Publications


  1. Jajeh, A. R., Golden, K. M., Deming, J. W., & Reimer, J. R. Sea ice algae as victims of their own success. (PREPRINT) pdf.
  2. LaPrete, C. R., Ahmed, S. M., Toth, D. J. A., Reimer, J. R., Vaughn, V. M., Adler, F. R., & Keegan, L. T. (2025) A Theoretical Framework to Quantify the Tradeoff Between Individual and Population Benefits of Expanded Antibiotic Use. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 87(68). doi:10.1007/s11538-025-01432-2. pdf.
  3. Upham-Mills, E. J., Crosby, A. D., Reimer, J. R., Hache, S., Stehelin, T., & Bayne, E. M. (2025) Accurate prediction of olive‐sided flycatcher breeding status using song rate measured with autonomous recording units. The Journal of Wildlife Management. doi:10.1002/jwmg.70026. pdf.
  4. Poulsen, G. R., Plunkett, C. E., & Reimer, J. R. (2024) First passage times of long transient dynamics in ecology. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 86(34). doi:10.1007/s11538-024-01259-3. pdf.
  5. Bryant, S., Reimer, J. R., Kreibich, H., & Merz, B. (2024) Aggregating flood damage functions: The peril of Jensen's gap. Journal of Flood Risk Management. 18(1):e213053. doi:10.1111/jfr3.13053doi. pdf.
  6. Arehart, E., Reimer, J. R., & Adler, F. R. (2023) Strategy maps: Generalised giving‐up densities for optimal foraging. Ecology Letters, 26(3):398-410. doi:10.1111/ele.14160. pdf.
  7. Swadling, K. M., Constable, A. J., Fraser, A. D., Massom, R. A., … Reimer, J. R., … & Wotherspoon, S. (2023) Biological responses to change in Antarctic sea ice habitats. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10:1254. doi:10.3389/fevo.2022.1073823. pdf.
  8. Reimer, J. R., Adler, F. R., Golden, K. M., & Narayan, A. (2022) Uncertainty quantification for ecological models with random parameters. Ecology Letters, 25(10):2232-2244. doi:10.1111/ele.14095. pdf.
  9. Reimer, J. R., Arroyo-Esquivel, J., Jiang, J., Scharf, H. R., Wolkovich, E. M., Zhu, K., & Boettiger, C. (2021) Noise can create or erase long transient dynamics. Theoretical Ecology, 14(4):685-695. doi:10.1007/s12080-021-00518-6. pdf.
  10. Berg, J., Reimer, J. R., Smolko, P., Bohm, H., Hebblewhite, M., & Merrill E. (2021) Mothers' movements: Shifts in calving area selection by partially migratory elk. Journal of Wildlife Management, 85(7):1476-1489. doi:10.1002/jwmg.22099. pdf.
  11. Peers*, M. J. L.; Reimer*, J. R., Majchrzak, Y. N., Menzies, A. K., Studd, E. K., Boonstra, R., Kenney, A., Krebs, C. J., O'Donoghue, M., & Boutin, S. (2021) Contribution of late-litter juveniles to the population dynamics of snowshoe hares. Oecologia, 195:949–957. doi:10.1007/s00442-021-04895-x. (* shared first author) pdf.
  12. Reimer, J. R., Ahmed, S. M., Brintz, B., Shah, R. U., Keegan, L. T., Ferrari, M. J., & Leung, D. T. (2021) The effects of using a clinical prediction rule to prioritize diagnostic testing on transmission and hospital burden: a modeling example of early Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 73(10):1822-1830. doi:10.1093/cid/ciab177. pdf and infographic.
  13. Nagy-Reis*, M. B., Reimer*, J. R., Lewis, M. A., Jensen, W., & Boyce, M. S. (2021) Aligning Population Models with Data: Adaptive Management for Big Game Harvests. Global Ecology and Conservation, 26:e01501. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01501. (* shared first author) pdf.
  14. Johnson, A. C., Reimer, J. R., Lunn, N. J., Stirling, I. McGeachy, D., & Derocher, A. E. (2020) Influence of sea ice dynamics on population energetics of Western Hudson Bay polar bears. Conservation Physiology, 8(1):coaa132. doi:10.1093/conphys/coaa132. pdf. Featured by journal here: pdf.
  15. Klappstein, N., Togunov, R., Reimer, J. R., Lunn, N., & Derocher, A. E. (2020) Patterns of sea ice drift and polar bear (Ursus maritimus) movement in Hudson Bay. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 641:227-240. doi:10.3354/meps13293. pdf.
  16. Upham-Mills, E., Reimer, J. R., Haché, S., Lele, S., & Bayne, E. (2020) Can singing rate be used to predict male breeding status of forest songbirds? A comparison of three calibration models. Ecosphere, 11(1):e03005. doi:10.1002/ecs2.3005. pdf. In the press: here, and here.
  17. Reimer, J. R., Mangel, M., Derocher, A. E., & Lewis, M. A. (2019) Matrix methods for stochastic dynamic programming in ecology and evolutionary biology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(11):1952-1961. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13291. pdf, infographic, and blog post. Shortlisted for the Robert May Prize.
  18. Reimer, J. R., Mangel, M., Derocher, A. E., & Lewis, M. A. (2019) Modelling optimal responses and fitness consequences in a changing Arctic. Global change biology, 25(10):3450-346. doi:10.1111/gcb.14681. pdf, and infographic panel 1 and panel 2. Journal cover image,
  19. Reimer, J. R., Caswell H., Derocher A. E., & Lewis M. A. (2019) Ringed seal demography in a changing climate. Ecological applications, 29(3):e01855. doi: 10.1002/eap.1855 pdf and infographic. In the press: here, here, here, and here (in Spanish),
  20. Reimer, J. R., Brown, H., Beltaos-Kerr, E., & de Vries, G. (2018) Evidence of intraspecific prey switching: stage-structured predation of polar bears on ringed seals. Oecologia, 189(1):133-148. doi: 10.1007/s00442-018-4297-x. pdf and infographic
  21. Yee, M., Reimer, J. R., Lunn, N. J., Togunov, R. R., Pilfold, N. W., McCall, A. G., & Derocher, A. E. (2017) Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) migration from maternal dens in western Hudson Bay. Arctic, 70(3):319-327. doi: 10.14430/arctic4668 pdf, Appendices
  22. Reimer, J. R., Bonsall, M. B., & Maini, P. K. (2017) The critical domain size of stochastic population models. Journal of mathematical biology, 74(3):755-782. doi: 10.1007/s00285-016-1021-5 pdf
  23. Reimer, J. R., Bonsall, M. B., & Maini, P. K. (2016) Approximating the critical domain size of integrodifference equations. Bulletin of mathematical biology, 78(1):72-109. doi: 10.1007/s11538-015-0129-x pdf
  24. Malik, T., Reimer, J. R., Gumel, A., Elbasha, E. H., & Mahmud, S. (2013) The impact of an imperfect vaccine and pap cytology screening on the transmission of human papillomavirus and occurrence of associated cervical dysplasia and cancer. Mathematical Biosciences & Engineering, 10(4):1173-1205. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2013.10.1173 pdf