kevin L. Monteith,Vernon C. Bleich,Thomas R. Stephenson,Becky M. Pierce,Mary M. Conner,John G. Kie,R. Terry Bowyer +6 more
TL;DR: Birth mass and nutritional condition of mothers had a positive effect on survival of young; however, those effects were evident only for neonates born east of the crest where predation pressure was less intense compared with the west side.
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Epidemiology of chronic wasting disease in free-ranging mule deer: spatial, temporal, and demographic influences on observed prevalence patterns.
Michael W. Miller,Mary M. Conner +1 more
TL;DR: Demographic, spatial, and temporal factors all appear to contribute to the marked heterogeneity in CWD prevalence in endemic portions of northcentral Colorado, USA, as well as clear local trends of increasing prevalence over a 7-yr period.
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Timing of seasonal migration in mule deer: effects of climate, plant phenology, and life‐history characteristics
Kevin L. Monteith,Kevin L. Monteith,Vernon C. Bleich,Vernon C. Bleich,Thomas R. Stephenson,Thomas R. Stephenson,Becky M. Pierce,Becky M. Pierce,Mary M. Conner,Robert W. Klaver,R. Terry Bowyer +10 more
TL;DR: Plasticity in timing of migration in response to climatic conditions and plant phenology may be an adaptive behavioral strategy, which should reduce the detrimental effects of trophic mismatches between resources and other life-history events of large herbivores.
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Low frequency of PrP genotype 225SF among free-ranging mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) with chronic wasting disease.
TL;DR: Data available from some of these animals suggest that the 225SF genotype could be associated with longer incubation periods in CWD infection compared with the 225SS genotype, and no relationship was observed between genotype frequency and CWD prevalence in different areas.