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NWRC Annual Publications List 2013

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Allen B.L., Fleming P.J.S., Allen L.R., Engeman R.M.E., Ballard G., Leung L.K.P. 2013. As clear as mud: A critical review of evidence for the ecological roles of Australian dingoes. Biological Conservation 159:158-174. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2012.12.004.

Allison, A. B., D. J. Kohler, K. A. Fox, J. D. Brown, R. W. Gerhold, V. I. Shearn-Bochsler, E. J. Dubovi, C. R. Parrish, and E. C. Holmes. 2013. Frequent cross-species transmission of parvoviruses among diverse carnivore hosts. Journal of Virology 87:2342-2347.

Baruch-Mordo, S., C. T. Webb, S. W. Breck, and K. R. Wilson. 2013. Use of patch selection models as a decision support tool to evaluate mitigation strategies of human-wildlife conflict. Biological Conservation 160:263-271.

Baldwin R.A., Marcum D.B., Orloff S.B., Vasquez S.J., Wilen C.A.W., Engeman R.M. 2013. The influence of trap type and cover status on capture rates of pocket gophers in California. Crop Protection 46: 7-12.

Biondi, K.M., J.L. Belant, T.L. DeVault, J.A. Martin, and G. Wang. 2013. Bat incidents with U.S. civil aircraft. Acta Chiropterologica 15(1): 185-192. doi: 10.3161/15081 1013X667984.

Blackwell B.F., Seamans T.W., Schmidt P.M., De Vault T.L., Belant J.L., Whittingham M.J., Martin J.A. and E. Fernández-Juricic. 2013. A framework for managing airport grasslands and birds amidst conflicting priorities. Ibis 155:189-193.

Brown V.L., Drake J.M., Stallknecht D.E., Brown J.D., Pedersen K. and P. Rohani. 2013. Dissecting a wildlife disease hotspot: the impact of multiple host species, environmental transmission and seasonality in migration, breeding and mortality. J R Soc Interface 10:20120804. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0804.

Buuveibaatar, B., J. K. Young, J. Berger, A. E. Fine, B. Lkhagvasuren, P. Zahler, and T. K. Fuller. 2013. Factors affecting survival and cause-specific mortality of saiga calves in Mongolia. Journal of Mammalogy 94:127-136.

Campbell, T.A., D.B. Long, S.A. Shriner. 2013. Wildlife contact rates at artificial feeding sites in Texas. Environmental Management 51(6): 1187-1193. doi: 10.1007/s00267-013-0046-4.

Carlson, J. C., S. K. Tupper, S. J. Werner, S. E. Pettit, M. M. Santer, and G. M. Linz. 2013. Laboratory efficacy of an anthraquinone-based repellent for reducing bird damage to ripening corn. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 145:26-31.

Delgado-Acevedo , J., R.W. DeYoung and T.A.Campbell. 2013. Effects of local-scale removals on feral swine populations in southern Texas. International Journal of Pest Management 2013. 1-6. DOI:10.1080/09670874.2013.776723.

Dubey, J.P., S. Choudhary, O.C.H. Kwok, L.R. Ferreira, S. Oliveira, S.K. Verma, D.R. Marks, K. Pedersen, R.M. Mickley, A.R. Randall, D. Arsnoe, and C. Su. 2013. Isolation and genetic characterization of Toxoplasma gondii from mute swan (Cygnus olor) from the USA. Veterinary Parasitology 195: 42-46.

Ellison, J. A., S. R. Johnson, N. Kuzmina, A. Gilbert, W. C. Carson, K. C. Vercauteren, and C. E. Rupprecht. 2013. Multidisciplinary Approach to Epizootiology and Pathogenesis of Bat Rabies Viruses in the United States. Zoonoses and Public Health 60:46-57.

Engeman, R.M., K.J. Couturier, R.K. Felix Jr., and M.L. Avery. 2013. Feral swine disturbance at important archaeological sites. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 20:4093-4098. DOI: 10.1007/s11356-012-1367-1

Engeman, R.M., W.C. Pitt, A.R. Berentsen and J.D. Eisemann. 2013. Assessing spatial variation and overall density of aerially broadcast toxic bait during a rat eradication on Palmyra Atoll. Environmental Science and Pollution Research Institute. 20:480–487. DOI 10.1007/s11356-012-1050-6.

Fischer, J.W., W.D. Walter, and M.L. Avery. 2013. Brownian bridge movement models to characterize birds' home ranges. The Condor 115(2):298-305. DOI: 10.1525/cond.2013.110168

Gilbert-Norton, L.B.; Wilson, R.R.; Shivik, J.A. 2013. The Effect of Social Hierarchy on Captive Coyote (Canis latrans) Foraging Behavior. Ethology 119(4): 335-343.

Hartmann, J.W., S.F. Beckerman, T.W. Seamans, R.M. Engeman, and S. Beazley. 2013. Report to the City of Chicago on conflicts with ring-billed gulls and the 2012 integrated ring-billed gull damage management project. Chicago, USDA, Wildlife Services.

Hobson E.A., Avery M.L., Wright T.F. 2013. An analytical framework for quantifying and testing patterns of temporal dynamics in social networks. Animal Behaviour 85:83-96. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.10.010.

Homan H.J., Stahl R.S., Linz G.M. 2013. Comparison of two models for estimating mortality from baitings with Compound DRC-1339 Concentrate avicide. Crop Protection 45:71-75.

Hopken, M. W., M. R. Douglas, and M. E. Douglas. 2012. Stream hierarchy defines riverscape genetics of a North American desert fish. Molecular Ecology 22: 956-971.

Horn, C. C., B. A. Kimball, H. Wang, J. Kaus, S. Dienel, A. Nagy, G. R. Gathright, B. J. Yates, and P. L. Andrews. 2013. Why Can't Rodents Vomit? A Comparative Behavioral, Anatomical, and Physiological Study. PloS one 8:e60537.

Kunkel, K. E., D. H. Pletscher, T. C. Atwood, T. K. Ruth, and M. G. Hornocker. 2013. Assessing wolves and cougars as conservation surrogates. Animal conservation 16:32-40.

Longcore, T., C. Rich, P. Mineau, B. MacDonald, D. G. Bert, L. M. Sullivan, E. Mutrie, S. A. Gauthreaux, M. L. Avery, R. L. Crawford, A. M. Manville, E. R. Travis, and D. Drake. 2013. Avian mortality at communication towers in the United States and Canada: Which species, how many, and where? Biological Conservation 158:410-419.

Mathies, T., Levine, B., Engeman, R. and Savidge, J.A. 2013. Pheromonal control of the invasive brown treesnake: potency of female sexual attractiveness pheromone varies with ovarian state. International Journal of Pest Management. DOI:10.1080/09670874.2013.784374.

Mayle, B. A., M. Ferryman, A. Peace, C. A. Yoder, L. Miller, and D. Cowan. 2013. The use of DiazaCon™ to limit fertility by reducing serum cholesterol in female grey squirrels, Sciurus carolinensis. Pest Management Science 69:414-424.

Moulton, M.P., W.P. Cropper, Jr., M.L. Avery. 2013. Is propagule size the critical factor in predicting introduction outcomes in passeriform birds? Biological Invasions 15: 1449-1458. doi: 10.1007/s10530-012-0383-x.

Nichols, T.A., T.R. Spraker, T.D. Rigg, C. Meyerett-Reid, C. Hoover, et al. (2013) Intranasal Inoculation of White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) with Lyophilized Chronic Wasting Disease Prion Particulate Complexed to Montmorillonite Clay. PLoS ONE 8(5): e62455. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062455

Pender, R. J., A. B. Shiels, L. Bialic-Murphy, and S. M. Mosher. 2013. Large-scale rodent control reduces pre- and post-dispersal seed predation of the endangered Hawaiian lobeliad, Cyanea superba subsp. superba (Campanulaceae). Biological Invasions 15:213-223.

Poessel, S. A., S. W. Breck, T. L. Teel, S. Shwiff, K. R. Crooks, and L. Angeloni. 2013. Patterns of human-coyote conflicts in the Denver Metropolitan Area. Journal of Wildlife Management 77:297-305.

Poessel, S. A., Gese, E.M. 2013. Den attendance patterns in swift foxes during pup rearing: varying degrees of parental investment within the breeding pair. Journal of Ethnology 31: 193-201.

Root J.J. 2013. West Nile virus associations in wild mammals: a synthesis. Archives of Virology: 158(4): 735-752. DOI: 10.1007/s00705-012-1516-3.

Shiels, A. B., C. A. Flores, A. Khamsing, P. D. Krushelnycky, S. M. Mosher, and D. R. Drake. 2013. Dietary niche differentiation among three species of invasive rodents (Rattus rattus, R. exulans, Mus musculus). Biological Invasions 15:1037-1048.

Shwiff, S., K. Hampson, and A. Anderson. 2013. Potential economic benefits of eliminating canine rabies. Antiviral Research 98:352-356.

Taylor, J. 2013. Effects of Black-tailed deer and Roosevelt elk herbivory in intensively managed Douglas-fir plantations. Western Forester 58(2): 4-5.

Thomas, J.F., R.M. Engeman, E.A. Tillman, J.W. Fischer, S.L. Orzell, D.H. Glueck, R.K. Felix, and M.L. Avery. 2013. Optimizing line intercept sampling and estimation for feral swine damage levels in ecologically sensitive wetland plant communities. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 20:1503-1510. DOI 10.1007/s11356-012-1004-z.

Thompson C.M., Gese E.M. 2013. Influence of vegetation structure on the small mammal community in a shortgrass prairie ecosystem. Acta Theriologica 58:55-61. DOI: 10.1007/s13364-012-0098-5.

Walter, W.D., J.W. Fischer, C.W. Anderson, D.R. Marks, T. DeLiberto, W. Robbe-Austerman, K.C. VerCauteren. 2013. Surveillance and movements of Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) in the bovine tuberculosis region of Michigan. Epidemiology and Infection 141: 1498-1503. doi: 10.1017/S0950268813000629.

Wang C, Y. Zhang, B. Wu, S. Liu, P. Xu, et al. 2013. Evolutionary Characterization of the Pandemic H1N1/2009 Influenza Virus in Humans Based on Non-Structural Genes. PLoS ONE 8(2): e56201. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056201.

Washburn, B. E., G. E. Bernhardt, L. Kutschbach-Brohl, R. B. Chipman, and L. C. Francoeur. 2013. Foraging ecology of four gull species at a coastal-urban interface. Condor 115:67-76.

Washburn, B.E., P.J. Cisar, T.L. DeVault. 2013. Wildlife strikes to civil helicopters in the US, 1990-2011. Transportation Research Part D (2013) 83-88. doi 10.1016/j.trd2013.06.004.

Wyckoff, A. C., K. L. Lockwood, C. Meyerett-Reid, B. A. Michel, H. Bender, K. C. VerCauteren, and M. D. Zabel. 2013. Estimating Prion Adsorption Capacity of Soil by BioAssay of Subtracted Infectivity from Complex Solutions (BASICS). PloS one 8. 10.1371/journal.pone.0058630