Harmsen, B. J., Foster R. J., Silver, S., Ostro, L., and Doncaster, C. P.  (2009) Spatial and temporal interactions of sympatric jaguars (Panthera onca) and pumas (Puma concolor) in a neotropical forest. Journal of Mammalogy, 90 (3): 612-620

 

Harmsen, B. J., Foster R. J., Silver, S., Ostro, L., Doncaster, C. P.  (2010) Differential use of trails by forest mammals and the implications for camera trap studies, a case study from Belize. Biotropica, 42: 126-133

 

Foster R. J., Harmsen, B. J., Valdes, B.,  Pomilla, C. and Doncaster, C. P.  (2010) Food habits of jaguars and pumas across a gradient of human disturbance Journal of Zoology, 280: 309-318

 

Foster, R. J., Harmsen, B. J., and Doncaster, C. P. (In press) Habitat use of jaguars and pumas across a gradient of human disturbance. Biotropica

 

Foster, R. J., Harmsen, B. J., and Doncaster, C. P. (In press) Sample-size effects on diet analysis of scats from jaguars and pumas. Mammalia

 

Harmsen, B. J., Foster, R. J. and Doncaster, C. P. (In press) Heterogeneous capture rates in low density populations and consequences for capture-recapture analysis of camera-trap data. Population Ecology

 

Harmsen, B. J., Foster, R. J., Gutierrez, S., Marin, S. and Doncaster, C. P. (submitted) Scrape-marking behaviour of jaguars (Panthera onca) and pumas (Puma concolor)

 

Harmsen, B. J., Foster, R. J. and Doncaster, C. P. (submitted) Jaguar (Panthera onca) and puma (Puma concolor) activity patterns in relation to their main prey

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Valdes, B. (2006) Food habits of large felids in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize, and the effects of human subsistence hunting BSc Thesis, University of Southampton

 

Harmsen, B. J. (2006) The use of camera traps for estimating abundance and studying the ecology of jaguars (Panthera onca)  PhD thesis, University of Southampton

 

Marim, S. (2007) The jaguar of the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary: abundance and density estimates using camera trapping BSc Thesis, University of Belize

 

Gutierrez, S. (2007) Scrape marking behaviour of the jaguar in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize BSc Thesis, University of Belize

 

Yau, F. (2007) Determining effective sampling area of camera trapping surveys to estimate jaguar densities in Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary MSc thesis, Columbia University

 

Devlin, A. (2008) Measuring stress in captive and wild jaguars using fecal cortisol MSc thesis, Columbia University

 

Foster, R. J. (2008) The ecology of jaguars (Panthera onca) in a human-influenced landscape. PhD thesis, University of Southampton

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Phone: (00501) 663-1505 or 665-7318

E-mail: R.Foster@soton.ac.uk | rfoster@panthera.org

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Harmsen, B. J., Foster, R. J., Silver, S. C., Ostro, L. E. T. and Doncaster, C. P. (in press) The ecology of jaguars in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize In D. W. Macdonald & A. Loveridge, eds. The Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids. Oxford University Press.

 

Harmsen, B. J. (2007) The ecology of jaguars in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize Felid Biology and Conservation Conference. WildCRU, Oxford University, UK

 

Harmsen, B. J. (2009) The status of jaguars in Belize. Belize Wildlife Networking Conference. Galen University, Belize

 

Pomilla, ,C., Harmsen, B. J., Foster, R. J., Devlin. A. Bartholomew, C., Vynne, C., Carillo-Percastegui, S., Maffei, L., de Thoisy, B. and Amato, G. (2009) Large and fine scale genetic characterization of jaguars (Panthera onca) throughout their range. International Congress for Conservation Biology, 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology , Beijing, China.

 

Harmsen, B. J., Foster, R. J. and Doncaster, C. P. (2009) Spatial and temporal interactions of sympatric jaguars and pumas in a neotropical forest. XIII Congress for the Mesoamerican Society for Biology and Conservation, Belize City, Belize.

 

Harmsen, B. J., Foster, R. J. and Doncaster, C. P. (2009) A critique of abundance and density estimation of wide-ranging low density species from camera-trap data. XIII Congress for the Mesoamerican Society for Biology and Conservation, Belize City, Belize.

 

Foster, R. J.,  Harmsen, B. J., Pomilla, C., Valdes, B.  and Doncaster, C. P. (2009) Coexistence of jaguars and pumas across a gradient of human disturbance. XIII Congress for the Mesoamerican Society for Biology and Conservation, Belize City, Belize.

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