David S. Mason
Research Associate
Wild Foods Institute
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Michigan State University
What I do
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Publications
Kays, R. et al. (85th out of 177 authors). 2024. Climate, food and humans predict communities of mammals in the United States. Diversity and Distributions 30(9): e13900. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13900.
Shamon, H. et al. (93rd of 144 authors listed in alphabetical order). 2024. SNAPSHOT USA 2021: A third coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States. Ecology 105(6): e4318. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4318.
Burton, C. et al. (135th of 222 authors listed in alphabetical order). 2024. Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape. Nature Ecology and Evolution 8: 924–935. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02363-2.
Holdgrafer, J. P., Mason, D. S., Coleman, T. S., & Lashley, M. A. 2024. Food resource richness increases seed disperser visitations and seed rain richness. Ecology and Evolution 14(3): e11093.
Mason, D. S., Jones, A. K., Barton, B. T., Proctor, M., Webb, S.L., & Lashley, M. A. 2023. Coyotes eat flies at carrion. Food Webs: e00309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fooweb.2023.e00309
Kays, R. et al. (92nd of 152 authors listed in alphabetical order by institution). 2022. SNAPSHOT USA 2020: A second coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ecology 103(10): e3775. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3775
Mason, D. S., Baruzzi, C., & Lashley, M. A. 2022. Passive directed dispersal of plants by animals. Biological Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12875
Mason, D. S. 2022. Heterocarpochory: hitching a ride on fruit. Ecology, e3628. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3628
Boggess, C. M., Mason, D. S., Alexander, H. D., Strickland, B. K., & Lashley, M. A. 2021. Facultative seed predators drive community-level indirect effects of mast seeding. Forest Ecology and Management 502: 119713. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119713
Lázaro-Lobo, A. et al. (19th of 20 authors). 2021. Phenotypic differentiation among native, expansive and introduced populations influences invasion success. Journal of Biogeography 48(11): 2907-2918. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14252
Cove, M. V. et al. (95th of 154 authors listed in alphabetical order by institution). 2021. SNAPSHOT USA 2019: a coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States. Ecology 102(6): e03353. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3353
Mason, D.S. & M.A. Lashley. 2021. Spatial scale in prescribed fire regimes: an understudied aspect in conservation with examples from the southeastern United States. Fire Ecology 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-020-00087-9
Westlake, S.M., D. Mason, A. Lazaro Lobo, P. Burr, J.R. McCollum, D. Chance, & MA. Lashley. 2019. The magnet effect of fire on herbivores affects plant community structure in a forested system. Forest Ecology and Management 458(15): 117794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117794
Mason, D & C. Baruzzi. 2019. Love in Strange Places. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17(3): 184. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2027
Baruzzi, C., D. Mason, B. Barton, & M. Lashley. 2018. Effects of increasing carrion biomass on food webs. Food Webs 17: e00096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fooweb.2018.e00096
