Bruce G. Marcot, PhD
Volunteer
Research Wildlife Biologist Emeritus
bruce.marcot@usda.gov
Treesearch Publications
- Christopher J. Kotalik, Freya E. Rowland, Bruce G. Marcot, Kristin E. Skrabis, David M. Walters, Jo Ellen Hinck, William H. Clements, Eric E. Richer, John P. Isanhart. 2026. Causal networks to inform decisions for ecological restoration
- Bruce G. Marcot, Mark Ormsby. 2025. Prioritizing motion pictures for archival preservation using a decision-aiding Bayesian network
- Todd C. Atwood, Bruce G. Marcot, David C. Douglas, Jeffrey F. Bromaghin, Anthony M. Pagano. 2025. Assessing the combined influence of biotic and anthropogenic stressors on polar bears to inform conservation planning
- Bruce G. Marcot. 2025. Owls in Indonesian Myths - A small collection of personal attitudes towards owls (Positive and negative individual attitudes towards owls, superstition, Indonesia)
- Bruce G. Marcot. 2025. The ghost of New Zealand
- Bruce G. Marcot. 2025. Habitat of the threatened Fender’s blue butterfly (Icaricia icarioides fenderi) in western Oregon: a photo-point comparison
- Bruce G. Marcot, Nathan H. Schumaker, Jesse D'Elia. 2025. Response of California condor populations to reintroductions, reinforcements, and reductions in spent lead ammunition pollution
- Erica Marshall, Bruce G. Marcot, Kate Parkins, Trent D. Penman. 2024. Fire management now and in the future: Will today's solutions still apply tomorrow?
- Michelle L. Stantial, Auriel M. V Fournier, Abigail J. Lawson, Bruce G. Marcot, Mark S. Woodrey, James E. Lyons. 2024. RE-ARMing salt marshes: a resilience-experimentalist approach to prescribed fire and bird conservation in high marshes of the Gulf of Mexico
- Freya E. Rowland, Christopher J. Kotalik, Bruce G. Marcot, Jo Ellen Hinck, David M. Walters. 2024. A novel approach to assessing natural resource injury with Bayesian networks
- Bruce G. Marcot, Karen M. Thorne, Joel A. Carr, Glenn R. Guntenspergen. 2023. Foundations of modeling resilience of tidal saline wetlands to sea-level rise along the U.S. Pacific Coast
- Bruce G. Marcot, Todd C. Atwood, David C. Douglas, Jeffrey F. Bromaghin, Anthony M. Pagano, Steven C. Amstrup. 2023. Incremental evolution of modeling a prognosis for polar bears in a rapidly changing Arctic
- Julie A. Heinrichs, Bruce G. Marcot, Mark A. Linnell, Damon B. Lesmeister. 2023. Characterizing long‐term population conditions of the elusive red tree vole with dynamic individual‐based modeling
- Bruce G. Marcot, Peter Scott, Treena I Burgess. 2023. Multivariate Bayesian analysis to predict invasiveness of Phytophthora pathogens
- Bruce G. Marcot. 2022. Sound anomalies of Cornell Swift recorders affect ecoacoustic studies, and a workaround solution
- Bruce G. Marcot, Dale E. Gawlik, Alberto Yanosky, John Anderson, Ankita Gupta, K. S. Gopi. Sundar. 2022. The value and necessity of natural history studies of waterbirds
- Nicolas Meurisse, Bruce G. Marcot, Owen Woodberry, Barbara I P. Barratt, Jacqui H. Todd. 2022. Risk analysis frameworks used in biological control and introduction of a novel Bayesian network tool
- Jesse D’Elia, Nathan H. Schumaker, Bruce G. Marcot, Thomas Miewald, Sydney Watkins, Alan D. Yanahan. 2022. Condors in space: an individual-based population model for California condor reintroduction planning
- M Torre Jorgenson, Dana Brown, Chris Hiemstra, Hélène Genet, Bruce G. Marcot, Richard Murphy, Thomas A. Douglas. 2022. Drivers of historical and projected changes in diverse boreal ecosystems: fires, thermokarst, riverine dynamics, and humans
- Trent D. Penman, Sarah C. McColl-Gausden, Bruce G. Marcot, Dan A. Ababei. 2022. Population viability analysis using Bayesian networks
- Bruce G. Marcot. 2021. EcoQBNs: First application of ecological modeling with quantum Bayesian networks
- Bruce G. Marcot, James E. Lyons, Daniel C. Elbert, Laura Todd. 2021. Using decision science for monitoring threatened Western Snowy Plovers to inform recovery
- James Patrick Cronin, Blair E. Tirpak, Leah L. Dale, Virginia L. Robenski, John M. Tirpak, Bruce G. Marcot. 2021. Strategic habitat conservation for beach mice: Estimating management scenario efficiencies
- Craig Martin, Susan Jewell, Michael Hoff, Carrie Givens, Bruce G. Marcot. 2020. Comparing invasive species risk screening tools FISRAM, ERSS, and FISK/AS-ISK as a response to Hill et al
- Bruce G. Marcot, Anca M. Hanea. 2020. What is an optimal value of k in k-fold cross-validation in discrete Bayesian network analysis?
- Bruce G. Marcot, Damon B. Lesmeister, Todd M. Wilson, Eric Volkman, Paul D. Anderson. 2020. Applying principles and methods of risk analysis: a case example of northern spotted owl research in a dynamic pandemic landscape
- Bruce G. Marcot, Isa Woo, Karen M. Thorne, Chase M. Freeman, Glenn R. Guntenspergen. 2020. Habitat of the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys raviventris) in San Francisco Bay
- Bruce G. Marcot, Michael H. Hoff, Craig D. Martin, Susan D. Jewell, Carrie E. Givens. 2019. A decision support system for identifying potentially invasive and injurious freshwater fishes
- Bruce G. Marcot, Teresa Lorenz, Philip Fischer, Ben G. Weinstein, Samuel Cowell. 2019. Efficacy of automated detection of motion in wildlife monitoring videos
- Jesse D’Elia, Joseph Brandt, L. Joseph Burnett, Susan M. Haig, Jeff Hollenbeck, Steve Kirkland, Bruce G. Marcot, Arianna Punzalan, Christopher J. West, Tiana Williams-Claussen, Rachel Wolstenholme, Rich Young. 2019. Applying circuit theory and landscape linkage maps to reintroduction planning for California Condors
- K.S. Gopi Sundar, Roshila Koju, Bijay Maharjan, Bruce G. Marcot, Swati Kittur, Kamal Raj. Gosai. 2019. First assessment of factors affecting breeding success of storks in lowland Nepal using Bayesian Network models
- Thomas Spies, Jonathan W. Long, Susan Charnley, Paul F. Hessburg, Bruce G. Marcot, Gordon Reeves, Damon B. Lesmeister, Matthew Reilly, Lee K. Cerveny, Peter Stine, Martin G. Raphael. 2019. Twenty‐five years of the Northwest Forest Plan: what have we learned?
- Bruce G. Marcot, Keith M. Reynolds. 2019. EMDS has a GeNIe with a SMILE
- Bruce G. Marcot, Trent D. Penman, Brett Cirulis. 2019. Advances in Bayesian network modelling: Integration of modelling technologies
- Jeffrey R. Dunk, Brian Woodbridge, Nathan Schumaker, Elizabeth M. Glenn, Brendan White, David W. LaPlante, Robert G. Anthony, Raymond J. Davis, Karl Halupka, Paul Henson, Bruce G. Marcot, Michele Merola-Zwartjes, Barry R. Noon, Martin G. Raphael, Jody Caicco, Dan L. Hansen, Mary Jo Mazurek, James Thrailkill. 2019. Conservation planning for species recovery under the Endangered Species Act: A case study with the Northern Spotted Owl
- Whitney A. Wiest, Maureen D. Correll, Bruce G. Marcot, Brian J. Olsen, Chris S. Elphick, Thomas P. Hodgman, Glenn R. Guntenspergen, W. Gregory. Shriver. 2018. Estimates of tidal-marsh bird densities using Bayesian networks
- Bruce G. Marcot, Karen L. Pope, Keith M. Slauson, Hartwell H. Welsh, Clara A. Wheeler, Matthew Reilly, Bill Zielinski. 2018. Chapter 6: Other species and biodiversity of older forests
- Thomas Spies, Jonathan W. Long, Peter Stine, Susan Charnley, Lee K. Cerveny, Bruce G. Marcot, Gordon Reeves, Paul F. Hessburg, Damon B. Lesmeister, Matthew Reilly, Martin G. Raphael, Raymond J. Davis. 2018. Chapter 12: Integrating ecological and social science to inform land management in the area of the northwest forest plan
- Stephen M. Pawson, Bruce G. Marcot, Owen G. Woodberry. 2017. Predicting forest insect flight activity: A Bayesian network approach
- Bruce G. Marcot. 2017. Ecosystem processes related to wood decay
- Bruce G. Marcot. 2017. A review of the role of fungi in wood decay of forest ecosystems
- Ashish Kumar, Bruce G. Marcot, Rohitkumar Patel. 2017. Wildlife conservation in fragmented tropical forests: A case of South Garo Hills, Meghalaya, North East India
- Andrea Havron, Chris Goldfinger, Sarah Henkel, Bruce G. Marcot, Chris Romsos, Lisa Gilbane. 2017. Mapping marine habitat suitability and uncertainty of Bayesian networks: a case study using Pacific benthic macrofauna
- Ashish Kumar, Bruce G. Marcot, Rohitkumar Patel. 2017. Tropical forests and fragmentation: A case of South Garo Hills, Meghalaya, North East India
- Bruce G. Marcot. 2017. Common quandaries and their practical solutions in Bayesian network modeling
- Todd C. Atwood, Bruce G. Marcot, David C. Douglas, Steven C. Amstrup, Karyn D. Rode, George M. Durner, Jeffrey F. Bromaghin. 2016. Forecasting the relative influence of environmental and anthropogenic stressors on polar bears
- Natasha Vizcarra, Bruce G. Marcot. 2016. Big changes in cold places: the future of wildlife habitat in northwest Alaska
- Bruce G. Marcot, Matthew P. Thompson, Thomas W. Bonnot, Frank R. Thompson. 2016. Uncertainty is information, too
- Jennifer K. Fortin, Karyn D. Rode, Grant V. Hilderbrand, Jim Wilder, Sean Farley, Carole Jorgensen, Bruce G. Marcot. 2016. Impacts of Human Recreation on Brown Bears (Ursus arctos): A Review and New Management Tool
- Jeffrey R. Dunk, Brian Woodbridge, Elizabeth M. Glenn, Raymond J. Davis, Katherine Fitzgerald, Paul Henson, David W. LaPlante, Bruce G. Marcot, Barry R. Noon, Martin G. Raphael, Nathan H. Schumaker, Brendan White. 2015. The scientific basis for modeling Northern Spotted Owl habitat: A response to Loehle, Irwin, Manly, and Merrill
- Bruce G. Marcot, M.Torre Jorgenson, James P. Lawler, Colleen M. Handel, Anthony R. DeGange. 2015. Projected changes in wildlife habitats in Arctic natural areas of northwest Alaska
- Bruce G. Marcot, Daniel C. Elbert. 2015. Assessing management of raptor predation management for snowy plover recovery
- Mark Torre Jorgenson, Bruce G. Marcot, David K. Swanson, Janet C. Jorgenson, Anthony R. DeGange. 2015. Projected changes in diverse ecosystems from climate warming and biophysical drivers in northwest Alaska
- Bruce G. Marcot, Peter Singleton, Nathan H. Schumaker. 2015. Analysis of sensitivity and uncertainty in an individual-based model of a threatened wildlife species
- Bruce G. Marcot, M. Torre Jorgenson, Anthony R. DeGange. 2014. Low-altitude photographic transects of the Arctic network of national park units and Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, July 2013
- Bruce G. Marcot, Martin G. Raphael, Nathan H. Schumaker, Beth Galleher. 2013. How big and how close? Habitat patch size and spacing to conserve a threatened species
- Anthony R. DeGange, Bruce G. Marcot, James Lawler, Torre Jorgenson, Robert Winfree. 2013. Predicting the effects of climate change on ecosystems and wildlife habitat in northwest Alaska: results from the WildCast project
- Matthew P. Thompson, Bruce G. Marcot, Frank R. Thompson, Steve McNulty, Larry A. Fisher, Michael C. Runge, David Cleaves, Monica Tomosy. 2013. The science of decisionmaking: applications for sustainable forest and grassland management in the National Forest System
- Bruce G. Marcot. 2012. Metrics for evaluating performance and uncertainty of Bayesian network models
- Bruce G. Marcot, Matthew P. Thompson, Michael C. Runge, Frank R. Thompson, Steve McNulty, David Cleaves, Monica Tomosy, Larry A. Fisher, Andrew Bliss. 2012. Recent advances in applying decision science to managing national forests
- Ashish Kumar, Bruce G. Marcot, Gautam Talukdar, P.S. Roy. 2012. Application of geoinformatics for landscape assessment and conserving forest biodiversity in northeast India
- Bruce G. Marcot, Chris S. Allen, Steve Morey, Dan Shively, Rollie White. 2012. An expert panel approach to assessing potential effects of bull trout reintroduction on federally listed salmonids in the Clackamas River, Oregon
- Bruce G. Marcot, Ashish Kumar, G. Talukdar, A.K. Srivastava. 2011. Habitat relationships of Asian elephants in shifting-cultivation landscapes of Meghalaya, Northeast India
- Randy Molina, Thomas R. Horton, James M. Trappe, Bruce G. Marcot. 2011. Addressing uncertainty: how to conserve and manage rare or little-known fungi
- Jonathan N. Pauli, John P. Whiteman, Bruce G. Marcot, Terry M. McClean, Merav Ben-David. 2011. DNA-based approach to aging martens (Martes americana and M. caurina)
- Chadwick V. Jay, Bruce G. Marcot, David C. Douglas. 2011. Projected status of the Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) in the twenty-first century
- A. Kumar, Bruce G. Marcot, G. Talukdar. 2010. Designing a protected area network for conservation planning in Jhum landscapes of Garo Hills, Meghalaya
- Ashish Kumar, Bruce G. Marcot. 2010. Key tiger habitats in the Garo Hills of Meghalaya
- Steven C. Amstrup, Eric T. DeWeaver, David C. Douglas, Bruce G. Marcot, George M. Durner, Cecilia M. Bitz, David A. Bailey. 2010. Greenhouse gas mitigation can reduce sea-ice loss and increase polar bear persistence
- Bruce G. Marcot, Janet Ohmann, Kim L. Mellen-McLean, Karen Waddell. 2010. Synthesis of regional wildlife and vegetation field studies to guide management of standing and down dead trees
- Steven C. Amstrup, Hal Caswell, Eric DeWeaver, Ian Stirling, David C. Douglas, Bruce G. Marcot, Christine M. Hunter. 2009. Rebuttal of "Polar bear population forecasts: a public-policy forecasting audit"
- Martin G. Raphael, Randy Molina, Bruce G. Marcot, Deanna H. Olson, Jonathan Thompson. 2008. Conservation of biological diversity: all things considered
- Bruce G. Marcot, Curtis H. Flather. 2007. Species-level strategies for conserving rare or little-known species [Chapter 6]
- Steven C. Amstrup, Bruce G. Marcot, David C. Douglas. 2007. Forecasting the Range-wide Status of Polar Bears at Selected Times in the 21st Century
- Bruce G. Marcot, Carolyn H. Sieg. 2007. System-level strategies for conserving rare or little-known species
- Martin G. Raphael, Randy Molina, Curtis H. Flather, Richard S. Holthausen, Richard L. Johnson, Bruce G. Marcot, Deanna H. Olson, John D. Peine, Carolyn H. Sieg, Cindy S. S. Swanson. 2007. A process for selection and implementation of conservation approaches
- Ashish Kumar, Bruce G. Marcot, P.S. Roy. 2006. Spatial patterns and processes for shifting cultivation landscape in Garo Hills, India.
- Randy Molina, Bruce G. Marcot, Robin Lesher. 2006. Protecting rare, old-growth, forest-associated species under the Survey and Manage program guidelines of the northwest forest plan.
- Bruce G. Marcot. 2006. Habitat modeling for biodiversity conservation.
- Bruce G. Marcot. 2005. The ecological and cultural functions of invertebrates in the Congo River basin.
- Thomas A. O'Neil, Pete Bettinger, Bruce G. Marcot, B. Wayne Luscombe, Gregory T. Koeln, Howard J. Bruner, Charley Barrett, Jennifer A. Pollock, Susan Bernatas. 2005. Application of spatial technologies in wildlife biology.
- Bruce G. Marcot, Grant Gunderson, Kim Mellen, Janet Ohmann. 2004. DecAID advisor: a tool for managing snags, down wood and wood decay in PNW forests.
- Kim Mellen, Bruce G. Marcot, Janet Ohmann, Karen Waddell, Susan A. Livingston, Elizabeth A. Willhite, Bruce B. Hostetler, Catherine Ogden, Tina Dreisbach. 2004. DecAID: the decayed wood advisor for managing snags, partially dead trees, and down wood for biodiversity in the forests of Washington and Oregon.
- Bruce G. Marcot, Barbara Wales, Rick Demmer. 2003. Range maps of terrestrial species in the interior Columbia River basin and northern portions of the Klamath and Great Basins.
- Kim Mellen, Bruce G. Marcot, Janet Ohmann, Karen Waddell, Elizabeth A. Willhite, Bruce B. Hostetler, Susan A. Livingston, Cay Ogden. 2002. DecAID: a decaying wood advisory model for Oregon and Washington.
- Allen Cooperrider, Reed F. Noss, Hart Welsh, Carlos Carroll, Bill Zielinski, David D. Olson, S. Kim Nelson, Bruce G. Marcot. 2000. Terrestrial fauna of redwood forests
- Bruce G. Marcot, L.K. Croft, J.F. Lehmkuhl, R.H. Naney, C.G. Niwa, W.R. Owen, R.E. Sandquist. 1998. Macroecology, paleoecology, and ecological integrity of terrestrial species and communities of the interior Columbia basin and northern portions of the Klamath and Great Basins.
- Bruce G. Marcot, Jack Ward Thomas. 1997. Of spotted owls, old growth, and new policies: a history since the Interagency Scientific Committee report.
- Bruce G. Marcot. 1997. Research information needs on terrestrial vertebrate species of the interior Columbia basin and northern portions of the Klamath and Great Basins: a research, development, and application database.
- Bruce G. Marcot. 1995. Owls of old forests of the world.
- Bruce G. Marcot, Michael Wisdom, Hiram W. Li, Gonzalo C. Castillo. 1994. Managing for featured, threatened, endangered, and sensitive species and unique habitats for ecosystem sustainability.
- Andrew B. Carey, Valen E. Castellano, Christopher Chappell, Robert Kuntz, Richard W. Lundquist, Bruce G. Marcot, S. Kim Nelson, Paul Sulllivan, [Technical Compilers]. 1990. Training guide for bird identification in Pacific Northwest Douglas-fir forests.
- Oregon State University, Ph.D., Wildlife Science, 1984
- Natural Resources Science, M.S., Humboldt State University, 1978
- Natural Resources Planning, B.S., Humboldt State University, 1977
- College of the Redwoods, A.A., Biology, 1975
Last updated June 10, 2026