United States Department of Agriculture
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Publication Awards
Each year the NWRC examines the publications of its scientists and recognizes those papers that are rigorous treatments of topics that addressed important program mission areas and have application to managers and applied science. Because of the nature of delays in the publication process, the awards reflect those papers published during the previous calendar year.
2016
Shriner, S.A., J.J. Root, M.W. Lutman, J.M. Kloft, K.K. VanDalen, H.J. Sullivan, T.S. White, M.P. Milleson, J.L. Hairston, S.C. Chandler, P.C. Wolf, C.T. Turnage, B.J. McCluskey, A.L. Vincent, M.K. Torchetti, T. Gidlewski, and T.J.DeLiberto. 2016.
Surveillance for highly pathogenic
H5 avian influenza virus in synanthropic wildlife associated with poultry farms
during an acute outbreak. Scientific reports 6:36237. doi: 10.1038/srep36237
Previous Award Winners:
2015
Root, J.J., S.A. Shriner, J.W. Ellis, K.K. VanDalen, H.J. Sullivan, and A.B. Franklin. 2015. When fur and feather occur together: Interclass
transmission of avian influenza A virus from mammals to birds through common
resources. Scientific Reports 5:14354. doi: 10.1038/srep14354
2014
Piaggio, A.J., R.M. Engeman, M.W. Hopken, J.S. Humphrey, K.L. Keacher, W.E. Bruce, and M.L. Avery. 2014. Detecting an
elusive invasive species: a diagnostic PCR to detect Burmese python in Florida
waters and an assessment of persistence of environmental DNA. Molecular Ecology Resources, 14:374–380. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12180.
2013
DeVault, T. L., Blackwell, B. F., & Belant, J. L. (2013). Wildlife in Airport
Environments: Preventing Animal-Aircraft Collisions through Science-Based
Management. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
2012
Blackwell, B. F., T. L. DeVault, T. W. Seamans, S. L. Lima, P. Baumhardt, and E. Fernández-Juricic. 2012.
Exploiting avian vision with aircraft lighting to reduce
bird strikes. Journal of Applied Ecology 49:758-766.
Guillaumet, A., B. Dorr, and G. Wang. 2012. Towards optimized population control efficiency in space and
time: A modelling framework adapted to a colonial waterbird. Ecological Modelling 235: 95-101.
Savidge, J.A., M.W. Hopken, G.W. Witmer, S.M. Jojola, J.J. Pierce, P.W. Burke, and A.J. Piaggio. 2012.
Genetic evaluation of an attempted Rattus rattus eradication
on Congo Cay, U.S. Virgin Islands, identifies importance of eradication units. Biological Invasions 14: 2343-2354.
2011
Breck, S. W., B. M. Kluever, M. Panasci, J. Oakleaf, T. Johnson, W. Ballard, L. Howery, and D. L. Bergman. 2011. Domestic calf mortality and producer detection rates in the
Mexican wolf recovery area: Implications for livestock management and carnivore compensation schemes. Biological Conservation 144:930-936.
Carlson, J. C., A. B. Franklin, D. R. Hyatt, S. E. Petitit, and G. M. Linz. 2011. The role of starlings in the spread of Salmonella within
concentrated animal feeding operations. Journal of Applied Ecology 48:479-486
2010
Atwood, T. C., and E. M. Gese. 2010. Importance of resource selection and social behavior to
partitioning of hostile space by sympatric canids. Journal of Mammalogy 91:490-499.
Da Silva, A. G., J. R. Eberhard, T. F. Wright, M. L. Avery, and M. A. Russello. 2010. Genetic evidence for high propagule pressure and
long-distance dispersal in monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) invasive
populations. Molecular Ecology 19:3336-3350.
2009
Bradley F. Blackwell, Esteban Fernándex-Juricic, Thomas W. Seamans, and Tracy Dolan. 2009. Avian visual system configuration and behavioural response
to object approach. Animal Behavious 77:673-684.