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Levi*, T., C. T. Darimont*, M.M. MacDuffee, M. Mangel, P.C. Paquet, and C.C. Wilmers. 2012 Using grizzly bears to assess economic and ecosystem tradeoffs in Pacific salmon management. PLoS Biology 10: e1001303   *shared lead authorship PDF PLoS Biology highlight here

Mathews, F., D.T. Blumstein, C. Darimont, K. Chan, L. Dill, D. Fraser, J. Kirkwood, K. Littin, D. Lusseau, and P. Paquet.  Submitted. Uniting wild animal welfare and conservation: guiding principles.

Darimont, C.T. and P.C. Paquet. In press. Lessons from the Lorax. A scientists’ lament and a plea for ethics. In Wright, A (Ed.). Faltering Light. Cold Coast Press. For full preview to this action-oriented publication, see here

Service, C., T. Nelson, W. McInnes, P.C. Paquet and C.T. Darimont. In press. Evaluating external risks to protected areas; the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline in British Columbia, Canada. Natural Areas Journal

Derbridge, J.J., P.R. Krausman, and C.T. Darimont. In press. Contrasting Bayesian isotopic and fecal analyses to examine carnivore diet. Journal of Wildlife Management.

Bryan, H.M. C.T. Darimont, J. Hill, P.C. Paquet, R.C.A. Thompson, B. Wagner, and J. E.G. Smits.  In press. Seasonal and biogeographic patterns of gastrointestinal parasites in large carnivores: wolves in a coastal archipelago. Parasitology

Darimont, C.T., C. Genovali, C. Service, and P.C. Paquet. Accepted. Hunting for a trophy hunting ethic. In Links of Life: Animal and Earth Advocacy (L. Kemmerer, Ed). University of Utah Press

Darimont, C.T., K. Artelle, H.B. Bryan, M. MacDuffee, and P.C. Paquet. Accepted. Grizzly bears, salmon, and people; the upstream journey to fisheries sustainability. In An Anthology of Bears (L. Kemmerer, Ed).

Wilmers, C.C., C.T. Darimont, and M. Hebblewhite. In press. Predators as buffers against climate change. In Brodie, J., E. Post, and D. Doak (Eds). Conserving wildlife populations in a changing climate. University of Chicago Press

Bryan, H.B, P.C. Paquet, C.T. Darimont, and J.E. Smits. Accepted. Survey of infectious and parasitic disease in domestic dogs parapatric to wildlife in coastal British Columbia. Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Kawanishi, K, S. Horng Neo Liang, C.T. Darimont, T.E. Reimchen, M.E. Sunquist. 2012. Isotopic niche differentiation among mammals from a rainforest in Peninsular Malaysia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology PDF

Darimont, C.T., P.C. Paquet, and T.E. Reimchen. 2011 (Re-published in Special on-line open-access Virtual Edition - Legacy of Charles S Elton). Landscape heterogeneity and marine subsidy generate extensive niche variation in a terrestrial carnivore. Journal of Animal Ecology 79: 126-133

Bryan, H.M. C.T. Darimont, P.C. Paquet, J.A. Ellis, N. Goji, M. Gouix, and J.E. Smits. 2011. Exposure to infectious agents in dogs in remote coastal British Columbia: possible sentinels of diseases in wildlife and people. Canadian Journal of Veterinary Medicine 75: 11-17.

Darimont, C.T., H.M. Bryan, S.M. Carlson, M.D. Hocking, M. MacDuffee, P.C. Paquet,  M.H.H. Price, T.E. Reimchen, J.D. Reynolds, & C.C. Wilmers. 2010. Salmon for terrestrial protected areas. Conservation Letters 3: 379-389 Online open access

Paquet, P.C., and C.T. Darimont. 2010. Wildlife conservation meets animal welfare.  Animal Welfare 19: 177-190. PDF

Mathews, F., D.T. Blumstein, C. Darimont and >10 others. 2010. Conservation and animal welfare: consensus statement and guiding principles. Animal Welfare 19: 191-192.

Muñoz-Fuentes, V., C.T. Darimont, P.C. Paquet, and J.A. Leonard. 2010. The genetic legacy of extirpation and re-colonization in Vancouver Island wolves. Conservation Genetics 11: 547-556. Link to PDF

Bryan, H. M., K.A. Sim, C.T. Darimont, P.C. Paquet, and N.B. Chilton. 2010. Prey parasites in carnivore scat: PCR reveals Parelaphostrongylus odocoilei larvae in wolf feces. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 46: 297-302.

Kinnison, M.T., E.P. Palkovacs, C.T. Darimont, S.M. Carlson, P.C. Paquet, and C.C. Wilmers. 2009 . Some cautionary notes on fisheries evolutionary impact assessments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PDF

Muñoz-Fuentes, V., C.T. Darimont, R.K. Wayne, P.C. Paquet, and J.A. Leonard. 2009. Ecological factors drive genetic differentiation in British Columbia gray wolves. Journal of Biogeography 31: 1516-1531. PDF

Semmens, B.X., E.J. Ward, J.W. Moore, and C.T. Darimont. 2009. Quantifying inter- and intrapopulation niche variability using hierarchical Bayesian stable isotope mixing models. PLoS ONE 4(7): e6187. PDF

Darimont, C.T., S.M. Carlson, M.T. Kinnison, P.C. Paquet, T.E. Reimchen, and C.C. Wilmers. 2009. Reply to Koons: Harvest-related trait changes in an increasingly variable world. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: E33. PDF

Darimont, C.T., S.M. Carlson, M.T. Kinnison, P.C. Paquet, T.E. Reimchen, and C.C. Wilmers. 2009.  Human predators outpace other agents of trait change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 952-954. PDF (Research Highlight in Nature) (Highlight in Science NOW) (Highlight in New Scientist) (Recommended by Faculty of 1000 Biology) (Stenseth and Dunlop's News & Views in Nature) (#30 in Discover Magazine's 100 Top Science Stories of 2009)

Darimont, C.T., P.C. Paquet, and T.E. Reimchen. 2009. Landscape heterogeneity and marine subsidy generate extensive niche variation in a terrestrial carnivore. Journal of Animal Ecology 79: 126-133 PDF

Price, M.H.H., C.T. Darimont, N.N. Temple, and S.M. MacDuffee. 2008. Ghost runs: management and status assessment of Pacific salmon returning to British Columbia’s central and north coasts. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 65: 2712-2718. PDF

Darimont, C.T., T.E. Reimchen, H. Bryan, and P.C. Paquet. 2008. Faecal-centric approaches to wildlife ecology and conservation; methods, data and ethics. Wildlife Biology in Practice 4: 73-87. PDF

Darimont, C.T., P.C. Paquet, and T.E. Reimchen. 2008. Spawning salmon disrupt tight trophic coupling between wolves and ungulate prey in coastal British Columbia.  BMC Ecology 8: 14. PDF

Darimont, C.T., P.C. Paquet, and T.E. Reimchen. 2007. Stable isotopic niche predicts fitness of prey in a wolf-deer system. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 90: 125-137. PDF

Hocking, M.D., C.T. Darimont, K.S. Christie, and T.E. Reimchen. 2007. Niche variation in burying beetles (Nicrophorus spp.) associated with Pacific salmon carcasses. Canadian Journal of Zoology 85: 437-442. PDF

Bryan, H.M, C.T. Darimont, T.E. Reimchen, and P.C. Paquet. 2006. Early ontogenetic diet of wolves. Canadian Field-Naturalist 20: 61-66. PDF

Paquet, P.C., S.M. Alexander, P.L. Swan, and C.T. Darimont. 2006. The influence of natural landscape fragmentation and resource availability on connectivity and distribution of marine gray wolf populations on the Central Coast, British Columbia, Canada. In Crooks, K. and M.A. Sanjayan (Eds.) Connectivity Conservation. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK. Pre-print PDF

Price, M.H.H., C.T. Darimont, N.N. Winchester, and P.C. Paquet. 2005. Facts from faeces: Prey remains in wolf faeces revise occurrence records for mammals of British Columbia’s coastal archipelago. Canadian Field-Naturalist 119: 192-196. PDF

Darimont, C.T., P.C. Paquet, T.E. Reimchen, and V. Crichton. 2005. Range expansion by moose into coastal temperate rainforests of British Columbia, Canada. Diversity and Distributions 11: 235-239. PDF

Paquet, P.C., C.T. Darimont, F.M. Moola, and C. Genovali. 2005.  Connectivity where the land meets the sea; preserving the last of the best. Wild Earth 14: 21-25. PDF

Darimont, C.T., M.H.H. Price, N.N. Winchester, J. Gordon-Walker, and P.C. Paquet. 2004. Predators in natural fragments: foraging ecology of wolves in British Columbia’s central and north coast archipelago. Journal of Biogeography 31: 1867-1877. PDF

Darimont, C.T., T.E. Reimchen and P.C. Paquet. 2003. Foraging behaviour by gray wolves on salmon streams in coastal British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Zoology 81: 349-353. PDF

Darimont, C.T., and T.E. Reimchen. 2002. Intra-hair stable isotope analysis implies seasonal shift to salmon in gray wolf diet. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80: 1638-1642. PDF

Darimont, C.T., and P.C. Paquet. 2002. The gray wolves, Canis lupus, of British Columbia’s central and north coast: distribution and conservation assessment. Canadian Field-Naturalist 116: 416-422. PDF

 

Popular Books

McAllister, I., and C.T. Darimont.  2007. The Last Wild Wolves. Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest. Greystone Books (Canada), University of California - Berkeley Press (USA), Frederking & Thaler (Germany).  (100% of my book revenues donated to the QQS Society– a registered Heiltsuk First Nations charity)

McAllister, I., P.C. Paquet, and C.T. Darimont.  2011. Following the Last Wild Wolves. Greystone Books, Vancouver, BC.  (my revenues donated to charity)

 

Selected Reports

Wainwright, C.J., C.T. Darimont, and P.C. Paquet. 2010. British Columbia’s Neglected Carnivore: a Conservation Assessment and Conservation Planning Guide for Cougars. Raincoast Conservation Foundation, Sidney, BC. PDF

Raincoast Conservation Foundation. 2010. What's at Stake; the cost of oil on British Columbia's priceless coast'. Published by the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. Ver. 01-10. 62 p. PDF

Paquet P., C.T. Darimont, R. J. Nelson, and K. Bennett. 2004. A critical assessment of protection for key wildlife and salmon habitats under the proposed British Columbia Central Coast Land and Resource Management Plan. Prepared for Raincoast Conservation Society. Victoria, BC. PDF

Darimont, C.T., K. Gerwing, P.C. Paquet, B. Reid, W. McCrory, and B. Cross. 2002. Preliminary modeling of deer winter range in Heiltsuk Territory on the Central Coast of British Columbia. Prepared for the Heiltsuk Nation and the Raincoast Conservation Society. Victoria BC. PDF

Paquet, P.C., and C.T. Darimont. 2002. Yeo Island wolf home site recommendation: a proposed solution to the conflict between the home site requirements of wolves and areas targeted for timber harvest.  Prepared for Raincoast Conservation Society, the Heiltsuk Nation, and Western Forest Products. PDF

Darimont, C.T., and P.C. Paquet. 2000. The Rainforest Wolves of Coastal British Columbia. Findings from Year 2000 Pilot Study & Conservation Assessment. Prepared for the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. Victoria BC. PDF

 

Selected Popular Writing:

Genovali, C, P. Paquet and C.T. Darimont. 2011. Wolves, Caribou, Tar Sands and Canada's Oily Ethics. Huffington Post. September 21 (reprint of version in UK's Gaurdian)

Darimont, C.T. and M. MacDuffee. 2009. The Bear Essentials of Saving Salmon. Fully protected safe havens would have positive effect on ecosystems. Counterpunch magazine. October, 2009.

Darimont, C.T. and M. MacDuffee. 2009. The Bear Essentials of Saving Salmon. Fully protected safe havens would have positive effect on ecosystems. OP ED. Victoria Times Colonist. October 4, 2009.

Darimont, C.T. 2008. In and Out of Africa. Raincoast Conservation Foundation Notes from the Field. PDF

Darimont, C.T. 2007. The Lone Wolf. Wolves magazine. Spring 2007. PDF

Calestagne-Morelli, A.R. and Darimont, C.T. 2007. Notes from the Fieldstation. Raincoast Conservation Foundation Notes from the Field. PDF

Darimont, C.T., and C. Genovali. 2006. BC's Misguided War on Predators. Counterpunch magazine. June 06, 2006. Link

Genovali, C. and C.T. Darimont. 2006. No Chances with Wolves.  Arts and Opinion; Arts, Culture, Analysis. Vol. 5, No. 4, 2006 Link