Publications

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2025

Clark-Wolf, T.J., St. John, J., Rajesh, C., and Hebblewhite, M. Caribou and reindeer population cycles are driven by top-down and bottom-up mechanisms across space and time. Ecology and Evolution (in press).

Clark-Wolf, T.J., Miller, D.L., Drake, H., Fifield, D.A., Rail, J.F., Wakefield, E.D., Wilhelm, S.I., Wong, S.N.P., and Gjerdrum, C. Using model-based distance sampling to estimate decadal population change in Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) across periods spanned by different at-sea survey methods. Ibis.  PDF   CODE 

2024

Clark-Wolf, T.J., Boersma, D., Plard, F., Rebstock, G., and Abrahms, B. 2024. Increasing environmental variability inhibits evolutionary rescue in a long-lived vertebrate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (34): e2406314121.  PDF   CODE   COMMENTARY 

Hazen, E.L., Savoca, M.S., Clark-Wolf, T.J., Czapanskiy, M., Rabinowitz, P.M., and Abrahms, B. 2024. Ecosystem sentinels as early warning indicators in the Anthropocene. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 49: 1-26.  PDF 

Clark-Wolf, T.J., Holt, K., Johansson, E., Nisi, A , Rafiq, K., West, L., Boersma, P.D., Hazen, E., Moore, S., and Abrahms, B. 2024. The capacity of sentinel species to detect changes in environmental conditions and ecosystem structure. Journal of Applied Ecology, 61 (7): 1638-1648.  PDF    CODE 

Carle, R.D., Varela, T., Colodro, V., Clark-Wolf, T.J., Felis, J., Hodum, P., Castillo, F.J.A., and Lopez, V. 2024. Breeding population of the pink-footed shearwater Ardenna creatopus on Isla Mocha, Chile. Marine Ornithology, 52: 85-96.  PDF 

2023

Pearson, D.E., and Clark-Wolf, T.J. 2023. Predicting ecological outcomes using fuzzy interaction webs. Ecology, 104 (7): e4072.   PDF 

Clark-Wolf, T.J., Boersma, P.D., Rebstock, G.A., and Abrahms, B. 2023. Climate presses and pulses mediate the decline of a migratory predator. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (3): e2209821120.  PDF    CODE 

Abrahms, B., Carter, N., Clark-Wolf, T.J., Gaynor, K., Johansson, E., McInturff, A., Nisi, A., Rafiq, K., and West, L. 2023. Climate change as a global amplifier of human-wildlife conflict. Nature Climate Change, 13: 224-234.  PDF    CODE 

2022

Clark-Wolf, T.J., Hahn, P.G., Brelsford, E., Francois, J., Hayes, N., Larkin, B., Ramsey, P., and Pearson, D.E. 2022. Preventing a series of unfortunate events: using qualitative models to improve conservation. Journal of Applied Ecology, 59 (9): 2322-2332.  PDF    CODE 

Clark, T.J., Newton, J., and Wakefield, E.D. 2022. Comment on "Evidence of prehistoric activity in the Falkland Islands". Science Advances, 8 (17): eabo0928.  PDF 

Pearson, D.E., Clark, T.J., and Hahn, P.G. 2022. Evaluating unintended consequences of intentional species introductions and eradications for improved conservation management. Conservation Biology, 36 (1): e13734.  PDF 

2021

Clark, T.J., Vick, B., Newton, J., Marengo, I., and Wakefield, E.D. 2021. A wolf in fox's clothing? Using stable isotopes to quantify ecological replacement. Conservation Letters, 14 (3): e12791.  PDF    CODE 

Stokes, A.W., Catry, P., Matthiopoulos, J., Boldenow, M., Clark, T.J., Guest, A., Marengo, I., and Wakefield, E.D. 2021. Combining survey and remotely sensed environmental data to estimate the habitat associations, abundance and distribution of breeding thin-billed prions Pachyptila belcheri and Wilson's storm-petrels Oceanites oceanicus on a South Atlantic tussac island. Polar Biology, 44: 809-821.  PDF 

Clark, T.J., and Hebblewhite, M. 2021. Predator control may not increase ungulate populations in the future: a formal meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58 (4): 812-824.  PDF    CODE 

Clark, T.J., Horne, J.S., Hebblewhite, M., and Luis, A.D. 2021. Stochastic predation exposes prey to predator pits and local extinction. Oikos, 130 (2): 300-309.  PDF    CODE 

2020

Bonnet-Lebrun, A.S., Catry, P., Clark, T.J., Campioni, L., Kuepfer, A., Tierny, M., Kilbride, E., and Wakefield, E.D. 2020. Habitat preferences, foraging behaviour and bycatch risk among breeding sooty shearwaters Ardenna grisea in the Southwest Atlantic. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 651: 163-181.  PDF 

Clark, T.J., and Luis, A.D. 2020. Nonlinear dynamics are ubiquitous in animals. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4 (1): 75-81.  PDF    CODE 

2019

Catry, P., Clark, T.J., Crofts, S., Stanworth, A., and Wakefield, E.D. 2019. Changes and consistencies in marine and coastal bird numbers on Kidney Island (Falkland Islands) over half a century. Polar Biology, 42: 2171-2176.  PDF 

Clark, T.J., Matthiopoulos, J., Bonnet-Lebrun, A.S., Campioni, L., Catry, P., Marengo, I., Poncet, S., and Wakefield, E.D. 2019. Integrating habitat and partial survey data to estimate the regional population of a globally declining seabird species, the sooty shearwater. Global Ecology and Conservation, 17: e00554.  PDF 

Clark, T.J., Bonnet-Lebrun, A.S., Campioni, L., Catry, P., and Wakefield, E.D. 2019. The depth of Sooty Shearwater Ardenna grisea burrows varies with habitat and increases with competition for space. Ibis, 161 (1): 192-197.  PDF 

2017 and earlier

Stewart, R.A., Clark, T.J., Shelton, J., Stringfellow, M., Scott, C., White, S.A., and McCafferty, D.J. 2017. Urban grasslands support threatened water voles. Journal of Urban Ecology, 3 (1): jux007.  PDF 

Levri, E.P., and Clark, T.J. 2015. Behavior in invasive New Zealand mud snails (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) is related to source population. Biological Invasions, 17: 497-506.  PDF 

Book Chapters

Clark-Wolf, T.J., Beyers, R., Brewitt, P., Convery, I., and Nevin, O. 2023. The wolves of Yellowstone: saviour of the songbird of piece of the puzzle? pp 249-258 in The Wolf: Culture, Nature, Heritage, eds. Convery, I., Nevin, O., Van Maanen, E., Davis, P., and Lloyd, K. Boydell Press, Woodbridge, UK.

Clark-Wolf, T.J., Hebblewhite, M. 2022. Trophic cascades as a basis for rewilding. pp 57-67 in Routledge Handbook of Rewilding, eds. Hawkins, S., Convery, I., Carver, S., and Beyers, R. Routledge, Abingdon, UK.  PDF 

Submitted

Gorczynski, D., Clark-Wolf, T.J., Brodie, J.F., and Pearson, D. Grizzly bear rewilding alters community interactions as conditioned by global change. Biological Conservation (in revision).

Ickin, E., Ozgul, A., Conquet, E., Abrahms, B., Albon, S., Blumstein, D.T., Bond, M.L., Boersma, P.D., Clark-Wolf, T.J., Clutton-Brock, T., Compagnoni, A., Dostalek, T., Evers, S.M., Fichtel, C., Gamelon, M., Garcia-Callejas, D., Hansen, B.B., Jenouvrier, S., Jerstad, K., Kappeler, P.M., Lee, D.E., Malchow, A.K., Manser, M., Martin, J., Munzbergova, Z., Nater, C.R., Pillay, N., Queroue, M., Rostad, O.W., Schradin, C., Saether, B.E., and Paniw, M. Comparative life-cycle analyses reveal interacting climatic and biotic drivers of population responses to climate change. Nature Climate Change (in review).

Metz, M.C., Clark-Wolf, T.J., Luis, A.D., Stahler, D.R., MacNulty, D.R., Geremia, C., Lukacs, P.M., Smith, B.J., Smith, D.W., and Hebblewhite, M. Scavenging stabilizes predator-prey dynamics: insights from twenty-five years of wolf-elk-bison relationships in northern Yellowstone. Ecology Letters (in prep).

Clark-Wolf, T.J., Seaton, C.T., and Prugh, L.R. Synergistic ecological drivers catalyze shifts between alternative stable states in a large mammal predator-prey system. Ecology Letters (in prep).