Michael Procko

Utah State University — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

6h-index192citations16works16.82yr avg
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Research Topics

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(13), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(4), Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation(4), Forest Management and Policy(3), Economic and Environmental Valuation(2)

Publications15 total

Flawed analysis invalidates claim of a strong Yellowstone trophic cascade after wolf reintroduction: A comment on Ripple et al. (2025)
Global Ecology and Conservation·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Flawed analysis invalidates claim of a strong Yellowstone trophic cascade after wolf reintroduction: A comment on Ripple et al. (2025)
2025Open Access
A toolbox to quantify human activity in protected areas for park management
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Quantifying impacts of recreation on elk (<i>Cervus canadensis</i>) using novel modeling approaches
Ecosphere·2024· 10 citedOpen Access
Mammalian predator and prey responses to recreation and land use across multiple scales provide limited support for the human shield hypothesis
Ecology and Evolution·2023· 24 citedOpen Access
Human presence and infrastructure impact wildlife nocturnality differently across an assemblage of mammalian species
PLoS ONE·2023· 25 citedOpen Access
Data and R Code from Granados et al. 2023, Mammalian predator and prey responses to recreation and land use across multiple scales provide limited support for the human shield hypothesis, Ecology and Evolution.
Figshare·2023Open Access
Behavioral “bycatch” from camera trap surveys yields insights on prey responses to human‐mediated predation risk
Ecology and Evolution·2022· 18 citedOpen Access
Human impacts on mammals in and around a protected area before, during, and after <scp>COVID</scp> ‐19 lockdowns
Conservation Science and Practice·2022· 37 citedOpen Access
Behavioral “bycatch” from camera trap surveys yields insights on prey responses to human-mediated predation risk
2022Open Access
Canadian private protected areas are located in regions of higher vertebrate species richness than government protected areas
FACETS·2021· 4 citedOpen Access
Supporting data: Vertebrate biodiversity is higher on Canadian private protected areas than government protected areas
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2020Open Access
Supporting data: Vertebrate biodiversity is higher on Canadian private protected areas than government protected areas
Figshare·2020Open Access
Supporting data: Vertebrate biodiversity is higher on Canadian private protected areas than government protected areas
2020Open Access
Quantitative Conservation of the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus): Implications of Monitoring and Modeling the Yellowstone Wolves
CU Scholar (University of Colorado Boulder)·2018Open Access

Frequent Co-authors

A. Cole Burton(5), Alys Granados(5), Catherine Sun(5), Mitchell Fennell(5), Robin Naidoo(4), Jason T. Fisher(4), Christopher Beirne(4), Leonardo Custode(4), Matthew M. Guzzo(4), Natasha Bush(4), Marie-Michele Rousseau-Clair(4), Ryan W. Norris(3), Samantha Knight(3), Valerie LeMay(2), A. Cole Burton(2), Andrew Ladle(2), Kimberly Dawe(2), Mark S. Boyce(2), Emily Chow(2), Nicole Heim(2)