Mark Stephen Boyce 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.
[1] Among other topics, he has written extensively on population viability analysis and resource selection functions.
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.