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2013

An analytical framework for quantifying and testing patterns of temporal dynamics in social networks, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Michael L. Avery, and Timothy F. Wright

Use of dairies by postreproductive flocks of European starlings, H. Jeffrey Homan, Jeffrey T. LeJeune, D. L. Pearl, T. W. Seamans, Thomas W. Seamans, A.A. Slowik, Mark R. Morasch, and George M. Linz

Comparison of two models for estimating mortality from baitings with Compound DRC-1339 Concentrate avicide, H. Jeffrey Homan, Randal S. Stahl, and George M. Linz

Use of dairies by postreproductive flocks of European starlings, H. J. Homan; Jeffrey T. LeJeune; David L. Pearl; T. W, Seamans; A. A. Slowik; Mark R. Morasch; and G. M. Linz

Comparison of two models for estimating mortality from baitings with Compound DRC-1339 Concentrate avicide, Jeffrey H. Homan, Randal S. Stahl, and George M. Linz

Stream hierarchy defines riverscape genetics of a North American desert fish, Matthew W. Hopken, Marlis R. Douglas, and Michael E. Douglas

Why Can’t Rodents Vomit? A Comparative Behavioral, Anatomical, and Physiological Study, Charles C. Horn, Bruce A. Kimball, Hong Wang, James Kaus, Samuel Dienel, Allysa Nagy, Gordon R. Gathright, Bill J. Yates, and Paul L. R. Andrews

Isolation and molecular characterization of Fikirini rhabdovirus, a novel virus from a Kenyan bat, Rebekah C. Kading, Amy T. Gilbert, Eric C. Mossel, Mary B. Crabtree, Ivan V. Kuzmin, Michael Niezgoda, Bernard Agwanda, Wanda Markotter, M. Ryan Weil, Joel M. Montgomery, Charles E. Rupprecht, and Barry R. Miller

TUPINAMBIS MERIANAE(Argentine Giant Tegu); PANTHERO- PHIS GUTTATUS (Red Cornsnake). NON-PREDATORY KILLING, Bernard W. Kaiser, Kimberly J. Osorio, Kevin M. Enge, and Richard M. Engeman

Avian Influenza Infection Alters Fecal Odor in Mallards, Bruce A. Kimball, Kunio Yamazaki, Dennis Kohler, Richard A. Bowen, Jack P. Muth, Maryanne Opiekun, and Gary K. Beauchamp

Home Ranges and Habitat Use of Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, D. Tommy King, Buddy L. Goatchter, Justin W. Fischer, John Stanton, James M. Lacour, Scott C. Lemmons, and Guiming Wang

Comparisons between blackbird damage to corn and sunflower in North Dakota, Megan E. Klosterman, George M. Linz, Anthony Slowik, and H. Jeffrey Homan

A Comparison of Methods for Monitoring Kit Foxes at Den Sites, Bryan M. Kluever, Eric M. Gese, Steven J. Dempsey, and Robert N. Knight

Assessing wolves and cougars as conservation surrogates, Kyran E. Kunkel, T. C. Atwood, T. K. Ruth, Daniel H. Pletscher, and M. G. Hornocker

Characterization of Regionally Associated Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) in Bobcats (Lynx rufus), Danielle M. Lagana, Justin S. Lee, Jesse S. Lewis, Sarah N. Bevins, Scott Carver, Linda L. Sweanor, Roy McBride, Caleb McBride, Kevin R. Crooks, and Sue VandeWoude

Feral swine brucellosis in the United States and prospective genomic techniques for disease epidemiology, Owen P. Leiser, Joseph L. Corn, Brandon S. Schmit, Paul S. Keim, and Jeffrey T. Foster

Feral cat management, Christopher A. Lepcyzk, Sheila Conant, David Duffy, David M. Bird, Michael Calver, Fern P. Duval, Michael Hutchins, Cheryl A. Lohr, Kerrie Anne Loyd, Peter P. Marra, William C. Pitt, Grant Sizemore, Rachel Sprague, Stanley A. Temple, Yolanda van Heezik, and George Wallace

Demonstration of Avian Control® bird repellent (a.i., methyl anthranilate) for managing blackbird damage to ripening sunflower., George M. Linz and H. Jeffrey Homan

Avian mortality at communication towers in the United States and Canada: which species, how many, and where?, Travis Longcore, Catherine Rich, Pierre Mineau, Beau MacDonald, Daniel G. Bert, Lauren M. Sullivan, Erin Mutrie, Sidney A. Gauthreaux Jr., Michael L. Avery, Robert L. Crawford, Albert M. Manville II, Emilie R. Travis, and David Drake

A comparison of bats and rodents as reservoirs of zoonotic viruses: are bats special?, Angela D. Luis, David T. S. Hayman, Thomas J. O'Shea, Paul M. Cryan, Amy T. Gilbert, Juliet R. C. Pulliam, James N. Mills, Mary E. Timonin, Craig K. R. Willis, Andrew A. Cunningham, Anthony R. Fooks, Charles E. Rupprecht, James L. N. Wood, and Colleen T. Webb

Wildlife Conservation and Alternative Land Uses at Airports, James A. Martin, Tara J. Conkling, Jerrold L. Belant, Kristin M. Biondi, Bradley F. Blackwell, Travis L. DeVault, Esteban Fernandez-Juricic, Paige M. Schmidt, and Thomas W. Seamans

Wildlife in Airport Environments: Chapter 11 Wildlife Conservation and Alternative Land Uses at Airports, James A. Martin, Tara J. Conkling, Jerrold L. Belant, Kristin M. Biondi, Bradley F. Blackwell, Travis L. DeVault, Esteban Fernandez-Juricic, Paige M. Schmidt, and Thomas W. Seamans

Nonsurgical fertility control for managing free-roaming dog populations: A review of products and criteria for field applications, Giovanna Massei and Lowell A. Miller

Efficacy of Electronet Fencing for Excluding Coyotes: A Case Study for Enhancing Production of Black-Footed Ferrets, Marc R. Matchett, Stewart W. Breck, and John Callon

Pheromonal control of the invasive brown treesnake: potency of female sexual attractiveness pheromone varies with ovarian state, Tom Mathies, Breanna Levine, Richard M. Engeman, and Julie A. Savidge

The use of DiazaCon™ to limit fertility by reducing serum cholesterol in female grey squirrels, Sciurus carolinensis, Brenda A. Mayle, Mark Ferryman, Andrew Peace, Christi A. Yoder, Lowell A. Miller, and David Cowan

TWENTY YEARS OF IMMUNOCONTRACEPTIVE RESEARCH: LESSONS LEARNED, Lowell A. Miller, Kathleen A. Fagerstone, and Douglas C. Eckery

Use of a GnRH vaccine, GonaConTM, for prevention and treatment ofadrenocortical disease (ACD) in domestic ferrets, Lowell A. Miller, Kathleen A. Fagerstone, Robert A. Wagner, and Mark Finkler

Is propagule size the critical factor in predicting introduction outcomes in passeriform birds?, Michael P. Moulton, Wendell P. Cropper Jr., and Michael L. Avery

Intranasal Inoculation of White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) with Lyophilized Chronic Wasting Disease Prion Particulate Complexed to Montmorillonite Clay, Tracy A. Nichols, Terry R. Spraker, Tara D. Rigg, Crystal Meyerett-Reid, Clare Hoover, Brady Michel, Jifeng Bian, Edward Hoover, Thomas Gidlewski, Aru Balachandran, Katherine O'Rourke, Glenn C. Telling, Richard Bowen, Mark D. Zabel, and Kurt C. VerCauteren

Open Field Test with Avipel Bird Repellent: Year I, Megan Niner, George M. Linz, Jeffrey Homan, and Mark Clark

FAILURE OF TRANSMISSION OF LOW-PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS BETWEEN MALLARDS AND FRESHWATER SNAILS: AN EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION, Paul T. Oesterle, Kathryn P. Huyvaert, Darcy Orahood, Nicole Mooers, Heather Sullivan, Alan B. Franklin, and J. Jeffrey Root

Detection of Avian Influenza Viruses in Wild Waterbirds in the Rift Valley of Kenya Using Fecal Sampling, Victor O. Ofula, Alan B. Franklin, J. Jeffrey Root, Heather J. Sullivan, Patrick Gichuki, Albina Makio, Wallace Bulimo, Bernard O. Abong'o, Muchane Muchai, and David Schnabel

Pseudorabies in Feral Swine in the United States, 2009–2012, Kerri Pedersen, Sarah N. Bevins, John A. Baroch, James C. Cumbee Jr., Shannon C. Chandler, Billy S. Woodruff, Troy T. Bigelow, and Thomas J. DeLiberto

PSEUDORABIES (AUJESZKY’S DISEASE), Kerri Pedersen and Yvonne Nadler

Large-scale rodent control reduces pre- and post-dispersal seed predation of the endangered Hawaiian lobeliad, Cyanea superba subsp. superba (Campanulaceae), Richard J. Pender, Aaron B. Shiels, Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, and Stephen M. Mosher

Molecular phylogeny of an ancient rodent family (Aplodontiidae), Antoinette J. Piaggio, Brett A. Coghlan, Allyson E. Miscampbell, Wendy M. Arjo, Douglas B. Ransome, and Carol E. Ritland

Detecting an elusive invasive species: a diagnostic PCR to detect Burmese python in Florida waters and an assessment of persistence of environmental DNA, Antoinette J. Piaggio, Richard M. Engeman, Matthew W. Hopken, John S. Humphrey, Kandy L. Keacher, William E. Bruce, and Michael L. Avery

ON THE EDGE: A GENETIC ASSESSMENT OF APLODONTIA RUFA FROM THE EDGE OF THEIR DISTRIBUTION, Antoinette J. Piaggio and Jennifer Jeffers

Immunization with a Synthetic Peptide Vaccine Fails to Protect Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus) from Chronic Wasting Disease, John L. Pilon, Jack C. Rhyan, Lisa L. Wolfe, Tracy R. Davis, Matt P. McCollum, Katherine I. O'Rourke, Terry R. Spraker, Kurt C. VerCauteren, Michael W. Miller, Thomas Gidlewski, Tracy A. Nichols, Lowell A. Miller, and Pauline Nol

Patterns of Human–Coyote Conflicts in the Denver Metropolitan Area, Sharon A. Poessel, Stewart W. Breck, Tara L. Teel, Stephanie A. Shwiff, Kevin R. Crooks, and Lisa Angeloni

Den attendance patterns in swift foxes during pup rearing: varying degrees of parental investment within the breeding pair, Sharon A. Poessel and Eric M. Gese

Graphically Characterizing the Movement of a Rabid Striped Skunk Epizootic Across the Landscape in Northwestern Wyoming, Craig A. Ramey, Kenneth W. Mills, Justin W. Fischer, Robert G. McLean, Kathleen A. Fagerstone, and Richard M. Engeman

THE USE OF CONTRACEPTION AS A DISEASE MANAGEMENT TOOL IN WILDLIFE, Jack C. Rhyan, Lowell A. Miller, and Kathleen A. Fagerstone

West Nile virus associations in wild mammals: a synthesis, J. Jeffrey Root

Cottontail Rabbit Papillomavirus Infection in a Desert Cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii) from Colorado, USA, J. Jeffrey Root, Matthew W. Hopken, Thomas Gidlewski, and Antoinette J. Piaggio

Anthropogenic and physiologically induced stress responses in captive coyotes, Christopher J. Schell, Julie K. Young, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, and Rachel M. Santymire

Do Native Warm-season Grasslands Near Airports Increase Bird Strike Hazards?, Jason A. Schmidt, Brian E. Washburn, Travis L. DeVault, Thomas W. Seamans, and Paige M. Schmidt

Tactile and Auditory Repellents to Reduce Wildlife Hazards to Aircraft, Thomas W. Seamans, James A. Martin, and Jerrold L. Belant

Wildlife in Airport Environments: Chapter 4 Tactile and Auditory Repellents to Reduce Wildlife Hazards to Aircraft, Thomas W. Seamans, James A. Martin, and Jerrold L. Belant

Dietary niche differentiation among three species of invasive rodents (Rattus rattus, R. exulans, Mus musculus), Aaron B. Shiels, Caitlin A. Flores, Arthur Khamsing, Paul D. Krushelnycky, Stephen M. Mosher, and Donald R. Drake

Landslides cause spatial and temporal gradients at multiple scales in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico, Aaron B. Shiels and Lawrence R. Walker

Assignment of measurable costs and benefits to wildlife conservation projects, S. A. Shwiff, A. M. Anderson, R. Cullen, P. C. L. White, and S. S. Shwiff

Potential economic benefits of eliminating canine rabies, Stephanie A. Shwiff, Katie Hampson, and Aaron M. Anderson

Capture Success Higher Near Roads for San Clemente Island Foxes, Nathan P. Snow and William F. Andelt

Effects of Black-tailed Deer and Roosevelt Elk Herbivory in Intensively Managed Douglas-fir Plantations, Jimmy D. Taylor II

Wildlife in managed forests: An overview of perspectives from the Pacific Northwest, Jimmy D. Taylor II

Identifying and Managing Mountain Beaver Damage to Forest Resources, Jimmy D. Taylor II, Donivan Sphar, and OSU Extension forester Ahrens

Optimizing line intercept sampling and estimation for feral swine damage levels in ecologically sensitive wetland plant communities, Jacob F. Thomas, Richard M. Engeman, Eric A. Tillman, Justin W. Fischer, Steve L. Orzell, Deborah H. Glueck, Rodney K. Felix, and Michael L. Avery

Influence of vegetation structure on the small mammal community in a shortgrass prairie ecosystem, Craig M. Thompson and Eric M. Gese

New World Bats Harbor Diverse Influenza A Viruses, Suxiang Tong, Xueyong Zhu, Yan Li, Mang Shi, Jing Zhang, Melissa Bourgeois, Hua Yang, Xianfeng Chen, Sergio Recuenco, Jorge Gomez, Li-Mei Chen, Adam Johnson, Ying Tao, Cyrille Dreyfus, Wenli Yu, Ryan McBride, Paul J. Carney, Amy T. Gilbert, Jessie Chang, Zhu Guo, Charles T. Davis, James C. Paulson, James Stevens, Charles E. Rupprecht, Edward C. Holmes, Ian A. Wilson, and Ruben O. Donis

West Nile Virus Infection in American Robins: New Insights on Dose Response, Kaci K. VanDalen, Jeffrey S. Hall, Larry Clark, Robert G. McLean, and Cynthia Smeraski

Concomitant administration of GonaConTMand rabies vaccine infemale dogs (Canis familiaris) in Mexico, Fernando Vargas-Pino, Verónica Gutiérrez-Cedillo, Erick J. Canales-Vargas, Luis R. Gress-Ortega, Lowell A. Miller, C. E. Rupprecht, Scott C. Bender, Patricia García-Reyna, Juan Ocampo-López, and Dennis Slate

Excluding Mammals from Airports, Kurt C. VerCauteren, Michael J. Lavelle, and Thomas W. Seamans

Wildlife in Airport Environments: Chapter 5 Excluding Mammals from Airports, Kurt C. VerCauteren, Michael J. Lavelle, and Thomas W. Seamans

Chapter 2 Spatial patterns for Landslide Ecology, Lawrence R. Walker and Aaron B. Shiels

Chapter 3 Physical causes and consequences for Landslide Ecology, Lawrence R. Walker and Aaron B. Shiels

Chapter 4 Biological consequences for Landslide Ecology, Lawrence R. Walker and Aaron B. Shiels

Chapter 5 Biotic interactions and temporal patterns forLandslide Ecology, Lawrence R. Walker and Aaron B. Shiels

Chapter 6 Living with landslides for Landslide Ecology, Lawrence R. Walker and Aaron B. Shiels

Chapter 7 Large scales and future directions for landslide ecology from Landslide Ecology, Lawrence R. Walker and Aaron B. Shiels

Color Plates from Landslide Ecology, Lawrence R. Walker and Aaron B. Shiels

Glossary from Landslide Ecology, Lawrence R. Walker and Aaron B. Shiels

Index from Landslide Ecology, Lawrence R. Walker and Aaron B. Shiels

Introduction for Landslide Ecology, Lawrence R. Walker and Aaron B. Shiels

Landslide Ecology, Lawrence R. Walker and Aaron B. Shiels

Lanslide Ecology: Cover, Contents, Preface, Lawrence R. Walker and Aaron B. Shiels

References from Landslide Ecology, Lawrence R. Walker and Aaron B. Shiels

Changes in abiotic influences on seed plants and ferns during 18 years of primary succession on Puerto Rican landslides, Lawrence R. Walker, Aaron B. Shiels, Peter J. Bellingham, Ashley D. Sparrow, Ned Fetcher, Fred H. Landau, and Deborah J. Lodge

Topographic Home Range of Large Mammals: Is Planimetric Home Range Still a Viable Method?, W. David Walter, Justin W. Fischer, Teresa J. Frink, Scott E. Hygnstrom, Jonathan A. Jenks, and Kurt C. Vercauteren

Surveillance and movements of Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) in the bovine tuberculosis region of Michigan, W. D. Walter, Justin W. Fischer, C. W. Anderson, D. R. Marks, T. J. Deliberto, S. Robbe-Austerman, and K. C. VerCauteren

Surveillance and movements of Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) in the bovine tuberculosis region of Michigan, W. D. Walter, J. W. Fischer, C. W. Anderson, D. R. Marks, T. J. Deliberto, S. Robbe-Austerman, and K. C. VerCauteren

Evolutionary Characterization of the Pandemic H1N1/ 2009 Influenza Virus in Humans Based on Non-Structural Genes, Chengmin Wang, Yanyu Zhang, Bin Wu, Shelan Liu, Ping Xu, Yanmin Lu, Jing Luo, Dale L. Nolte, Thomas J. DeLiberto, Mingxing Duan, Hong Zhang, and Hongxuan He

Detection of African swine fever virus-like sequences in ponds in the Mississippi Delta through metagenomic sequencing, Xiu-Feng Wan, J. Lamar Barnett, Fred Cunningham, Si Chen, Guohua Yang, Shannon Nash, Li-Pong Long, Lorelei Ford, Sherry Blackmon, Yan Zhang, Larry Hanson, and Qiang He

FORAGING ECOLOGY OF FOUR GULL SPECIES AT A COASTAL–URBAN INTERFACE, Brian E. Washburn, Glen E. Bernhardt, Lisa Kutschbach-Brohl, Richard B. Chipman, and Laura C. Francoeur

Wildlife strikes to civil helicopters in the US, 1990–2011, Brian E. Washburn, Paul Cisar, and Travis L. DeVault

Managing Turfgrass to Reduce Wildlife Hazards at Airports, Brian E. Washburn and Thomas W. Seamans

Wildlife in Airport Environments: Chapter 10 Managing Turfgrass to Reduce Wildlife Hazards at Airports, Brian E. Washburn and Thomas W. Seamans

Functional significance of ultraviolet feeding cues in wild turkeys, Scott J. Werner, Richard Buchholz, Shelagh K. Tupper, Susan E. T. Pettit, and Jeremy W. Ellis

Evaluating Habitat Manipulations and Rodenticides to Protect Seedlings from Rodent Damage at Restored Landfills in New York, Gary W. Witmer

The effects of vitamin K1-rich plant foods on the efficacy of the anticoagulant rodenticides chlorophacinone and diphacinone, used against Montane Voles (Microtus montanus), Gary W. Witmer, Nathan P. Snow, and Rachael S. Moulton

Estimating Prion Adsorption Capacity of Soil by BioAssay of Subtracted Infectivity from Complex Solutions (BASICS), A. Christy Wyckoff, Krista L. Lockwood, Crystal Meyerett-Reid, Brady A. Michel, Heather Bender, Kurt C. VerCauteren, and Mark D. Zabel

Mutation from arginine to lysine at the position 189 of hemagglutinin contributes to the antigenic drift in H3N2 swine influenza viruses, Jianqiang Ye, Yifei Xu, Jillian Harris, Hailiang Sun, Andrew S. Bowman, Fred L. Cunningham, Carol Cardona, Kyoungjin J. Yoon, Richard D. Slemons, and Xiu-Feng Wan

2012

Chapter 4: Top-Predators as Biodiversity Regulators: Contemporary Issues Affecting Knowledge and Management of Dingoes in Australia, Benjamin L.R. Allen, Peter J.S. Fleming, Matt Hayward, Lee R. Allen, Richard M. Engeman, Guy Ballard, and Luke K.-P. Leung

Frequent Cross-Species Transmission of Parvoviruses among Diverse Carnivore Hosts, Andrew B. Allison, Dennis J. Kohler, Karen A. Fox, Justin D. Brown, Richard W. Gerhold, Valerie I. Shearn-Bochsler, Edward J. Dubovi, Colin R. Parrish, and Edward C. Holmes

The Net Benefits of Controlling Bird and Rodent Pests in Wine Grape and Avocado Production, Aaron M, Anderson; Katy Kirkpatrick; and Stephanie A. Shwiff

Economic Evaluation of Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) Rabies Prevention in Mexico, Aaron M. Anderson, Stephanie A. Shwiff, Karen Gebhardt, A. J. Ramırez, Steven S. Shwiff, Dennis Kohler, and Luis Lecuona

Crow Pellets from Winter Roosts in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mary Annala, Eric A. Tillman, Gregory A. Backus, Kandy L. Keacher, and Michael L. Avery

CARNIVORES, CONFLICT, AND CONSERVATION: DEFINING THE LANDSCAPE OF CONFLICT, Todd C. Atwood and Stewart W. Breck

Biology of Invasive Monk Parakeets in South Florida, Michael L. Avery, Eric A. Tillman, Kandy L. Keacher, John E. Arnett, and Kelli J. Lundy

 

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