Edward O. Garton
Professor
Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources

TOOLS
Population Ecology

Experience:

• Dynamics & Management of Bird & Mammal Populations
• Modeling & Simulation of Population Processes
• Population Estimation 

• Fish and Wildlife Population Ecology
• Advanced Population Biology
• Fish and Wildlife Population Analysis
• Fish and Wildlife Seminar

• Impacts of a Reintroduced Wolf Population on Yellowstone Elk and Deer Populations
• Monitoring Methods for Woodpeckers and Neotropical Migrant Birds
• Population Ecology of Greater Sage Grouse and Trumpeter Swans 
• Aerial Census Methods for Elk, Mule Deer, Bighorn Sheep and Moose Populations
• Bird Predation on Forest Insect Pests
• Home Range Estimation

Honors and Awards: 

• 2007 Einarsen Award, Northwest Section of The Wildlife Society
• 2005 Alumni Award for Excellence, University of Idaho Alumni Association
• 2001 Outstanding Wildlifer Award, Idaho Chapter of The Wildlife Society
• 2001 Outstanding Professional Presentation, 2001 Conference, Idaho Chapter of The Wildlife Society
• 1989 Fulbright Fellowship to Kenya
• 1988 Outstanding Teacher Award, Associated Students of University of Idaho
• 1987 Outstanding Research Award, College of Forestry, Wildlife, and Range Sciences

Selected Publications:                               

Horne, Jon S., Edward O. Garton, and Janet L. Rachlow. 2008. A synoptic model of animal space use: simultaneous analysis of home range, habitat selection, and inter/intra-specific relationships. Ecological Modelling 214:338-348.

Nielsen-Pincus, Nicole and Edward O. Garton 2007. Responses of cavity-nesting birds to changes in available habitat reveal underlying determinants of nest site selection. Northwestern Naturalist 88:135-146. 

Maiorano, Luigi, Alessandra Falcucci, Edward O. Garton, and Luigi Boitani. 2007. Contribution of the Natura 2000 Network to biodiversity conservation in Italy. Conservation Biology 21: 1433-1444.

 Moser, Brian W. and Edward O. Garton. 2007. Effects of telemetry location error on space-use estimates using a fixed-kernel density estimator. Journal of Wildlife Management 71: 2421-2426.

Lewis, Jesse S., Janet Rachlow, Edward O. Garton, and Lee A. Vierling. 2007. Effects of habitat on gps collar performance: using data screening to reduce location errors. Journal of Applied Ecology 44:663-671.

Horne, Jon S., Edward O. Garton, Stephen S. Crone, and Jesse L. Lewis. 2007. Analyzing animal movements using Brownian bridges. Ecology 88:2354-2363.

Horne, Jon S., Edward O. Garton, and Kimberly A. Sager. 2007. Correcting home range models for sample bias. Journal of Wildlife Management 71:996-1001.

Garton, Edward O., David D. Musil, Kerry P. Reese, John W. Connelly and Cort L. Anderson. 2007. Sentinel lek-routes: an integrated sampling approach to estimate greater sage-grouse population characteristics. Pages 31-41 in Reese, Kerry P. and R. Terry Bowyer, eds. Monitoring Populations of Sage-Grouse: Proceedings of a Symposium at Idaho State University Hosted by University of Idaho and Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID. College of Natural Resources Experiment Station Bulletin 88.

Horne, Jon S. and Edward O. Garton. 2006. Selecting the best home range model: an information theoretic approach. Ecology 87:1146–1152

Horne, Jon S. and Edward O. Garton. 2006. Likelihood cross-validation vs. least squares cross-validation for choosing the smoothing parameter in kernel home range analysis. Journal of Wildlife Management 70:641-648.

Kissling, Michelle L. and Edward O. Garton. 2006. Estimating detection probabilities from point count surveys: a combination of distance and double observer sampling. Auk 123:735-752.

Ratti, John L., Ann M. Moser, Edward O. Garton, and Robyn Miller. 2006. Analysis of selenium levels in bird eggs and assessment of effects on avian reproduction in Southeastern Idaho. Journal of Wildlife Management 70:572-578.

Garton, Edward O., John T. Ratti, and John H. Giudice.  2005.  Research and Experimental Design. Chapter 3 In Braun, Clait (ed.).  Techniques For Wildlife Investigations and Management.  The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, MD.

Bishop, Chad J., James W. Unsworth and Edward O. Garton.  2005.  Mule deer survival among adjacent populations in Southwest Idaho.  Journal of Wildlife Management 69:311-321.

Bate, Lisa J., Torolf R. Torgersen, Michael J. Wisdom and Edward O. Garton.  2004.  Performance of sampling methods to assess log resources for forestry and wildlife management.  Forest Ecology and Management 199:83-102.

Connelly, John W., Kerry P. Reese, Edward O. Garton and Michelle L. Commons-Kemner.  2003.  Response of greater sage-grouse Centrocerus urophasianus populations to different levels of exploitation in Idaho, USA.  Wildlife Biology 9(4):255-260.

Bate, Lisa J., Torolf R. Torgersen, Edward O. Garton, and Michael J. Wisdom. 2002. Accuracy and Efficiency of Methods to Sample Logs for Wildlife Research and Management. pp. 817-822 In Laudenslayer, William F., Jr., Patrick J. Shea, Bradley E. Valentine, C. Phillip Weatherspoon and Thomas E. Lisle (eds.). Proceedings of the Symposium on the Ecology and Management of Dead Wood in Western Forests. General Technical Report PSW-GTR-181.Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 949p.

Bate, Lisa J., Edward O. Garton, and Michael J. Wisdom. 2002. Sampling Methods for Snags and Large Trees Important to Wildlife. pp. 811-815 In Laudenslayer, William F., Jr., Patrick J. Shea, Bradley E. Valentine, C. Phillip Weatherspoon and Thomas E. Lisle (eds.). Proceedings of the Symposium on the Ecology and Management of Dead Wood in Western Forests. General Technical Report PSW-GTR-181.Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 949p.

Kerry L. Farris, Edward O. Garton, Patricia J. Heglund, Steve Zack, and Patrick J. Shea. 2002. Woodpecker Foraging and the Successional Decay of Ponderosa Pine. pp. 237-246 In Laudenslayer, William F., Jr., Patrick J. Shea, Bradley E. Valentine, C. Phillip Weatherspoon and Thomas E. Lisle (eds.). Proceedings of the Symposium on the Ecology and Management of Dead Wood in Western Forests. General Technical Report PSW-GTR-181.Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 949p.

Svancara, Leona K., Edward O. Garton, Kang-Tsung Chang, J. Michael Scott, Peter Zager and Michael Gratson. 2002. The inherent aggravation of aggregation: An example with elk aerial survey data. Journal of Wildlife Management 66: 776-787.

Garton, E.O. 2002. Mapping a Chimera. Pp 663-666 in Scott, J. M., P. J. Heglund, J. B. Hauffler, M. G. Raphael, W. A. Wall and F. B. Samson (eds.). Predicting Species Occurrence: Issues of Accuracy and Scale. Island Press, Covelo, CA.

1999 Estimating Snag and Large Tree Densities on a Landscape for Wildlife Management. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-425. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 76p. (with Lisa J. Bate and Michael J. Wisdom).

1998 Elk Habitat Selection on the Clearwater National Forest, Idaho. Journal of Wildlife Management 62: 1255-1263. (with J.W. Unsworth, L. Kuck, and B.R. Butterfield).

1997 Effects of prey size, meal size, and meal composition, and daily frequency of feeding on the recovery of rodent remains from carnivore scats. Canadian Journal of Zoology 75:1811-1817 (with B. Kelly).

1993 Ecology of boreal owls in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA. Wildlife Monograph 124:1-59 (with G.D. Hayward and P.H. Hayward).

1989 Drought, fires and large mammals [in Yellowstone]. Bioscience 39:716-722 (with F.J. Singer, W. Schreier and J. Oppenheim).

1988 Resource partitioning among forest owls in the River of No Return Wilderness, Idaho. Oecologia 75:253-265 (with G.D. Hayward).

1987 Assessment of visibility bias during aerial surveys of elk in north central Idaho. Journal of Wildlife Management 51:254-257 (with M.D. Samuel, M.W. Schlegel, and R.G. Carson).

1986 Management guidelines for increasing birds that feed on the western spruce budworm. Agriculture Handbook No. 653. USDA Forest Service, Washington D.C. 19 pp. (with L.A. Langelier).

1985 A comparison of principal components from real and random data. Ecology 66(6):1693-1698 (with D.F. Stauffer and R.K. Steinhorst).