National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC)

Publications--Economics

09-SHWIFF, S. A., R. T. STERNER, R. HALE, M. T. JAY, B. SUN, AND D. SLATE. 2009. Benefit cost scenarios of potential oral rabies vaccination for skunks in California. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 45:227-233. 316K

09-STERNER, R. T. 2009. The economics of threatened species conservation: a review and analysis. Pages 213-235 in  J. B. Aronoff ,editor. Handbook of Nature Conservation. Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, New York. 1, 873K

09-STERNER, R. T., M. I. MELTZER, S. A. SHWIFF, AND D. SLATE. 2009. Tactics and economics of wildlife oral rabies vaccination, Canada and the United States. Emerging Infectious Diseases 15:1176-1184 (+ 3 technical appendices[various pagings]). 895K

2008

08-SEMENTELLI, A., H. T. SMITH, W. E. MESHAKA JR., AND R. M. ENGEMAN. 2008. Just green iguanas? Public Works Management & Policy 12:599-606 159K

08-SHWIFF, S. A., K. N. KIRKPATRICK, T. L. DEVAULT, A. J. VANDEVALK, J. T. H. COLEMAN, AND J. R. JACKSON. 2008. Methodology to quantify the economic impact of the double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) to the Oneida Lake Region, New York. Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference 23:103-107. 458K

08-SHWIFF, S. A., K. N. KIRKPATRICK, AND R. T. STERNER. 2008. Economic evaluation of an oral rabies vaccination program for control of a domestic dog-coyote rabies epizootic: 1995-2006. JAVMA 233:1736-1741. 341K

08-SHWIFF, S. A., K. N. KIRKPATRICK, R. T. STERNER, AND K. GEBHARDT. 2008. The economic impacts of bird and rodent damage to California crops: a methodology to select counties for input-output modeling. Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference 23:286-289. 352K

08-STERNER, R. T. 2008. The IPM paradigm: vertebrates, economics, and uncertainty. Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference 23:194-200. 261K

08-STERNER, R. T. 2008. Reducing the uncertainty of IPM economics. Pages 163-181 in  E. N. Burton and P. V. Williams, editors. Crop Protection Research Advances. Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, New York. 1,111K

08-STERNER, R. T., B. SUN, J. B. BOURASSA, R. L. HALE, S. A. SHWIFF, M. T. JAY, AND D. SLATE. 2008. Skunk rabies in California (1992-2003)--implications for oral rabies vaccination. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 44:1008-1013. 870K

2007

07-CAUDELL, J. N., AND S. A. SHWIFF. 2007. Modeling costs of using Ovocontrol G for managing nuisance Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) populations. Proceedings of the Wildlife Damage Management Conference 12:42-49. 64K

07-DUNBAR, M. R., R. T. STERNER, AND S. R. JOHNSON. 2007. Impacts of wildlife diseases in urban environments. Proceedings of the Wildlife Damage Management Conference 12:253-264. 351K

07-ENGEMAN, R. M., B. U. CONSTANTIN, S. A. SHWIFF, H. T. SMITH, J. WOOLARD, J. ALLEN, AND J. DUNLAP. 2007. Adaptive and economic management methods for feral hog control in Florida. Human-Wildlife Conflicts 1:178-185. 384K

07-ENGEMAN, R. M., A. STEVENS, J. ALLEN, J. DUNLAP, M. DANIEL, D. TEAGUE, AND B. CONSTANTIN. 2007. Feral swine management for conservation of an imperiled wetland habitat: Florida's vanishing seepage slopes. Biological Conservation 134:440-446. (PDF; 172KB)

07-ENGEMAN, R. M., J. WOOLARD, H. T. SMITH, J. BOURASSA, B. U. CONSTANTIN, AND D. GRIFFIN. 2007. An extraordinary patch of feral hog damage in Florida before and after initiating hog removal. Human-Wildlife Conflicts 1:271-275. 395K

07-SHWIFF, S. A., H. T. SMITH, R. M. ENGEMAN, R. M. BARRY, R. J. ROSSMANITH, AND M. NELSON. 2007. Bioeconomic analysis of herpetofauna road-kills in a Florida state park. Ecological Economics 64:181-185. 199K

07-SHWIFF, S. A., R. T. STERNER, M. T. JAY, S. PARIKH, A. BELLOMY, M. I. MELTZER, C. E. RUPPRECHT, AND D. SLATE. 2007. Direct and indirect costs of rabies exposure: a retrospective study in southern California (1998-2002). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 43:251-257.

2006

06-SHWIFF, S. A., R. T. STERNER, M. T. JAY, S. PARIKH, A. BELLOMY, M. I. MELTZER, C.E. RUPPRECHT, AND D. SLATE. Direct and indirect costs of rabies exposure: a retrospective study in southern California (1998 - 2002). Journal of Wildlife Diseases (in press) Attachments: Form A, Form B, Form C

06-STERNER, R. T., AND G. C. SMITH. 2006. Modelling wildlife rabies: transmission, economics, and conservation. Biological Conservation 131:163-179. 326K

2005

05-SHWIFF, S. A., R. T. STERNER, J. W. TURMAN, AND B. D. FOSTER. 2005. Ex post economic analysis of reproduction-monitoring and predator-removal variables associated with protection of the endangered California least tern. Ecological Economics 53:277-287. 517K

2004

04-88 SHWIFF, S. A. 2004. Economics in wildlife damage management studies: common problems and some solutions. Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference 21:346-349. 326K

04-96 STERNER, R. T. AND B. SUN. 2004. Relative factor costs of wildlife rabies impacts in the U. S. Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference 21:185-189. 347K

2003

03-37 ENGEMAN, R. M., H. T. SMITH, S. A. SHWIFF, B. CONSTANTIN, J. WOOLARD, M. NELSON, AND D. GRIFFIN. 2003. Prevalence and economic value of feral swine damage to native habitat in three Florida state parks. Environmental Conservation 30(4):319-324. 339K

03-85 SHWIFF, S. A., H. T. SMITH, A. M. BARD, T. V. HARBOR, G. W. HEATH, AND R. M. ENGEMAN. 2003. An economic analysis of a simple structural method to reduce road-kills of royal terns at bridges. Caribbean Journal of Science 39(2):250-253. 168K

2002

02-98 SHWIFF, S. A., AND R. T. STERNER. 2002. An economic framework for benefit-cost analysis in wildlife damage studies. Proceedings: Vertebrate Pest Conference 20:340-344. 357K

Publications--Monitoring and Tracking

08-BLAUM, N., R. M. ENGEMAN, B. WASIOLKA, AND E. ROSSMANITH. 2008. Indexing small mammalian carnivores in the southern Kalahari, South Africa. Wildlife Research 35:72-79. 346K

08-WHITE, N. A., R. M. ENGEMAN, R. T. SUGIHARA, AND H. W. KRUPA. 2008. A comparison of plotless density estimators using Monte Carlo simulation on totally enumerated field data sets. BMC Ecology 8. Online: www. biomedcentral. com/1472-6785/8/6. (DOI: 10. 1186/1472-6785-8-6) .

06-ENGEMAN, R. M., R. E. MARTIN, H. T. SMITH, J. WOOLARD, C. K. CRADY, B. CONSTANTIN, M. STAHL, AND N. P. GRONINGER. 2006. Impact on predation of sea turtle nests when predator control was removed midway through the nesting season. Wildlife Research 33:187-192. 120K

06-ENGEMAN, R., AND D. WHISSON. 2006. Using a general indexing paradigm to monitor rodent populations. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation 58:2-8. 148K

06-ENGEMAN, R., D. WHISSON, J. QUINN, F. CANO, P. QUINONES, AND T. H. WHITE JR. 2006. Monitoring invasive mammalian predator populations sharing habitat with the critically endangered Puerto Rican parrot Amazona vittata. Oryx 40:95-102. 129K

06-ENGEMAN, R. M., AND M. A. ENGEMAN. 2006. Bufo woodhousii (Woodhouse's toad) survival. Herpetological Review 37:442-443. 67K

06-ENGEMAN, R., J. W. WOOLARD, N. D. PERRY, G. WITMER, S. HARDIN, L. BRASHEARS, H. SMITH, B. MUIZNIEKS, AND B. CONSTANTIN. 2006. Rapid assessment for a new invasive species threat: the case of the Gambian giant pouched rat in Florida. Wildlife Research 33:439-448. 403K

06-TEMBY, I. D., AND R. M. ENGEMAN. 2006. A test of targeted and passive capture of Australian elapids with a brown tree snake trap. Journal for Nature Conservation 14:127-128. 118K

2005

05-23 ENGEMAN, R. M. 2005. Indexing principles and a widely applicable paradigm for indexing animal populations. Wildlife Research 32:203-210. 111K

05-24 ENGEMAN, R. M., B. CONSTANTIN, S. A. SHWIFF, H. T. SMITH, AND J. WOOLARD. 2005. Research to support and enhance feral swine removal efforts. Proceedings of the Australasian Vertebrate Pest Conference 13:69-74. 467K

05-26 ENGEMAN, R. M., R. E. MARTIN, H. T. SMITH, J. WOOLARD, C. K. CRADY, S. A. SHWIFF, B. CONSTANTIN, M. STAHL, AND J. GRINER. 2005. Dramatic reduction in predation on marine turtle nests through improved predator monitoring and management. Oryx 39:318-326. 95K

05-27 ENGEMAN, R. M., R. M. NIELSON, AND R. T. SUGIHARA. 2005. Evaluation of optimized variable area transect sampling using totally enumerated field data sets. Environmetrics 16:767-772. 59K

05-28 ENGEMAN, R. M., H. T. SMITH, AND B. CONSTANTIN. 2005. Invasive iguanas as airstrike hazards at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education and Research 14:45-50. 395K

05-61 MESHAKA, JR., W. E., H. T. SMITH, R. M. ENGEMAN, C. L. DEAN, J. A. MOORE, AND W. E. O'BRIEN. 2005. The geographically contiguous and expanding coastal range of the northern curlytail lizard (Leiocephalus carinatus armouri) in Florida. Southeastern Naturalist 4:521-526. 1,697K

05-96 WHISSON, D. A., R. M. ENGEMAN, AND K. COLLINS. 2005. Developing relative abundance techniques (RATs) for monitoring rodent population. Wildlife Research 32:239-244. 100K

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