COLORADO PARKS & WILDLIFE

Current or Recent Research Projects

• Mitigating Impacts of Energy Development on Piceance Basin Mule Deer Populations

• Peterson, M.E., C. R. Anderson Jr., J. M. Northrup, and P. F. Doherty Jr. 2018. Mortality of mule deer fawns in a natural gas development area. The Journal of Wildlife Management 82:1135–1148. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21476 
  
• Bergman, E. J., C. R. Anderson, Jr., C. J. Bishop, A. A. Holland, and J. M. Northrup. 2017. Variation in ungulate body fat: individual versus temporal effects. The Journal of Wildlife Management 82:130–137. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21334
• Peterson, M. E., C. R. Anderson Jr., J. M. Northrup, and P. F. Doherty Jr. 2017. Reproductive success of mule deer in a natural gas development area. Wildlife Biology 4:1-5. https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00341
  
• Northrup, J. M., C. R. Anderson, Jr., and G. Wittemyer. 2015. Quantifying spatial habitat loss from hydrocarbon development through assessing habitat selection patterns of mule deer. Global Change Biology 21:3961–3970. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13037
• Searle, K. R., M. B. Rice, C. R. Anderson, C. Bishop and N. T. Hobbs. 2015. Asynchronous vegetation phenology enhances winter body condition of a large mobile herbivore. Oecologia 179:377–391. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442–015–3348–9
• Lendrum, P. E., C. R. Anderson, Jr., K. L. Monteith, J. A. Jenks, R. T. Bowyer. 2014. Relating the movement of a rapidly migrating ungulate to spatiotemporal patterns of forage quality. Mammalian Biology 79:369–375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2014.05.005
• Lynch, E., J. M. Northrup, M. F. McKenna, C. R. Anderson, Jr., L. Angeloni, and G. Wittemyer. 2014. Landscape and anthropogenic features influence the use of auditory vigilance by mule deer. Behavioral Ecology 26:75–82. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/aru158
• Northrup, J. M., A. B. A. Shafer, C. R. Anderson, Jr., D. W. Coltman, and G. Wittemyer. 2014. Fine–scale genetic correlates to condition and migration in a wild cervid. Evolutionary Applications 7:937–948. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12189
• Freeman, E. D., R. T. Larsen, M. E. Peterson, C. R. Anderson, Jr., K. R. Hersey, B. R. McMillan. 2014. Effects of male‐biased harvest on mule deer: implications for rates of pregnancy, synchrony, and timing of parturition. Wildlife Society Bulletin 38:806–811. https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.450 
• Northrup, J. M., C. R. Anderson, Jr., and G. Wittemyer. 2014. Effects of helicopter capture and handling on movement behavior of mule deer. The Journal of Wildlife Management 78:731–738. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.705
• Northrup, J. M., M. B. Hooten, C. R. Anderson, Jr., and G. Wittemyer. 2013. Practical guidance on characterizing availability in resource selection functions under a use–availability design. Ecology 94:1456‐1463. https://doi.org/10.1890/12–1688.1
• Lendrum, P. E., C. R. Anderson, Jr., K. L. Monteith, J. A. Jenks and R. T. Bowyer. 2013. Migrating mule deer: effects of anthropogenically altered landscapes. PLoS ONE 8(5): e64548.  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064548
  
• Lendrum, P. E., C. R. Anderson, Jr., R. A. Long, J. G. Kie, and R. T. Bowyer. 2012. Habitat selection by mule deer during migration: effects of landscape structure and natural–gas development. Ecosphere 3:1–19. https://doi.org/10.1890/ES12–00165.1 
• Bishop, C. J, C. R. Anderson, Jr., D. P. Walsh, E. J. Bergman, P. Kuechle, and J. Roth. 2011. Effectiveness of a redesigned vaginal implant transmitter in mule deer. The Journal of Wildlife Management 75:1797-1806. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.229
  
• Anderson, C. R., Jr., F. G. Lindzey, K. H. Knopff, M. G. Jalkotzy, and M. S. Boyce. 2010. Cougar management in North America. Pages 41-54 in M. Hornocker and S. Negri, Editors. Cougar: Ecology and Conservation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA.
• Anderson, C. R., Jr., and F. G. Lindzey. 2005. Experimental evaluation of population trend and harvest composition in a Wyoming cougar population. Wildlife Society Bulletin 33:179-188. https://doi.org/10.2193/0091-7648(2005)33[179:EEOPTA]2.0.CO;2
  
• Anderson, C. R., Jr., F. G. Lindzey, and D. B. McDonald. 2004. Genetic structure of cougar populations across the Wyoming Basin: metapopulation or megapopulation. Journal of Mammalogy 85:1207-1214. https://doi.org/10.1644/BEL-111.1
  
• Anderson, C. R., Jr., and F. G. Lindzey. 2003. Estimating cougar predation rates from GPS location clusters. The Journal of Wildlife Management 67:307-316. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3802772
  
• Anderson, C. R., M. A. Ternent, and D. S. Moody. 2002. Grizzly bear-cattle interactions on two cattle allotments in northwest Wyoming. Ursus 13:247-256. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3873205
  

Education

• Ph.D., Zoology and Physiology — University of Wyoming, 2003
• M.S., Zoology and Physiology — University of Wyoming, 1994
• B.S., Wildlife Biology — Colorado State University, 1990

Current or Recent Positions

• Mammals Researcher Section Leader — Colorado Parks and Wildlife, 2013-Present
• Wildlife Researcher — Colorado Parks and Wildlife, 2006-2013
• Affiliate Faculty — Idaho State University, 2009-Present
• Affiliate Faculty — Colorado State University, 2012-Present