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About Mark Boyce
- Mark Stephen Boyce (born May 24, 1950) is a professor of population ecology in the University of Alberta Department of Biological Sciences, and the Alberta Conservation Association Chair in Fisheries and Wildlife.
- Among other topics, he has written extensively on population viability analysis and resource selection functions.
- Early work was on demography and life history evolution.
- In 1993 he began research on habitat selection and the integration of habitats with population biology.
- He initiated research on elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in 1977 and in 1988 was recruited by the National Park Service to build a simulation model to anticipate the consequences of wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone National Park.
- These simulation models were published by Yellowstone National Park to justify the ultimate release of wolves in 1995.
- Several graduate students and postdoctoral fellows continued the Yellowstone work.
- After moving to the University of Alberta in 1999 most research has been on mammals and birds in Alberta.In 2014, he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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