Heidi E Kretser

Biographic Data

ID1340974
NAMEHeidi E Kretser
GIVEN NAMESHeidi E
FAMILY NAMEKretser
SIGNATUREKRETSER H E
AFFILIATIONSWildlife Conservation Society
ORCID0009-0004-9528-4129
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Facilitating evolutionary rescue from a wildlife health threat with cross-sectoral strategies: A Case Study on White-Nose Syndrome

    Open AccessSarah Olson, Christina Davy et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2025

    Evolutionary rescue, the ability of a species to evolve under new selective pressures and rebound from threats, occurs within a social-ecological system. Evolutionary rescue may help wildlife populations persist in the face of extinction threats such as emerging infectious diseases, which are often caused or exacerbated by human activities and are inherently difficult to manage. Effective management of wildlife health often relies upon changing h…

  • Exploring the Uneven Terrain of Perceived Benefits from Protected Areas

    Open AccessJessica L’roe, Diane Detoeuf et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2025References: 32

    A common narrative about protected areas (PAs) is that social benefits accrue globally whereas burdens are felt locally, particularly in lower income countries. Researchers tend to focus on conflicts, and data on perceptions of PAs tend to be very locally specific and disproportionately available across regional contexts. As a result, we know surprisingly little about how benefits from PAs are distributed among local populations. Here, we use dat…

  • Priorities for embedding ecological integrity in climate adaptation policy and practice

    Open AccessPaul R Elsen, Lauren E Oakes et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2023

    Humanity must adapt rapidly to climate change as the impacts accelerate. Growing scientific evidence underscores the role of ecological integrity in improving adaptation outcomes for nature and people by providing climate refugia for biodiversity, buffering natural hazards, protecting freshwater resources, and benefiting human health. However, climate adaptation initiatives have largely neglected to prioritize ecological integrity, even though it…

  • Large-scale monitoring in the DRC’s Ituri forest with a locally informed multidimensional well-being index

    Open AccessJessica L’roe, Diane Detoeuf et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2023Cited by: 1References: 7

    To monitor quality of life in changing landscapes and assess impacts of interventions, development scholars and practitioners continue to seek sensitive, flexible, practical means of measuring well-being. An approach that has received relatively little attention from development scholars but that is gaining traction among NGOs is the use of a well-being index derived from a list of locally defined and democratically weighted basic necessities. Th…

  • Local Attitudes Toward Amur Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) Conservation in the Russian Far East

    Open AccessAnna S Mukhacheva, Eugenia V Bragina et al.ARTICLEConservation and Society2022

    Public support is a necessary component of large carnivore conservation. We analysed public opinion on Amur tigers, Panthera tigris altaica , in Russia's Far East, the northernmost stronghold of the world's rarest big cat. We surveyed 1035 people in 5 settlements at increasing distances to tiger habitat. Overall support for tiger conservation was high (95.4%), although lower in more rural communities—especially among hunters—with limited socio-ec…

  • Predictors of intentions to conserve bats among New York property owners

    William F Siemer, T Bruce Lauber et al.ARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2020

    Understanding why private property owners take actions to conserve bats has become increasingly important in U.S. states where the fungus causing white-nose syndrome (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) has decimated bat populations. We surveyed property owners in three New York State counties (n = 2,500) and used multiple linear regression analyses to test predictors of intentions to conserve bats. Intentions to take actions that contribute to bat con…

  • Scared Yet Compassionate? Exploring the Order Effects of Threat Versus Suffering Messages on Attitude Toward Scary Victims

    Open AccessHang Lu, Katherine A Mccomas et al.ARTICLEScience Communication2019References: 3

    The order in which individuals receive information about wildlife may influence their attitude toward wildlife differently. We explored order effects of a threat message that induced more fear versus a suffering message that elicited more compassion on attitude toward wildlife. Specifically, we focused on bats, a risk-laden species also suffering massive mortalities due to a disease affecting bat populations across the United States. We randomly …

  • Factors Influencing Adoption and Implementation of Conservation Development Ordinances in Rural United States

    Heidi E Kretser, Elliot Dale et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2019Cited by: 1References: 6

    Conservation Development (CD) is a land-use tool to reduce the impacts of development on natural resources, yetthe use of CD is highly variable. We used a collaborative conservation model to examine factors influencing adoption and implementation to improve the future application of CD. We interviewed 2–3 individuals including planners, board members, and developers (n = 46) from 16 rural communities in the intermountain west and northeast U.S. M…

  • NGOs Enhance State Wildlife Agencies’ Capacity to Meet Public Trust Doctrine Obligations

    Heidi E Kretser, Michale J Glennon et al.ARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2014

    State wildlife agencies (SWAs) manage natural resources for the benefit of the common good. However, effective management in today’s complex world requires institutional capacity that can address specific challenges. Nongovernmental organizations can enhance SWAs’ ability to manage wildlife as a public resource for which competing demands exist. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) led a participatory process to identify a suite of landscape s…

  • Contextual Awareness in Long-Term Partnerships Builds Adaptive Capacity for Conservation

    Michael Painter, Heidi E KretserARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2012

    Partnerships between local people and conservation organizations can make significant contributions to long-term success in conserving biological diversity, and managing resources sustainably. Strong partnerships help give conservation the broadly based political legitimacy that it often lacks, and create adaptive capacity to address pressing conservation needs, which is unlikely to develop without the combined efforts of multiple groups. Establi…

  • Factors Affecting Perceptions of Human–Wildlife Interactions in Residential Areas of Northern New York and Implications for Conservation

    Heidi E Kretser, Paul D Curtis et al.ARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2009

    We explored factors influencing people's perceptions of human–wildlife interactions in residential areas, reporting interactions to authorities, and potential conservation implications. Data were obtained from a mail survey of 1,439 landowners. We used logistic regression to predict probabilities of having non-positive perceptions and reporting interactions to authorities. Our models predicted perceptions relatively well; factors influencing perc…

  • Landscape, Social, and Spatial Influences on Perceptions of Human–Black Bear Interactions in the Adirondack Park, NY

    Heidi E Kretser, Paul D Curtis et al.ARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2009

    Effective methods to identify areas and people prone to human–wildlife conflicts help wildlife and land managers develop strategies that minimize unwanted human–wildlife interactions. We combined landscape variables (i.e., housing density, habitat quality) with data on local land use practices and sociodemographics from a mail survey of 730 landowners to anticipate perceptions of human–black bear (Ursus americanus) interactions in the Adirondack …