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Matthew C. Metz
Researcher at University of Montana
Publications - 27
Citations - 787
Matthew C. Metz is an academic researcher from University of Montana. The author has contributed to research in topics: Predation & Population. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 27 publications receiving 605 citations. Previous affiliations of Matthew C. Metz include Michigan Technological University & National Park Service.
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Seasonal patterns of predation for gray wolves in the multi-prey system of Yellowstone National Park
TL;DR: This work shows how a large carnivore living in a seasonal environment displays marked seasonal variation in predation because of changes in prey vulnerability, and contradicts previous research that suggests that rates of biomass acquisition for large terrestrial carnivores tend not to vary among seasons.
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Diel Predator Activity Drives a Dynamic Landscape of Fear
Michel T. Kohl,Daniel R. Stahler,Matthew C. Metz,Matthew C. Metz,James D. Forester,Matthew J. Kauffman,Nathan Varley,Patrick J. White,Douglas W. Smith,Daniel R. MacNulty +9 more
TL;DR: The quantified the elk LOF, defined here as spatial allocation of time away from risky places and times, across nearly 1,000km of northern Yellowstone National Park and found that it fluctuated with the crepuscular activity pattern of wolves, enabling elk to use risky places during wolf downtimes.
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Effect of Sociality and Season on Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) Foraging Behavior: Implications for Estimating Summer Kill Rate
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that seasonal patterns in the foraging behavior of social carnivores have important implications for understanding their social behavior and estimating kill rates, and are also important for applications of GPS collars to estimate kill rates.
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Competition between apex predators? Brown bears decrease wolf kill rate on two continents
Aimee Tallian,Andrés Ordiz,Andrés Ordiz,Matthew C. Metz,Cyril Milleret,Camilla Wikenros,Douglas W. Smith,Daniel R. Stahler,Jonas Kindberg,Daniel R. MacNulty,Petter Wabakken,Jon E. Swenson,Håkan Sand +12 more
TL;DR: This paper used long-term datasets from Scandinavia (Europe) and Yellowstone National Park (North America) to evaluate how grey wolf (Canis lupus) kill rate was affected by a sympatric apex predator, the brown bear (Ursus arctos).
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Social living mitigates the costs of a chronic illness in a cooperative carnivore.
Emily S. Almberg,Paul C. Cross,Andrew P. Dobson,Andrew P. Dobson,Douglas W. Smith,Matthew C. Metz,Daniel R. Stahler,Peter J. Hudson +7 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that group size does not predict infection risk and that individual costs of infection, in terms of reduced survival, can be entirely offset by having sufficient numbers of pack-mates.