Cara N. LoveEcology and Evolutionary BiologyPrinceton University
2026

Ecological nuance and comparative parasitology of sympatric canids in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone

Love CN, Webster SC, Byrne ME, Shamovich D, Schlichting P, Beasley JC, Hinton T, Dombrovski V, Lance SL

International Journal of Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife · doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2026.101281

2026

Signatures of radiation-induced stress and putative selection on immune targets in Chornobyl wolves

Love CN, Lance SL, Rochette N, Hinton TG, Beasley JC, Shamovich D, Nadel B, Webster SC, Byrne ME, Campbell-Staton S

Molecular Ecology · doi.org/10.1111/mec.70308

2025

Accumulation and methylation of atmospheric mercury in Carolina Bay wetlands sediments in the Southeastern United States

Chongyang Q, Scott DE, Lance SL, Calloway D, Love CN, Xu X

Environmental Research · doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2025.123139

2024

Fundamentals of wildlife dosimetry and lessons learned from a decade of measuring external dose rates in the field

Hinton TG, Anderson D, Bæk E, Baranwale VC, Beasley JC, Bontrager HL, Broggio D, Brown J, Byrne ME, Gerk H, Ishiniwa H, Lance SL, Lind O, Love CN, Nagata H, Nanba K, Okuda K, Salbu B, Shamovich D, Skuterud L, Trompier F, Webster SC, Viachaslau Zabrotski

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity · doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2024.107472

2024
Conference abstract

Abstract 7322: Polygenic adaptation and co-regulatory dynamics in Chernobyl wolves: unveiling immune and oncogenic stress interactions with implications for human cancer resilience

Yu CY, Love CN, Belete M, Chandrupatla H, Brady LK, Sridhar S, Campbell-Staton SC

Cancer Research · doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.AM2024-7322

2020

Integration of ecosystem science into radioecology: a consensus perspective

Rhodes OE, Bréchignac F, Bradshaw C, Hinton TG, Mothersill C, … Lance S, Laptyev G, Love C, Manglass L, … Zimmerman J

Science of the Total Environment · doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140031

2019

GPS-coupled contaminant monitors on free-ranging Chernobyl wolves challenge a fundamental assumption in exposure assessments

Hinton TG, Byrne ME, Webster SC, Love CN, Broggio D, Trompier F, Shamovich D, Horloogin S, Lance SL, Brown J, Dowall M, Beasley JC

Environment International · doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.105152

2019

Efficiency and composition of vertebrate scavengers at the land-water interface in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Schlichting P, Love CN, Webster SC, Beasley JC

Food Webs · 10.1016/j.fooweb.2018.e00107

2018

Variation in amphibian metal tolerance associated with population exposure history

Flynn RW, Love CN, Coleman A, Lance SL

Aquatic Toxicology · 10.1016/j.aquatox.2018.12.009

2018

Evidence of long-distance dispersal of a gray wolf from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Byrne M, Webster S, Lance S, Love CN, Hinton T, Shamovich D, Beasley JC

European Journal of Wildlife Research · 10.1007/s10344-018-1201-2

2017
Conference proceedings

If you do not shoot: the number, territorial structure and predation of the wolf in the winter period 2016–2017 in the Chernobyl zone

Dombrovsky V, Beasley JC, Schlichting P, Webster S, Love CN, Shamovich D

Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Modern Problems of Hunting and Preservation of Biodiversity”

2016

Patterns of amphibian disease prevalence across contaminated and uncontaminated wetlands on the Savannah River Site, S.C.

Love CN, Winzeler ME, Beasley R, Nunziata SO, Scott DE, Lance SL

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms · 10.3354/dao03039

2016

Where the wild things are: influence of radiation on the distribution of mammalian species within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Webster SC, Byrne ME, Lance SL, Love CN, Hinton T, Shamovich D, Beasley JC

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 10.1002/fee.1227

2014

Testing for associations between hematozoa infection and mercury in wading bird nestlings

Bryan AL, Love CN, Mills GL, Borkhataria RR, Lance SL

Journal of Wildlife Diseases 1:222–226 · 10.7589/2013-12-332

2014

Development of twenty-one polymorphic microsatellite markers for the fungus-growing ant Mycocepurus goeldii (Formicidae: Attini) using Illumina paired-end genomic sequencing

Rabeling C, Love CN, Lance SL, Jones KL, Pierce NE, Bacci Jr. M

Conservation Genetics Resources 6:739–741 · 10.1007/s12686-014-0204-x