Publications

Pre-prints

15. Bonar M., Blumenfeld, A., Fusco, N.A., Campagna, L., Timpson, A., Thomas, M., Cosentino, B.J., Gibbs, J.P., Caccone, A. Urban refuge? Squirrel pigmentation clines maintained by strong natural selection beyond city limits. Research Square DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-6967993/v1 (in review at Proceedings of the Royal Society B)

14. Bonar, M., Wootton, E., Anderson Jr., C.A., Wittemyer G., Northrup, J.M., Shafer, A.B.A. The heritability of migration behaviours in a wide-ranging ungulate. BioRxiv DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.28.635302 (in review at Journal of Animal Ecology)

13. Bonar, M., Northrup, J.M., and Shafer, A.B.A. Proximate drivers of migration propensity: a meta-analysis across species. Authorea Preprints DOI: https://doi.org/10.22541/au.171355881.18519829/v1

2024

12. Webber, Q.M.R, Laforge, M.P., Bonar, M., Vander Wal, E. (2024) The adaptive value of density-dependent habitat specialization and social network centrality. Nature Communications 15:4423

2022

11. Bonar, M., Anderson, S.J., Anderson Jr., C.A., Wittemyer G., Northrup, J.M., Shafer, A.B.A. (2022) Genomic correlates for migratory direction in a free-ranging cervid. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:20221969

10. Northrup J, Vander Wal, E., Bonar, M., Fieberg, J., Laforge, M.P., Leclerc, M., Prokopenko, C.M., Gerber, B.D. (2022) Conceptual and methodological advances in habitat selection modeling: guidelines for ecology and evolution. Ecological Applications 32(1):e02470

2021

9. Rheault, H, Anderson Jr., C.R., Bonar, M., Marrotte, R.R., Ross, T., Wittemyer, G., Northrup, J.M. (2021) Some memories never fade: Inferring multi-scale memory effects on habitat selection of a migratory ungulate using step-selection functions. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:702818.

8. Huang, R.K.K, Webber, Q.M.R., Laforge, M.P., Bonar, M., Robitaille A.L., Balluffi-Fry J., Zabihi-Seissan S., Vander Wal, E. (2021) Coyote diet and spatial co-occurrence with caribou. Canadian Journal of Zoology 99:391-399.

7. Laforge, M.P, Bonar, M., Vander Wal, E. (2021) Tracking snowmelt to jump the green wave: Phenological drivers of migration in a northern ungulate. Ecology 102:e3268.

2020

6. Bonar, M, Lewis K.P., Webber Q.M.R., Dobbin M., Laforge M.P., Vander Wal, E. (2020) Geometry of the ideal free distribution: individual behavioural variation and annual reproductive success in aggregations of a social ungulate. Ecology Letters 23:1360-1369.

5. Webber Q.M.R, Laforge M.P., Bonar, M., Robitaille A.L,. Hart C., Zabihi-Seissan S., Vander Wal, E. (2020) The ecology of individual differences empirically applied to space-use and movement tactics. The American Naturalist 196, E1-E15.

2018 and earlier

4. Bonar, M, Ellington, E.H., Lewis, K.P., Vander Wal, E. (2018). Implementing a novel movement-based approach to inferring parturition and neonate calf survival. PLoS ONE 13: 1-16.

3. Bonar, M, Laforge, M., Vander Wal, E. (2017). Observation of a p < 10−9 life history event: implications of record-late caribou parturition on ungulate reproductive ecology and field studies. Canadian Journal of Zoology 2:133–137

2. Bonar, M, Manseau, M., Geisheimer, J., Bannatyne, T. Lingle, S. (2015) The effect of terrain and female density on survival of neonatal white-tailed deer and mule deer fawns. Ecology and Evolution 6:4387–4402.

1. Kadkhodayan, R., Colette, N., Bonar, M, Friel, J., Giles, L.B. (2007). Prenatal Administration of an Antioxidant Cocktail Alters Postnatal Expression of Superoxide Dismutase and Catalase in Rat Lung. Free Radical Biology and Medicine 43:S93.