Mark Boyce (ecologist)

{{Short description|American academic}}

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| workplaces = {{ublist|University of Alberta|University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point|University of Wyoming}}

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| thesis_title = Life Histories in Variable Environments: Applications to Geographic Variation in the Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus)

| thesis_url = http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9850894

| thesis_year = 1977

| doctoral_advisor = Richard Samuel Miller

| academic_advisors = Samuel J. Harbo Jr.

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Mark Stephen Boyce {{post-nominals|country=CAN|FRSC}} (born May 24, 1950) is a professor of population ecology in the University of Alberta Department of Biological Sciences, and the Alberta Conservation Association Chair in Fisheries and Wildlife.[http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/faculty/mark_boyce/ University of Alberta Home Page] Among other topics, he has written extensively on population viability analysis and resource selection functions. Early work was on demography and life history evolution. In 1993 he began research on habitat selection and the integration of habitats with population biology. He initiated research on elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in 1977 and in 1988 was recruited by the National Park Service to build a simulation model to anticipate the consequences of wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone National Park. These simulation models were published by Yellowstone National Park to justify the ultimate release of wolves in 1995. Several graduate students and postdoctoral fellows continued the Yellowstone work.

After moving to the University of Alberta in 1999 most research has been on mammals and birds in Alberta.[https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=c7ZpqT0AAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar Profile]

In 2014, he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[http://uofa.ualberta.ca/news-and-events/newsarticles/2014/september/six-ualberta-faculty-members-named-to-royal-society University of Alberta Press Release]