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Lucina co-authored an article with John Laundré in the 2009 book Cougar: Ecology and Conservation, edited by Maurice Hornocker and Sharon Negri. Their article is titled "What we know about pumaa in Latin America."

Lucina also co-published an article with John Laundré and Susan Clark on mountain lion predation in Idaho: Laundré, J. W., L. Hernández, and S.G. Clark. 2006. Impact of puma predation on the decline and recovery of a mule deer population in southeastern Idaho. Can J Zool 84:1555-65.

Lucina Hernández, Ph.D.

Lucina HernandezLucina is working on a long-term project measuring the impact of changing climate factors and the various herbivore communities on the vegetation communities of the Mapimi desert of Mexico. She has done field research on coyotes in Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert and on bison, elk, gray wolves, bighorn sheep, and cougars in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.