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2021
Shipley AA*, Sheriff MJ, Pauli JN, Zuckerberg B (2021) Weather and land cover create a predictable ‘stress-scape’ for a winter adapted bird. Landscape Ecology (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01354-z)
*PhD student
DC Ensminger*, SR Siegel, DAS Owen*, MJ Sheriff, T Langkilde (2021) Elevated glucocorticoids during gestation suggest sex-specific effects on offspring telomere lengths in a wild lizard. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 257: 110971. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2021.110971)
*PhD student
Kelleher V*, Hunninck L, Sheriff MJ (2021) Risk-induced foraging behavior in a free-living small mammal depends on the interactive effect of habitat, refuge availability, and predator type. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: 718887. pdf
*Undergraduate student
MacLeod KJ δ, Langkilde T, Heppner JJ, Howey CAF, Sprayberry K, Tylan C, Sheriff MJ (2021) Compensating for a stressful pregnancy? Glucocorticoid treatment during gravidity reduces metabolic rate in female fence lizards post-parturition. Hormones and Behavior 136: 105072. pdf
δ Post-Doc fellow
MacLeod KJ δ, Langkilde T, Venable CP, Ensminger DC*, Sheriff MJ (2021) The influence of maternal glucocorticoids on offspring phenotype in high- and low- risk environments. Behavioral Ecology, doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab099. pdf
δ Post-Doc fellow, *PhD student
2020
Hunninck L*, Jackson CR, May R, Roskaft E, Palme R, Sheriff MJ (2020) Triiodothyronine (T3) levels fluctuate in response to ambient temperature rather than nutritional status in a wild tropical ungulate. Conservation Physiology 8: coaa105. pdf
*PhD student
Peacor SD, Barton BT, Kimbro DL, Sih A, Sheriff MJ (2020) A framework and standardized terminology ot facilitate the study of predation-risk effects. Ecology e03152. pdf
Hunninck L*, Palme R, Sheriff MJ (2020) Stress as a facilitator? Territorial male impala have higher glucocorticoid levels than bachelors. General and Comparative Endocrinology 297: 113553. pdf
*PhD student
Sheriff MJ, Orrock JL, Ferrari MCO, Karban R, Preisser EL, Sih A, Thaler JS (2020) Proportional fitness loss and the timing of defensive investment: a cohesive framework across animals and plants. Oecologia 193: 273-283. pdf
Sheriff MJ, Peacor SC, Hawlena D, Thaker M (2020) Non-consumptive predator effects on prey pouplation size: a dearth of evidence. Journal of Animal Ecology 89: 1302-1316. pdf
Smith JA, Donadio E, Bidder OR, Pauli JN, Sheriff MJ, Perrig PL, Middleton AD (2020) Where and when to hunt? Decomposing predation sucecss of an ambush carnivore. Ecology e03172. pdf
Donelan SC, Hellmann JK, Bell AM, Luttbeg B, Orrock JL, Sheriff MJ, Sih A (2020) Trangenerational plasticity in human-altered environments. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 35: 115-124. pdf
Mohlman JL, Navara KJ, Sheriff MJ, Terhune TM, Martin JA (2020) Validation of a noninvasive technique to quantify stress in northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus). Conservation Physiology 8: coaao26. pdf
Gigliotti LC, Berg ND, Boonstra R, Cleveland SM, Diefenbach DR, Gese EM, Ivan JS, Kielland K, Krebs CJ, Kumar AV, Mills LS, Pauli JN, Underwood HB, Wilson EC, Sheriff MJ (2020) Latitudinal variation in snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) body mass: a test of Bergmann's rule. Canadian Journal of Zoology 98: 88-95. pdf
Hunninck L*, May R, Jackson CR, Palme R, Roskaft E, Sheriff MJ (2020) Consequences of climate-induced vegetation changes exceed those of human disturbance for wild impala in the Serengeti ecosystem. Conservation Physiology 8: coz117. pdf
*PhD student
2019
Sprayberry K, Tylan C, Owen DAS, MacLeod KJ, Sheriff MJ Langkilde T (2019) History of predator exposure affects cell-medaited immunity in female eastern fence lizards, Sceloporus undulatus (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 128: 944-951. pdf
Merkle JA, Anderson NJ, Baxley DL, Chopp M, Gigliotti LC, Gude JA, Harms TM, Johnson HE, Merrill EH, Mitchell MS, Mong TW, Nelson J, Norton AS, Sheriff MJ, Tomasik E, VanBeek KR. (2019) A collaborative approach to bridging the gap between wildlife managers and researchers. The Journal of Wildlife Management 83: 1644-1651. pdf
Smith JA, Donadio E, Pauli JN, Sheriff MJ, Middleton AD (2019) Integrating temporal refugia into landscapes of fear: prey exploit predator downtimes to forage in risky places. Oecologia 189: 883-890. pdf
Smith JA, Donadio E, Pauli JN, Sheriff MJ, Bidder OR, Middleton AD (2019) Habitat complexity mediates the predator-prey space race. Ecology 100: e02724. pdf
Shipley AA, Sheriff MJ, Pauli JN, Zuckerberg B (2019) Snow roosting reduces temperature-associated stress in a wintering bird. Oecologia 190: 309-321. pdf
Owen DAS, Sheriff MJ, Heppner JJ, Gerke H, Ensminger DC, MacLeod KJ, Langkilde T (2019) Maternal corticosterone increases thermal sensitivity of heart rate in lizard embryos. Biology Letters 15: 20180718. pdf
2018
Enminger DC, Langkilde T, Owen DAS, Macleod KJ, Sheriff MJ (2018) Maternal stress alters the phenotype of the mother, her eggs and her offspring in a wild-caught lizard. Journal of Animal Ecology 87: 1685-1697. pdf
MacLeod KJ, Sheriff MJ, Ensminger DC, Owen DAS, Langkilde T (2018) Survival and reproductive costs of repeated acute glucocorticoid elevations in a captive, wild animal. General and Comparative Endocrinology 268: 1-6. pdf
Owen DAS, Sheriff MJ, Engler HI, Langkilde T (2018) Sex-dependent effects of maternal stress: Stressed moms invest less in sons than daughters. Journal of Experimental Zoology A 329: 317-322. pdf
Sheriff MJ, Dantzer B, Love OP, Orrock JL (2018) Error management theory and the adaptive significance of transgenerational maternal-stress effects on offspring phenotype. Ecology and Evolution 8: 6473-6482. pdf
MacLeod KJ, Krebs CJ, Boonstra R, Sheriff MJ (2018) Fear and lethality in snowshoe hares: the deadly effects of non-consumptive predation risk. Oikos 127: 375-380. pdf
2017
Sheriff MJ, Boonstra R, Palme R, Buck CL, Barnes BM (2017) Coping with differences in snow cover: the impact on the condition, physiology and fitness of an arctic hibernator. Conservation Physiology 5: cox065.
Sheriff MJ, Bell A, Boonstra R, Dantzer B, Lavergne S, McGhee KE, MacLeod KJ, Winandy L, Zimmer C, Love OP (2017) Integrating ecological and evolutionary context in the study of maternal stress. Integrative and Comparative Biology: doi:org.10.1093/icb/icx105. pdf
Williams CT, Buck CL, Sheriff MJ, Richter MM, Krause JS, Barnes BM (2017) Sex-dependent phenological plasticity in an arctic hibernator. American Naturalist in press. pdf
Gigliotti LC*, Diefenbach DR, Sheriff MJ (2017) Snowshoe hare winter dynamics. Canadian Journal of Zoology 95: 539-545. pdf
Hobbie EA, Shamhart J, Sheriff MJ, Ouimette AP, Trapee M, Schuur EAG, Hobbie JE, Boonstra R, Barnes BM (2017) You are what you eat: isotopic signatures of plant and fungal diet in Arctic ground squirrels. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research: doi.org/10/1657/AAAR0016-062. pdf
2016
Chaby LE, Sheriff MJ, Cavigelli SA, Hirrlinger Am*, Lim J*, Braithwaite VA (2016) Stress during adolescence shapres performance in adulthood: Context-dependent effects on foraging and vigilance. Ethology, doi 10.1111/eth.12463. pdf
*undergraduate researcher
2015
JL Orrock, Sih A, Ferrari MCO, Karban R, Preisser EL, Sheriff MJ, Thaler JS (2015) Error management in plant allocation to herbivore defense. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30:441-445.pdf
Sheriff MJ (2015) The adaptive potential of maternal stress exposure in regulating population dynamics. Journal of Animal Ecology 84: 323-325. pdf
Werner JR, Krebs CJ, Donker SA, Sheriff MJ (2015) Forest or meadow: the consequences of habitat for the condition of female arctic ground squirrels (Urocitellus parryii plesius). Canadian Journal of Zoology 93: 791-797. pdf
Chaby LE, Sheriff MJ, Hirrlinger AM*, Lim J*, Fetherston TB*, Braithwaite VA (2015) Does chronic unpredictable stress during adolescence affect spatial cognition in adulthood. PLoS ONE 10: e0141908. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141908. pdf
*undergraduate researcher
Chaby LE, Sheriff MJ, Hirrlinger AM*, Braithwaite VA (2015) Can we understand how developmental stress enhances performance under future threat with the Yerkes-Dodson law? Communicative and Integrative Biology 8:e1029689. pdf_
*undergraduate researcher
Sheriff MJ, Buck CL, Barnes BM (2015) Autumn conditions as a driver of spring phenology in a free-living arctic mammal. Climate Change Responses 2: 4 doi. 10.1186/s40665-015-0012-x. pdf
Werner JR, Krebs CJ, Donker SA, Boonstra R, Sheriff MJ (2015) Arctic ground squirrel population collapse in the boreal forests of the Southern Yukon. Wildlife Research doi. org/10/1071/WR14240. pdf
Sheriff MJ, McMahon EK*, Krebs CJ, Boonstra R (2015) Predator-induced maternal stress and population demography in snowshoe hares: The more severe the risk, the longer the generational effect. Journal of Zoology doi: 10.1111/jzo.12249. pdf
*undergraduate researcher
Chaby LE, Sheriff MJ, Hirrlinger AM*, Braithwaite VA (2015) Does early stress prepare individuals for a stressful future? Stress during adolescence improves foraging under threat. Animal Behavior 105:37-45. pdf
*undergraduate researcher
2014
Sheriff MJ, Thaler JS (2014) Ecophysiological effects of predation risk; an integration across disciplines. Oecologia 176: 607-611. pdf
Dantzer B, Fletcher QE, Boonstra R, Sheriff MJ (2014) Measures of physiological stress: a transparent or opaque window into the status, management and conservation of species? Conservation Physiology 2, doi: 10.1093/conphys/cou023. pdf
Boonstra R, Dantzer B, Delehanty B, Fletcher Q, Sheriff MJ (2014) Equipped for life in the Boreal Forest: the role of the stress axis in mammals. Arctic 67: 82-97. pdf
(Special Issue Invited Submission)
2013
Sheriff MJ, Frindinger RW, Tøien Ø, Barnes BM, Buck CL (2013) Metabolically rate and pre hibernation fattening in free-living arctic ground squirrels. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 86: 515-527. pdf
Sheriff MJ, Richter M, Buck CL, Barnes BM (2013) Changing seasonality and phenology of free-living arctic ground squirrels; the importance of sex. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 368: 20120480.
(Special Issue Invited Submission) pdf
Helm B, Ben-Shlomo R, Sheriff MJ, Hut R, Foster R Barnes BM, Dominoni D, (2013) Annual Rhythms that underlie phenology: biological time-keeping meets environmental change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280: 20130016.
(Special Issue Invited Submission) pdf
Sheriff MJ, Love OP (2013) Maternal stress as a driver of adaptive phenotypic responses in offspring. Ecology Letters 16: 271-280. pdf
Clinchy M, Sheriff MJ, Zanette L (2013) Predator-induced stress and the ecology of fear. Functional Ecology 27: 56-65. pdf
(Special Issue Invited Submission)
Love OP, McGowan P, Sheriff MJ (2013) Maternal adversity and ecological stressors in natural populations: the role of stress axis programming in individuals, with implications for populations and communities. Functional Ecology 27: 81-92. pdf
(Special Issue Invited Submission)
2012
Sheriff MJ, Williams CT, Kenagy GJ, Buck CL, Barnes BM (2012) Thermoregulatory changes anticipate hibernation onset by 45 days: data from free-living arctic ground squirrels. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 182: 841-847. pdf
Williams CT, Sheriff MJ, Kohl F, Barnes BM, Buck CL (2012) Interrelationships among timing of hibernation, reproduction, and warming soil in free-living female arctic ground squirrels. In: Living in a seasonal world: themoregulatory and metabolic adaptations (Eds. T Ruf, C Bieber, W Arnold and E Millesi) Springer-Verlag. pdf
Sheriff MJ, Wheeler H, Donker SA, Krebs CJ, Palme R, Hik D, Boonstra R (2012) Mountain-top and valley bottom experiences: the stress axis as an integrator of environmental variability in arctic ground squirrel populations. Journal of Zoology 287: 65-75. pdf
(Cover Article)
2011
Sheriff MJ, Kenagy GJ, Richter M, Lee T, Toien O, Kohl F, Buck CL, Barnes BM (2011) Phenological variation in annual timing of hibernation and breeding in nearby arctic ground squirrel populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278: 2369-2375. pdf
Williams CT, Sheriff MJ, Gaglioti B, Kohl F, Toien O, Buck CL, Barnes BM (2011) Data logging of body temperatures provides precise information on phenology of reproductive events in an arctic hibernator. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 181: 1101-1109. pdf
Clinchy M, Schulkin J, Zanette L, Sheriff MJ, McGowan PO, Boonstra R (2011) The neurological ecology of fear: insights neuroscientists and ecologists have to offer one another. Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience 5: 1-6. pdf
(Invited Submission)
Sheriff MJ, Dantzer B, Delehanty B, Palme R, Boonstra R (2011) Measuring stress in wildlife: techniques for quantifying glucocorticoids in wildlife. Oecologia 166: 869-887. pdf
Sheriff MJ, Krebs CJ, Boonstra R (2011) From process to pattern: How fluctuating predation risk impacts the stress axis of snowshoe hares during the 10-year cycle. Oecologia 166: 593-605. pdf
2010
Sheriff MJ, Krebs CJ, Boonstra R (2010) The ghosts of predators past: Population cycles and the role of maternal programming under fluctuating predation risk. Ecology 91: 2983-2994. pdf
(Featured in Research Highlights in Nature 464: 653)
Sheriff MJ, Krebs CJ, Boonstra R (2010) Assessing stress in animal populations: Do fecal and plasma glucocorticoids tell the same story? General and Comparative Endocrinology 166: 614-619. pdf
2009
Sheriff MJ, Krebs CJ, Boonstra R (2009) The sensitive hare: Sublethal effects of predator stress on reproduction in snowshoe hares. Journal of Animal Ecology 78: 1249-1258. pdf
(In Focus Article; Elton Prize for Best Paper by a Young Author; Re-published in The Legacy of Charles Elton, J Anim Ecol Virtual Issue July 2011)
Sheriff MJ, Speakman JR, Kuchel L, Boutin S, Humphries MM (2009) The cold shoulder: Free-ranging snowshoe hares maintain a low cost of living in cold climates. Canadian Journal of Zoology 87: 956-964. pdf
Sheriff MJ, Krebs CJ, Boonstra R (2009) A non-invasive technique for analyzing fecal cortisol metabolites in snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus). Journal of Comparative Physiology B 179: 305-313. pdf
Sheriff MJ, Kuchel L, Boutin S, Humphries MM (2009) Seasonal metabolic acclimatization in a northern population of free-ranging snowshoe hares, Lepus americanus. Journal of Mammalogy 90: 761-767. pdf
2021
Shipley AA*, Sheriff MJ, Pauli JN, Zuckerberg B (2021) Weather and land cover create a predictable ‘stress-scape’ for a winter adapted bird. Landscape Ecology (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01354-z)
*PhD student
DC Ensminger*, SR Siegel, DAS Owen*, MJ Sheriff, T Langkilde (2021) Elevated glucocorticoids during gestation suggest sex-specific effects on offspring telomere lengths in a wild lizard. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 257: 110971. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2021.110971)
*PhD student
Kelleher V*, Hunninck L, Sheriff MJ (2021) Risk-induced foraging behavior in a free-living small mammal depends on the interactive effect of habitat, refuge availability, and predator type. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: 718887. pdf
*Undergraduate student
MacLeod KJ δ, Langkilde T, Heppner JJ, Howey CAF, Sprayberry K, Tylan C, Sheriff MJ (2021) Compensating for a stressful pregnancy? Glucocorticoid treatment during gravidity reduces metabolic rate in female fence lizards post-parturition. Hormones and Behavior 136: 105072. pdf
δ Post-Doc fellow
MacLeod KJ δ, Langkilde T, Venable CP, Ensminger DC*, Sheriff MJ (2021) The influence of maternal glucocorticoids on offspring phenotype in high- and low- risk environments. Behavioral Ecology, doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab099. pdf
δ Post-Doc fellow, *PhD student
2020
Hunninck L*, Jackson CR, May R, Roskaft E, Palme R, Sheriff MJ (2020) Triiodothyronine (T3) levels fluctuate in response to ambient temperature rather than nutritional status in a wild tropical ungulate. Conservation Physiology 8: coaa105. pdf
*PhD student
Peacor SD, Barton BT, Kimbro DL, Sih A, Sheriff MJ (2020) A framework and standardized terminology ot facilitate the study of predation-risk effects. Ecology e03152. pdf
Hunninck L*, Palme R, Sheriff MJ (2020) Stress as a facilitator? Territorial male impala have higher glucocorticoid levels than bachelors. General and Comparative Endocrinology 297: 113553. pdf
*PhD student
Sheriff MJ, Orrock JL, Ferrari MCO, Karban R, Preisser EL, Sih A, Thaler JS (2020) Proportional fitness loss and the timing of defensive investment: a cohesive framework across animals and plants. Oecologia 193: 273-283. pdf
Sheriff MJ, Peacor SC, Hawlena D, Thaker M (2020) Non-consumptive predator effects on prey pouplation size: a dearth of evidence. Journal of Animal Ecology 89: 1302-1316. pdf
Smith JA, Donadio E, Bidder OR, Pauli JN, Sheriff MJ, Perrig PL, Middleton AD (2020) Where and when to hunt? Decomposing predation sucecss of an ambush carnivore. Ecology e03172. pdf
Donelan SC, Hellmann JK, Bell AM, Luttbeg B, Orrock JL, Sheriff MJ, Sih A (2020) Trangenerational plasticity in human-altered environments. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 35: 115-124. pdf
Mohlman JL, Navara KJ, Sheriff MJ, Terhune TM, Martin JA (2020) Validation of a noninvasive technique to quantify stress in northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus). Conservation Physiology 8: coaao26. pdf
Gigliotti LC, Berg ND, Boonstra R, Cleveland SM, Diefenbach DR, Gese EM, Ivan JS, Kielland K, Krebs CJ, Kumar AV, Mills LS, Pauli JN, Underwood HB, Wilson EC, Sheriff MJ (2020) Latitudinal variation in snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) body mass: a test of Bergmann's rule. Canadian Journal of Zoology 98: 88-95. pdf
Hunninck L*, May R, Jackson CR, Palme R, Roskaft E, Sheriff MJ (2020) Consequences of climate-induced vegetation changes exceed those of human disturbance for wild impala in the Serengeti ecosystem. Conservation Physiology 8: coz117. pdf
*PhD student
2019
Sprayberry K, Tylan C, Owen DAS, MacLeod KJ, Sheriff MJ Langkilde T (2019) History of predator exposure affects cell-medaited immunity in female eastern fence lizards, Sceloporus undulatus (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 128: 944-951. pdf
Merkle JA, Anderson NJ, Baxley DL, Chopp M, Gigliotti LC, Gude JA, Harms TM, Johnson HE, Merrill EH, Mitchell MS, Mong TW, Nelson J, Norton AS, Sheriff MJ, Tomasik E, VanBeek KR. (2019) A collaborative approach to bridging the gap between wildlife managers and researchers. The Journal of Wildlife Management 83: 1644-1651. pdf
Smith JA, Donadio E, Pauli JN, Sheriff MJ, Middleton AD (2019) Integrating temporal refugia into landscapes of fear: prey exploit predator downtimes to forage in risky places. Oecologia 189: 883-890. pdf
Smith JA, Donadio E, Pauli JN, Sheriff MJ, Bidder OR, Middleton AD (2019) Habitat complexity mediates the predator-prey space race. Ecology 100: e02724. pdf
Shipley AA, Sheriff MJ, Pauli JN, Zuckerberg B (2019) Snow roosting reduces temperature-associated stress in a wintering bird. Oecologia 190: 309-321. pdf
Owen DAS, Sheriff MJ, Heppner JJ, Gerke H, Ensminger DC, MacLeod KJ, Langkilde T (2019) Maternal corticosterone increases thermal sensitivity of heart rate in lizard embryos. Biology Letters 15: 20180718. pdf
2018
Enminger DC, Langkilde T, Owen DAS, Macleod KJ, Sheriff MJ (2018) Maternal stress alters the phenotype of the mother, her eggs and her offspring in a wild-caught lizard. Journal of Animal Ecology 87: 1685-1697. pdf
MacLeod KJ, Sheriff MJ, Ensminger DC, Owen DAS, Langkilde T (2018) Survival and reproductive costs of repeated acute glucocorticoid elevations in a captive, wild animal. General and Comparative Endocrinology 268: 1-6. pdf
Owen DAS, Sheriff MJ, Engler HI, Langkilde T (2018) Sex-dependent effects of maternal stress: Stressed moms invest less in sons than daughters. Journal of Experimental Zoology A 329: 317-322. pdf
Sheriff MJ, Dantzer B, Love OP, Orrock JL (2018) Error management theory and the adaptive significance of transgenerational maternal-stress effects on offspring phenotype. Ecology and Evolution 8: 6473-6482. pdf
MacLeod KJ, Krebs CJ, Boonstra R, Sheriff MJ (2018) Fear and lethality in snowshoe hares: the deadly effects of non-consumptive predation risk. Oikos 127: 375-380. pdf
2017
Sheriff MJ, Boonstra R, Palme R, Buck CL, Barnes BM (2017) Coping with differences in snow cover: the impact on the condition, physiology and fitness of an arctic hibernator. Conservation Physiology 5: cox065.
Sheriff MJ, Bell A, Boonstra R, Dantzer B, Lavergne S, McGhee KE, MacLeod KJ, Winandy L, Zimmer C, Love OP (2017) Integrating ecological and evolutionary context in the study of maternal stress. Integrative and Comparative Biology: doi:org.10.1093/icb/icx105. pdf
Williams CT, Buck CL, Sheriff MJ, Richter MM, Krause JS, Barnes BM (2017) Sex-dependent phenological plasticity in an arctic hibernator. American Naturalist in press. pdf
Gigliotti LC*, Diefenbach DR, Sheriff MJ (2017) Snowshoe hare winter dynamics. Canadian Journal of Zoology 95: 539-545. pdf
Hobbie EA, Shamhart J, Sheriff MJ, Ouimette AP, Trapee M, Schuur EAG, Hobbie JE, Boonstra R, Barnes BM (2017) You are what you eat: isotopic signatures of plant and fungal diet in Arctic ground squirrels. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research: doi.org/10/1657/AAAR0016-062. pdf
2016
Chaby LE, Sheriff MJ, Cavigelli SA, Hirrlinger Am*, Lim J*, Braithwaite VA (2016) Stress during adolescence shapres performance in adulthood: Context-dependent effects on foraging and vigilance. Ethology, doi 10.1111/eth.12463. pdf
*undergraduate researcher
2015
JL Orrock, Sih A, Ferrari MCO, Karban R, Preisser EL, Sheriff MJ, Thaler JS (2015) Error management in plant allocation to herbivore defense. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30:441-445.pdf
Sheriff MJ (2015) The adaptive potential of maternal stress exposure in regulating population dynamics. Journal of Animal Ecology 84: 323-325. pdf
Werner JR, Krebs CJ, Donker SA, Sheriff MJ (2015) Forest or meadow: the consequences of habitat for the condition of female arctic ground squirrels (Urocitellus parryii plesius). Canadian Journal of Zoology 93: 791-797. pdf
Chaby LE, Sheriff MJ, Hirrlinger AM*, Lim J*, Fetherston TB*, Braithwaite VA (2015) Does chronic unpredictable stress during adolescence affect spatial cognition in adulthood. PLoS ONE 10: e0141908. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141908. pdf
*undergraduate researcher
Chaby LE, Sheriff MJ, Hirrlinger AM*, Braithwaite VA (2015) Can we understand how developmental stress enhances performance under future threat with the Yerkes-Dodson law? Communicative and Integrative Biology 8:e1029689. pdf_
*undergraduate researcher
Sheriff MJ, Buck CL, Barnes BM (2015) Autumn conditions as a driver of spring phenology in a free-living arctic mammal. Climate Change Responses 2: 4 doi. 10.1186/s40665-015-0012-x. pdf
Werner JR, Krebs CJ, Donker SA, Boonstra R, Sheriff MJ (2015) Arctic ground squirrel population collapse in the boreal forests of the Southern Yukon. Wildlife Research doi. org/10/1071/WR14240. pdf
Sheriff MJ, McMahon EK*, Krebs CJ, Boonstra R (2015) Predator-induced maternal stress and population demography in snowshoe hares: The more severe the risk, the longer the generational effect. Journal of Zoology doi: 10.1111/jzo.12249. pdf
*undergraduate researcher
Chaby LE, Sheriff MJ, Hirrlinger AM*, Braithwaite VA (2015) Does early stress prepare individuals for a stressful future? Stress during adolescence improves foraging under threat. Animal Behavior 105:37-45. pdf
*undergraduate researcher
2014
Sheriff MJ, Thaler JS (2014) Ecophysiological effects of predation risk; an integration across disciplines. Oecologia 176: 607-611. pdf
Dantzer B, Fletcher QE, Boonstra R, Sheriff MJ (2014) Measures of physiological stress: a transparent or opaque window into the status, management and conservation of species? Conservation Physiology 2, doi: 10.1093/conphys/cou023. pdf
Boonstra R, Dantzer B, Delehanty B, Fletcher Q, Sheriff MJ (2014) Equipped for life in the Boreal Forest: the role of the stress axis in mammals. Arctic 67: 82-97. pdf
(Special Issue Invited Submission)
2013
Sheriff MJ, Frindinger RW, Tøien Ø, Barnes BM, Buck CL (2013) Metabolically rate and pre hibernation fattening in free-living arctic ground squirrels. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 86: 515-527. pdf
Sheriff MJ, Richter M, Buck CL, Barnes BM (2013) Changing seasonality and phenology of free-living arctic ground squirrels; the importance of sex. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 368: 20120480.
(Special Issue Invited Submission) pdf
Helm B, Ben-Shlomo R, Sheriff MJ, Hut R, Foster R Barnes BM, Dominoni D, (2013) Annual Rhythms that underlie phenology: biological time-keeping meets environmental change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280: 20130016.
(Special Issue Invited Submission) pdf
Sheriff MJ, Love OP (2013) Maternal stress as a driver of adaptive phenotypic responses in offspring. Ecology Letters 16: 271-280. pdf
Clinchy M, Sheriff MJ, Zanette L (2013) Predator-induced stress and the ecology of fear. Functional Ecology 27: 56-65. pdf
(Special Issue Invited Submission)
Love OP, McGowan P, Sheriff MJ (2013) Maternal adversity and ecological stressors in natural populations: the role of stress axis programming in individuals, with implications for populations and communities. Functional Ecology 27: 81-92. pdf
(Special Issue Invited Submission)
2012
Sheriff MJ, Williams CT, Kenagy GJ, Buck CL, Barnes BM (2012) Thermoregulatory changes anticipate hibernation onset by 45 days: data from free-living arctic ground squirrels. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 182: 841-847. pdf
Williams CT, Sheriff MJ, Kohl F, Barnes BM, Buck CL (2012) Interrelationships among timing of hibernation, reproduction, and warming soil in free-living female arctic ground squirrels. In: Living in a seasonal world: themoregulatory and metabolic adaptations (Eds. T Ruf, C Bieber, W Arnold and E Millesi) Springer-Verlag. pdf
Sheriff MJ, Wheeler H, Donker SA, Krebs CJ, Palme R, Hik D, Boonstra R (2012) Mountain-top and valley bottom experiences: the stress axis as an integrator of environmental variability in arctic ground squirrel populations. Journal of Zoology 287: 65-75. pdf
(Cover Article)
2011
Sheriff MJ, Kenagy GJ, Richter M, Lee T, Toien O, Kohl F, Buck CL, Barnes BM (2011) Phenological variation in annual timing of hibernation and breeding in nearby arctic ground squirrel populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278: 2369-2375. pdf
Williams CT, Sheriff MJ, Gaglioti B, Kohl F, Toien O, Buck CL, Barnes BM (2011) Data logging of body temperatures provides precise information on phenology of reproductive events in an arctic hibernator. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 181: 1101-1109. pdf
Clinchy M, Schulkin J, Zanette L, Sheriff MJ, McGowan PO, Boonstra R (2011) The neurological ecology of fear: insights neuroscientists and ecologists have to offer one another. Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience 5: 1-6. pdf
(Invited Submission)
Sheriff MJ, Dantzer B, Delehanty B, Palme R, Boonstra R (2011) Measuring stress in wildlife: techniques for quantifying glucocorticoids in wildlife. Oecologia 166: 869-887. pdf
Sheriff MJ, Krebs CJ, Boonstra R (2011) From process to pattern: How fluctuating predation risk impacts the stress axis of snowshoe hares during the 10-year cycle. Oecologia 166: 593-605. pdf
2010
Sheriff MJ, Krebs CJ, Boonstra R (2010) The ghosts of predators past: Population cycles and the role of maternal programming under fluctuating predation risk. Ecology 91: 2983-2994. pdf
(Featured in Research Highlights in Nature 464: 653)
Sheriff MJ, Krebs CJ, Boonstra R (2010) Assessing stress in animal populations: Do fecal and plasma glucocorticoids tell the same story? General and Comparative Endocrinology 166: 614-619. pdf
2009
Sheriff MJ, Krebs CJ, Boonstra R (2009) The sensitive hare: Sublethal effects of predator stress on reproduction in snowshoe hares. Journal of Animal Ecology 78: 1249-1258. pdf
(In Focus Article; Elton Prize for Best Paper by a Young Author; Re-published in The Legacy of Charles Elton, J Anim Ecol Virtual Issue July 2011)
Sheriff MJ, Speakman JR, Kuchel L, Boutin S, Humphries MM (2009) The cold shoulder: Free-ranging snowshoe hares maintain a low cost of living in cold climates. Canadian Journal of Zoology 87: 956-964. pdf
Sheriff MJ, Krebs CJ, Boonstra R (2009) A non-invasive technique for analyzing fecal cortisol metabolites in snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus). Journal of Comparative Physiology B 179: 305-313. pdf
Sheriff MJ, Kuchel L, Boutin S, Humphries MM (2009) Seasonal metabolic acclimatization in a northern population of free-ranging snowshoe hares, Lepus americanus. Journal of Mammalogy 90: 761-767. pdf