select publications
adam moreira and brian mclaren. 2019. monitoring the effects of feeding in groups: behavioural trials in farmed elk in winter. applied animal behavioural science 212: 66-73. 10.1016/j.applanim.2019.01.010. see the popular version:
https://sciencetrends.com/behavioral-trials-of-farmed-elk-show-effects-of-group-feeding/
verónica caballero-serrano, brian mclaren, juan carlos carrasco, josu g. alday, luis fiallo, javier amigo, and miren onaindia. 2019. traditional ecological knowledge and medicinal plant diversity in ecuadorian amazon home gardens. global ecology and conservation 17: e00524.
brian e. mclaren, douglas macnearney, and carlos a. siavichay. 2018. livestock and the functional habitat of vicuñas in ecuador: a new puzzle. ecosphere 9(1): e02066. 10.1002/ecs2.2066.
verónica lucia caballero-serrano, josu alday, javier amigo, david caballero, juan carlos carrasco, brian mclaren, and miren onaindia. 2017. social perceptions of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the ecuadorian amazon. human ecology 45: 475-486.
julio a. aules, brian e. mclaren and fernando romero. 2017. contenido nutrimental del suelo y de la hojarasca del árbol pionero cecropia en bosques maduros y secundarios de la zona húmeda tropical del ecuador. oecologia australis 21(2): 182-190.
vijayan sundararaj, douglas w. morris, brian e. mclaren, and shomen mukherjee. 2017. domestic ungulates in protected areas and the potential for indirect interactions via shared predation. biodiversity 18(4): 129-136. doi: 10.1080/14888386.2017.1406405.
verónica caballero-serrano, miren onaindia, josu alday, david caballero, juan carlos carrasco, brian mclaren, and javier amigo. 2016. plant diversity and ecosystem services in the ecuadorian amazonian homegardens. agriculture, ecosystems and environment 225: 116-125.
arthur t. bergerud, brian e. mclaren, ludvik krysl, keith wade and william wyett. 2015. losing the predator-prey space race leads to extirpation of woodland caribou from pukaskwa national park. ecoscience 21: 374-386.