Laura R Prugh

Biographic Data

ID6232448
NAMELaura R Prugh
GIVEN NAMESLaura R
FAMILY NAMEPrugh
SIGNATUREPRUGH L R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Washington
ORCID0000-0001-9045-3107
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Feast or famine: How food deserts, wealth and greenspace correlate with coyote diets in Seattle, Washington

    Open AccessSamantha E S Kreling, Lindsey Y Bartholomew et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2026

    Urban environments create unique challenges for wildlife, where dietary habits may reflect both ecological heterogeneity and societal disparities. In this study, we explored how social factors such as household income and human population density, and ecological factors such as tree canopy correlate with coyote ( Canis latrans ) diets in Seattle, Washington. We hypothesized that coyotes in lower‐income and food insecure neighbourhoods (i.e. ‘food…

  • Warm winters, hot moose: Temperature drives activity and habitat trade-offs across a cold-adapted species’ range

    Open AccessBenjamin K Sullender, Calum X Cunningham et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Moose ( Alces alces ) are a cold-adapted species that may be vulnerable to overheating at relatively low temperatures in winter. Moose have two main strategies for thermal regulation: shifting activity patterns and selecting habitat that provides thermal refuge. In this study, we compared how moose use these two strategies in response to winter temperature across their latitudinal range. First, we used hidden Markov models to delineate encamped a…

  • Simulating future climate change impacts on snow- and ice-related driving hazards in Arctic-boreal regions

    Open AccessHeather E Greaves, Natalie T Boelman et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    As Arctic and boreal regions rapidly warm, the frequency and seasonal timing of hazardous driving conditions on all-season Arctic-boreal roads are likely to change. Because these roads link remote Arctic areas to the rest of the North American road system, climate change may substantially affect safety and quality of life for northern residents and commercial enterprises. To gain insight into future hazardous driving conditions, we built Random F…

  • Low levels of outdoor recreation alter wildlife behaviour

    Open AccessMira L T Sytsma, Tania Lewis et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2022

    Public interest in nature‐based recreation is growing, including visitation to protected areas. However, the level of recreation in these areas that causes detectable changes in wildlife behaviour remains unknown, and many studies that investigate wildlife responses to humans do so in high‐visitation areas. We used camera traps to investigate the spatial and temporal responses of brown bears ( Ursus arctos ), black bears ( Ursus americanus ), moo…

  • Human and animal movements combine with snow to increase moose-vehicle collisions in winter

    Open AccessCalum X Cunningham, Glen E Liston et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Wildlife-vehicle collisions imperil humans, wildlife, and property. Collisions with moose (Alces alces ) are especially consequential and there are indications they may increase during severe winters. We tested hypotheses regarding the influence of moose movements and vehicular traffic patterns on collision risk. We first modeled daily snow depth and accumulation across 5.6 million km 2 of the North American Arctic-Boreal region. Next, we analyze…

  • Climate change, moose, and subsistence harvest: Social-ecological assessment of Nuiqsut, Alaska

    Open AccessJiake Zhou, Gary P Kofinas et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2022

    Assessing the impact of a rapidly warming climate on subsistence-based livelihoods in the Arctic is critical for building resilience for rural communities. We used a social-ecological system (SES) framework to evaluate the possible range of changes in moose abundance, distribution, and harvesting for Nuiqsut, a small native community in northern Alaska. Our results indicate that within the area used for hunting by the village, moose (Alces alces)…

  • Determinants of Gray Wolf ( Canis lupus ) Sightings in Denali National Park

    Open AccessBridget L Borg, Sir Michael Arthur et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2021

    Wildlife viewing within protected areas is an increasingly popular recreational activity. Management agencies are often tasked with providing these opportunities, yet quantitative analyses of factors influencing wildlife sightings are lacking. We analyzed locations of GPS-collared wolves and wolf sightings from 2945 trips in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, USA, to provide a mechanistic understanding of how viewing opportunities are inf…

  • Denning phenology and reproductive success of wolves in response to climate signals

    Open AccessPeter J Mahoney, Kyle Joly et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Arctic and boreal ecosystems are experiencing rapid changes in temperature and precipitation regimes. Subsequent shifts in seasonality can lead to a mismatch between the timing of resource availability and species’ life-history events, known as phenological or trophic mismatch. Although mismatch has been shown to negatively affect some northern animal populations, longer-term impacts across large regions remain unknown. In addition, animals may r…

  • Integrated spatial analysis for human–wildlife coexistence in the American West

    Open AccessNeil H Carter, Matthew A Williamson et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

  • Integrating snow science and wildlife ecology in Arctic-boreal North America

    Open AccessNatalie T Boelman, Glen E Liston et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Snow covers Arctic and boreal regions (ABRs) for approximately 9 months of the year, thus snowscapes dominate the form and function of tundra and boreal ecosystems. In recent decades, Arctic warming has changed the snowcover's spatial extent and distribution, as well as its seasonal timing and duration, while also altering the physical characteristics of the snowpack. Understanding the little studied effects of changing snowscapes on its wildlife…

  • Range-wide variation in the effect of spring snow phenology on Dall sheep population dynamics

    Open AccessMadelon van de Kerk, David L Verbyla et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Understanding the underlying mechanisms of species distributions and range limits is critical to predicting species responses to climate change. The relationship between climate factors and population performance is often assumed to be constant across species’ ranges, but factors that limit the persistence and abundance of species may vary spatially. We examined the consistency of climate effects on population performance across the global range …

  • Motivations of Fur Trappers in Interior Alaska

    Ross R Dorendorf, Peter J Fix et al.ARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2016

    Understanding how and why trapping effort varies among fur trappers is necessary to accurately interpret trends in fur harvest for wildlife management. We mailed questionnaires to 1,760 fur trappers in interior Alaska to characterize motivations for trapping and primary factors affecting trapping effort. A cluster analysis revealed four groups with distinct motivations for trapping: wildlife management (17% of trappers), recreation (39%), subsist…