Publications

Peer reviewed

Prugh, L. R., C. X. Cunningham, R. M. Windell, B. N. Kertson, T. R. Ganz, S. W. Walker, & A. J. Wirsing. 2023. Fear of large carnivores amplifies human-caused mortality for mesopredators. Science. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.adf2472

Ganz, T. R., M. T. DeVivo, E. M. Reese, & L.R. Prugh. 2022. Wildlife whodunnit: Forensic identification of predators to inform wildlife management and conservation. Wildlife Society Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.1386

Cunningham, C. X., T. A. Nuñez, Y. Hentati, B. Sullender, C. Breen, T. R. Ganz, S. E. S. Kreling, K. A. Shively, E. Reese, J. Miles, & L. R. Prugh. 2022. Permanent daylight savings time would reduce deer-vehicle collisions. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.10.007

Bassing, S., M. DeVivo, T. R. Ganz, B. Kertson, L. Prugh, T. Roussin, L. Satterfield, R. Windell, A. Wirsing, & B. Gardner. 2022. Are we telling the same story? Comparing inferences made from camera trap and telemetry data for wildlife monitoring. Ecological Applications. http://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2745

Ganz, T. R., M. T. DeVivo, B. N. Kertson, T. Roussin, L. Satterfield, A. J. Wirsing, & L. R. Prugh. 2022. Interactive effects of wildfires, season, and predator activity shape mule deer movements. Journal of Animal Ecology. http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13810

Burpee, B. T., J. E. Saros, L. Nanus, J. Baron, J. Brahney, K. R. Christianson, T. R. Ganz, A. Heard, B. Hundey, K. A. Koinig, J. Kopáček, K. Moser, K. Nydick, I. Oleksy, S. Sadro, R. Sommaruga, R. Vinebrook, & J. Williams. 2022 Identifying factors that affect mountain lake sensitivity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across multiple scales. Water Research. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2021.117883

Ganz, T.R., J. McMurray, K. Covey, C. Bettigole, & G. Benoit. 2021. Chemical Effects of Snowmelt on an Alpine Lake in the Wind River Range, WY. Water, Air and Soil Pollution. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-021-05284-z

Prugh, L. R., K. J. Sivy, P. Mahoney, T. R. Ganz, M. Ditmer, M. van de Kerk, S. Gilbert, & R. Montgomery. 2019. Designing studies of predation risk for improved inference in carnivore-ungulate systems. Biological Conservation. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.02.011

I would be happy to send you any of these papers if you are unable to access them. Please email me at taylorganz [at] gmail [dot] com to request a copy.

Selected academic presentations

Ganz, T.R. Ungulate Responses to Predators in Complex Landscapes of Northern Washington. University of Washington Dissertation Defense. Seattle, WA/Virtual. November 2022.

Ganz, T.R., Bassing, S., Gardner, B., DeVivo, M., Shipley, L., Walker, S., Abrahamson, D., Prugh, L.R., Impacts of Top-down and Bottom-up Effects on White-tailed Deer Survival and Population Dynamics in a Human-dominated Landscape in Washington. The Wildlife Society Annual Conference, Spokane, WA. November 2022.

Ganz, T.R., DeVivo, M., Kertson, B., Roussin, T., Satterfield, L., Wirsing, A., and Prugh, L., Interactive Effects of Wildfires, Season, and Predator Activity Shape Mule Deer Movements. Interactive Effects of Wildfires, Season, and Predator Activity Shape Mule Deer Movements. Gordon Research Conference in Predator-Prey Interactions, Barga, Italy. October 2022.

Ganz, T.R., Prugh, L.R., DeVivo, M. Fire on the mountain; how wildfire shapes interactions between deer and their predators in northern Washington. The Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Annual Graduate Student Symposium, Virual. October 2021.

Ganz, T.R., Ungulate Responses to Predators in Complex Landscapes of Northern Washington. University of Washington Graduate School General Exam. Seattle, WA/Virtual. December 2020.

Ganz, T.R., Prugh, L.R., DeVivo, M. Wildlife Whodunit: Forensic Identification of Predators to Improve Wildlife Conservation. The Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Annual Graduate Student Symposium, Seattle, WA. October 2019.

Ganz, T.R., Prugh, L.R., DeVivo, M. Wildlife Whodunit: Forensic Identification of Predators to Improve Wildlife Conservation. The Wildlife Society Annual Conference, Reno, NV. October 2019.

Ganz, T. R., Prugh, L.R., The Washington Predator-Prey Project: Patterns of Mortality in Ungulates of Northern Washington. Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, 51st Annual Student Symposium. University of Washington, Seattle, WA. October 2018. (Winner of the Gilbert B. Pauley Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation)

Ganz, T.R., Prugh, L.R., DeVivo, M. Wolves are re-colonizing Washington. How do they impact ungulates? Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, 50th Anniversary Symposium. Seattle, WA. October 2017. (Poster Presentation)

Ganz, T.R., Science Communication and Storytelling. Invited Talk. Western Research Fellows Working Group. Yale University, New Haven, CT. October 2017.