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Bowen, L., Riva, F., Mohr, C., Aldridge, B., Schwartz, J., Miles, A.K., Stott, J.L. in press. Differential gene expression induced by exposure of captive mink to fuel oil; a model for the sea otter. Ecohealth.

Bowen, W.D., A.J. Read, and J.A. Estes. In press. Feeding Ecology. In. R. Hoelzel (ed.). Marine Mammal Biology: An Evolutionary Approach. Blackwell Scientific

Brooks, M.L. and R.C. Klinger. In press. Practical considerations for detecting and monitoring plant invasions. In: Inderjit (ed.) Management of Non-native Invasive Plant Species. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany.

Carr, M., J. Neigel, S. Andelman, J. Estes, R. Warner, J. Largier, and J. Lubchenco. In Press. Comparing marine and terrestrial ecosystems: implications for principles of reserve design in marine systems. Ecological Applications.

Doroff, A.M., J. A. Estes, M. T. Tinker, D. M. Burn, and T. J. Evans. In Press. Sea otter population declines in the Aleutian archipelago. Journal of Mammalogy.

Ervin, E. L. In press. California Treefrog, Pseudacris cadaverina. In: Lannoo, M.J. (Ed.), Status and Conservation of US Amphibians. Volume 2: Species Accounts. University of California Press, Berkeley, California.

Estes, J. A., K. Crooks, and R. Holt. In press. Predation and biodiversity. In S.A. Levin and J. Lubchenco (eds.). Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Academic Press.

Estes, J.A. and J. L. Bodkin. In press. Marine Otters. In B. Wursig and W. Perrin (eds.). Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Academic Press

Estes, J.A., Brian B. Hatfield, K. Ralls, and J. Ames. In Press. Causes of mortality in California sea otters during periods of population growth and decline. Marine Mammal Science.

Estes, J.A., M. L. Riedman, M.M. Staedler, and M.T. Tinker. In press. Individual variation in prey selection by sea otters: patterns, causes, and implications. J. Animal Ecology.

Fellers, Gary M. In press. Bufo exsul Myers, 1942, Black Toad. In: Lannoo, M.J. (Ed.), Status and Conservation of U.S. Amphibians. Volume 2: Species Accounts. University of California Press, Berkeley, California.

Hansen, Robert W., David B. Wake, and Gary M. Fellers. In press. Batrachoseps pacificus (Cope 1865) Channel Islands Slender Salamander. In Lannoo, M.J. (Ed.), Status and Conservation of U.S. Amphibians. Volume 2: Species Accounts. University of California Press, Berkeley, California.

Holycross, A. T., C. W. Painter, D. B. Prival, D. E. Swann, M. J. Schroff, T. Edwards, and C. R. Schwalbe. In press. Diet of Crotalus lepidus klauberi (Banded Rock Rattlesnake). J. Herpetology.

Klinger, R. M. Brooks, R. Wills. In press. Southwest coastal bioregion. In: J. Smith, K. Zouhar, M. Brooks, and S. Sutherland. Effects of Fire on Nonnative Invasive Plants. 6th volume in the General Technical Report series “Wildland Fire in Ecosystems” (“Rainbow” series). US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Konar, B., and J.A. Estes. In press. The stability of boundary regions between kelp beds and deforested areas. Ecology.

Kus, B.E. Determining nest predators of the Least Bell's Vireo. USGS Publication Brief for Resource Managers.

Kus, B.E. and P.P. Beck. An approach for monitoring bird communities to assess development of restored riparian habitat. USGS Publication Brief for Resource Managers.

LeNoir, James S., Linda Aston, Sema Data, Gary M. Fellers, Laura L. McConnell, and James N. Seiber. In press. Environmental Exposures To Agrochemicals in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. Chapter 5. In: Larry Keith (ed.) American Chemical Society Symposium Series.

Longshore, K.M, J.R Jaeger, and M. Sappington. In press. Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) Survival at Two Eastern Mojave Desert Sites: Death by Short-Term Drought? Journal of Herpetology.

Lovich, J. E. and C. J. McCoy. In press. Graptemys pulchra, Alabama map turtle. In, P. C. H. Pritchard and A. Rhodin (eds.), Conservation of Freshwater Turtles. IUCN, Species Survival Commission.

Lovich, J. E., Y. Yasukawa, and H. Ota. In press. Chinemys reevesii, Reeves' pond turtle (or Chinese three-keeled pond turtle). In, P. C. H. Pritchard and A. Rhodin (eds.), Conservation of Freshwater Turtles. IUCN, Species Survival Commission.

McCoy, C. J. and J. E. Lovich. In press. Graptemys ernsti, Escambia map turtle. In, P. C. H. Pritchard and A. Rhodin (eds.), Conservation of Freshwater Turtles. IUCN, Species Survival Commission.

McCoy, C. J. and J. E. Lovich. In press. Graptemys gibbonsi, Pascagoula map turtle. In, P. C. H. Pritchard and A. Rhodin (eds.), Conservation of Freshwater Turtles. IUCN, Species Survival Commission.

Medica, P.A. and M.B. Saethre. (In prep.) Long-term growth in a fenced population of desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii).

Merriam, K.E., T.W. McGinnis. The role of fire and fire management in the invasion of nonnative plants. Park Science. In review.

Miller, M. A., I. A. Gardner, A. Packham, J. K. Mazet, K. D. Hanni, D. Jessup, J.A. Estes, R. Jameson, E. Dodd, B. C. Barr, L. J. Lowenstine, F. M. Gulland and P. A. Conrad. In press. Evaluation of an indirect fluorescent antibody test (ifat) for demonstration of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii in the sea otter (Enhydra lutris). Journal of Parasitology.

Perry, G., B. W. Buchanan, R. N. Fisher, M. Salmon, and S. E. Wise. In press. Effects of artificial night lighting on reptiles and amphibians in urban environments. Book Chapter in Urban Herpetology

Peterson, C.H. and J.A. Estes. In press. Conservation and management of marine communities. In. M. Bertness, S. Gaines, and M. Hay (eds.). Marine Community Ecology. Sinauer Press.

Rathbun, G.B., N.J. Scott, Jr., and T.G. Murphey. In Press. Terrestrial habitat use by western pond turtles in a Mediterranean climate. Southwestern Naturalist.

Rosen, P.C. and C.R. Schwalbe. In press. Widespread effects of introduced species on aquatic reptiles and amphibians in the Sonoran Desert region. In B. Tellman and T.R. Van Devender (eds.). Invasive organisms in the Sonoran Desert. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Silverstein, R. P., J. D. Chew, J. G. Jones, R. A. McFarlan, C. Stalling, J. Sullivan, D. R. Weise, J. W. van Wagtendonk, and D. Garwood. 2004. Modeling Fuel Treatments to Reduce Fire Risk in Southwestern USA Ecosystems with SIMPPLLE/MAGIS. Forest Ecology and Manage. (in press)

Simons, D., J. Stephenson, D. Stokes, K. Miner, P. Brown, and L. Underwood. (in press). Distribution and habitat associations of bat species in the mountains of Southern California. Journal of Southwestern Naturalist.

Smith, J.K., K. Zouhar, S. Sutherland, and M.L. Brooks. In press. Summary and Conclusions. In: J. Smith, K. Zouhar, M. Brooks, and S. Sutherland. Effects of Fire on Nonnative Invasive Plants. 6th volume in the General Technical Report series “Wildland Fire in Ecosystems” (“Rainbow” series). US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Takekawa, J. Y., and N. Warnock. In press. Long-billed Dowitcher, Limnodromous scolopaceus. In, A. Poole and F. Gill (eds.), Birds of North America. The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia. PA.

Takekawa, J. Y., R. I. Leyva, and E. E. Klaas. In press. Comparing radio and satellite telemetry to assess movements and habitat use of Arctic nesting geese in northern Mexico. Proc. Of the 2nd International Congr. On Limnology and Aquatic Birds. Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico.

Wood, D. A., J. M. Meik, A. T. Holycross, R. N. Fisher, and A. G. Vandergast. In Press. Molecular and phenotypic diversity in the Western Shovel-nosed snake, with emphasis on the status of the Tucson Shovel-nosed snake (Chionactis occipitalis klauberi). Conservation Genetics DOI: 10.1007/s10592-007-9482-0.

Bevins, S. N., J. A. Tracey, S. P. Franklin, V. L. Schmit, M. L. Addor, K. A. Logan, L. L. Sweanor, M. W. Alldredge, W. M. Boyce, S. P. D. Riley, L. M. Lyren, E. E. Boydston, W. Vickers, C. Krumm, K. L. Gage, M. E. Schriefer, M. Salman, K. R. Crooks, and S. VandeWoude. Accepted. Plague and wild felids: zoonotic disease in the western US. Emerging Infectious Diseases

Burdett, C. L., K. R. Crooks, D. M. Theobald, K. Wilson, E. E. Boydston, L. M. Lyren, R. Fisher, W. Vickers, S. A. Morrison, W. M. Boyce. In Review. Predicting the future distribution of puma habitat by interfacting wildlife-habitat and human-development models. Ecological Applications

Riley, S. P. D., E. E. Boydston, K. R. Crooks, and L. M. Lyren. In Press. Bobcats (Lynx rufus). In: Urban Carnivores: Ecology, Conflict, and Conservation (S. D. Gehrt, S.P.D Riley, B.L. Cypher, eds). John Hopkins University Press.

Ruell, E. W., S. P. D. Riley, M. R. Douglas, M. F. Antolin, J. R. Pollinger, J. A. Tracey, L. M. Lyren, E. E. Boydston, & K. R. Crooks. In Review. Urban development and genetic population structure of bobcat in coastal southern California. Animal Conservation

Ackerman, JT, and CA Eagles-Smith. 2009. Integrating toxicity risk in bird eggs and chicks: using chick down feathers to estimate mercury concentrations in eggs. Environmental Science and Technology 43:2166-2172.

Ackerman, JT, and CA Eagles-Smith. 2009. Selenium bioaccumulation and body condition in shorebirds and terns breeding in San Francisco Bay, California, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 28:2134-2141.

Ackerman, JT, CA Eagles-Smith, JY Takekawa, J Bluso-Demers, D Tsao, and D Le Fer. 2009. California gull movements in relation to nesting waterbirds and landfills: implications for the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project. Administrative Report, U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Davis, CA; 64 pp.

Ackerman, JT, J Kwolek, R Eddings, D Loughman, and J Messerli. 2009. Evaluating upland habitat management at the Grizzly Island Wildlife Area: effects on dabbling duck nest density and nest success, year 1 baseline report. Administrative Report, U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Davis, CA and California Waterfowl Association, Sacramento, CA; 26 pp.

Ackerman, JT, JD Bluso, and JY Takekawa. 2009. Postfledging Forster’s tern movements, habitat selection, and colony attendance in San Francisco Bay. Condor 111:100-110.

Ackerman, JT. 2009. Integrating toxicity risk in bird eggs and chicks. March 2009. USGS Publication Brief for Resource Managers.

Ackerman, JT. 2009. Postfledging Forster’s tern colony attendance and habitat selection and in San Francisco Bay. March 2009. USGS Publication Brief for Resource Managers.

Ackerman, JT. 2009. Survival of postfledging Forster’s terns in San Francisco Bay. March 2009. USGS Publication Brief for Resource Managers.

Adams, J., D. Scott, S. MCKechnie, G. Blackwell, S. A. Shaffer, and H. Moller. 2009. Effects of geolocation archival tags on reproduction and adult body mass of sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus). New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Vol. 36: 355–366

Amundsen, P.A., K.D. Lafferty, R. Knudsen, R. Primicerio, A. Klemetsen, and A.M. Kuris.2009. Food web topology and parasites in the pelagic zone of a subarctic lake. Journal of Animal Ecology 78:563-572

Athearn, N. D., J. Y. Takekawa, and J. M. Shinn. In press. Avian response to early tidal salt marsh restoration at former commercial salt evaporation ponds in San Francisco Bay, California, USA. In Oren, A., Naftz, D.L., and Wurtsbaugh, W.A. (eds.). 2009. Saline lakes around the world: unique systems with unique values. The S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Natural Resources Research Library, published in conjunction with the Utah State University College of Natural Resources.

Bowman, D.M.J.S., J.K. Balch, P. Artaxo, W.J. Bond, J.M. Carlson, M.A. Cochrane, C.M. D’Antonio, R.S. DeFries, J.C. Doyle, S.P. Harrison, F.H. Johnston, J.E. Keeley, M.A. Krawchuk, C.A. Kull, J.B. Marston, M.A. Moritz, I.C. Prentice, C.I. Roos, A.C. Scott, T.W. Swetnam, G.R. van der Werf, and S.J. Pyne. 2009. Fire in the Earth system. Science 324:481–484.

Brehme, C. S., W. I. Boarman, S. A. Hathaway, A. Herring, L. Lyren, M. Mendelsohn, K. Pease, M. Rahn, C. Rochester, D. Stokes, G. Turschak, and R. N. Fisher. 2009. Spatial and temporal patterns across an ecological boundary: allochthonous effects of a young saltwater lake on a desert ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments 73:811-820.

Brehme, C.S. and R.N. Fisher in collaboration with Burnham, K., Meserve, P., Spencer, W., Miller, W., Pavelka, M., and D. Deutschman. 2009. Pacific Pocket Mouse Monitoring Plan for Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton: Short Term Studies and Long Term Goals. Prepared for Wildlife Management Branch, AC/S Environmental Security, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. 88pp.

Carlisle, J.D., Susan K. Skagen, Barbara E. Kus, Charles Van Riper III, Kristina L. Paxton, and Jeff F. Kelly.2009. Landbird Migration in the American West: Recent Progress and Future Directions. The Condor 111(2):211-225.

Casazza, M. L., P. S. Coates, C. T. Overton, and M. A. Farinha. Relationship between habitat use and brood success of greater sage-grouse: a multi-scale approach. The Wildlife Society 16th Annual Conference Monterey, California, September 20-24, 2009.

Coates, P. S., and D. J. Delehanty. In Press. Nest predation of greater sage-grouse in relation to microhabitat factors and predators. Journal of Wildlife Management.

Coates, P. S., and M. L. Casazza. Effects of energy development on Greater Sage-Grouse populations. Nevada Governor's Sage-Grouse Conservation Team Meeting, July, 2009.

Coates, P. S., G. D. Wylie, B. J. Halstead, and M. L. Casazza. 2009. Using time-dependent models to investigate body condition and growth rate between sexes of the Giant Gartersnake. The 5th Snake Ecology Group Meeting. July 18-20. Donnelly, Idaho

Coates, P. S., G. D. Wylie, B. J. Halstead, and M. L. Casazza. In Press. Using time-dependent models to investigate body condition and growth rate between sexes of the Giant Gartersnake. Journal of Zoology.

Coates, P. S., G. D. Wylie, B. J. Halstead, and M. L. Casazza. Using time-dependent models to investigate body condition and growth rate between sexes of the Giant Gartersnake. The Wildlife Society 16th Annual Conference Monterey, California, September 20-24, 2009.

DeFalco, L.A., T.C. Esque, J.M. Kane, and M.B. Nicklas. 2009. Seed banks in a degraded desert shrubland: influence of soil surface condition and harvester ant activity on seed abundance. Journal of Arid Environments 2009 doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2009.04.017.

Delehanty, D. J., and P. S. Coates. Nest predation of greater sage-grouse in relation to microhabitat factors and predators. The Wildlife Society 16th Annual Conference Monterey, California, September 20-24, 2009.

Dobson, A. P., S. Allesina, K. D. Lafferty, and M. Pascual. 2009. Food-web assembly and collapse: mathematical models and implications for conservation. Pages 163. London, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences.

Dobson, A. P., S. Allesina, K. D. Lafferty, and M. Pascual. 2009. Food-web assembly and collapse: mathematical models and implications for conservation. Pages 163. London, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences.

Duque, A., N. Stephenson, R. Grau, J. Carilla, L. Daniels, S. Orrego, E. Álvarez, P. van Mantgem, T. Veblen, J. Smith, C. Allen, and J. Dalling. 2009. The Cordillera Forest Dynamics Network (CORFOR). Mountain Research Initiative Newsletter no. 2 (April 2009):15-17.

Eagles-Smith, CA, and JT Ackerman. 2009. Mercury-selenium effects on reproductive success of Forster’s terns in San Francisco Bay. Annual Report, U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Davis, CA; 26 pp.

Eagles-Smith, CA, JT Ackerman, J Yee, and TL Adelsbach. 2009. Mercury demethylation in livers of four waterbird species: evidence for dose-response thresholds with liver total mercury. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 28:568-577.

Eagles-Smith, CA, JT Ackerman, JY Yee, TL Adelsbach. 2009. Mercury demethylation in waterbird livers: dose-response thresholds and differences among species. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 28:568-577.

Eagles-Smith,C.A., J.T. Ackerman, S.W. De La Cruz, J.Y. Takekawa. 2009. Mercury bioaccumulation and risk to three waterbird foraging guilds is influenced by foraging ecology and breeding stage. Environmental Pollution 157:1993-2002.

Esque, T.C., K.E. Nussear, K.K. Drake, K.H. Berry, P.A. Medica, and J.S. Heaton. 2009. Amendment to the Desert Tortoise Translocation Plan for Fort Irwin’s Land Expansion Program at the U. S. Army National Training Center (NTC) & Fort Irwin: Administrative report for the U.S. Army National Training Center, Directorate of Public Works, 34 p.

Fellers, G. May 27, 2009. Training on the ecology and identification of Federally-listed Myrtle's Silverspot butterfly, and on two candidate species of invertebrates for Federal listing (globose dune beetle and sandy beach tiger beetle). Training delivered to the Point Reyes National Seashore, NPS, Point Reyes, CA .

Haas, C. D., L. M. Lyren, and E. E. Boydston. 2009. Evaluation of Functional Connectivity for Medium to Large-bodied Carnivores and Mule Deer across CA-241 and Santiago Canyon Road in the North Irvine Ranch, Orange County, California. Evaluation Summary, 90 pp.

Halstead, B. J., G. D. Wylie, M. L. Casazza, and P. S. Coates. In Press. Temporal and maternal effects on the reproductive ecology of the giant gartersnake (Thamnophis gigas). The Southwestern Naturalist.

Halstead, B. J., G. D. Wylie, P. S. Coates, and M. L. Casazza. Factor analysis as a tool for identifying threats to and setting conservation priorities for rare species. The Wildlife Society 16th Annual Conference Monterey, California, September 20-24, 2009.

Hothem, Roger L., A.M. Meckstroth, K.E. Wegner, M.R. Jennings, and J.J. Crayon. 2009. Diets of Three Species of Anurans from the Cache Creek Watershed, California, USA. Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 275–283.

Johnson, C.K., Tinker, M.T., Estes, J.A., Conrad, P.A., Staedler, M., Miller, M.A., Jessup, D.A. and Mazet, J.A.K. 2009. Prey choice and habitat use drive sea otter pathogen exposure in a resource-limited coastal system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(Early Edition).

Kaplan, A. T., S. Rebhal, K. D. Lafferty, and A. Kuris. 2009. Small estuarine fishes feed on large trematode cercariae: lab and field observations. Journal of Parasitology 95:477-480

Keeley, J.E. 2009. Fire intensity, fire severity and burn severity: A brief review and suggested usage. International Journal of Wildland Fire 18:116-126.

Keeley, J.E. and P.H. Zedler. 2009. Large, high intensity fire events in southern California shrublands: debunking the fine-grained age-patch model. Ecological Applications 19:69-94.

Keeley, J.E. and P.H. Zedler. 2009. Large, high intensity fire events in southern California shrublands: debunking the fine-grained age-patch model. Ecological Applications 19:69-94. (APPENDICES)

Keeley, J.E., G.H. Aplet, N.L. Christensen, S.G. Conard, E.A. Johnson, P.N. Omi, D.L. Peterson, and T.W. Swetnam. 2009. Ecological foundations for fire management in North American forest and shrubland ecosystems. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, General Technical Report, PNW-GTR-779. 92 p.

Lafferty, K. D., and A. M. Kuris. 2009. Parasites reduce food web robustness because they are sensitive to secondary extinction as illustrated by an invasive estuarine snail. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences 364: 1659-1663.

Lafferty, K.D. 2009. Calling for an ecological approach to studying climate change and infectious diseases.Ecology 90:932-933.

Lafferty, K.D. 2009. The ecology of climate change and infectious diseases. Ecology 90:888-900

Longshore, K.M., C. Lowrey, D.B. Thompson. 2009. Compensating for diminishing natural water: Predicting the impacts of water development on summer habitat of desert bighorn sheep. Journal of Arid Environments 73:280-286.

Lutz, J.A., J.W. van Wagtendonkb, J.F. Franklin. 2009. Twentieth-century decline of large-diameter trees in Yosemite National Park, California, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 257: 2296–2307.

Lyren, L. M., R. S. Alonso, K. R. Crooks, and E. E. Boydston. 2009. Evaluation of functional connectivity for bobcats and coyotes across the former El Toro Marine Base, Orange County, California: Administrative report delivered to cooperator Jan. 20, 2009, 179 p.

Madej, M. A., D. G. Sutherland, T. E. Lisle, and B. Pryor. 2009. Channel resonses to varying sediment input: A flume experiment modeled after Redwood Creek, California. Geomorphology 103: 507-519. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.07.017 (pdf available upon request)

Madej, M.A., and Ozaki, V., 2009, Persistence of effects of high sediment loading in a salmon-bearing river, northern California, in James, L.A., Rathburn, S.L., and Whittecar, G.R., eds., Management and Restoration of Fluvial Systems with Broad Historical Changes and Human Impacts: Geological Society of America Special Paper 451, p. 43–55, Boulder, CO. doi: 10.1130/2008.2451(03).

Matchett, J.R., O’Neill, A., Brooks, M., Decker, C., Vollmer, J., and Deuser, C., 2009, Reducing fine fuel loads, controlling invasive annual grasses, and manipulating vegetation composition in Zion Canyon, Utah. Final Report for Joint Fire Science Project 05-2-1-18, El Portal, California, 26 p.

Medica, P.A. 2009. Crotalus scutulatus scutulatus (Mojave Rattlesnake). Defensive Behavior/Saltation and Head Hiding. Natural History Notes. Herpetological Review. 40(1): 95-97.

Medica, P.A. and P. Greger. 2009. Gopherus agassizii (Desert Tortoise). Predation/Mountain Lion. Natural History Note. Herpetological Review. 40(1):75-77.

Miles, A.K., M.A. Ricca, R.G. Anthony, J.A. Estes. 2009. Organochlorine contaminants in fishes from coastal waters west of Amukta Pass, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 28(8):1643-1654.

Mruz, E., N. Athearn, K. Henderson, and J. Takekawa. 2009. 2008 Self-montitoring program for Alviso ponds within South San Francisco Bay low salinity salt ponds: Alameda, Santa Clara, and San Mateo counties, California. Self Monitoring Report for California Regional Water Quality Control Board Order No. R2-2004-0018, 144 pp.

Nogeire, T., E. E. Boydston, L. M. Lyren, K. R. Crooks, and F. W. Davis. April 2009. Selection and Use of Orchards by Bobcats and Coyotes. International Association for Landscape Ecology, Snowbird, UT.

Nussear, K.E., T.C. Esque, R.D. Inman, L. Gass, K.A. Thomas, C.S.A. Wallace, J.B. Blainey, D.M. Miller,and R.H. Webb. 2009. Modeling habitat of the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) in the Mojave and parts of the Sonoran Deserts of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1102, 18 p.

Pausas, J.G. and J.E. Keeley. 2009. A burning story: The role of fire in the history of life. Bioscience 59:593-601.

Pearce, J. M., A. M. Ramey, P. L. Flint, A. V. Koehler, J. P. Fleskes, J. C. Franson, J. S. Hall, D. V. Derksen, and H. S. Ip. 2009. Avian influenza at both ends of a migratory flyway: characterizing viral genomic diversity to optimize surveillance plans for North America. Evolutionary Applications 2(2):in press.

Puckett, C and J Takekawa. 2009. Satellite-Tracked Birds from India Will Provide Clues on How Avian Influenza Spreads: International Team Conducts Research. USGS Soundwaves monthly newsletter, April 2009. Published on-line by USGS at http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/

Ringelman, KM, JT Ackerman, JM Eadie, and J Kwolek. 2009. Duck nest monitoring at Grizzly Island Wildlife Area: 2009 report. Administrative Report, U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Davis, CA and California Waterfowl Association, Sacramento, CA; 14 pp.

Rytuba, J.J., Hothem, R.L., May, J.T., Kim, C.S., Lawler, D., Goldstein, D., and Brussee, B.E., 2009, Environmental impact of the Helen, Research, and Chicago mercury mines on water, sediment, and biota in upper Dry Creek watershed, Lake County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1382, 59 p.

Rytuba, J.J., Hothem, R.L., May, J.T., Kim, C.S., Lawler, David, and Goldstein, D., 2009, Environmental impact of the Contact and Sonoma mercury mines on water, sediment, and biota in Anna Belcher and Little Sulphur Creek watersheds, Sonoma County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1381, 76 p.

Schwilk, D.W., J.E. Keeley, E.E. Knapp, J. McIver, J.D. Bailey, C.J. Fettig, C.E. Fiedler, R.J. Harrod, J.J. Moghaddas, K.W. Outcalt, C.N. Skinner, S.L. Stephens, T.A. Waldrop, D.A. Yassey, and A. Youngblood. 2009. The National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study: Effects of alternative fuel reduction methods on forest vegetation structure and fuels. Ecological Applications 19:285-304.

Scoles-Sciulla, Sara J. and DeFalco, Lesley A. 2009. Seed Reserves Diluted During Surface Soil Reclamation in Eastern Mojave Desert. Arid Land Research and Management, 23:1,1 — 13

Shaw, J. C., W. J. Korzan, R. E. Carpenter, A. M. Kuris, K. D. Lafferty, C. H. Summers, and O. Overli. 2009. Parasite manipulation of brain monoamines in California killifish (Fundulus parvipinnis) by the trematode Euhaplorchis californiensis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 276:1137-1146.

Sonnenholzner, J. I., L. B. Ladah, and K. D. Lafferty. 2009. Cascading effects of fishing on Galapagos rocky reef communities: reanalysis using corrected data. Marine Ecology Progress Series 375:209-218.

Sparling, Donald W. and Gary M. Fellers. 2009. Toxicity of Two Insecticides to California, USA, Anurans and its Relevance to Declining Amphibian Populations. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 28(8): 1696-1703.

Stebbins, KR, JD Klimstra, CA Eagles-Smith, JT Ackerman, and GH Heinz. 2009. A non-lethal micro-sampling technique to monitor the effects of mercury on wild bird eggs. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 28:465-470.

Stephens, S.L., J.J Moghaddas, C. Edminster, C.E. Fiedler, S. Hasse, M. Harrington, J.E. Keeley, E. Knapp, J.D. McIver, K. Metlen, C. Skinner, and A. Youngblood. 2009. Fire and fire surrogate treatment effects on vegetation structure, fuels, and potential fire behavior and severity from six western United States coniferous forests. Ecological Applications 19:305-320.

Suchanek, T.H., J. Cooke, K. Keller, S. Jorgensen, P.J. Richerson, C. A. Eagles-Smith, E.J. Harner and D.P. Adam. 2009. A mass balance mercury budget for a mine-dominated lake: Clear Lake, California. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 196:51-73

Suchanek, T.H., J. Cooke, K. Keller, S. Jorgensen, P.J. Richerson, C. A. Eagles-Smith, E.J. Harner and D.P. Adam. 2009. A mass balance mercury budget for a mine-dominated lake: Clear Lake, California. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 196:51-73

Takekawa, J. Y., A. K. Miles, D. C. Tsao-Melcer, D. H. Schoellhamer, S. Fregien, and N. D. Athearn. 2009. Dietary flexibility in three representative waterbirds across salinity and depth gradients in salt ponds of San Francisco Bay. Hydrobiologia 626:155–168.

Thorne, K., N. Athearn, J. Takekawa, D. Elliott-Fisk, and S. Ustin. Modeling the effects of projected sea-level rise on the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge, California and its endemic endangered species. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, 22-27 March 2009.

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Ackerman, JT, and CA Eagles-Smith. 2008. A dual life-stage approach to monitoring the effects of mercury concentrations on the reproductive success of Forster’s Terns in San Francisco Bay. Administrative Report, U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Davis, CA 47 pp.

Ackerman, JT, CA Eagles-Smith, JY Takekawa, and SA Iverson. 2008. Survival of postfledging Forster’s terns in relation to mercury exposure in San Francisco Bay. Ecotoxicology 17:789-801.

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Ackerman, JT, JY Takekawa, JD Bluso, JL Yee, and CA Eagles-Smith. 2008. Gender identification of Caspian terns using external morphology and discriminant function analysis. Wilson Journal of Field Ornithology 120:378-383.

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Athearn, N. D., S. M. Moskal, J. M. Shinn, L. M. Smith, and J. Y. Takekawa. Long-term adaptive monitoring of bird habitats for salt pond restoration in San Francisco Bay, CA. Poster Presentation. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Waterbird Society, South Padre Island, Texas, 5-8 November 2008.

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Athearn, N.D., J.Y. Takekawa, B. Jaffe, B.J. Hattenbach, and A.C. Foxgrover. In press. Mapping elevations of tidal wetland restoration sites in San Francisco Bay: comparing accuracy of aerial LiDAR with a singlebeam echosounder. Journal of Coastal Research.

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Chen, Hong-Chuan, Bo-Chi Lai, Gary M. Fellers, Wei-Lung Wang, and Yeong-Choy Kam. 2008. Diet and foraging behavior of Rana sauteri and Bufo bankorensis tadpoles in subtropical Taiwanese streams. Zoological Studies. 47(6): 685-696.

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DeFalco, L.A., and Esque, T.C., 2008, The fate of perennial seeds used in rehabilitating disturbed sites at Fort Irwin National Training Center, California: Final Administrative Report Prepared for Integrated Training Area Management U.S. Army National Training Center Fort Irwin, California.

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Shellenbarger, G.G, N.D. Athearn, J.Y. Takekawa, and A.B. Boehm. 2008. Fecal indicator bacteria and Salmonella in ponds managed as bird habitat, San Francisco Bay, California, USA. Water Research 42: 2921-2930.

Shellenbarger, G.G., Schoellhamer, D.H., Morgan, T.L., Takekawa, J.Y., Athearn, N.D., and Henderson, K.D. , 2008, Dissolved oxygen in Guadalupe Slough and Pond A3W, South San Francisco Bay, California, August and September 2007: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008–1097, 26 p.

Smith, J.K., K. Zouhar, S. Sutherland, and M.L. Brooks (eds.). 2008. Wildland Fire in Ecosystems: Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants, USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-42-vol. 6.

Smith, J.K., K. Zouhar, S. Sutherland, and M.L. Brooks. 2008. Chapter 1: Fire and non-native invasive plants - introduction. Pages 1-6 in Zouhar, K., J.K. Smith, S. Sutherland, and M.L. Brooks (eds.), Wildland Fire in Ecosystems: Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants, USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-42-vol. 6.

Smith, J.K., K. Zouhar, S. Sutherland, and M.L. Brooks. 2008. Chapter 16: Fire and non-native plants - summary and conclusions. Pages 293-296 in Zouhar, K., J.K. Smith, S. Sutherland, and M.L. Brooks (eds.), Wildland Fire in Ecosystems: Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants, USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-42-vol. 6.

Sources of Organochlorine Contaminants and Mercury in Seabirds from the Aleutian Archipelago of Alaska (September 2008), Mark Ricca

Suchanek, T.H. 2008. Special Issue - Mercury cycling and bioaccumulation in a mine-dominated aquatic ecosystem: Clear Lake, California. Ecological Applications 18(8): Supplement A1-A2

Suchanek, T.H., P.J. Richerson, R.A. Zierenberg, C.A. Eagles-Smith, D.G. Slotton, E.J. Harner, D.A. Osleger, D.W. Anderson, J.J. Cech Jr., S.G. Schladow, A.E. Colwell, J.F. Mount, P.S. King, D.P. Adam, KJ McElroy. 2008. The Legacy of Mercury Cycling from Mining Sources in an Aquatic Ecosystem: From Ore to Organism. Ecological Applications 18(8): Supplement A12-A28.

Suchanek, TH, CA Eagles-Smith, DG Slotton, EJ Harner, AE Colwell, NL Anderson, L Mullen, J Flanders, D Adam, K McElroy. 2008. Spatio-temporal trends of mercury in fish from a mine-dominated ecosystem at Clear Lake, California: individual, species, and population trends. Ecological Applications 18:A177-A195.

Suchanek, TH, CA Eagles-Smith, DG Slotton, EJ Harner, D Adam, AE Colwell, NL Anderson, D Woodward. 2008. Mine-derived mercury: effects on lower trophic species in Clear Lake, California. Ecological Applications 18:A158-A176.

Suchanek, TH, CA Eagles-Smith, EJ Harner, D Adam. 2008. Mercury in abiotic compartments of Clear Lake, California: human health and ecotoxicological implications. Ecological Applications 18:A128-A157

Suchanek, TH, CA Eagles-Smith, EJ Harner. 2008. Is Clear Lake methylmercury decoupled from bulk mercury loading? Implications for lake management and TMDL implementation. Ecological Applications 18:A107-A127

Takekawa, J.Y., D.T. Melcer, N.D. Athearn, A.K. Miles, and D.H. Schoellhamer. In press. Dietary Flexibility of Waterbirds across Salinity and Depth Gradients in Salt Ponds of San Francisco Bay. Hydrobiologia.[Journal Article]

Thomas, M. B., K. D. Lafferty, and C. S. Friedman. 2008. Biodiversity and Disease. Pages 229-244 in O. E. Sala, Meyerson, L. A., Parmesan, C., editor. Biodiversity Change and Human Health. Island Press, Washington.

Thorne, K.M, N.D. Athearn, J.Y. Takekawa, S.L. Ustin, and D.L. Elliott-Fisk. Modeling the effects of projected sea-level rise on endangered species of the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge: an interdisciplinary approach. California Bay-Delta Program (CALFED) Science Conference, Sacramento, CA, 22-24 October 2008.

Tinker, M. Tim, Daniel F. Doak, and James A. Estes. 2008. Using demography and movement behavior to predict range expansion of the southern sea otter. Ecological Applications 18(7):1781-1794

Tinker, M.T., G. Bentall and J.A. Estes 2008. Food limitation leads to behavioral diversification and dietary specialization in sea otters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(2):560-565

Torchin, M. E. and K. D. Lafferty. 2008. Escape from parasites. Pages 203-214 in G. Rilov and J. Crooks, editors. Marine Bioinvasions: Ecology, conservation and management perspectives. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Tsao Melcer, A.K. Miles, J.Y. Takekawa, and I.Woo. In press. Potential effects of mercury on threatened California black rails. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology.

Turschak, G. M., C. S. Brehme, S. L. Schuster, C. J. Rochester and R. N. Fisher. 2008. MCBCP Arroyo Toad Monitoring Results for 2006 with Multi-Year Trend Analysis. U.S. Geological Survey Data Summary prepared for Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. 55 pp.

Unraveling the Morphological and Genetic Diversity in the Western Shovel-nosed Snake (August 2008), Dustin Wood

van Wagtendonk, J. W., and D. R. Cayan. 2008. Temporal and spatial distribution of lightning strikes in California in relation to large-scale weather patterns. Fire Ecology 4(1): 34-57.

Vandergast, A. G. and D. Weissman 2008. Multiple origins of Channel Island Jerusalem crickets. Oral Presentation. 7th California Islands Symposium. Oxnard. CA.

Vandergast, A. G., E. A. Lewallen, J. Deas, A. J. Bohonak, D. B. Weissman, and R. N. Fisher. 2008. Loss of genetic connectivity and diversity in urban microreserves in a southern California endemic Jerusalem cricket (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae: Stenopelmatus “santa monica”) Journal of Insect Conservation DOI 10.1007/s10841-008-9176-z.

Vandergast, A. G., S. A. Hathaway, R. N. Fisher, J. Boys, and A. J. Bohonak. 2008. Are hotspots of evolutionary potential adequately protected in southern California? Biological Conservation 141:1648-1664.

Wiener, J.G. and T.H. Suchanek. 2008. The basis for ecotoxicological concern in aquatic ecosystems contaminated by historical mercury mining. Ecological Applications 18(8) Supplement:A3-A11.

Wildland Fire in Ecosystems: Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants (August 2008), Matt Brooks

Woo, I., J. Y. Takekawa and R. Gardiner. 2008. Guadalcanal Tidal Marsh Restoration: 2007 Annual Report. Data Summary Report, U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Station, Vallejo, CA. 62 pp.

Woo, I., J. Y. Takekawa and R. Gardiner. 2008. Guadalcanal Tidal Marsh Restoration: 2007 Annual Report. Data Summary Report, U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Station, Vallejo, CA. 62 pp.

Woo, I., J. Y. Takekawa, A. Rowan, L. Dembosz, and R. Gardiner. 2008. The Benicia- Martinez (BenMar) Restoration Project: 2007 Annual Report, U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Station, Vallejo, CA. 44pp.

Woo, I., J. Y. Takekawa, A. Rowan, L. Dembosz, and R. Gardiner. 2008. The Benicia- Martinez (BenMar) Restoration Project: 2007 Annual Report, U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Station, Vallejo, CA. 44pp

Wood, D. A., T. W. Reeder, and R. N. Fisher. 2008. Novel patterns of historical isolation, dispersal, and secondary contact across Baja California in the Rosy Boa (Lichanura trivirgata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46:484-502.

Wylie, G.D. and M. Amarello. 2008. Surveys for the current distribution and abundance of Giant Gartersnakes (Thamnophis gigas) in the sourhtern San Joaquin Valley. USGS, BRD, WERC, Dixon Field Station. 24 pp.

Wylie, G.D., and M. Amarello. 2008. Results of 2006 Monitoring for Giant Gartersnakes (Thamnophis gigas) For the bank protection project on the left bank of the Colusa Basin Drainage Canal in Reclamation District 108, Sacramento River Bank Protection Project, Phase II. USGS, BRD, WERC, Dixon Field Station. 20 pp.

Wylie, Glenn D., Michael L. Casazza, Christopher J. Gregory, and Brian J. Halstead. 2008. Body temperature selection of the Giant Gartersnake. 2008 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

(van Mantgem, P.J.) Tree Deaths in California’s Sierra Nevada Increase as Temperatures Rise (August 2007)

Ackerman, JT, and CA Eagles-Smith. 2007. Mercury contamination in waterbirds breeding in San Francisco Bay. Tideline 27(2): 1–3.

Ackerman, JT, CA Eagles-Smith, GH Heinz, SE Wainwright-De La Cruz, JY Takekawa, TL Adelsbach, AK Miles, DJ Hoffman, SE Schwarzbach, TH Suchanek, and TC Maurer. 2007. Mercury in birds of the San Francisco Bay-Delta: trophic pathways, bioaccumulation, and ecotoxicological risk to avian reproduction. 2006 Annual Administrative Report, U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Davis, CA, and U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Environmental Contaminants Division, Sacramento, CA, 44 pp.

Ackerman, JT, CA Eagles-Smith, JY Takekawa, SA Demers, TL Adelsbach, JD Bluso, AK Miles, N Warnock, TH Suchanek, and SE Schwarzbach. 2007. Mercury concentrations and space use of pre-breeding American avocets and black-necked stilts in San Francisco Bay. Science of the Total Environment 384: 452-466.

Anthony, R.G, A.K. Miles, M.A. Ricca, and J.A. Estes. 2007. Environmental Contaminants in Bald Eagle Eggs from the Aleutian Archipelago. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 26(9): 1843-1855.

Athearn, N. D., B.J. Hattenbach, J.Y. Takekawa, and F. Reid. 2007. Avian response to early salt pond restoration at the Napa-Sonoma Marshes Wildlife Area. Abstract, State of the Estuary conference, Oakland, CA, October 2007.

Athearn, N. D., D. Le Fer, J.Y. Takekawa, and J.M. Shinn. 2007. Bird distribution at South Bay salt ponds following initial restoration actions. Abstract, State of the Estuary conference, Oakland, CA, October 2007.

Behrens, M. D., and K. D. Lafferty. 2007. Temperature and diet effects on omnivorous fish performance: implications for the latitudinal diversity gradient in herbivorous fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64:867-873.

Bell, C.E., J.M. DiTomaso, and M.L. Brooks. 2007. Invasive Plants and Wildfires in Southern California. University of California Cooperative Extension Fact Sheet. 4pp.

Berry, K. H., Abundance and Distribution of Selected Elements from Tortoise Habitats in the Mojave and Colorado Deserts (January 2007)

Berry, K. H., Population Attributes of Desert Tortoises at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California (January 2007)

Bohonak, A.J., J. Boys, S. A. Hathaway, R. N. Fisher and A. G. Vandergast. 2007. Comparative phylogeography in southern California: evolutionary processes and current reserve design. Poster Presentation. Evolutionary Change in Human Altered Environments: An International Summit. University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Brehme, C.S. and R.N. Fisher. 2007. Arroyo toads (Bufo californicus) in southern California: Findings and trends from three to ten years of population monitoring. Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force California-Nevada Working Group Meeting, January 17-19, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Brehme, C.S. and R.N. Fisher. 2007. Stephens' Kangaroo Rat Monitoring Results on MCB Camp Pendleton, 2005. Prepared for AC/S Environmental Security, Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton.

Brehme, C.S., Fisher, R. N., and Hathaway, S. A. 2007. Pacific Pocket Mouse (Perognathus longimembris pacificus) Monitoring Workshop for MCB Camp Pendleton, CA. Workshop held Sept. 6-7. San Diego, CA.

Brehme, C.S., S.L. Schuster, C.J. Rochester, S.A. Hathaway and R.N. Fisher, 2007. Arroyo Toads (Bufo californicus): Population Monitoring Results and Management Implications. Marine Corps Installations West Conservation Expo, Camp Pendleton, CA

Brooks, M. L., Dominance and Environmental Correlates of Alien Annual Plants in the Mojave Desert (January 2007)

Brooks, M. L., Effects of Livestock Watering Sites on Alien and Native Plants in the Mojave Desert (January 2007)

Brooks, M. L., Seed Production by the Non-Native Sahara Mustard (February 2007)

Brooks, M. L., Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Wildfires in the Mojave Desert (January 2007)

Brooks, M.L. 2007. Effects of land management practices on plant invasions in wildland areas. Pages 147-162 in: W. Nentwig (ed.) Biological Invasions. Ecological Studies, Vol. 193, Springer, Heidelberg, Germany.

Brooks, M.L., T.C. Esque, and T. Duck. 2007. Fuels and fire regimes in creosotebush, blackbrush, and interior chaparral shrublands. P.p. 97-110 In S. Hood and M. Miller (eds.) Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-202. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Coates, P. S. 2007. Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) nest predation and incubation behavior. Ph.D., Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID.

Coates, P. S. 2007. Greater Sage-Grouse incubation rhythms and the effects of age, timing of incubation, predators, habitat, and weather. The Cooper's Ornithological Society National Meeting. Moscow, Idaho.

Coates, P. S., and D. J. Delehanty. 2007. Efficacy of CPTH-treated egg baits for removing ravens. Human-Wildlife Conflicts 1:224–234.

Coates, P. S., and D. J. Delehanty. 2007. Greater sage-grouse incubation rhythms. Idaho Chapter of the Wildlife Society Annual Meeting, Pocatello, ID.

Collins, B. M., N. M. Kelly, J. W. van Wagtendonk, and S. L. Stephens. 2007. Spatial patterns of large natural fires in Sierra Nevada wilderness areas. Landscape Ecology 22: 545-557.

Colwell, A.E.L., C.J. Sheviak, and P.E. Moore. 2007. A new Platanthera (Orchidaceae) species from Yosemite National Park, California. Madroño 54(1): 86-93.

Crocker, Daniel E., Nathan Kofahl, Gary M. Fellers, Natalie B. Gates, and Dorian S. Houser. 2007. Water flux, energy expenditure and renal function in the Point Reyes mountain beaver, Aplodontia rufa phaea. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 80(6):635–642.

Das, A., J. Battles, N. L. Stephenson, and P. J. van Mantgem. 2007. The relationship between tree growth patterns and likelihood of mortality: a study of two tree species in the Sierra Nevada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37:580-597

DeFalco, L. A., G. C. J. Fernandez, and R. S. Nowak. 2007. Variation in the establishment of a non-native annual grass influences competitive interactions with Mojave Desert perennials. Biological Invasions 9:293-307.

Diffendorfer, J.E., Fleming, G.M., Duggan, J.M., Chapman, R.E., Rahn, M.E., Mitrovich, M.J., and R.N. Fisher. 2007. Developing terrestrial, multi-taxon indices of biological integrity: An example from coastal sage scrub. Biological Conservation 140:130-141.

Eagles-Smith, CA, and JT Ackerman. 2007. Mercury may pose substantial risks to breeding birds in San Francisco Bay. pp 37, In: San Francisco Estuary Institute. 2007. The Pulse of the Estuary: Monitoring and Managing Water Quality in the San Francisco Estuary. SFEI Contribution 532. San Francisco Estuary Institute, Oakland, CA.

Eagles-Smith, CA, and JT Ackerman. 2007. Mercury poses risks to waterbirds in San Francisco Bay. Regional Monitoring Program Update, December 2007:1-4.

Ervin, Edward L. and Robert N. Fisher. 2007. Thamnophis hammondii foraging behavior. Herpetological Review. 38:345-346.

Eschenbach, E. A., R. Teasley, C. Diaz, and M. A. Madej. 2007. Decision support for road decommissioning and restoration by using genetic algorithms and dynamic programming. Proceedings of the Redwood Region Forest Science Symposium: What Does the Future Hold? USDA Forest Service General Technical Report PSW-GTR-194. pp. 359-369.

Feller, Gary M., and Patrick M. Kleeman. 2007. California Red-legged Frog (Rana draytonii) Movement and Habitat Use: Implications for Conservation. Journal of Herpetology 41(2): 276-286

Fellers, Gary M. 2007. California Red-legged Frog Surveys, Cottonwood Creek Watershed, Tehama and Shasta Counties, California. USGS Report (Data Summary) for the Cottonwood Creek Watershed Group. 32Pp.

Fellers, Gary M. and Michael Osbourn. 2007. Distribution and Abundance of Fallow Deer Leks at Point Reyes National Seashore. California Fish and Game. 93 (3): 149-160. [Journal Article]

Fellers, Gary M. and Patrick M. Kleeman. 2007. California Red-legged Frog (Rana draytonii) Movement and Habitat Use: Implications for Conservation. Journal of Herpetology. 41(2): 276-286.

Fellers, Gary M. and Patrick M. Kleeman. 2007. California Red-Legged Frog (Rana draytonii) Movement and Habitat Use. [Publication Brief]

Fellers, Gary M. and Patrick M. Kleeman. 2007. California Red-legged Frog (Rana draytonii) Movement and Habitat Use: Implications for Conservation.

Fellers, Gary M. Diurnal Versus Nocturnal Surveys for California Red-Legged Frogs [Publication Brief]

Fellers, Gary M., David Bradford, David Pratt, and Leslie Long Wood. 2007. Demise of translocated populations of mountain yellow-legged frogs (Rana muscosa) in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Herpetological Conservation and Biology. 2(1): 5-21.

Fellers, Gary M., Jessica Reynolds-Taylor, and Susan Farrar. 2007. Taricha granulosa Predation. Herpetological Review. 38(3): 317-318.

Field, K.J., C.R. Tracy, P.A. Medica, R.W. Marlow, P.S. Corn. 2007. Return to the wild: Translocation as a tool in conservation of the Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii ) Biological Conservation. 136(2007):232-245.

Fites-Kaufman, J. A., P. Rundel, N. Stephenson, and D. A. Weixelman. 2007. Montane and subalpine vegetation of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges. Pages 456-501 in M. Barbour, T. Keeler-Wolf, and A. A. Schoenherr (eds.), Terrestrial Vegetation of California, 3rd edition. University of California Press.

Fleskes, J. P., J. L. Yee, G. S. Yarris, M. R. Miller, and M. L. Casazza. 2007. Pintail and mallard survival in California relative to habitat, abundance, and hunting. Journal of Wildlife Management 71:2238-2248.

Fleskes, J.P., and J. L. Yee. 2007. Waterfowl distribution and abundance during spring migration in southern Oregon and northeastern California. Western North American Naturalist 67(3): 409-428.

Fleskes, J.P., D. M. Mauser, and G. S. Yarris. 2007. Survival of female mallards molting on Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuges: Project Update 2007. 2007 Adminstrative Report. U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Sacramento, California.

Foxgrover, A. C., Dartnell, P., Jaffe, B. E., Takekawa, J. Y, and Athearn, N. D., 2007, High-resolution bathymetry and topography of south San Francisco Bay, California: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 2987, 1 sheet.

Franklin, S. P., J. L. Troyer, J. A. TerWee, L. M. Lyren, R. W. Kays, S. P. D. Riley, W. M. Boyce, K. R. Crooks, and S. VandeWoude. 2007. Variability in assays used for detection of lentiviral infection in bobcats (Lynx rufus), pumas (Puma concolor), and ocelots (Leopardus pardalis). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 43(4):700-710

Franklin, S. P., J. L. Troyer, J. A. Terwee, L. M. Lyren, W. M. Boyce, S. P. D. Riley, M. E. Roelke, K. R. Crooks, and S. W. VandeWoude. 2007. Frequent Transmission of Immunodeficiency Viruses among Bobcats and Pumas. Journal of Virology 10961-10969.

Halstead, Brian J., Earl D. McCoy, and Henry R. Mushinsky. 2007. The influence of predators on the survival and abundance of the Florida scrub lizard (Sceloporus woodi). 2007 Joint Meeting of the Ecological Society of America and the Society for Ecological Restoration. San Jose, California, USA.

Halstead, Brian J., Earl D. McCoy, Terri A. Stilson, and Henry R. Mushinsky. 2007. Alternative foraging tactics of juvenile gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) examined using correlated random walk models. Herpetologica 63:472-481.

Halstead, Brian J., Henry R. Mushinsky, and Earl D. McCoy. 2007. Diet selection of the coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum) and black racer (Coluber constrictor) in Florida scrub habitat. 2007 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Hickey, C., N. Warnock, J.Y. Takekawa, and N. D. Athearn. 2007. Space use by black-necked stilts in the San Francisco Bay estuary. Ardea 95: 275-288.

Hothem, R.L., and D.R. Bergen. 2007. Reproductive success of black-crowned night-herons and snowy egrets at Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California: 2006. Administrative Report prepared by U.S. Geological Survey for Golden Gate National Recreation Area, National Park Service, 24pp.

Hothem, R.L., D.R. Bergen, M.L. Bauer, J.J. Crayon, and A.M. Meckstroth. 2007. Mercury and trace elements in crayfish from Northern California. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 79:628-632.

Jan van Wagtendonk, Spatial Patterns of Large Natural Fires in Sierra Nevada Wilderness Areas (April 2007)

Jessup, D.A., M.A. Miller, C. Kreuder-Johnson, P. Conrad, M.T. Tinker, J.A. Estes and J.A.K. Mazet. 2007. Sea Otters in a Dirty Ocean. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 231(11): 1648-1652.

Keegan, T. and I. Woo. 2007. Wildlife response to habitat restoration at Tolay Creek. Oral Presentation. American Fisheries Society. Sept. 2007. San Francisco, CA

Keeley, J. E., A Critical Assessment of the Burning Index Used in Fighting Wildland Fires (August 2007)

Keeley, J. E., Fire Dynamics of Foothill Pine in the Southern Sierra Nevada (February 2007)

Keeley, J. E., Human Influence on California Fire Regimes (July 2007)

Keeley, J. E., Prescribed Fire Effects on Cheatgrass Persistence in a Sierra Nevada Ponderosa Pine Forest, (February 2007)

Keeley, J. E., Role of Burning Season on Understory Vegetation in a Mixed Conifer Forest (March 2007)

Keeley, J. E., The Role of Fuel Breaks in the Invasion of Nonnative Plants (April 2007)

Keeley, J.E. 2007. Appropriate postfire management for the 2007 Griffith park Fire. Newsletter of the Los Angeles & San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council 11(1):3-5.

Keeley, J.E. 2007. Chaparral and fire. Fremontia 35(4):16-21.

Keeley, J.E. and T.W. McGinnis. 2007. Impact of prescribed fire and other factors on cheatgrass persistence in a Sierra Nevada ponderosa pine forest. International Journal of Wildland Fire 16:96-106.

Keeley, J.E., and F.W. Davis. 2007. Chaparral. Pages 339-366 in: M.G. Barbour, T. Keeler-Wolf, and A.A. Schoenherr (eds.), Terrestrial Vegetation of California, 3rd edition. University of California Press, Los Angeles.

Keeley, J.E., M.C. Vasey, and V.T. Parker. 2007. Subspecific variation in the widespread burl-forming Arctostaphylos glandulosa. Madroño 54:42-62.

Kenwood, K.E. and B.E. Kus. 2007. Distribution, abundance and breeding activities of the southwestern willow flycatcher at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. 2006 Annual Data Summary. Prepared for Assistant Chief of Staff, Environmental Security, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

Knapp, E.E., D.W. Schwilk, J.M. Kane, and J.E. Keeley. 2007. Role of burning season on initial understory vegetation response to prescribed fire in a mixed conifer forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37:11-22.

Kuris, A. M., J. H. R. Goddard, M. E. Torchin, N. Murphy, R. Gurney, and K. D. Lafferty. 2007. An experimental evaluation of host specificity: The role of encounter and compatibility filters for a rhizocephalan parasite of crabs. International Journal for Parasitology 37:539.

Lesley DeFalco, Competitive Interactions Between a Non-native Annual Grass and Mojave Desert Perennials (May 2007)

Lisle, T. E., Cummins, K. and Madej, M. A. 2007. An Examination of References for Ecosystems in a Watershed Context: Results of a Scientific Pulse in Redwood National and State Parks, California. pp. 118-129 in Advancing the fundamental sciences: proceedings of the Forest Service National Earth Sciences Conference. San Diego, CA. Furniss, M.; Clifton, C.; Ronnenberg, K. eds. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-689. 577 p

Madej, M. A. 2007. A strategy to reduce fine sediment from tributaries in the Trinity River basin. A report in fulfillment of the Trinity River Restoration Project Agreement # 04AA202062. USGS Arcata, Ca. 111 p. plus appendices.

Mason, JW, GJ McChesney, WR McIver, HR Carter, JY Takekawa, RT Golightly, JT Ackerman, DL Orthmeyer, WM Perry, JL Yee, MO Pierson, and MD McCrary. 2007. At-sea distribution and abundance of seabirds off southern California: a 20-year comparison. Studies in Avian Biology 33: 1-101.

Medica, P.A. and S.E. Eckert. 2007. GOPHERUS AGASSIZII (Desert Tortoise). FOOD/MECHANICAL INJURY. Naturaly History Notes. Herpetological Review 38(4):446-448.

Mendelsohn, M.B., Boarman, W.I., Fisher, R.N. & S.A. Hathaway. 2007. Diversity of terrestrial avifauna in response to distance from the shoreline of the Salton Sea. Journal of Arid Environments 68:574–587

Menke, S. B., R. N. Fisher, W. Jetz, and D. A. Holway. 2007. Biotic and abiotic controls of Argentine ant invasion success at local and landscape scales. Ecology 88:3164–3173.

Mercury in American Avocets and Black-necked Stilts Breeding in San Francisco Bay (September 2007)

Merriam, K.E., J.E. Keeley, and J.L. Beyers. 2007. The role of fuel breaks in the invasion of nonnative plants. USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5185, 69 p.

Millar, C. I., N. L. Stephenson, and S. L. Stephens. 2007. Climate change and forests of the future: managing in the face of uncertainty. Ecological Applications 17:2145-2151.

Moore, P.E., A.E.L. Colwell, and D. Grossenbacher. 2007. Rare plant surveys in unusual habitats of Yosemite National Park, California. Unpublished report to the National Park Service and The Yosemite Fund. 65 p.

Murphy, R.W., K.H. Berry, T. Edwards, and A.M. McLuckie. 2007. A genetic assessment of the recovery units for the Mojave population of the desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 6(2):229-251.

Myers, M.D., M.A. Ayers, J.S. Baron, P.R. Beauchemin, K.T. Gallagher, M.B. Goldhaber, D.R. Hutchinson, J.W. LaBaugh, R.G. Sayre, S.E. Schwarzbach, E.S. Schweig, J. Thormodsgard, C van Riper III and W. Wilde. 2007. Facing Tomorrow's Challenges - U.S. Geological Survey Science in the Decade 2007-2017. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1309, x + 70 p.

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Nussear, K. E. and C. R. Tracy. 2007. Can modeling improve estimation of desert tortoise population densities? Ecological Applications 17:579–586.

Nussear, K. E., R. D. Inman, T. C. Esque, P. A. Medica and M. A Walden. 2008. Sloan Canyon: Reptiles on the Urban Edge: 2007 Final Report to BLM.

Nussear, K. E., T. C. Esque, D. F. Haines and C. R. Tracy. 2007. Desert Tortoise Hibernation: Temperatures, Timing, and Environment. Copeia 2007(2):378–386

Presented at the Geological Society of America annual meeting, October, 2007.

Presented to Redwood National Park, Orick, CA, December, 2007.

Ridenour, Donovan P. 2007. Intranet Web Site, Western Ecological Research Center.

Ridenour, Donovan P. 2007. Intranet Web Site. Western Ecological Research Center.

Rourke, J. W. and B. E. Kus. 2007. Distribution, abundance and breeding activities of the Least Bell's Vireo at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. 2006 Annual Data Summary. Prepared for Assistant Chief of Staff, Environmental Security, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

Sappington, J. M., Longshore, K. M. and D. B. Thompson. 2007. Quantifying landscape ruggedness for animal habitat analysis: a case study using desert bighorn sheep in the Mojave Desert. Journal of Wildlife Management 71(5):1419-1426.

Schoenberg, F.P., C.-H. Chang, J.E. Keeley, J. Pompa, J. Woods, and H. Xu. 2007. A critical assessment of the burning index in Los Angeles County, California. International Journal of Wildland Fire 16:473-483.

Sonnenholzner, J. I., L. B. Ladah, and K. D. Lafferty. 2007. Cascading effects of fishing on Galapagos rocky reef communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series 343:77-85.

Sparling, Donald W. and Gary M. Fellers. 2007. Comparative toxicity of chlorpyrifos, diazinon, malathion and their oxon derivatives to Rana boylii. Environmental Pollution. 147(2007): 535-539.

Sparling, Donald W. and Gary M. Fellers. 2007. Comparative Toxicity of Chlorpyrifos, Diazinon, Malathion and Their Oxons to Amphibians. [Publication Brief]

Syphard, A.D., J. Yang, J. Franklin, H.S. He, and J.E. Keeley. 2007. Calibrating a forest landscape model to simulate frequent fire in Mediterranean-type shrublands. Environmental Modelling & Software 22:1641-1653.

Syphard, A.D., V.C. Radeloff, J.E. Keeley, T.J. Hawbaker, M.K. Clayton, S.I. Stewart, and R.B. Hammer. 2007. Human influence on California fire regimes. Ecological Applications 17:1388-1402.

Szykman M., Van Horn, R. C., Engh, A. L., Boydston, E. E., & Holekamp, K. E. 2007. Courtship and mating in free-living spotted hyenas. Behaviour 144: 815-846.

Thompson, D., K. Longshore and C. Lowrey. 2007. The impact of human disturbance on desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) in the Wonderland of Rocks/Queen Mountain region of Joshua Tree National Park, California. Unpublished Final Report Submitted to Joshua Tree National Park. 43 pp.

Tinker, M.T., D.P. Costa, J.A. Estes and N. Wieringa. 2007. Individual dietary specialization and dive behaviour in the California sea otter: using archival time-depth data to detect alternative foraging strategies. Deep Sea Research II 54:330-342.

van Mantgem, P. J., and N. L. Stephenson. 2007. Apparent climatically-induced increase of tree mortality rates in a temperate forest. Ecology Letters 10:909-916.

van Wagtendonk, J. L., and J. A. Lutz. 2007. Fire regime attributes of wildland fires in Yosemite National Park. Fire Ecology 3(2): 34-52.

van Wagtendonk, J. W. 2007. The history and evolution of wildland fire use. Fire Ecology 3(2): 3-17.

van Wagtendonk, J. W.; Keeley, J. E.; Brooks, M. L.; Klinger, R. C., Fire in California’s Ecosystems (February 2007)

Vandergast, A. G., D. Weissman, A. J. Bohonak and R. N. Fisher 2007. Phylogeography and landscape genetics of a southern California endemic Jerusalem cricket (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae: Stenopelmatus). Invited Talk. Pacific Branch Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Portland, OR.

Vandergast, A. G., J. Bohonak Andrew, D. B. Weissman, and R. N. Fisher. 2007. Understanding the genetic effects of recent habitat fragmentation in the context of evolutionary history: phylogeography and landscape genetics of a southern California endemic Jerusalem cricket (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae: Stenopelmatus). Molecular Ecology 16:997-992.

Vandergast, A.G. 2007. Landscape characteristics shape population genetic structure in Jerusalem crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae: Stenopelmatus sp.) Invited Talk. Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. San Diego, CA.

Vandergast, A.G., Genetic Effects of Recent Habitat Fragmentation on the Mahogany Jerusalem Cricket (March 2007)

Welsh, Hartwell H., Jr., Gary M. Fellers, and Amy J. Lind. 2007. Amphibian Populations in the Terrestrial Environment: Is There Evidence of Declines of Terrestrial Forest Amphibians in Northwestern California? Journal of Herpetology. 49(3):469-482.

Whitney, K. L., R. F. Hechinger, A. M. Kuris, and K. D. Lafferty. 2007. Endangered light-footed clapper rail affects parasite community structure in coastal wetlands. Ecological Applications 17:1694-1702.

Woo, I., J. Y. Takekawa, A. Rowan, R. Gardiner, O. Bernstein, and G. T. Block. 2007. The Tubbs Setback Restoration Project: Final Report. U. S. Geological Survey, Unpubl. Progress Rep. Vallejo, CA

Woo, I., J. Y. Takekawa, A. Rowan, R. Gardiner, R. Melcer, and L. Parsons. 2007. Baseline avian surveys at the Giacomini Restoration Project and local reference marshes in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Prepared for Point Reyes National Seashore, National Park Service. 66pp.

Woo, I., J. Y. Takekawa, A. Rowan, R. Gardiner, R. Melcer, and L. Parsons. 2007. Baseline avian surveys at the Giacomini Restoration Project and local reference marshes in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Data Summary Report. U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Station, Vallejo, CA. 66pp

Woo, I., J. Y. Takekawa, and A. Rowan. 2007. Pickleweed (Sarcocornia pacifica, formerly Salicornia virginica) recovery after all-terrain vehicle impact. Poster presentation. Society of Wetland Scientists Conference. June 2007. Sacramento, CA

Woo, I., J. Y. Takekawa, and D. Tsao-Melcer. 2007. Assessing methylmercury concentrations in the California Black Rail food web. Poster presentation. Calfed Conference, April 2007. Sacramento, CA

Woo, I., J. Y. Takekawa, and D. Tsao-Melcer. 2007. Methylmercury concentrations of invertebrates in tidal marshes and food web relations to the California Black Rail. Oral presentation. Society of Wetland Scientists, June 2007. Sacramento, CA

Woo, I., J. Y. Takekawa, R. Gardiner, G. T. Block, and M. A. Bias. 2007. Assessing restoration outcomes: 8 years of progress at Tolay Creek. Oral Presentation. The Wildlife Society. February 2007. Monterey, CA

Wood, D. A. 2007. Genetic and morphological diversity in the Western Shovel-nosed snake, with special emphasis on the conservation status of the Tucson Shovel-nosed snake. Oral Presentation. The Wildlife Society Meetings. Tucson, AZ.

Ackerman J., J.Y. Takekawa, C. Eagles-Smith, C. Marn, and T. Adelsbach. 2006. Survival of American avocet and black-necked stilt chicks in relation to mercury contamination in San Francisco Bay. Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison, Wisconsin, August 6-11.

Ackerman, J. T., Central Valley Habitat Changes Affect Space Use by White-fronted Geese (September 2006)

Ackerman, J. T., Hunting Vulnerability of Dabbling Ducks to Spinning-wing Decoys Varies among Species and Locations (July 2006)

Ackerman, J. T., J. Y. Takekawa, C. Strong, N. Athearn, and A. Rex. 2006. California Gull distribution, abundance, and predation on waterbird eggs and chicks in South San Francisco Bay. Final Report, U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Davis and Vallejo, CA 61 pp.

Ackerman, J. T., Life History Predicts Risk-taking Behavior of Ducks (August 2006)

Ackerman, J., J. Y. Takekawa, D. L. Orthmeyer, J. P. Fleskes, J. L Yee, and K. L. Kruse. 2006. Spatial use by wintering greater white-fronted geese relative to a decade of habitat change in California's Central Valley. Journal of Wildlife Management 70(4):965-976.

Ackerman, JT, and CA Eagles-Smith. 2006. A collaborative project to study mercury levels in San Francisco Bay Waterbirds. Bay Bird Review, Winter: 4-5.

Ackerman, JT, CA Eagles-Smith, and TL Adelsbach. 2006. Mercury accumulation in Black-necked Stilt chicks in San Francisco Bay. Fish and Wildlife Service Environmental Contaminants Program National Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, July 31-August 4.

Ackerman, JT, CA Eagles-Smith, and TL Adelsbach. 2006. Mercury accumulation in Black-necked Stilt chicks in San Francisco Bay. South Bay Science Symposium, San Jose State University, California, June 6.

Ackerman, JT, CA Eagles-Smith, and TL Adelsbach. 2006. Rapid accumulation of mercury in black-necked stilt chicks growing in San Francisco Bay. Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison, Wisconsin, August 6-11.

Ackerman, JT, CA Eagles-Smith, JY Takekawa, and AK Miles. 2006. Mercury in birds of the San Francisco Bay-Delta: trophic pathways, bioaccumulation and ecotoxicological risk to avian reproduction. Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Newark, California, January 23. (talk)

Ackerman, JT, CA Eagles-Smith, TL Adelsbach, and JL Yee. 2006. Are growth rates of Forster's Tern chicks influenced by mercury in San Francisco Bay? Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison, Wisconsin, August 6-11.

Ackerman, JT, CA Eagles-Smith, TL Adelsbach, and JL Yee. 2006. Mercury levels and growth rates of Forster's Tern chicks in San Francisco Bay. Fish and Wildlife Service Environmental Contaminants Program National Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, July 31-August 4.

Ackerman, JT, CA Eagles-Smith, TL Adelsbach, and JL Yee. 2006. Mercury levels and growth rates of Forster's Tern chicks in San Francisco Bay. South Bay Science Symposium, San Jose State University, California, June 6.

Ackerman, JT, JM Eadie, and TG Moore. 2006. Does life history predict risk-taking behavior of wintering dabbling ducks? Condor 108: 530-546.

Ackerman, JT, JM Eadie, ML Szymanski, JH Caswell, MP Vrtiska, AH Raedeke, JM Checkett, AD Afton, TG Moore, FD Caswell, RA Walters, DD Humburg, and JL Yee. 2006. Effectiveness of spinning-wing decoys varies among dabbling duck species and locations. Fourth North American Dusk Symposium, Bismarck, North Dakota, August 23-26.

Ackerman, JT, JM Eadie, ML Szymanski, JH Caswell, MP Vrtiska, AH Raedeke, JM Checkett, AD Afton, TG Moore, FD Caswell, RA Walters, DD Humburg, and JL Yee. 2006. Effectiveness of spinning-wing decoys varies among dabbling duck species and locations. Journal of Wildlife Management 70(3):799-804.

Ackerman, JT, JM Eadie, SL Oldenburger, GS Yarris, DL Loughman, and MR McLandress. 2006. Age related reproductive success of mallards in California. Fourth North American Dusk Symposium, Bismarck, North Dakota, August 23-26.

Ackerman, JT, JY Takekawa, S Wainwright-De La Cruz, AK Miles, JR Lovvorn, JL Yee, and D Tsao-Melcer. 2006. Diet of San Francisco Bay diving ducks after invasion by the Asian clam. Fourth North American Dusk Symposium, Bismarck, North Dakota, August 23-26.

Ackerman, JT. 2006. Gull Predation on Shorebird and Tern Nests and Chicks in the South San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds. South Bay Science Symposium, San Jose State University, California, June 6.

Ackerman, JT. 2006. Hunting vulnerability of dabbling ducks to spinning-wing decoys varies among species and locations. July 2006. USGS Publication Brief for Resource Managers.

Adelsbach, TL, CA Eagles-Smith, JT Ackerman, and SE Schwarzbach. 2006. Terns as indicators of mercury and other priority pollutant exposure in San Francisco Bay. Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison, Wisconsin, August 6-11.

Benjamin A. Waitman, Trent M. Draper, Todd C. Esque. 2006. The effects of sterile wheat (Triticale) seeding on a native plant community after wildfire in a pinyon pine-mountain mahogany woodland. 2005 annual report to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. 33pp.

Berry, K.H. 2006. The biology and conservation of threatened desert tortoises--what you need to know for recovery efforts. National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association Symposium. March 10, 2006. Costa Mesa, CA.

Berry, K.H. 2006. The desert tortoise: Food preferences and availability in planning for recovery. California Native Plant Society, Palm Springs, CA.

Berry, K.H. 2006. Protocols for evaluating desert tortoises for rehabilitation: A Model for other chelonians. California Council for Wildlife Rehabilitators. Aug. 26, 2006. The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens, Palm Desert, CA.

Berry, K.H., A.S. Demmon, R. Woodard, and R.M. Evans. 2006. Urban effects on adjacent populations of wild desert tortoises: dogs and disease. Paper and abstract presented at the 2006 Annual Conference of the Western Section of The Wildlife Society. Feb. 8-10, Sacramento, CA.

Berry, K.H., J. Mack, R.W. Murphy, and W. Quillman. 2006. Preface. Introduction to the special issue on the changing Mojave Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 67:5-10 (Special Supplement).

Berry, K.H., M.B. Brown, R. Woodard, and L. Wendland. 2006. The health status of resident desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) in the Fort Irwin Translocation Project Area, San Bernardino County, California. 31rst Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council. Feb. 17-20, 2006. Tucson, AZ.

Berry, K.H., T.Y. Bailey, and K.M. Anderson. 2006. Attributes of desert tortoise populations at the National Training Center, Central Mojave Desert, California, USA. Journal of Arid Environments 67:165-191 (Special Supplement).

Bluso, JB, M Colwell, JY Takekawa, and JT Ackerman. 2006. Space Use of Foraging Forster's terns (Sterna forsteri) in South San Francisco Bay, California. The Wildlife Society, Western Section, Sacramento, California, February 8-10. (talk)

Bluso, JD, JT Ackerman, JY Takekawa, and JL Yee. 2006. Using morphological measurements to sex Forster’s terns. Waterbirds, 29(4): 511-516.

Bluso, JD, MA Colwell, JY Takekawa, and JT Ackerman. 2006. Space use of foraging Forster's terns in South San Francisco Bay, California. South Bay Science Symposium, San Jose State University, California, June 6.

Boydston, E. E., Kapheim, K. M. & Holekamp, K. E. 2006. Patterns of den occupation by the spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta). African Journal of Ecology 44: 77-86.

Boydston, E. E., Lyren, L. M., Fisher, R. N., Turschak, G., Tracey, J., Smith, T. V., & Crooks, K. R. 2006. Space utilization patterns of bobcats (Lynx rufus) in the Santa Ana Mountains in southern California. Society for Conservation Biology 20th Annual Meeting. San Jose, California.

Brehme, C.S., S.L. Schuster, C.J. Rochester, S.A. Hathaway and R.N. Fisher, 2006. MCBCP Arroyo Toad Monitoring Program: 3-Year Trend Analyses for 2003-2005. U.S. Geological Survey Data Summary prepared for Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. 102pp.

Brooks, M. L., Using Fire for Invasive Plant Control in Wildlands (August 2006)

Brooks, M.L. 2006. Effects of fire on plant communities. P.p. 29-32 In: J.M. DiTomaso and D.W. Johnson (eds.). The Use of Fire as a Tool for Controlling Invasive Plants. California Invasive Plant Council, Cal-IPC Publication 2006-01. Berkeley, CA. 56 pp.

Brooks, M.L. 2006. Introduction. P.p. 1 In: J.M. DiTomaso and D.W. Johnson (eds.). The Use of Fire as a Tool for Controlling Invasive Plants. California Invasive Plant Council, Cal-IPC Publication 2006-01. Berkeley, CA.

Brooks, M.L., and K.H. Berry. 2006. Dominance and environmental correlates of alien annual plants in the Mojave Desert, USA. Journal of Arid Environments 67:100-124 (Special Supplement).

Brooks, M.L., J.R. Matchett, and K.H. Berry. 2006. Effects of livestock watering sites on alien and native plants in the Mojave Desert, USA. Journal of Arid Environments 67:125-147. (Special Supplement)

Brooks, M.L., JR. Matchett, and C. Deuser. 2006. Technical support for Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge BAER activities on the Longstreet Fire of 2004. Technical report prepared for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, 10 pp.

Brown, M.B., K.H. Berry, C. Melendez Torres, M.A. Hasskamp, L. Wendland, D. Demcovitz, M. Francisco Villa Andrade, C. Schwalbe, and F.R. Mendez de la Cruz. 2006. Health status of wild and captive desert tortoises from the Hermosillo and Alamos areas of Mexico. 31rst Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council. Feb. 17-20, 2006. Tucson, AZ.

C .Richard Tracy, K.E. Nussear, T.C. Esque, K. Dean-Bradley, C.R. Tracy, L.A. DeFalco, K.T. Castle, L.C. Zimmerman, R.E. Espinoza, A.M. Barber. 2006. The Importance of Physiological Ecology in Conservation Biology. Integrative and Comparative Biology 2006;doi : 10. 1093/icb/icl054.

Casazza, M. L., Band-tailed Pigeon Population Indices and Mineral Site Use (June 2006)

Chaffee, M.A., and K.H. Berry. 2006. Abundance and distribution of selected elements in soils, stream sediments, and selected forage plants from desert tortoise habitats in the Mojave and Colorado deserts, USA. Journal of Arid Environments 67 (Special Supplement):35-87.

Coates, P. S. 2006. DRC-1339 egg baits: preliminary evaluation of their effectiveness of removing ravens. 22nd Annual Vertebrate Pest Conference. Berkeley, CA.

Coates, P. S. 2006. DRC-1339 egg baits: preliminary evaluation of their effectiveness of removing ravens. Proceedings Vertebrate Pest Conference 22:250.

Coates, P. S., and D. J. Delehanty. 2006. Effect of capture date on nest-attempt rate of translocated sharp-tailed grouse (Tymanuchus phasianellus). Wildlife Biology 12:3.

Coates, P. S., and D. J. Delehanty. 2006. Identification of sage-grouse nest predators using videography. Idaho Chapter of the Wildlife Society Annual Meeting. Boise, ID.

Coates, P. S., and D. J. Delehanty. 2006. Using movement patterns of sharp-tailed grouse to guide release site selection. Idaho Chapter of the Wildlife Society Annual Meeting. Boise, ID.

Coates, P. S., S. J. Stiver, and D. J. Delehanty. 2006. Using sharp-tailed grouse movement patterns to guide release site selection. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34:1376–1382.

Currens, C. R., M. A. Madej and H. Ambrose. 2006. Level 1 Baseline Water Quality Report for the Klamath Network: Lava Beds National Monument, Lassen Volcanic National Park and Oregon Caves National Monument - 2005. U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Arcata, CA 95521. 26 pp plus appendices.

DeFalco, L. A. 2006. Revegetation of Desert Tortoise Habitat: Creosotebush Shrublands. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Desert Tortoise Council Symposium. February 17-20, Tucson, Arizona

Demers, SA, M Colwell, JY Takekawa, and JT Ackerman. 2006. Space use and habitat selection of American avocets (Recurvirostra americana) in the South San Francisco Bay, California. Shorebird Science in the Western Hemisphere, Boulder, Colorado, February 22-March 2. (poster)

Demers, SA, M Colwell, JY Takekawa, and JT Ackerman. 2006. Space use and habitat selection of American avocets (Recurvirostra americana) in the South San Francisco Bay, California. South Bay Science Symposium, San Jose State University, California, June 6.

Demers, SA, M Colwell, JY Takekawa, and JT Ackerman. 2006. Space use and habitat selection of American avocets (Recurvirostra americana) in the South San Francisco Bay, California. The Wildlife Society, Western Section, Sacramento, California, February 8-10. (poster)

DiTomaso, J.M., ML Brooks, EB Allen, R Minnich, PM Rice, and GB. Kyser. 2006. Control of invasive weeds with prescribed burning. Weed Technology 20:535-548.

Eagles-Smith, C., J. Ackerman, S. Wainwright-De La Cruz, T. Adelsbach, J.Y. Takekawa, and A.K. Miles. 2006. Mercury concentrations vary among waterbird foraging guilds and locations in San Francisco Bay. Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison, Wisconsin, August 6-11.

Eagles-Smith, CA, JT Ackerman, and TL Adelsbach. 2006. Mercury concentrations in prebreeding and breeding Forster's Terns. Fish and Wildlife Service Environmental Contaminants Program National Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, July 31-August 4.

Eagles-Smith, CA, JT Ackerman, and TL Adelsbach. 2006. Mercury concentrations in prebreeding and breeding Forster's Terns. South Bay Science Symposium, San Jose State University, California, June 6. (poster)

Eagles-Smith, CA, JT Ackerman, and TL Adelsbach. 2006. Mercury correlations among 6 tissues in 4 species of waterbirds vary by season and taxa. Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison, Wisconsin, August 6-11.

Eagles-Smith, CA, JT Ackerman, and TL Adelsbach. 2006. Mercury dynamics in waterbirds: influence of reproductive status and sex. Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison, Wisconsin, August 6-11.

Eagles-Smith, CA, JT Ackerman, S Wainwright-De La Cruz, TL Adelsbach, JY Takekawa, and AK Miles. 2006. Mercury concentrations differ among five species of waterbirds in San Francisco Bay. Fish and Wildlife Service Environmental Contaminants Program National Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, July 31-August 4.

Eagles-Smith, CA, JT Ackerman, S Wainwright-De La Cruz, TL Adelsbach, JY Takekawa, and AK Miles. 2006. Mercury concentrations differ among five species of waterbirds in San Francisco Bay. South Bay Science Symposium, San Jose State University, California, June 6.

Eagles-Smith, CA, JT Ackerman, TL Adelsbach, JY Takekawa, and CM Marn. 2006. Mercury concentrations in chicks versus adult avocet and stilts: spatially explicit bioaccumulation inferred via radio telemetry. Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison, Wisconsin, August 6-11.

Edwards, M.S. and J.A. Estes. 2006. Catastrophe, recovery and range limitation in NE Pacific kelp forests: a large-scale perspective. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 320:79-87.

Edwards, T., R. Murphy, K.H. Berry, and A. McLuckie. 2006. Molecular support for the established recovery units in the Mojave population of desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii). 31st Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council. Feb. 17-20, 2006. Tucson, AZ.

Edwards, T., R. Murphy, K.H. Berry, and C. Jones. 2006. A closer look at the hybridization zone between Mojave and Sonoran desert tortoises in western Arizona. 31st Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council. Feb. 17-20, 2006. Tucson, AZ.

Ervin, E.L., Kisner, D.A. & R.N. Fisher. 2006. Bufo californicus Mortality. Herpetological Review 37(2):199.

Esque, T.C., C.R. Schwalbe, J.A. Lissow, D.F. Haines, D. Foster, and M. Garnett. 2006. Buffelgrass fuel loads in Saguaro National Park, Arizona, increase fire danger and threaten native species. Park Science 24(2): 33-37.

Fellers, Gary M. and Michael Osbourn. 2006. Distribution and abundance of fallow deer leks at Point Reyes National Seashore, California. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5149, 19 Pp.

Fellers, Gary M. and Patrick M. Kleeman. 2006. Diurnal Versus Nocturnal Surveys for California Red-legged Frogs. Journal of Wildlife Management. 70(6): 1805–1808.

Fellers, Gary M. and Patrick M. Kleeman. 2006. California Red-legged Frog Surveys in the Lower Pine Gulch Watershed Marin County, CA. Report for the National Park Service. 13 Pp.

Fellers, Gary M. and Patrick M. Kleeman. 2006. Diurnal versus Nocturnal Surveys for California Red-legged Frogs. Journal of Wildlife Management. 70(6): 1805-1808.

Fellers, Gary M., Donald W. Sparling, Deborah F. Cowman. 2006. Decline of Sierra Nevada Amphibians: What we know, what we need to know. SETAC Globe: Learned Discourse May-June: 24-25.

Fellers, Gary M., Jennifer Dhundale, and Kia Ruiz. 2006. Thamnophis atratus Predation. Herpetological Review. 37(2): 235-236.

Ferrenberg, S.M., D.W. Schwilk, E.E. Knapp, E. Groth, and J.E. Keeley. 2006. Fire decreases arthropod abundance but increases diversity: early and late season prescribed fire effects in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest. Fire Ecology 2:79-102.

Fisher, R., A. Backlin, C. Brehme, D. Clark, S. Hathaway, C. Hitchcock, T. Matsuda, M. Mendelsohn, C. Rochester, S. Schuster, D. Stokes, G. Turschak, and A. Vandergast. 2006. Differential animal responses to the 2002-2003 wildfires in southern California. Third International Fire Management Congress, November 13-17, San Diego, California.

G.D. Wylie, and R.L. Hothem. 2006. Metals and trace elements in Giant Garter Snakes (Thamnophis gigas) from the Sacramento Valley, California. Poster for The Wildlife Society, 13th Annual Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, September 23-27, 2006.

Grace, J.B., and J.E. Keeley. 2006. A structural equation model analysis of postfire plant diversity in California shrublands. Ecological Applications 16:503-514.

Halstead, Brian J. 2006. Predator-prey interactions in fragmented habitats: A case study with notes on surgical implantation of radio transmitters in snakes. University of South Florida Division of Comparative Medicine Tech Talk Series. Tampa, Florida, USA.

Halstead, Brian J., Earl D. McCoy, Terri A. Stilson, and Henry R. Mushinsky. 2006. Examination of the foraging tactics of a central place forager, Gopherus polyphemus, using correlated random walk models. 91st Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

Haukos, D.A., M.R. Miller, D.L. Orthmeyer, J.Y. Takekawa, J.P. Fleskes, M.L. Casazza, W.M. Perry, and J.A. Moon. 2006. Spring Migration of Northern Pintails from Texas and New Mexico, USA. Waterbirds 29:127-136.

Hothem, R.L., J.J. Crayon, and M.A. Law. 2006. Effects of contaminants on reproductive success of aquatic birds nesting at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 51:711-719.

Hothem, R.L., J.T. May, and C.N. Alpers. 2006. Biosentinels of methylmercury exposure in areas affected by abandoned gold and mercury mines: Why not the ubiquitous water strider? Mercury 2006 Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison, WI, August 6-11, 2006.

Hudson, P.J., Dobson A.P. & Lafferty K.D. (2006). Parasites and ecological systems: is a healthy system one with many parasites? Trends in Ecology Evolution, 21, 381-385.

J.T. May, R.L. Hothem, L.R. Brown, J.N. Moore, J.K. Gibson, J.R. Rytuba, and C.N. Alpers. 2006. Comparison of mercury bioaccumulation in adjacent watersheds influenced by historical mining in the Klamath-Trinity Mountains, California. Mercury 2006 Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison, WI, August 6-11, 2006.

Keeley, J. E., Factors Determining Species Diversity in Postfire California Chaparral and Sage Scrub (April 2006)

Keeley, J. E., Fire Management Impacts on Invasive Plants (April 2006)

Keeley, J. E., Forest Heterogeneity and Prescribed Burning (March 2006)

Keeley, J. E., Fuel Modification Impacts on Nonnative Plant Invasion (April 2006)

Keeley, J. E., Postfire Plant Demography and Functional Types (May 2006)

Keeley, J. E., Simulating the Effects of Frequent Fire on Southern California Shrublands (November 2006)

Keeley, J. E., Wildfire Management on a Human-Dominated Landscape (November 2006)

Keeley, J.E. 2006. Evolution of plant adaptations, pp. 112-113. In N.G. Sugiharia J.W. van Wagtendonk, K.E. Shaffer, J. Fites-Kaufman, and A.E. Thoede (eds), Fire in California’s Ecosystems. University of California Press.

Keeley, J.E. 2006. Fire management impacts on invasive plant species in the western United States. Conservation Biology 20:375-384.

Keeley, J.E. 2006. Fire severity and plant age in postfire resprouting of woody plants in sage scrub and chaparral. Madroño 53:373-379.

Keeley, J.E. 2006. South coast bioregion, pp. 350-390. In N.G. Sugihari, J.W. van Wangtendonk, K.E. Shaffer, J. Fites-Kaufman, and A.E. Thoede (eds), Fire in California’s Ecosystems. University of California Press.

Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2006. Wildfire management on a human dominated landscape: California chaparral wildfires, pp. 69-75. In G. Wuerthner, Editor, Wildfire ---A Century of Failed Forest Policy. Island Press, Covelo, CA.

Keeley, J.E., C.D. Allen, J. Betancourt, G.W. Chong, C.J. Fotheringham, and H.D. Safford. 2006. A 21st century perspective on postfire seeding. Journal of Forestry 104(1):1-2.

Keeley, J.E., C.J. Fotheringham, and M. Baer-Keeley. 2006. Demographic patterns of postfire regeneration in mediterranean-climate shrublands of California. Ecological Monographs 76:235-255.

Keifer, M. B., J. W. van Wagtendonk, and M. Buhler. 2006. Long-term surface fuel accumulation in burned and unburned mixed-conifer forests of the central and southern Sierra Nevada, CA (USA). Fire Ecology 2: 53-72.

Knapp, E.E. and J.E. Keeley. 2006. Heterogeneity in fire severity within early season and late season prescribed burns in a mixed conifer forest. International Journal of Wildland Fire 15:1-9.

Kus, B. E., Factors Influencing the Incidence of Cowbird Parasitism of Least Bell's Vireos (August 2006)

Kus, B.E. 2006. Factors influencing the incidence of cowbird parasitism of least Bell’s vireos. USGS Publication Brief for Resource Managers.

Kus, B.E. and J.F. Falcone. 2006. Neotropical migratory bird monitoring study at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. 2004 Annual Report. Prepared for Assistant Chief of Staff, Environmental Security, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

Kus, B.E. and K.E. Kenwood. 2006. Distribution, abundance, and breeding activities of the southwestern willow flycatcher at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. 2005 Annual Report. Prepared for Assistant Chief of Staff, Environmental Security, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

Kus, B.E., J. Guzis, and M. Wellik. 2006. Pilgrim Creek Restoration Project: Bird community and vegetation structure. 2004 Annual Report. Prepared for the State of California Department of Transportation, District 11.

Kus, B.E., J.F. Falcone, and H.Howitt. 2006. Riparian and upland bird communities at Lower Topanga Canyon, Topanga State Park, California. 2004 Annual Report. Prepared for California State Parks, Southern Service Center.

Lafferty, K. D. 2006. Can the common brain parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, influence human culture? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 273.

Lafferty, K. D., A. P. Dobson, and A. M. Kuris. 2006. Parasites dominate food web links. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:11211-11216.

Lafferty, K. D., Goodman, D. & Sandoval, C. P. 2006. Restoration of breeding by snowy plovers following protection from disturbance. Biodiversity and Conservation 15, 2217-2230.

Lafferty, K. D., R. F. Hechinger, J. C. Shaw, K. L. Whitney, and A. M. Kuris. 2006. Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. Pages 119-134 in S. Collinge and C. Ray, editors. Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Laidre, K.L., J.A. Estes, M.T. Tinker, J. Bodkin, D. Monson and K. Schneider. 2006. Patterns of growth and body condition in sea otters from the Aleutian archipelago before and after the recent population decline. Journal of Animal Ecology 75: 978-989

Lyren, L. M., G. M. Turschak, E. S. Ambat, C. D. Haas, J. A. Tracey, E. E. Boydston, S. A. Hathaway, R. N. Fisher, and K. R. Crooks. 2006. Carnivore activity and movement in a Southern California protected area, the North/Central Irvine Ranch. U.S. Geological Survey Technical Report, 115 p.

M.S. Bank, J.B. Crocker, J.L. Wachtl, P. Kleeman, C. Currens, G. Fellers, J. May, R. Hothem, J.P. Wise, Sr., and M.A. Madej. 2006. Mercury Bioaccumulation in Pacific Giant Salamander Larvae from Lotic Ecosystems in the Pacific Northwestern United States. Mercury 2006 Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison, WI, August 6-11, 2006.

M.S. Bank, J.B. Crocker, J.L. Wachtl, P. Kleeman, C. Currens, G. Fellers, J. May, R. Hothem, J.P. Wise, Sr., and M.A. Madej. 2006. Mercury Bioaccumulation in Pacific Giant Salamander Larvae from Lotic Ecosystems in the Pacific Northwestern United States. Mercury 2006 Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison, WI, August 6-11, 2006.[Poster with Abstract]

Madej, M. A., Assessing Possible Thermal Rearing Restrictions for Juvenile Coho Salmon in Redwood Creek, California (June 2006)

Madej, M. A., C. Currens, V. Ozaki, J. Yee and D. G. Anderson. 2006. Assessing possible thermal rearing restrictions for juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) through thermal infrared imaging and in-stream monitoring, Redwood Creek, California. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63:1384-1396.

Madej, M. A., E. A. Eschenbach, C. Diaz, R. Teasley, and K. Baker. 2006. Optimization strategies for sediment reduction practices on roads in steep, forested terrain. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Vol. 31 p. 1643-1656.

Madej, M. A., H. Ambrose, C. Currens, and S. Hadden. 2006. Assessing changes in stream health following watershed restoration: A 30-year perspective, Redwood Creek basin, Humboldt county, California. Final report for California Department of Fish and Game Contract #P0310528. 208 p.

Madej, M. A., Optimization Strategies for Sediment Reduction Practices on Roads in Steep, Forested Terrain (November 2006)

McEachern, K. 2006. Rare plant reseaerch in the northern Channel Islands. Invited lecture, Sea-to-Shore lecture series, Channel ISlands National Marine Snactuary and Channel Islands National Park, Ventura, CA.

McEachern, K. 2006. Rare plants of Santa Cruz Island. Invited lecture. USFWS Ventura Field Office Occasional Lecture Series. Ventura, CA.

McEachern, Kathryn, Bruce Pavlik, Jon Rebman, Rob Sutter. 2006. San Diego Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP)Rare Plant Monitoring Review and Revision. USGS Technical Report. Sacramento, California. 98 pps.

McEachern, M, CA Eagles-Smith, CM Efferson, DH Van Vuren. 2006 Evidence for local specialization in a generalist mammalian herbivore, Neotoma fuscipes. Oikos 113: 440-448.

Mead, J.I., T.W. McGinnis, and J.E. Keeley. 2006. A mid-Holocene fauna from Bear Den Cave, Sequoia National Park, California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 105:43-58.

Melcer-Tsao, D., J.Y. Takekawa, A.K. Miles, and I. Woo. 2006. Home range, habitat use, and mercury concentrations of California Black Rails (Laterallus jamaicensis coturniculus) along the Petaluma River, California. The Wildlife Society Western Section Conference, Sacramento, California, February 9.

Mendelsohn, M. B., Diversity of Terrestrial Avifauna in Response to Distance from the Shoreline of the Salton Sea (December 2006)

Merriam, K.E., J.E. Keeley, and J.L. Beyers. 2006. Fuel breaks affect nonnative species abundance in California plant communities. Ecological Applications 16:515-527.

Millar, C. I., H. F. Diaz, D. R. Cayan, M. D. Dettinger, D. B. Fagre, L. J. Graumlich, G. Greenwood, M. K. Hughes, D. L. Peterson, F. L. Powell, K. T. Redmond, N. L. Stephenson, T. W. Swetnam, and C. Woodhouse. 2006. Mapping New Terrain: Climate Change and America's West. Report of the Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains (CIRMOUNT). Misc. Pub., PSW-MISC-77, Albany, CA, Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service. 29 pages.

Miller, M. R., Spring Migration of Northern Pintails Assessed with Satellite Telemetry (September 2006)

Miller, M.R., and J.McA. Eadie. 2006. The allometric relationship between resting metabolic rate and body mass in wild waterfowl (Anatidae) and an application to estimation of winter habitat requirements. Condor 108:166-177.

Min-Yi Hsu, Yeong-Choy Kam, and Gary M. Fellers. 2006. Temporal Organization of an Anuran Acoustic Community in a Taiwanese Subtropical Forest. Journal of Zoology. 269(3): 331-339.

Moss, R., S. Blumenshine and J. Fleskes. 2006. Aquatic insects and waste agricultural seeds in post-harvest flooded agricultural fields in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California. Final Report. Fresno State University and U.S. Geological Survey, Dixon, California. 30 pp.

Murphy, R., C. Melendez Torres, K.H. Berry, T. Edwards, F.R. Mendez de la Cruz, and M. Francisco Villa Andrade. 2006. The genetic relationships and taxonomic identity of the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) from the Sinaloan thorn scrub of Mexico. 31st Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council. Feb. 17-20, 2006. Tucson, AZ.

Oldenburger, SL, MR O'Farrell, JM Eadie, JT Ackerman, GS Yarris, and MP Herzog. 2006. A demographic model for mallards in California: using sensitivity analyses to inform management. Fourth North American Dusk Symposium, Bismarck, North Dakota, August 23-26.

Overton, C. T., R. A. Schmitz, and M. L. Casazza. 2006. Linking landscape characteristics to mineral site use by band-tailed pigeons in Western Oregon: Coarse-filter conservation with fine-filter tuning. Natrual Areas Journal 26(1):38-46.

Pausas, J.G., J.E. Keeley, and M. Verdu. 2006. Inferring differential evolutionary processes of plant persistence traits in Northern Hemisphere Mediterranean fire-prone ecosystems. Journal of Ecology 94:31-39.

R. Klinger, E. C. Underwood, and P. E. Moore. 2006. The role of environmental gradients in non-native plant invasion into burnt areas of Yosemite National Park, California. Diversity and Distributions 12: 139–156.

R.L. Hothem, J.T. May, M.R. Jennings, and J.J. Crayon. 2006. Amphibians: Bioindicators of mercury accumulation in areas of Northern California affected by historical mercury and gold mining. Poster for The Wildlife Society,13th Annual Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, September 23-27, 2006.

Rourke, J.W. and B.E. Kus. 2006. Distribution and breeding activities of the least Bell’s vireo and southwestern willow flycatcher at the San Luis Rey River, San Diego County, California. 2005 Annual Report. Prepared for the State of California Department of Transportation, District 11.

Rourke, J.W. and B.E. Kus. 2006. Distribution, abundance, and breeding activities of the Least Bell's Vireo at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. 2005 Annual Report. Prepared for Assistant Chief of Staff, Environmental Security, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

Sacks, B. N., Ernest, H. B., & Boydston, E. E. 2006. San Francisco’s Golden Gate: a bridge between historically distinct coyote (Canis latrans) populations? Western North American Naturalist 66: 263-264.

Schwarzbach, S. E., California Clapper Rail Reproductive Success (March 2006)

Schwarzbach, SE, JT Ackerman, CA Eagles-Smith, JY Takekawa, AK Miles, SE Wainwright-De La Cruz, TL Adelsbach, and TH Suchanek. 2006. Mercury legacy to aquatic birds in the San Francisco Estuary: declines from 19th century levels remain insufficient to eliminate mercury risks to some bird species. Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison, Wisconsin, August 6-11. (talk)

Schwarzbach, Steven E., Joy D. Albertson, Carmen M. Thomas. 2006. Effects of predation, flooding, and contamination on reproductive success of California Clapper Rails (Rallus longirostris obsoletus) in San Francisco Bay. Auk 123:45-60.

Schwilk, D. W., Tree Mortality After Early and Late Season Burning (September 2006)

Schwilk, D.W. and J.E. Keeley. 2006. The role of fire refugia in the distribution of Pinus sabiniana (Pinaceae) in the southern Sierra Nevada. Madroño 53:364-372.

Schwilk, D.W., E.E. Knapp, S.M. Ferrenberg, J.E. Keeley, and A.C. Caprio. 2006. Tree mortality from fire and bark beetles following early and late season prescribed fires in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Mangement 232:36-75.

Sharp, B.L. and B.E. Kus. 2006. Factors influencing the incidence of parasitism of Least Bell's Vireos. Journal of Wildlife Management 70(3):682-690.

Smith, K. E., Sax, D. E. & Lafferty, K. D. 2006 Evidence for the role of infectious disease in species extinction and endangerment. Conservation Biology 20, 1349-1357.

Stephenson, N., D. Peterson, D. Fagre, C. Allen, D. McKenzie, J. Baron, and K. O’Brian. 2006. Response of western mountain ecosystems to climatic variability and change: the Western Mountain Initiative. Park Science 24(1):24-29.

Stokes, D. C., and R. N. Fisher. 2006. Monitoring Bat Roosts in Mines at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino County, California, 2005. U. S. Geological Survey final report prepared for Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Division, Twentynine Palms MCAGCC, United States Marine Corps. Twentynine Palms, CA. 37 pp.

Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, and J. Fites-Kaufman. 2006. Fire as an ecological process. Pages 58-74 in: Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). Fire in California’s ecosystems. University of California Press, Berkeley. 578 p.

Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). 2006. Fire in California’s ecosystems. University of California Press, Berkeley. 576 p.

Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode. 2006. The future of fire in California ecosystems. Pages 538-543 in: Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). Fire in California’s ecosystems. University of California Press, Berkeley. 578 p

Syphard, A.D., J. Franklin, and J.E. Keeley. 2006. Simulating the effects of frequent fire on southern California coastal shrublands. Ecological Applications 16:1744-1756.

T.M. Draper, R. Zack, S. Medill and T.C. Esque. 2006. Quantitative Description of Spring-fed Riparian Vegetation and Surrounding Upland Vegetation in the Spring Mountains, Clark and Nye Counties, Nevada. A final report submitted to the University of Nevada, Reno. 141 pp.

Takekawa, J. Y., A. K. Miles, N. D. Athearn, S. E. Spring, M. K. Saiki, F. Mejia, I. Woo, A. K. Schultz, and B. Hattenbach. 2006. Habitat Restoration Monitoring for the Napa-Sonoma Marsh Restoration Project, Final Report. Unpubl. Prog. Rep., U. S. Geological Survey, Vallejo, CA. 114 pp.

TAKEKAWA, J. Y., B. N. SACKS, I. WOO, M. L. JOHNSON, AND G. D. WYLIE. 2006. TIDAL SALTMARSH FRAGMENTATION AND PERSISTENCE OF SAN PABLO SONG SPARROWS (MELOSPIZA MELODIA SAMUELIS): ASSESSING BENEFITS OF WETLAND RESTORATION IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY. Studies in Avian Biology 32:238–246

Takekawa, J. Y., I. Woo, H. Spautz, N. Nur, J. L. Grenier, K. Malamud-Roam, J. C. Nordby, A. N. Cohen, F. Malamud-Roam, and S. E. Wainwright-De La Cruz. 2006. Environmental threats to tidal marsh vertebrates in the San Francisco Bay estuary. Studies in Avian Biology 32:176-197.

Takekawa, J. Y., I. Woo, H. Spautz, N. Nur, J. L. Grenier, K. Malamud-Roam, J. C. Nordby, A. N. Cohen, F. Malamud-Roam, and S. E. Wainwright-De La Cruz. 2006. Environmental threats to tidal marsh vertebrates in the San Francisco Bay estuary. Studies in Avian Biology 32:176-197.

Takekawa, J. Y., N. D. Athearn, A. K. Miles, S. E. Spring, M. K. Saiki, F. Mejia, I. Woo, A. K. Schultz, and B. Hattenbach. 2006. Habitat Restoration Monitoring for the Napa-Sonoma Marshes Restoration Project. Unpubl. Final Prog. Rep., U. S. Geological Survey, Vallejo, CA. 114pp.

Takekawa, J. Y., N. D. Athearn, B. J. Hattenbach, and A. K. Schultz. 2006. Bird Monitoring for the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project. Unpubl. Final Prog. Rep., U. S. Geological Survey, Vallejo, CA. 74pp.

Takekawa, J.Y., A.K. Miles, D.H. Schoellhamer, N.D. Athearn, M.K. Saiki, W.D. Duffy, S. Kleinschmidt, G.G. Shellenbarger, and C.A. Jannusch. 2006. Trophic structure and avian communities across a salinity gradient in evaporation ponds of the San Francisco Bay estuary. Hydrobiologia 567: 307-327.

Takekawa, JY, JT Ackerman, CA Eagles-Smith, S Wainwright-De La Cruz, TL Adelsbach, AK Miles, G Heinz, D Hoffman, S Schwarzbach, T Suchanek, T Maurer, C Strong, and N Warnock. 2006. Mercury in birds of the San Francisco Bay-Delta: trophic pathways, bioaccumulation and ecotoxicological risk to avian reproduction. South Bay Science Symposium, San Jose State University, California, June 6.

Tinker, M.T., D.F. Doak, J.A. Estes, B.B. Hatfield, M.M. Staedler, and J.L. Bodkin. 2006. Incorporating diverse data and realistic complexity into demographic estimation procedures: a case study using the California sea otter, Enhydra lutris nereis. Ecological Applications 16:2293-2312.

van Mantgem, P. J., Forest Seedlings and Climate (April 2006)

van Mantgem, P. J., N.L. Stephenson, and J.E. Keeley. 2006. Forest reproduction along a climatic gradient in the Sierra Nevada, California. Forest Ecology and Management 225:391-399.

van Mantgem, P.J., N.L. Stephenson, and J.E. Keeley. 2006. Variability of forest reproduction across elevation in the Sierra Nevada. Forest Ecology and Management 225:391-399.

van Riper, C., and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 2006. Home range characteristics of great gray owls in Yosemite National Park. Journal of Raptor Research 40 (2): 130-141.

van Wagtendonk, J. W. 2006. Fire ecology of the Sierra Nevada: forests born to burn. Pages 63-67 in: Wuerthner, G. (ed.). Wildfire: a century of failed forest policy. Foundation for Deep Ecology, San Francisco, CA, USA. 322 p

van Wagtendonk, J. W. 2006. Fire ecology of the Sierra Nevada: forests born to burn. Pages 63-67 in: Wuerthner, G. (ed.). Wildfire: a century of failed forest policy. Foundation for Deep Ecology, San Francisco, CA, USA. 322 p.

van Wagtendonk, J. W. Fire as a physical process. 2006. Pages 38-57 in: Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). Fire in California’s ecosystems. University of California Press, Berkeley. 578 p.

van Wagtendonk, J. W., J. Fites-Kaufman. 2006. Sierra Nevada bioregion. Pages 264-294 in: Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). Fire in California’s ecosystems. University of California Press, Berkeley. 578 p.

Vander Wall, S.B., T.C. Esque, B.A. Waitman, D.F. Haines, and M.G. Garnett. 2006. Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) seeds are dispersed by seed-caching rodents. Écoscience 13(4): 593-543.

Vandergast, A. G., E. Lewallen, J. Deas Jr, A. J. Bohonak and R. N. Fisher. 2006. Multi-taxa assessment of the genetic impacts of fragmentation and urbanization in southern California: Jerusalem crickets (Orthoptera Stenopemelmatidae). Oral Presentation. The Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting. San Jose, CA.

Wainwright-De La Cruz, SE, CA Eagles-Smith, TL Adelsbach, JT Ackerman, GH Heinz, SE Schwarzbach, TH Suchanek, JY Takekawa, AK Miles, DJ Hoffman, and TC Maurer. 2006. Mercury in birds of the San Francisco Bay-Delta: trophic pathways, bioaccumulation and ecotoxicological risk to avian reproduction. San Francisco Estuary Institute Third Annual San Francisco Bay Mercury Coordination Meeting, Oakland, California, February 22. (talk)

Woo, I., J. Y. Takekawa, and R. Gardiner. 2006. GUADALCANAL TIDAL MARSH RESTORATION: 2006 PROGRESS REPORT. Unpublished report to California Department of Transportation, District 4, Oakland, CA.

Wood, D. A., Vandergast, A. G., and R. N. Fisher (2006) Assessment of genetic diversity in the Western Shovel-nosed snake (Chionactis occipitalis), with special emphasis on the subspecific status of the Tucson Shovel-nosed snake (C. o. klauberi). Prepared for Arizona Game and Fish Department. U.S. Geological Survey, San Diego Field Station.

Wood, D. A., Vandergast, A. G., and R. N. Fisher. 2006. Assessment of genetic diversity in the Western Shovel-nosed snake (Chionactis occipitalis), with special emphasis on the subspecific status of the Tucson Shovel-nosed snake (C. o. klauberi). Prepared for Arizona Game and Fish Department. U.S. Geological Survey, San Diego Field Station.

2005 Rattner, B.A., K.M. Eisenreich, M.A. McKernan, B.K. Ackerson, R.L. Hothem, and T.W. Custer. Contaminant exposure, data, and monitoring priorities for terrestrial vertebrates at National Parks and Wildlife Refuges. "People, Places, and Parks: Preservation for Future Generations" The 2005 George Wright Society Biennial Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, Philadelphia, PA, March 14-18, 2005.

2005 Alpers, C.N., M.P. Hunerlach, M. Marvin-DiPasquale, J.T. May, R.L. Hothem, M.K. Saiki, A.R. Stewart, J.S. Kuwabara, H.E. Taylor, and D.P. Krabbenhoft. 2005. Mercury contamination, methylation, and bioaccumulation associated with historical gold mining, Sierra Nevada, California. 2005 joint meeting of the Geological Association of Canada, the Mineralogical Association of Canada, the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, and the Canadian Society of Soil Sciences, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, May 15-18, 2005.

2005 Lawler, D.A., C.N. Alpers, M.P. Hunerlach, J.T. May, R.L. Hothem, R.D. Humphreys, and G.J. Reller. 2005. Mercury contamination of water, sediment, and biota by historical placer gold mining in the upper American River Watershed. American River Watershed Conference, Sacramento, CA, April 21-23, 2005.

Ackerman, J. T., Effects of Radio Transmitters on the Reproductive Performance of Cassin’s Auklets (March 2005)

Ackerman, JT, and JY Takekawa. 2005. Impacts of gulls: predation on shorebird and tern nests and chicks. South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, Bird Workshop 3: Invasive and Nuisance Species, Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, California, November 18.

Ackerman, JT, CM Marn, and JY Takekawa. 2005. Life and death on a salt pond: avocets and stilts survive amidst mercury pollution and invasive gulls. Tideline, Winter 2005, Vol. 25, No. 4: 1-3.

Ackerman, JT, JY Takekawa, and C Marn. 2005. Survival of American avocet and black-necked stilt chicks in the South San Francisco Bay: variable risks of gull predation. The 7th Biennial State of the Estuary Conference, Oakland, California, October 4-6.

Ackerman, JT, JY Takekawa, DL Orthmeyer, JP Fleskes, JL Yee, and KL Kruse. 2005. Response of greater white-fronted geese to the Central Valley Joint Venture: changes in wintering ecology over a decade. 11th North American Arctic Goose Conference and Workshop, Reno, Nevada, January 5–8.

Ackerman, JT, JY Takekawa, JP Fleskes, and DL Orthmeyer. 2005. Decade of change: a tracking study shows how white-fronted geese responded to recent habitat changes in the Central Valley. California Waterfowl, April/May 2005: 16–17 & 58.

Ackerman, JT, JY Takekawa, JP Fleskes, and DL Orthmeyer. 2005. White-fronted geese respond well to Joint Venture's habitat improvements. Valley Ventures, Spring 2005: 10-13.

Ackerman, JT, JY Takekawa, KL Kruse, DL Orthmeyer, JL Yee, CR Ely, DH Ward, KS Bollinger, and DM Mulcahy. 2005. Heart rates of tule greater white-fronted geese in response to human disturbance using radio telemetry. 11th North American Arctic Goose Conference and Workshop, Reno, Nevada, January 5–8.

Ackerman, JT, TL Adelsbach, and CA Eagles-Smith. 2005. Growth rates of Forster's tern chicks at four nesting colonies in the San Francisco Bay. The 7th Biennial State of the Estuary Conference, Oakland, California, October 4-6.

Ackerman, JT, TL Adelsbach, CA Eagles-Smith, and JL Yee. 2005. Mercury influence on growth rates of Forster's tern chicks in San Francisco Bay. CALFED review panel and California Bay-Delta Authority, Sacramento, California, November 29-December 1.

Ackerman, JT. 2005. Effects of radio transmitters on the reproductive performance of Cassin’s auklets. March 2005. USGS Publication Brief for Resource Managers.

Alpers, C.N., M.P. Hunerlach, J.T. May, and R.L. Hothem. 2005. Mercury Contamination from Historical Gold Mining in California, Fact Sheet 2005-3014 Version 1.1.

Alpers, C.N., M.P. Hunerlach, J.T. May, R.L. Hothem, H.E. Taylor, R.C. Antweiler, J.F. DeWild, and D.A. Lawler. 2005. Geochemical Characterization of Water, Sediment, and Biota Affected by Mercury Contamination and Acidic Drainage from Historical Gold Mining, Greenhorn Creek, Nevada County, California, 1999-2001, USGS SIR 2004-5251.

Berry, K.H., A. Demmon, and T. Bailey. 2005. Protocols for drawing blood from the brachial plexus of desert tortoises: Instructions for ordering equipment and culture media; summary of how to draw blood and information on how to contract for laboratory analysis and ship laboratory samples. Appendix on New Technique for Conducting Nasal Lavages by L. Wendland. Technical Report. U.S. Geological Survey, Moreno Valley, California. 14 pp.

Berry, K.H., and A. Demmon. 2005. Clinic and field training for desert tortoise health assessments at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California. May 22-28, 2004. Final Report for the Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command at Twentynine Palms, CA. U.S. Geological Survey,Moreno Valley, California. 42 pp.

Berry, K.H., K. anderson, T. Bailey, A. Demmon, and R. Woodard. 2005. A progress report on male social behavior: Dominance hierarchies, aggression, and courtship. 30th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Desert Tortoise Council. Tucson, Arizona. Feb. 18-21, 2005.

Berry, K.H., K. Anderson, T. Bailey, A. Demmon, R. Woodard, and M. Massar. 2005. Management implications of desert tortoise social behavior. The Wildlife Society, Western Section. Jan. 19-21, 2005. Sacramento, California.

Berry, K.H., K. Keith, T. Bailey, and J. Weigand. 2005. A comparison of two types of desert tortoise surveys in low density populations. 30th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Desert Tortoise Council. Tucson, Arizona. Feb. 18-21, 2005.

Berry, K.H., L.D. Wendland, A. Demmon, and M.B. Brown. 2005. A comparison of lymph and plasma sample results from ELISA tests for Mycoplasma agassizii in desert tortoises. 30th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Desert Tortoise Council. Tucson, Arizona. Feb. 18-21, 2005.

Blackmer, AL, RA Mauck, JT Ackerman, CE Huntington, GA Nevitt, and JB Williams. 2005. Exploring individual quality: basal metabolic rate and reproductive performance in Leach's storm-petrels. Behavioral Ecology 16: 906-913.

Bluso, JB, M Colwell, JY Takekawa, and JT Ackerman. 2005. Foraging areas of Forster's terns at three colony sites in San Francisco Bay. CALFED review panel and California Bay-Delta Authority, Sacramento, California, November 29-December 1.

Bluso, JB, M Colwell, JY Takekawa, and JT Ackerman. 2005. Space use of foraging Forster's terns (Sterna forsteri) in South San Francisco Bay, California. The 7th Biennial State of the Estuary Conference, Oakland, California, October 4-6.

Bond, W.J. and J.E. Keeley. 2005. Fire as global ‘herbivore’: The ecology and evolution of flammable ecosystems. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 20:387-394.

Boydston, E. E. 2005. Behavior, ecology, and detection surveys of mammalian carnivores in the Presidio. Final Report. U. S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA. 80 pp.

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Brett, Lizz, John Steiner, Gary M. Fellers, Jerry Powell, Bob Stewart. 2005. Butterfly Checklist for Point Reyes National Seashore. Point Reyese National Seashore Association, Point Reyes, CA. 28Pp.

Carroll, S.L., Ervin, E.L. & R.N. Fisher. 2005. Overwintering Larva: Taricha torosa torosa (Coast Range Newt). Herpetological Review 36(3):297.

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Davidson, Carlos and Gary M. Fellers. 2005. Bufo canorus Camp 1916, Yosemite Toad. Pp. 400-401. In: Michael Lannoo (Ed.), Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. Volume 2: Species Accounts. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. xxi+1094 Pp.

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Eagles-Smith, CA, JT Ackerman, and TL Adelsbach. 2005. Mercury dynamics in Forster's terns: influence of reproductive status and sex. CALFED review panel and California Bay-Delta Authority, Sacramento, California, November 29-December 1.

Eagles-Smith, CA, JT Ackerman, S De la Cruz, TL Adelsbach, JY Takekawa, AK Miles, and R Keister. 2005. Mercury concentrations vary among waterbird foraging guilds and locations in San Francisco Bay. CALFED review panel and California Bay-Delta Authority, Sacramento, California, November 29-December 1

Eagles-Smith, CA, TL Adelsbach, JT Ackerman, SE Schwarzbach, TH Suchanek, GH Heinz, JY Takekawa, AK Miles, SE Wainwright-De La Cruz, JD Henderson, SE Spring, L Bowen, JD Bluso, SA Demers, M Ricca, C Marn, C Strong, N Warnock, M Wilson, and T Maurer. 2005. Mercury in birds of the San Francisco Bay-Delta: trophic pathways, bioaccumulation and ecotoxicological risk to avian reproduction. The 7th Biennial State of the Estuary Conference, Oakland, California, October 4-6.

Esque, T. C., K. E. Nussear, and P. A. Medica. 2005. Desert Tortoise Translocation Plan for Fort Irwin's Land Expansion Program at the U. S. Army National Training Center (NTC) & Fort Irwin. Prepared for U. S. Army National Training Center, Directorate of Public Works. 129 pp.

Esque, T. C., Saguaros Under Siege: Invasive Species and Fire (January 2005)

Estes, J.A., D.R. Lindberg, and C. Wray. 2005. Evolution of large body size in abalones (Haliotis): patterns and implications. Paleobiology 31(4): 591-606.

Estes, J.A., M.T. Tinker, A.M. Doroff and D.M. Burn. 2005. Continuing sea otter population declines in the Aleutian Archipelego. Marine Mammal Science 21:169–172.

Fellers, Gary M and Shawn R. Kuchta. 2005. California giant salamander, Dicamptodon ensatus Eschscholtz. Pp. 50-53. In: Laurence L. C. Jones, William P. Leonard, and Deanna H. Olson (eds.). Amphibians of the Pacific Northwest. xxii+227.

Fellers, Gary M. 2005. Rana boylii Baird 1854, Foothill Yellow-legged Frog. Pp. 534-536. In: Michael Lannoo (Ed.), Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. Volume 2: Species Accounts. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. xxi+1094 Pp.

Fellers, Gary M. 2005. Rana draytonii Baird and Girard 1852, California Red-legged Frog. Pp. 552-554. In: Michael Lannoo (Ed.), Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. Volume 2: Species Accounts. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. xxi+1094 Pp.

Fellers, Gary M. 2005. Bufo exsul Myers, 1942, Black Toad. Pp. 406-408. In: Michael Lannoo (Ed.), Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. Volume 2: Species Accounts. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. xxi+1094 Pp.

Fellers, Gary M. 2005. California red-legged frog, Rana draytonii Baird and Girard. Pp. 198-201. In: Laurence L. C. Jones, William P. Leonard, and Deanna H. Olson (eds.). Amphibians of the Pacific Northwest. xxii+227.

Fellers, Gary M. 2005. Fire Effects on the Point Reyes Mountain Beaver [Publication Brief]

Fellers, Gary M. 2005. Pacific treefrog, Pseudacris regilla Baird and Girard. Pp. 174-177. In: Laurence L. C. Jones, William P. Leonard, and Deanna H. Olson (eds.). Amphibians of the Pacific Northwest. xxii+227.

Fellers, Gary M., David Pratt, and Jennifer L. Griffin. 2004. Fire Effects on the Point Reyes Mountain Beaver (Aplodontia rufa phaea). Journal of Wildlife Management. 68(3): 503-508.

Fisher, R. N., African Clawed Frog in Southern California (April 2005)

Fleskes, J. P., D. S. Gilmer, and R. L. Jarvis. 2005. Pintail distribution and selection of marsh types at Mendota Wildlife Area during fall and winter. California Fish and Game 91(4): 270-285.

Fleskes, J. P., W. M. Perry, K. L. Petrik, R. Spell, and F. Reid. 2005. Change in area of winter-flooded and dry rice in the northern Central Valley of California determined by satellite imagery. California Fish and Game 91(3): 207-215.

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Fotheringham, C.J. and J.E. Keeley. 2005. NO news is no new news. Seed Science Research 15:367-371.

Gerber, L. R., K. D. Lafferty, H. I. McCallum, J. L. Sabo, and A. P. Dobson. 2005. Exposing extinction risk analysis to pathogens: is disease just another form of density dependence? Ecological Applications 15:1402-1414.

Goddard, J. H. R., M. E. Torchin, A. M. Kuris, and K. D. Lafferty. 2005. Host specificity of Sacculina carcini, a potential biological control agent of the introduced European green crab Carcinus maenas in California. Biological Invasions 7:895-912.

Halstead, Brian J., Henry R. Mushinsky, Terri A. Stilson, and Earl D. McCoy. 2005. Analysis of juvenile gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) movement paths using correlated random walk models. 2005 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Tampa, Florida, USA.

Hansen, Robert W., David B. Wake, and Gary M. Fellers. 2005. Batrachoseps pacificus (Cope, 1865), Channel Islands Slender Salamander. Pp. 685 -686. In: Michael Lannoo (Ed.), Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. Volume 2: Species Accounts. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. xxi+1094 Pp.

Hechinger, R.F., K. D. Lafferty, 2005. Host diversity begets parasite diversity: bird final hosts and trematodes in snail intermediate hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 272, 1059-1066.

Hitchcock, C. J., A. R. Backlin, R. N. Fisher and S. A. Hathaway. 2005. Data Summary for the 2005 California red-legged frog (Rana aurora draytonii) surveys conducted in the Angeles National Forest. U. S. Geological Survey data summary prepared for the Angeles National Forest, Arcadia, CA. 10 pp.

Hitchcock, C. J., A. R. Backlin, S. L. Compton, R. N. Fisher and S. A. Hathaway. 2005. Data summary for the 2005 arroyo toad (Bufo californicus) surveys conducted in the San Bernardino National Forest. U. S. Geological Survey data summary prepared for the San Bernardino National Forest, San Bernardino, CA. 18 pp.

Hoffman, R. L., C.R.Currens, and M. A. Madej. 2005. Klamath Network Water Quality Report (Phase II). Submitted to the Water Quality Subgroup of the Klamath Network Science Advisory Committee, National Park Service. 84 p. plus appendices.

Hsu, Min-Yi, Yeong-Choy Kam, and Gary M. Fellers. 2005. Effectiveness of amphibian monitoring techniques in a Taiwanese subtropical forest. Herpetological Journal. 15 (2): 73-79.

Huspeni, T. C., R. F. Hechinger, and K. D. Lafferty. 2005. Trematode parasites as estuarine indicators: opportunities, applications and comparisons with conventional community approaches, Pages 297-314 in S. A. Bortone, ed. Estuarine Indicators. Boca Raton, CRC Press.

Jacobson, E., B. Stacy, K.H. Berry, L.M. Huzella, V.F. Kalasinsky, M.L. Fleetweeod, and M.G. Mense. 2005. Oxalosis in wild desert tortoises. 30th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Desert Tortoise Council. Tucson, Arizona. Feb. 18-21, 2005.

Jennings, M.R., and R.L. Hothem. 2005. Clemmys marmorata (Pacific Pond Turtle) diet. Herpetological Review 36:56.

Jennings, M.R., J.J. Crayon, and R.L. Hothem. 2005. Bufo boreas halophilus (California toad) and Rana catesbeiana (bullfrog)-amplexus. Herpetological Review 36:53.

Johnson, Catherine S., Steven E. Schwarzbach, John D. Henderson, Barry W. Wilson, Ronald S. Tjeerdema. 2005. Influence of Water Temperature on Acetylcholinesterase Activity in the Pacific Tree Frog (Hyla Regilla). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Volume 24. Number 8. pp 2074-2077

Keeley, J. E., A Different Perspective on Global Fire (June 2005)

Keeley, J. E., Alien Plant Invasion Following Fire in California Shrublands (December 2005)

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Keeley, J. E., Plot Shape Effects on Plant Species Diversity Measurements (May 2005)

Keeley, J. E., San Francisco East Bay Fire History, Landscape Changes (September 2005)

Keeley, J.E. 2005. Chaparral fuel modification: what do we know --- and need to know? Fire Management Today 65(4):11-12.

Keeley, J.E. 2005. Fire as a threat to biodiversity in fire-type shrublands, pp. 97-106. Proceedings of the Conference, Planning for Biodiversity: Bringing Research and Management Together. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, General Technical Report PSW-GTR-195.

Keeley, J.E. 2005. Fire history of the San Francisco East Bay region and implications for landscape patterns. International Journal of Wildland Fire 14:285-296.

Keeley, J.E. 2005. Fire management impacts on invasive species at the wildland/urban Interface in California. Pages 71-75 in C. Priosko, editor. Proceedings California Invasive Plant Council Symposium, Volume 8. California Invasive Plant Council, Berkeley, California, USA.

Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2005. Plot shape effects on plant species diversity measurements. Journal of Vegetation Science 16:249-256.

Keeley, J.E. and P.H. Rundel. 2005. Fire and the Miocene expansion of C4 grasslands. Ecology Letters 8:683-690.

Keeley, J.E., A.H. Pfaff, and H.D. Safford. 2005. Fire suppression impacts on postfire recovery of Sierra Nevada chaparral shrublands. International Journal of Wildland Fire 14:255-265.

Keeley, J.E., C.J. Fotheringham, and M. Baer-Keeley. 2005. Determinants of postfire recovery and succession in mediterranean-climate shrublands of California. Ecological Applications 15:1515-1534.

Keeley, J.E., C.J. Fotheringham, and M.Baer-Keeley. 2005. Factors affecting plant diversity during postfire recovery and succession of mediterranean-climate shrublands in California, USA. Diversity and Distributions 11:535-537.

Keeley, J.E., M. Baer-Keeley, and C.J. Fotheringham. 2005. Alien plant dynamics following fire in mediterranean-climate California shrublands. Ecological Applications 15:2109-2125.

Keeley, J.E., T. McGinnis and K.A. Bollens. 2005. Seed germination of Sierra Nevada postfire chaparral species. Madroño 52:175-181.

Keith, K., K. Berry, and J. Weigand. 2005. Surveys for desert torotises in the Jawbone-Butterbredt Area of Critical Environmental Concern, Eastern Kern County, California. Report from the U.S. Geological Survey, Moreno Valley, California, to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Sacramento, California. 51 pp.

Keith, K.D., K.H. Berry, and J.F. Weigand. 2005. Monitoring human impacts and management effectiveness: The Jawbone-Butterbredt Area of Critical Environmental Concern. 30th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Desert Tortoise Council, Tucson, Arizona. Feb.18-21, 2005.

Kleeman, Patrick M. and James D. Gilardi. 2005. Geographical variation of St. Lucia parrot (Amazona versicolor) flight vocalizations. Condor 107:62-68.

Knapp, E.E., J.E. Keeley, E.A. Ballenger, and T.J. Brennan. 2005. Fuel reduction and woody debris dynamics with early season and late season prescribed fire in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management 208:383-397.

Kuris, A. M., K. D. Lafferty, and M. E. Torchin. 2005. Biological control of the European green crab, Carcinus maenas: natural enemy evaluation and analysis of host specificity. Pages 102-115 in M. S. Hoddle, editor. Second International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods. Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, University of California, Riverside.

Kus, B., E., Endangered Passerine Response to Cowbird Control (November 2005)

Kus, B.E. 2005. Endangered bird monitoring at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. Threatened, Endangered, and At-risk Species on DoD and Adjacent Lands Technical Symposium and Workshop, 7-9 June 2005, Baltimore, MD. Sponsored by DoD Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC).

Kus, B.E. 2005. Endangered passerine response to cowbird control. USGS Western Ecological Research Center Publication Brief for Resource Managers.

Kus, B.E. 2005. Space, time and cowbirds: What happens to Least Bell's Vireos when a long-term trapping program ends? Presentation in the Symposium "Avian Conservation in Western Riparian Landscapes", 123rd Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, 23-27 August 2005, Santa Barbara, CA.

Kus, B.E. and J. Beyers. 2005. Planning for Biodiversity: Bringing Research and Management Together. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-195. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 274 p.

Kus, B.E. and K.E. Kenwood. 2005. Distribution, abundance, and breeding activities of the southwestern willow flycatcher at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. 2003 Annual Report. Prepared for Assistant Chief of Staff, Environmental Security, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

Kus, B.E. and M.J. Whitfield. 2005. Parasitism, productivity, and population growth: response of Least Bell's Vireos (Vireo bellii pusillus) and Southwestern Willow Flycatchers (Empidonax traillii extimus) to cowbird (Molothrus spp.) control. Ornithological Monographs 57:16-27.

Lafferty, K. D. (2005) Look what the cat dragged in: do parasites contribute to human cultural diversity? Behavioral Processes 68: 279-282.

Lafferty, K. D. and A. M. Kuris (2005) Parasitism and environmental disturbances. Parasitism and ecosystems (eds F. Thomas, J. F. Guégan and F. Renaud), 113-123. Oxford, Oxford.

Lafferty, K. D. and E. J. Dunham, 2005. Trematodes in snails near raccoon latrines suggest a final host role for this mammal in California Salt Marshes, Journal of Parasitology 91:474-476

Lafferty, K. D., Examining Trends in Ocean Disease (February 2005)

Lafferty, K. D., Hechinger, R. F., Lorda, J. & Soler, L. 2005. Trematodes associated with mangrove habitat in Puerto Rican salt marshes. Journal of Parasitology 91: 697-699.

Lafferty, K. D., K. F. Smith, M. E. Torchin, A. P. Dobson, and A. M. Kuris. 2005. The role of infectious disease in natural communities: what introduced species tell us. in D. F. Sax, J. J. Stachowicz, and S. D. Gaines, editors. Species Invasions: Insights into Ecology, Evolution, and Biogeography. Sinauer, Sunderland, Mass.

Louda, S.M, T.A. Rand, A.E. Arnett, A.S. McClay, A.K. McEAchern. 2005. Evaluation of ecological risk to populations of a threatened plant from an invasive biocontrol insect. Ecological Applications 15(1). pp. 234-249

Madden-Smith, M. C., E. L. Ervin, K. P. Meyer, S. A. Hathaway, and R. N. Fisher. 2005. Distribution and Status of the Arroyo Toad (Bufo californicus) and Western Pond Turtle (Emys marmorata) in the San Diego MSCP and Surrounding Areas. U. S. Geological Survey final report prepared for County of San Diego and California Department of Fish and Game. San Diego, CA. 183 pp.

May, J, L. Brown, R. Hothem, J. Moore, and J.Gibson. 2005. French fire contaminants assessment: preliminary report, September 2005. Administrative Report prepared for the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, 31 pp.

May, J.T., Hothem, R.L., and Alpers, C.N., 2005, Mercury concentrations in fishes from select water bodies in Trinity County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1321.

Mcconnell, Laura.L., Leticia Drakeford, Gary M.Fellers, Donald W. Sparling, Deborah F. Cowman, Patrick M. Kleeman, Tom Harner. 2005. Investigating pesticide exposure pathways in amphibian habitat of the sierra nevada mountains [abstract]. SETAC North America 26th Annual Meeting, 11/13-17/05. 170:41.

Mcconnell, Laura.L., Leticia Drakeford, Gary M.Fellers, Donald W. Sparling, Deborah F. Cowman, Patrick M. Kleeman, Tom Harner. 2005. Investigating pesticide exposure pathways in amphibian habitat of the sierra nevada mountains [abstract]. SETAC North America 26th Annual Meeting, 11/13-17/05. 170:41.

McKernan, M.A., B.A. Rattner, B.K. Ackerson, K.M. Eisenreich, N.H. Golden, A.M. Meckstroth, R.L. Hothem, and T.W. Custer. 2005. Retrospective ecotoxicological data and information needs for terrestrial vertebrates residing in the Great Lakes and coastal habitats of the United States. Poster for Session 23, Wildlife Toxicology, The Wildlife Society 12th Annual Conference, September 25-29, 2005, Madison, WI.

Mendelsohn, M.B. 2005. Occurrence of the Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) in fragmented southern California habitat patches. M.S. thesis. San Diego State University, San Diego, California. 81 pp.

Mendelsohn, M.B., M.C. Madden-Smith, and R.N. Fisher. 2005. Post-Cedar Fire Arroyo Toad (Bufo californicus) Monitoring Surveys at Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, 2004. Final Report. U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Sacramento, CA. Prepared for California State Parks. 42 pp.

Miller, M. R., J. Y. Takekawa, J. P. Fleskes, D. L. Orthmeyer, M. L. Casazza, and W. M. Perry. 2005. Spring migration of northern pintails from California's Central Valley wintering area tracked by satellite telemetry: routes, timing, and destinations. Canadian Journal of Zoology 83(10): 1314-1332.

Miller, M. R., J. Y. Takekawa, J. P. Fleskes, D. L. Orthmeyer, M. L. Casazza, D. A. Haukos, and W. M. Perry. 2005. Flight speeds of northern pintails during migration determined by satellite telemetry. Wilson Bulletin 117(4): 364-374.

Miller, M., and J. Fleskes. 2005. Klamath Basin called critical for pintail that depart Grasslands. Grassland Today 15(3):3.

Moore, P. E., Predicting Patterns of Non-native Plant Invasions (February 2005)

Moore, P.E., A.E.L. Colwell, C.L. Coulter. 2005. Special Status Vascular Plant Surveys and Habitat Modeling in Yosemite National Park. Unpublished report submitted to the National Park Service under Intra-agency Agreement F8800-02-0011/0001. 54 p.

Murphy, R.W., K.H. Berry, T. Edwards, D. Riedle, and D.J. Morafka. 2005. Progress in defining the desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii. 30th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Desert Tortoise Council Symposium. Tucson, Arizona. February 18-21, 2005.

Muths, Erin, Robin E. Jung, Larissa L. Bailey, Michael J. Adams, P. Stephen Corn, C. Kenneth Dodd Jr., Gary M. Fellers, Walter J. Sadinski, Cecil R. Schwalbe, Susan C. Walls, Robert N. Fisher, Alisa L. Gallant, William A. Battaglin, and David E. Green. 2005. The U.S. Department of Interior's Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI): A Successful Start to a National Program. Applied Herpetology. 2(4): 355-436.

Overton, C. T., R. A. Schmitz, and M. L. Casazza. 2005. Post-precipitation bias in band-tailed pigeon surveys conducted at mineral sites. Wildlife Society Bulletin. 33(3):1047-1054.

Rattner, B.A., K.M. Eisenreich, N.H. Golden, M.A. McKernan, R.L. Hothem, and T.W. Custer. 2005. Retrospective ecotoxicological data and current information needs for terrestrial vertebrates residing in coastal habitat of the United States. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 48:1-9.

Rechel, J. L., S. H. Peterson, D. A. Roberts, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 2005. Predicting seasonal fuel moisture in the western United States using endmember fractions at multiple spatial and spectral resolutions. Pages 245-248 in: De la Riva, J., Pérez-Cabello, F., and Chuvieco, E. (eds) Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Remote Sensing and GIS Applications to Forest Fire Management: Fire Effects Assessment. Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain. 290 p.

Ricca, MA, AK Miles, and RG Anthony. 2005. Effect of lipid extraction on analyses of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in different tissues and species. 12th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society. Madison, WI, September 25-29.

Riley, S.P.D., Busteed, G.T., Kats, L.B., Vandergon, T.L., Lee, L.F.S., Dagit, R.G., Kerby, J.L., Fisher, R.N. & R.M. Sauvajot. 2005. Effects of urbanization on the distribution and abundance of amphibians and invasive species in southern California streams. Conservation Biology 19:1894-1907.

Riley, S.P.D., Busteed, G.T., Kats, L.B., Vandergon, T.L., Lee, L.F.S., Dagit, R.G., Kerby, J.L., Fisher, R.N. & R.M. Sauvajot. 2005. Effects of urbanization on the distribution and abundance of amphibians and invasive species in southern California streams. Conservation Biology 19:1894-1907.

Roberts, D. A., S. Peterson, P.E. Dennison, J. Rechel, and J.W. van Wagtendonk. 2005. Fine spatial, spectral and temporal characterization of wildfire fuels through the integrated analysis of imaging spectrometry and coarser resolution broad band data Pages 85-90 in: De la Riva, J., Pérez-Cabello, F., and Chuvieco, E. (eds) Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Remote Sensing and GIS Applications to Forest Fire Management: Fire Effects Assessment. Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain. 290 p.

Rourke, J., B. Kus, and D. Deutschman. An evaluation of fluctuating asymmetry as a tool in identifying imperiled bird populations. Annual Meeting of the Cooper Ornithological Society, 14-19 June, 2005, Arcata, California.

Ruell, E. W., S. P. D. Riley, J. Pollinger, L. M. Lyren, M. R. Douglas, and K. R. Crooks. September 2005. Examining the utility of non-invasive sampling for population estimation of bobcats in coastal southern California. 12th Annual Conference of Wildlife Society, Madison, WI.

Schwarzbach, SE, TH Suchanek, GH Heinz, JT Ackerman, CA Eagles-Smith, TL Adelsbach, JY Takekawa, AK Miles, DJ Hoffman, SE Wainwright-De La Cruz, SE Spring, MA Ricca, and TC Maurer. 2005. Mercury in birds of the San Francisco Bay-Delta: trophic pathways, bioaccumulation and ecotoxicological risk to avian reproduction. 2005 Annual Report, U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, and U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sacramento Fish and Wildlife Office, 17pp.

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Schwarzbach, Steven E., Mark Stephenson, Tamiko Ruhlen, Sue Abbott, Gary W. Page, Dawn Adams. 2005. Elevated mercury concentrations in failed eggs of the Snowy Plovers at Point Reyes National Seashore. Marine Pollution Bulletin 50:1444-1447.

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van Mantgem, P. J., and N.L. Stephenson. 2005. The accuracy of matrix population model projections for coniferous trees in the Sierra Nevada. Journal of Ecology 93: 737-747.

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van Mantgem, P.J. and N.L. Stephenson. December 7, 2005. Forest changes following first and second entry burns: Twenty-one years of monitoring at Tharps Creek, Sequoia National Park, California. USGS Wildland Fire Science Workshop. Tucson, AZ.

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Vredenburg, Vance, Gary M. Fellers, and Carlos Davidson. 2005. Rana muscosa Camp 1917, Mountain Yellow-legged Frog. Pp. 563-566. In: Michael Lannoo (Ed.), Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. Volume 2: Species Accounts. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. xxi+1094 Pp.

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Woo, I., K.L. Turner, D. Gaube, N.D. Athearn, G.G. Shellenbarger, N.K. Ganju, J.Y. Takekawa, and D.H. Schoellhamer. 2005. Physical changes in a salt pond and tidal slough after reintroducing tidal flow: the Napa-Sonoma Marshes, Pond 3. Proceedings of the 7th Biennial State of the San Francisco Estuary Conference, Oakland, California, Oct. 4-6, 2005.

Wood, J.K., G.R. Geupel, L. Lina, S.L. Small, B. Kus, D. Woolington, K. Griggs, T. Griggs, and T. Sperber. 2005. Least Bell's vireo breeding in a San Joaquin Valley riparian restoration site: first confirmed record since 1919. Symposium on Avian conservation in western riparian ecosystems, Annual Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, 23-27 August 2005, Santa Barbara, California.

Wylie, G.D., and L.L. Martin. 2005. Surveys for giant garter snakes in Solano County: 2005 report. USGS, BRD, WERC Dixon Field Station. 14pp

Ackerman, J. T., Cardiac Response of Free-living Tule Greater White-fronted Geese to Human Disturbance (October 2004)

Ackerman, JT, AL Blackmer, and JM Eadie. 2004. Is predation on waterfowl nests density dependent? Tests at three spatial scales. Oikos 107(1): 128-140.

Ackerman, JT, J Adams, JY Takekawa, HR Carter, DL Whitworth, SH Newman, RT Golightly, and DL Orthmeyer. 2004. Effects of radio transmitters on the reproductive performance of Cassin’s auklets. Wildlife Society Bulletin 32(4): 1229-1241.

Ackerman, JT, J Adams, JY Takekawa, HR Carter, DL Whitworth, SH Newman, RT Golightly, and DL Orthmeyer. 2004. Radio transmitter effects on breeding Cassin’s auklets at the California Channel Islands. Pacific Seabird Group, 31st Annual Meeting, La Paz, Mexico, January 21–25.

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Ackerman, JT, JW Mason, and JY Takekawa. 2004. Seabirds off Southern California–surveys reveal patterns in abundance and distribution. Sound Waves, November 2004, Vol. FY 2005, No. 67: 6–7.

Ackerman, JT, JY Takekawa, KL Kruse, DL Orthmeyer, JL Yee, CR Ely, DH Ward, KS Bollinger, and DM Mulcahy. 2004. Using radiotelemetry to monitor cardiac response of free-living tule greater white-fronted geese (Anser albifrons elgasi) to human disturbance. Wilson Bulletin 116(2): 146–151.

Ackerman, JT. 2004. Cardiac response of free-living tule greater white-fronted geese to human disturbance. October 2004. USGS Publication Brief for Resource Managers.

Ackerman, JT. 2004. Wintering and breeding waterfowl in Suisun Marsh. Making Science Work for Suisun Marsh Workshop, San Francisco Bay-Delta Science Consortium and California Bay-Delta Authority, Sacramento, California, March 1-2.

Adams, J., J. Y. Takekawa, and H. R. Carter. 2004. Stable foraging areas and variable chick diets: insight to ocean variability and reproductive success of Cassin’s auklet in the California Channel Islands, 1999–2001. Canadian Journal of Zoology 82: 1578–1595.

Adams, J., J.Y. Takekawa, and H. R. Carter. 2004. Foraging distance and home range of Cassin's auklets nesting at two colonies in the California Channel Islands. Condor 106:618-637.

Alpers, C.N., M.P. Hunerlach, M.C. Marvin-DiPasquale, J.T. May, R.L. Hothem, M.K. Saiki, A.R. Stewart, J.S. Kuwabara, H.E. Taylor, and D.P. Krabbenhoft. 2004. Mercury cycling and bioaccumulation in fish in northern Sierra Nevada watersheds contaminated by historical gold mining. California-Nevada and Humboldt chapters of the American Fisheries Society 38th Annual Meeting, April 22-24, 2004, Redding, CA

Anthony, R.G., M. A. Ricca, A. K. Miles., J. A. Estes, and F. B. Isaacs. September 2004. Bald eagle food habits relative to the sea otter decline in the Aleutian Archipelago, AK. 11th Annual Conference of the Wildlife Society, Calgary, Alberta.

Athearn, N. D., J. Y. Takekawa, A. K. Miles, D. H. Schoellhamer, and G. G. Shellenbarger. Rapid response of avian communities to hydrologic changes in the Napa-Sonoma salt ponds. Abstract. California Bay-Delta Program (CALFED) Science Conference, Sacramento, CA, October 2004. (oral presentation)

Athearn, N. D., J. Y. Takekawa, and A. K. Miles. Factors affecting bird use of commercial salt ponds in San Francisco Bay. Abstract. Society of Wetland Scientists conference, Seattle, WA, July 2004. (oral presetation)

Atkinson, A. J., P. C. Trenham, R. N. Fisher, S. A. Hathaway, B. S. Johnson, S. G. Torres, and Y. C. Moore. 2004. Designing monitoring programs in an adaptive management context for regional multiple species conservation plans. U.S. Geological Survey Technical Report. USGS Western Ecological Research Center, Sacramento, CA. 69 pages.

Backlin, A. R., S. L. Compton, Z. B. Kahancza, and R. N. Fisher. 2004. Baseline biodiversity survey for Santa Catalina Island: Herpetofauna and ants with remarks on small mammals and others. U.S. Geological Survey final report submitted to Catalina Island Conservancy, Avalon, CA. 45 pp.

Bedford, D., J. Belnap, M.L. Brooks, L.A. DeFalco, T.C. Esque, L. Gass, M.F. Gishey, A. Mathie, D.M. Miller, E. Pfeifer, K.A. Thomas, K.M, Schmidt, J.M. Vogel, C.S. Wallace, and R.H. Webb. 2004. A summary of the USGS recoverability and vulnerability of desert ecosystems program. Presented at the Mojave Desert Science Symposium. 16-18 November. University of Redlands, CA.

Behrens, M. D. and K. D. Lafferty. 2004. Effects of marine reserves and urchin disease on southern California rocky reef communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series 279: 129-139.

Berry, K. H., and W. P. Alley. 2004. A comparison of shell and limb colors in desert tortoise populations in California: Size, sex, and regional differences. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Berry, K. H., K. Anderson, T. Bailey, and R. Woodard. 2004. Summer and early fall activities of adult desert tortoises at Fort Irwin, California: A progress report. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Berry, K. H., K. Keith, and T. Bailey. 2004. Status of the desert tortoise in the western part of Red Rock Canyon State Park, California. U.S. Geological Survey, Moreno Valley, California. Report to the California Department of Parks and Recreation. 33 pp.

Berry, K.H., W.T. Chambers, and D.P. Oldershaw. 2004. Natural recovery of perennial vegetation experiencing different disturbance regimes in the western Mojave Desert. Mojave Desert Symposium, University of Redlands, Redlands, California. November 2005.

Bishop, M.A., N. Warnock and J.Y. Takekawa. 2004. Differential spring migration by male and female Western Sandpipers at interior and coastal stopover sites. Ardea 92(2): 185-196.

Blackmer, AL, JT Ackerman, and GA Nevitt. 2004. Effects of investigator disturbance on hatching success and nest-site fidelity in a long-lived seabird, Leach’s storm-petrel. Biological Conservation 116(1): 141–148.

Boydston, E. E. 2003-2004. In the Headlands: Tracking wily coyote. ParkNews, 8(2):3. Golden Gate National Recreation Area, National Park Service.

Boydston, E. E. and C. A. Lopez Gonzalez. 2005. Sexual differentiation in the distribution potential of northern jaguars (Panthera onca). In: Connecting mountain islands and desert seas: biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago II. 2004 May 11-15; Tucson, AZ. Proceedings RMRS-P-36. G. J. Gottfried, B. S. Gebow, L. G. Eskew & C. Edminster (eds.). U. S. Forest Service. Fort Collins, CO: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, pp. 51-56.

Brehme, C.S., Atkinson, A.J. and R.N. Fisher. 2004. MCB Camp Pendleton arroyo toad monitoring results, 2003. U.S. Geological Survey Technical report prepared for Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. 105 pp.

Brooks, M. L.; Keeley, J. E., Effects of Invasive Alien Plants on Fire Regimes (July 2004)

Brooks, M.L. 2004. Research and application highlight: Effectiveness of postfire seeding to reduce cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) growth and reproduction in recently burned sagebrush steppe. Pg. 21 In Joint Fire Science Program, 2003 Business Summary.

Brooks, M.L. C.M. D’Antonio, D.M. Richardson, J. Grace, J. J. Keeley, DiTomaso, R. Hobbs, M. Pellant, and D. Pyke 2004. Fire regimes and potential for ecosystem recovery after plant invasions. Proceedings of the California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium. 7:21.

Brooks, M.L., C.M. D’Antonio, D.M. Richardson, J.M. DiTomaso, J.B. Grace, R.J. Hobbs, J.E. Keeley, M. Pellant, D. Pyke. 2004. Effects of invasive alien plants on fire regimes. Bioscience 54:677-688.

Brooks, M.L., J.B. Grace. J.E. Keeley, D.A. Pyke. 2004. Effects of invasive alien plants on fire regimes. USGS Publication Brief.

Brooks, M.L., J.R. Matchett, C. Wallace, and T. Esque. 2004. Fuels and fire hazard assessment in a desert ecosystem. Arid Lands Newsletter, Vol. 55.

Chamblin, H. D., and W. I. Boarman. 2004. Common raven ecology at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC). Presentation at the 29th Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council, February 22, 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Chamblin, H. D., and W. I. Boarman. 2004. Common raven roosting behavior at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), in the Mojave Desert, California. Poster presented at Ravens Today: A Worldwide Symposium on the Raven (Corvus corax), Biological Institute of Metelen, Germany, 20-22 July 2004.

Chamblin, H. D., and W. I. Boarman. 2004. Ecology of common ravens at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California: Annual progress report covering research conducted between December 9, 2002 and December 13, 2003, United States Geological Survey, Biological Resources Discipline, San Diego, California.

Chamblin, H. D., P. B. Wood, and J. W. Edwards. 2004. Allegheny woodrat (Neotoma magister) use of rock drainage channels on reclaimed mines in southern West Virginia. American Midland Naturalist 151: 346-354.

Chamblin, H.D. and Boarman, W.I. 2004. Roosting Behavior of Common Ravens at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), Twentynine Palms, CA. Presentation at The 2004 Desert Symposium, April 23, 2004, Desert Studies Center, Zzyzx, California.

Coates, P. S., and D. J. Delehanty. 2004. The effects of raven removal on sage-grouse nest success. Proceedings Vertebrate Pest Conference 21:17.

Coates, P.S., and D. J. Delehanty. 2004. Effects of raven removal on sage-grouse nest success. The Wildlife Society National Meeting. Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Cole, D. N., J. W. van Wagtendonk, M. P. McClaran, P. E. Moore, and N. K. McDougald. 2004. Response of mountain meadows to grazing by horses and mules: Yosemite National Park, California. Journal of Range Management 57(2): 153-170.

Coppock, R., S. Johnson, and 28 contributors. 2004. Direct and Indirect Human Contributions to Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes: A Workshop Summary. National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. 80 pages.

D. Weise, Greg Jones, J. Chew, M. Arbaugh, J. van Wagtendonk, M Wiitala, M. Schaaf, and J. Merzenich. 2004. Testing 3 fuel treatment simulation systems in 2 California Mediterranean landscapes. 11th Austalasian Fire Authority Conference. October 2004.

DeFalco, L. A. 2004. Road restoration: developing a Mojave-wide monitoring program. Presented at the Desert Managers Group Restoration Meeting, March 2-3, 2004, Barstow, California.

DeFalco, L.A. 2004. Long-Term Studies: Relating Past Efforts to Future Management Needs. 3rd Mojave Desert Science Symposium. November 16-18, 2004. University of Redlands, CA.

DeFalco, L.A., S.J. Scoles, K.K. Smith, A.D. Nilsson, and R.H. Webb. 2004. Effects of Soil Compaction on Establishment and Growth of Mojave Desert Annuals. 3rd Mojave Desert Science Symposium. November 16-18, 2004. University of Redlands, CA.

Demmon, A., and K. H. Berry. 2004. Evaluating trauma in live desert tortoises: Wild vs. domestic canids. A preliminary report. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Eadie, JM, TG Moore, and JT Ackerman. 2004. Evaluation of spinning-wing decoys in California. Wetland Management Workshop. Colusa National Wildlife Refuge, California, May 14.

Effects of toxicant exposure on gene expression in sea ducks. Ryan, L., Miles, A.K. Northern California Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Annual Meeting, Davis, CA. May 2004. Poster Presentation.

Esque, T.C. 2004. Restoration of the Desert Tortoise. Desert Manager's Group (DMG) sponsored program for the Department of the Interior Restoration Workshop. March. Barstow, CA.

Esque, T.C. 2004. The role of fire, rodents and ants in changing plant communities in the Mojave Desert. Dissertation. University of Nevada, Reno. 168 pp.

Esque, T.C. et al. 2004. From Ants to Elk: The problems and Opportunities in Arid Land Restoration Due to Granivores and Herbivores. 16-18 November. Mojave Desert Science Symposium, University of Redlands, CA.

Esque, T.C., D.F. Haines, C.R. Schwalbe, T.M. Draper, S.J. Scoles, and D. Foster. 2004. An experiment to determine cost/benefits of perennial grass control in a desert ecosystem. 16-18 November. Mojave Desert Science Symposium. University of Redlands, CA.

Esque, T.C., L.A. DeFalco, S.J. Scoles, D.F. Haines, R.L. Kipp, and J.E. Rodgers. 2004. Survivorship of Joshua Trees (Yucca brevifolia) in a Harsh Desert Environment: Effects of Fire, Drought, and Herbivory in Joshua Tree National Park. 16-18 November. Mojave Desert Science Symposium. University of Redlands, CA.

Esque, T.C., S. VanderWall, C.R. Schwalbe, P.A. Medica, and R.H. Webb. 2004. Effects of fire on small animals and the potential for animals to facilitate restoration in hot desert environments. Northwest Science Association Symposium. Session on: Fire and Hazardous Fuel Reduction. Ellensburg, WA.

Fellers, Gary M. and Leslie Long Wood. 2004. Rana aurora draytonii (California red-legged frog) Predation. Herpetological Review. 35(2): 163.

Fellers, Gary M., Laura McConnell, David Pratt, and Seema Datta. 2004. Pesticides in Mountain Yellow-legged Frogs (Rana muscosa) from the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 23(9): 2170-2177.

Fellers, Gary M., Leslie Wood, Greg Guscio, and David Pratt. 2004. Inventory of Terrestrial Vertebrates at John Muir National Historic Site and Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site. National Park Service Report. 15 Pp.

Fleskes, J. P. 2004. Pintail north-south flight paths in the Grassland Ecological Area. 2002/2003 Transactions of the Western Section of The Wildlife Society 38/39:22-26

Fleskes, J. P. 2004. Winter habitat selection by female northern pintails in the Tulare Basin, California. January 2004. USGS Publication Brief for Resource Managers.

Fleskes, J. P., and D. S. Battaglia. 2004. Northern pintail habitat use and waterfowl abundance during spring migration in southern Oregon-Northeast California (SONEC). Final Report. U.S. Geological Survey, Dixon, California. 58pp.

Fleskes, J. P., D. S. Gilmer, and R. L. Jarvis. 2004. Habitat selection by female northern pintails wintering in the Grassland Ecological Area, California. California Fish and Game 90:13-28.

Gass, L., T.C. Esque, K. Thomas, R. Webb, and D. Miller. 2004. Predicting desert tortoise habitat in the Mojave Desert. 16-18 November. Mojave Desert Science Symposium. University of Redlands, CA.

Gerber, L.R., M.T. Tinker, D.F. Doak, J.A. Estes, and D.A. Jessup. 2004. Mortality sensitivity in life-stage simulation analysis: a case study of southern sea otters. Ecological Applications 14(5): 1554-1565.

Gerber, L.R., M.T. Tinker, J.A. Estes, D.F. Doak and D. Jessup. 2004. Mortality sensitivity in life-stage simulation analysis: A case study of southern sea otters. Ecological Applications, 14:1554–1565.

Gilmer, D.S., Yee, J.L., Mauser, D.M., and Hainline, J.L., 2004, Waterfowl migration on Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuges 1953-2001: U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Discipline Biological Science Report USGS/BRD/BSR - 2003-2004, 66 p.

Hadden, S. J., M. A. Wilzbach, K. W. Cummins and M. A. Madej. 2004. Relative effects of organic and inorganic constituents of the suspended sediment load on salmonid foraging and prey availability. p. 80 in American Fisheries Society California-Nevada and Humboldt Chapters Conference Proceedings.Understanding, Protecting and Enjoying California's Fishes from the Sierra to the Sea. Redding California. 100 p.

Harvell, D., R. Aronson, N. Baron, J. Connell, A. Dobson, S. Ellner, L. Gerber, K. Kim, A. Kuris, H. McCallum, K. Lafferty, B. McKay, J. Porter, M. Pascual, G. Smith, K. Sutherland and J. Ward (2004) The rising tide of ocean diseases: unsolved problems and research priorities. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2: 375-382.

Henkel, L.A., E.E. Burkett, and J.Y. Takekawa. 2004. At-sea activity and diving behavior of a radio-tagged Marbled Murrelet in central California. Waterbirds 27(1):9-12.

Hitchcock, C. J., A. R. Backlin, and R. N. Fisher. 2004. Monitoring arroyo toads (Bufo californicus) in the San Bernardino National Forest, 2004. US Geological Survey final report. 20pp.

Hothem, R. L., Black-Crowned Night-Heron Nesting on Alcatraz Island: a 13-Year Study on “the Rock” (April 2004)

Hothem, R.L. 2004. California Abandoned Mine Lands: Biomonitors of Contamination by Mercury and Other Metals. Swallow Workshop, Sept. 20-22, 2004, La Crosse, WI.

Hothem, R.L. 2004. Bioindicators of contamination by mercury and other metals in waters of Northern California impacted by abandoned mines. National Research Council's “Committee on River Science at the USGS” meeting, Sacramento, CA, October 7, 2004.

Hothem, R.L., and D. Hatch. 2004. Reproductive success of the Black-crowned Night Heron at Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California, 1990-2002. Waterbirds 27:112-125.

Hothem, R.L., R.P. Ashley, J.T. May, and J.J. Rytuba. 2004. Mercury in biota from the Lower Clear Creek Restoration Area, Shasta County, California. California-Nevada and Humboldt chapters of the American Fisheries Society 38th Annual Meeting, April 22-24, 2004, Redding, CA.

Huspeni TC, Lafferty KD. 2004. Using larval trematodes that parasitize snails to evaluate a salt-marsh restoration project. 14: 795-804

Jacobson, E. R., and K. H. Berry. 2004. Necropsies of six desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) from California. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Jacobson, E.R., and K. H. Berry. 2004. Necropsies of six desert tortoises from California. Report. University of Florida, Gainesville, and U. S. Geological Survey, Moreno Valley, California. 81 pp.

Keeley, J.E. 2004. VTM plots as evidence of historical change: Goldmine or landmine? Madroño 51:372-378.

Keeley, J. E., Climate Impacts on Fire Regimes in Coastal California (July 2004)

Keeley, J. E., Ecological Impacts of Wheat Seeding After a Sierra Nevada Wildfire (April 2004)

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Keeley, J. E., Plant Functional Traits in Relation to Fire in Shrubland Crown-Fire Ecosystems (May 2004)

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Keeley, J.E. 2004. Ecological impacts of wheat seeding after a Sierra Nevada wildfire. International Journal of Wildland Fire 13:73-78.

Keeley, J.E. 2004. Impact of antecedent climate on fire regimes in coastal California. International Journal of Wildland Fire 13:173-182

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Keeley, J.E. 2004. Invasive plants and fire management in California Mediterranean-climate ecosystems. In M. Arianoutsou (ed) 10th MEDECOS – International Conference on Ecology, Conservation and Management, Rhodes Island, Greece.

Keeley, J.E. 2004. Native American impact on fire regimes. Fire Management Today 64(3):15-16.

Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2004. Lessons learned from the wildfires, pp. 112-122. In R.W. Halsey, Fire, chaparral and survival in southern California. Sunbelt Publications, El Cajon, California.

Keeley, J.E. et C.J. Fotheringham. 2004. La prévention des risques et la lutte contre les incendies dans un paysage fortement marqué par la presence humaine: les incendies de chaparral californien. In Les Feux de Forests dans les Regions a Climat Mediterraneen, Domaine du Rayol, Le Royol-Canadel, République Française.

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Keeley, J.E., C.J. Fotheringham, and M.A. Moritz. 2004. Lessons from the 2003 wildfires in southern California. Journal of Forestry 102(7):26-31. Addendum

Keeley, J.E., M.S. Witter, and R.S. Taylor. 2004. Challenges of managing fires along an urban-wildland interface --- lessons from the Santa Monica Muontains, Los Angeles, California. In the Third International Wildland Fire Conference, Sydney, Australia

Keith, K., K. H. Berry, J. Weigand, and M. Ruelle. 2004. Preliminary results of the desert tortoise survey of the Jawbone-Butterbredt Area of Critical Environmental Concern. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Kisner, D. A. (B. Kus, chair). 2004. The impact of giant reed (Arundo donax) on the southern California riparian bird community. Master's Thesis, San Diego State University.

Knapp, E.E., S.L. Stephens, J.D. McIver, J.J. Moghaddas, and J.E. Keeley. 2004. The fire and fire surrogate study in the Sierra Nevada: Evaluating restoration treatments at Blodgett Experimental Forest and Sequoia National Park, pp. 79-86. In D.D. Murphy and P.A. Stine, editors. Proceedings of the Sierra Nevada Science Symposium 2002. Science for Management and Conservation. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report, PSW-GTR-193, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Albany, California.

Kristan, W. B., III., W. I. Boarman, and J. Crayon. 2004. Diet composition of common ravens across the urban-wildland interface of the West Mojave Desert. Wildlife Society Bulletin 32: 244-253.

Kus, B. E., Sunrise Nest Attendance and Aggression by Least Bell’s Vireos Fail to Deter Cowbird Parasitism (October 2004)

Kus, B.E. 2004. Response to extreme drought of a southern California riparian bird community. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Cooper Ornithological Society, 5-9 May, 2004, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Kus, B.E. 2004. Sunrise Nest Attendance and Aggression by Least Bell’s Vireos Fail to Deter Cowbird Parasitism. USGS Publication Brief for Resource Managers.

Kus, B.E., B. Peterson, and M. Wellik. 2004. Pilgrim Creek restoration project: bird community and vegetation structure. 2003 Annual Report. Prepared for the State of California Department of Transportation, District 11, San Diego, California.

Lafferty, K. D. 2004. Fishing for lobsters indirectly increases epidemics in sea urchins. Ecological Applications. 14: 1566-1573.

Lafferty, K. D., Behrens, M. D., Davis, G. E., Haaker, P. L., Kushner, D.,Richards, D. V., Taniguchi, I. K. and Tegner, M. J. (2004) Habitat of endangered white abalone, Haliotis sorenseni, Biological Conservation, 116, 191-194.

Lafferty, K. D., J. Porter and S. E. Ford (2004) Are diseases increasing in the ocean? Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 35: 31-54.

Madden-Smith, M.C., A. J. Atkinson, R. N. Fisher, W. R. Danskin and G. O. Mendez. 2004. Assessing the Risk of Loveland Dam Operations to the Arroyo Toad (Bufo californicus) in the Sweetwater River Channel, San Diego County, California. 58 pp.

Mason, JW, GJ McChesney, WR McIver, HR Carter, JY Takekawa, RT Golightly, JT Ackerman, DL Orthmeyer, WM Perry, JL Yee, MO Pierson, and MD McCrary. 2004. At-sea aerial surveys of seabirds in the Southern California Bight: 1999–2002. Pages 11–109 in Takekawa, JY, HR Carter, DL Orthmeyer, RT Golightly, JT Ackerman, GJ McChesney, JW Mason, J Adams, WR McIver, MO Pierson, and CD Hamilton. 2004. At-sea distribution and abundance of seabirds and marine mammals in the Southern California Bight: 1999–2003. Unpublished summary report, U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Vallejo, CA; and Humboldt State University, Department of Wildlife, Arcata, CA 309 pp.

Mason, JW, GJ McChesney, WR McIver, HR Carter, JY Takekawa, RT Golightly, JT Ackerman, DL Orthmeyer, WM Perry, JL Yee, MO Pierson, and MD McCrary. 2004. Distribution and abundance of seabirds off southern California: a twenty-year comparison. Pacific Seabird Group, 31st Annual Meeting, La Paz, Mexico, January 21–25.

Matchett, J.R., L. Gass, M.L. Brooks, A.M. Mathie, R.D. Vitales, M.W. Campagna, D.M. Miller, and Weigand, J.F. 2004. Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Off-highway Vehicle Use at the Dove Springs OHV Open Area, California. Report prepared for the Bureau of Land Management, California State Office, Sacramento, California. 17pp.

May, J.T., R.L. Hothem, and C.N. Alpers. 2004. Spatial and Temporal Trends of Mercury and Methylmercury in Aquatic Insects Associated with Historical Gold Mines in Northern California, U. S. A. Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society, Vancouver, B.C., June 6-10, 2004.

May, J.T., R.L. Hothem, J.J. Rytuba, W.G. Duffy, C.N. Alpers, R.P. Ashley, and M.P. Hunerlach. 2004. Mercury concentrations in sediment, water, and aquatic biota from the Trinity River Watershed, 2000-2003. California-Nevada and Humboldt chapters of the American Fisheries Society 38th Annual Meeting, April 22-24, 2004, Redding, CA

McCallum, H. I., A. M. Kuris, C. D. Harvell, K. D. Lafferty, G. W. Smith, and J. Porter. 2004. Does terrestrial epidemiology apply to marine systems? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19:585-591.

McEachern, K. 2004. Plant Communities - Chapter 5 in The Natural Resources of Point Loma. Cabrillo National Monument Foundation. 15 pps.

McKernan, M.A. R.L. Kershnar, A.M. Meckstroth, K.M. Eisenreich, N.H. Golden, B.A. Rattner, and R.L. Hothem. 2004. Countering Contamination Website: Data and DDE – A New Online Tool for Educators. Chesapeake and Potomac Regional Chapter meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. NCTC, April 23, 2004.

McKernan, M.A., R.L. Kershnar, A.M. Meckstroth, K.M. Eisenreich, N.H. Golden, R.L. Hothem, and B.A. Rattner. 2004. Ecotoxicological Information for Teachers and Students: Wildlife and Contaminants Online. Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, November 22-24, 2004, Portland, OR.

Meckstroth, A.M., M.A. McKernan, M.A., R.L. Kershnar, K.A. DeClercq, K.M. Eisenreich, N.H. Golden, R.L. Hothem, and B.A. Rattner. 2004. Countering Contamination Website: Data and DDE - A New Online Tool for Educators. California Science Teacher Association Conference, San Jose, California, October 14-17, 2004.

Mendelsohn, M.B. and R.N. Fisher. 2004. Post-Cedar Fire Arroyo Toad Monitoring Surveys at CRSP. Presentation from 16-17 October 2004 symposium “The Cedar Fire and Cuyamaca Rancho State Park One Year Later: Recovery Expectations and Realities,” presented by the Anza-Borrego Institute and California State Parks, held at Cuyamaca Outdoor Camp, Descanso, CA.

Merriam, K.E., T.W. McGinnis and J.E. Keeley. 2004. The role of fire and fire management in the invasion of nonnative plants. Park Science 22(2):32-36,52.

Merriam, K.E., T.W. McGinnis and J.E. Keeley. 2004. The role of fire and fire management in the invasion of nonnative plants. Park Science 22(2):32-36,52.

Miles, A. K., J. Y. Takekawa, D. H. Schoellhamer, S. E. Spring, N. D. Athearn, G. G. Shellenbarger, and D. C. Tsao. 2004. San Francisco Bay Estuary Salt Ponds Progress Report 2001 - 2003, Priority Ecosystem Science Program, USGS/USFWS (CNO)Science Support Program. Unpubl. Prog. Rep., U.S. Geological Survey, Davis and Vallejo, CA. 67pp.

Montenegro, G., R. Ginocchio, A. Segura, J.E. Keeley, and M. Gomez. 2004. Fire regimes and vegetation responses in two Mediterranean-climate regions. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 77:455-464.

Moritz, M.A., J.E. Keeley, E.A. Johnson, and A.A. Schaffner. 2004. Testing a basic assumption of shrubland fire management: Does the hazard of burning increase with the age of fuels? Frontiers in Ecology and the Enviroment. 2:67-72

Moss, R., S. Blumenshine and J. Fleskes. 2004. Secondary production and biomass of aquatic insects in flooded agricultural fields of the southern San Joaquin Valley, California. 25th Annual Central California Research Symposium. April 2004. Fresno, California. (Poster and published abstract).

Pausas, J.G., R. Bradstock, D. Keith, and J.E. Keeley. 2004. Plant functional traits in relation to fire in crown-fire ecosystems. Ecology 85:1085-1100

Paxton, E., A. Tudor, B. Kus, M. Whitfield, and M. Sogge. 2004. Effects of the 2002 record-breaking drought on the southwestern willow flycatcher. Annual Meeting of the Cooper Ornithological Society, 5-9 May, 2004, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Peterson, B.L., B.E. Kus, and D. H. Deutschman. 2004. Determining nest predators of the Least Bell's Vireo through point counts, tracking stations, and video photography. Jour. Field Ornith. 75:89-95.

Peterson, D. L., C. Allen, J. Baron, D. Fagre, D. McKenzie, and N. Stephenson. 2004. The Western Mountain Initiative: A network of mountain protected areas for global change research. Abstracts, Mountain Climate Sciences Symposium, Kings Beach, California.

Poulton, V.K., J.R. Lovvorn, and J.Y. Takekawa. 2004. Spatial and overwinter changes in clam populations of San Pablo Bay, a semiarid estuary with highly variable freshwater inflow. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 59: 459-473.

Proctor, J.V., S.J. Scoles, and T.C. Esque. 2004. Worldwide literature review of seed bank assays using the seedling emergence method in various ecosystems. 16-18 November. Mojave Desert Science Symposium. University of Redlands, CA.

Proctor, J.V., T.C. Esque, S.J. Scoles, J.A. Young, and M.L. Brooks. 2004. Seed bank assays: A method for determining annual plant diversity and community structure independent of climate. 16-18 November. Mojave Desert Science Symposium. University of Redlands, CA.

Ricca, M. A., R. G. Anthony, and J. C. Williams. 2004. Bald Eagles consume Emperor Geese during late-winter in the Aleutian Archipelago. Journal of Raptor Research. 38: 81-85.

Rourke, J. W. (B. Kus, chair). 2004. An evaluation of fluctuating asymmetry as a tool in indentifying imperiled bird populations. Master's Thesis, San Diego State University.

Rourke, J., B. Kus, and M. Whitfield. 2004. Distribution and abundance of the southwestern willow flycatcher at selected southern California sites in 2001. Prepared for the California Department of Fish and Game, Wildlife Management Division, Sacramento, California.

Rytuba, J.J., R.L. Hothem, J.T. May, and R.P. Ashley. 2004. Minimizing mercury mobility and methylation in the Clear Creek and Trinity River Restoration Projects, California. Third Biennial CalFed Bay-Delta Program Science Conference, Sacramento, CA, October 4-6, 2004.

Scoles, S. J., T. C. Esque, L. A. DeFalco, S. E. Eckert, and D. F. Haines 2004. Evaluation of post fire restoration treatments to reduce invasive plant species. Presented at the Desert Managers Group Restoration Meeting, March 2-3, 2004, Barstow, California.

Scoles, S.J., L.A. DeFalco, and T.C. Esque. 2004. Can restoration go bad?: When restoration efforts help non-native plants. 16-18 November. Majave Desert Science Symposium. University of Redlands, CA.

Seltzer, M. D., and K. H. Berry. 2004. A laser ablation ICP-MS technique for examining elemental distribution in scute tissues of desert tortoise shells. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Shaffer, H. Bradley, Gary M. Fellers, S. Randal Voss, Jeff Oliver, Greg Pauly. 2004. Species boundaries, phylogeography, and conservation genetics of the red-legged frog (Rana aurora/draytonii) complex. Molecular Ecology. 13(9): 2667-2677.

Sharp, B. L. and B. E. Kus. 2004. Sunrise nest attendance and aggression by Least Bell's Vireos fail to deter cowbird parasitism. Wilson Bulletin 116(1):17-22

Spring, S. E.; Miles, A. K., Effects of TCE and PCE on Burrowing Animals at Edwards Air Force Base (August 2004)

Spring, S.E., Miles, A.K., and Anderson, M.A. 2004. Effects of TCE and PCE on wild rodents at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Journal of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 23(9):2162-2169

Stephenson, N. L., and P. J. van Mantgem. 2004. Dissecting the inverse relationship between tree growth rate and probability of death. Abstracts, annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Portland, Oregon. pp. 486-487.

Stephenson, N. L., P. J. van Mantgem, J. E. Keeley, R. S. Anderson, L. J. Graumlich, M. K. Hughes, D. J. Parsons, T. W. Swetnam, D. L. Urban, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 2004. Climatic change research in the Sierra Nevada: building the Western Mountain Initiative. Abstracts, Mountain Climate Sciences Symposium, Kings Beach, California.

Stokes, D. C. and R. N. Fisher. 2004. Bat inventory of the Descanso district of the Cleveland National Forest, San Diego County, California. US Geological Survey technical report prepared for the US Forest Service. 58 pp.

Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, and J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode. 2004. The future of fire in California ecosystems. Chapter 24 in: Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). Fire in California ecosystems. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. (in press).

Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, and J. Fites-Kaufman. 2004. Fire as an ecological process. Chapter 4 in: Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). Fire in California ecosystems. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. (in press).

Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). 2004. Fire in California ecosystems. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. (in press).

Swanson, K.M., Shellenbarger, G.G., Henderson, K.D., DiLeo, J.S., Schoellhamer, D.H., Takekawa, J.Y., Athearn, N.D., Jaffe, B.E., Miles, A.K., Saiki, M.K., and Lionberger, M.A. 2004. Science support for salt pond restoration and management in South San Francisco Bay: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2004-3135, 4 p.

Switalski, T. A., J. A. Bissonette, T. H. DeLuca, C. H. Luce, and M. A. Madej. 2004. Benefits and impacts of road removal. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2(1): 21-28.

Switalski, T. A., J. A. Bissonette, T. H. DeLuca, C. H. Luce, and M.A. Madej. 2004. Benefits and Impacts of Road Removal. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2(1): 21-28.

T.C. Esque, C.R. Schwalbe, D.F. Haines, and W. L. Halvorson. 2004. Saguaros Under Siege: Invasive Species and Fire. Special Issue Desert Plants 20: 49-55.

Takekawa, J. T., Winter Distribution and Survival of a High-Desert Breeding Population of Canvasbacks (March 2004)

Takekawa, J. Y., Long-term Productivity of Canvasbacks in a Snowpack-Driven Desert Marsh (March 2004)

Takekawa, J.Y. 2004. Winter distribution and survival of a high-desert breeding population of canvasbacks. U.S. Geological Survey Publication Brief for Resource Managers. March 2004: 1pp.

Takekawa, J.Y., D.H. Schoellhamer, A.K. Miles, G.G. Shellenbarger, N.D. Athearn, S.E. Spring, M.K. Saiki, C.A. Jannusch. 2004. Initial biophysical changes after breaching a salt pond levee: final report on the Napa-Sonoma Wildlife Area Pond 3 breach. Unpubl. Progr. Rep., U.S. Geological Survey, Vallejo, CA. 42pp.

Takekawa, JY, HR Carter, DL Orthmeyer, RT Golightly, JT Ackerman, GJ McChesney, JW Mason, J Adams, WR McIver, MO Pierson, and CD Hamilton. 2004. At-Sea Distribution and Abundance of Seabirds and Marine Mammals in the Southern California Bight: 1999–2003. Unpublished summary report, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Vallejo, CA; and Humboldt State University, Department of Wildlife, Arcata, CA 309 pp.

Toxicant exposure and gene expression in sea ducks. Ryan, L., Miles, A.K. Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program, University of California. San Diego, California. April 23-24, 2004. Poster Presentation.

Underwood, E.C., R. Klinger, and P.E. Moore. 2004. Predicting patterns of non-native plant invasions in Yosemite National Park, California, USA. Diversity and Distributions 10:447-459.

Underwood, E.C., R. Klinger, P.E. Moore. 2004. Predicting patterns of non-native plant invasions in Yosemite National Park, California, USA. Diversity and Distributions 10(5-6): 447-460.

van Mantgem, P. J. 2004. Does coring contribute to tree mortality? Publication Brief for Resource Managers. USGS, Western Ecological Research Center.

van Mantgem, P. J. 2004. Fungi, fire, and the fate of sugar pine in the Sierra Nevada. Publication Brief for Resource Managers. USGS, Western Ecological Research Center.

van Mantgem, P. J., and M.W. Schwartz. 2004. An experimental demonstration of stem damage as a predictor of fire-caused mortality for ponderosa pine. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34: 1343-1347.

van Mantgem, P. J., and N. L. Stephenson. 2004. The accuracy of matrix projection models for coniferous trees in the Sierra Nevada, California. Abstracts, annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Portland, Oregon. p. 518.

van Mantgem, P. J., and N.L. Stephenson. 2004. Does coring contribute to tree mortality? Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34: 2394-2398.

van Mantgem, P. J., Fungi, Fire Exclusion, and the Fate of Sugar Pine in the Sierra Nevada (December 2004)

van Mantgem, P. J., How Are Trees Killed by Fire? (July 2004)

van Mantgem, P. J., N.L. Stephenson, M.B. Keifer, and J.E. Keeley. 2004. Effects of an introduced pathogen and fire exclusion on the demography of sugar pine. Ecological Applications 14: 1590-1602.

Van Mantgem, P.J., N.L. Stephenson, M.B. Keifer, and J.E. Keeley. 2004. Effects of an introduced pathogen and fire exclusion on demography of sugar pine. Ecological Applications 14:1590-1602.

van Riper, C., and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 2004. Home range characteristics of great gray owls in Yosemite National Park. J. Raptor Res. (in press)

van Wagtendonk, J. W. 2004. Fire and landscapes: patterns and processes. Pages 69-78 in: Murphy, D. D., and P. A. Stine (eds). 2004. Proceedings for the Sierra Nevada Science Symposium. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report PSW-GTR-193. 278 pages.

van Wagtendonk, J. W. Fire as a physical process. 2004. Chapter 3 in: Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). Fire in California ecosystems. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. (in press).

van Wagtendonk, J. W. 2004. Simulation modeling of visitor flows: where have we have been and where can we go? Pages 129-136 in: Sievänen, T., J. Erkkonen, J. Jokimäki, J. Saarinen, S. Tuulentie, and E. Virtanen (eds.). Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitor Flows in Recreational and Protected Areas. Finnish Forest Research Institute Working Papers. Rovaniemi, Finland. 428 p

van Wagtendonk, J. W., J. Fites-Kaufman. 2004. Fire in the Sierra Nevada bioregion. Chapter 12 in: Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). Fire in California ecosystems. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. (in press).

van Wagtendonk, J. W., R. R. Root, and C. H. Key. 2004. Comparison of AVIRIS and Landsat ETM+ detection capabilities for burn severity. Remote Sensing of Environment. 92(3):397-408

van Wagtendonk, J. W., Z. Zhu, and E. L. Lile. 2004. Prefire risk assessment and fuels mapping. P. 49-52 in Livingston, R. K., (ed.). Third U. S. Geological Survey Wildland Fire-Science Workshop. USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5005. 67p.

Vandergast, A. G. and R. G. Gillespie. 2004. Effects of natural forest fragmentation on a Hawaiian spider community. Environmental Entomology 33:1296-1305.

Vandergast, A. G., R. G. Gillespie and G. K. Roderick. 2004. Lava flow versus gene flow: habitat fragmentation and diversification in Hawaiian Tetragnatha Spiders. Oral Presentation. 16th International Congress of Arachnology. Gent, Belgium.

Vandergast, A. G., R. G. Gillespie, and G. K. Roderick. 2004. Influence of volcanic activity on the population genetic structure of Hawaiian Tetragnatha spiders: fragmentation, rapid population growth and the potential for accelerated evolution. Molecular Ecology 13:1729-1743.

Warburton, M.L., R.N. Fisher and S.A. Hathaway. 2004. 2000-2002 Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Amphibian Survey. Prepared for California State Parks. 39pp.

Ward, J. R. and K. D. Lafferty (2004) The elusive baseline of marine disease: Are diseases in ocean ecosystems increasing? Public Library of Science Biology 2: e120.

Warnock, N., M.A. Bishop, J.Y. Takekawa, and T.D. Williams. 2004. Pacific Flyway Shorebird Migration Program: Spring Western Sandpiper Migration, Northern Baja California, Mexico to Alaska - Final Report 2004. Unpubl. Prog. Rep., PRBO Conservation Science, Stinson Beach, CA; Prince William Sound Science Center, Cordova, AK; U.S. Geological Survey, Vallejo, CA; and Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.

Webb, W. C., W. I. Boarman, and J. T. Rotenberry. 2004. Common raven juvenile survival in a human-augmented landscape. Condor 106: 517-528.

Wijayratne, U., S.J. Scoles, and L.A. DeFalco. 2004. Anthropogenic Dust Deposition and the Endangered Lane Mountain Milkvetch (Astragulus jaegerianus). 3rd Mojave Desert Science Symposium. November 16-18, 2004. University of Redlands, CA.

Wylie, G.D. 2004. Results of 2004 monitoring for giant garter snakes (Thamnophis gigas) for the bank protection project on the left bank of the Colusa Basin Drainage Canal in Reclamation District 108, Sacramento River bank protection project, phase II. Progress report for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Reclamation District 108. USGS, BRD Dixon Field Station. 13 pp.

Wylie, G.D., M.L. Casazza, and L.L. Martin. 2004. Monitoring giant garter snakes in the Natomas Basin: 2003 results. Progress report for The Natomas Basin Conservancy. USGS, BRD Dixon Field Station. 75pp.

Wylie, G.D., M.L. Casazza, and M. Carpenter. 2004. Bullfrogs are significant predators of giant garter snake young of the year. Publication brief. USGS, BRD, Dixon Field Station.

2003 van Mantgem, P. J., N.L. Stephenson, M.B. Keifer, and J.E. Keeley. The effects of white pine blister rust and fire exclusion on long-term demographic trends of sugar pine in the Sierra Nevada. Ecological Society of America annual meeting, Savannah, GA.

2003 van Mantgem, P. J., N.L. Stephenson, M.B. Keifer, and J.E. Keeley. The effects of white pine blister rust and fire exclusion on long-term demographic trends of sugar pine in the Sierra Nevada. Fourth North American Forest Ecology Workshop, Corvallis, OR.

Ackerman, JT and JM Eadie. 2003. Current versus future reproduction: an experimental test of parental investment decisions using nest desertion by mallards (Anas platyrhynchos). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 54(3): 264–273.

Ackerman, JT and JM Eadie. 2003. Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat: some nests robbed by predators still produce ducklings. California Waterfowl, April/May 2003: 8–9.

Ackerman, JT, AL Blackmer, and JM Eadie. 2003. Is predation on duck nests density dependent? Tests at three spatial scales. 3rd North American Duck Symposium. Sacramento, California, November 5–8.

Ackerman, JT, J Adams, JY Takekawa, HR Carter, DL Whitworth, SH Newman, RT Golightly, and DL Orthmeyer. 2003. Effects of radio transmitters on breeding Cassin’s auklets. Minerals Management Service, Camarillo, California, September 9.

Ackerman, JT, JM Eadie, and TG Moore. 2003. Life-history predicts risk-taking behavior of dabbling ducks: an experiment using hunter predation and spinning-wing decoys. 3rd North American Duck Symposium. Sacramento, California, November 5–8.

Ackerman, JT, JM Eadie, DL Loughman, GS Yarris, and MR McLandress. 2003. The influence of partial clutch depredation on duckling production. Journal of Wildlife Management 67(3): 576–587.

Ackerman, JT, JM Eadie, GS Yarris, DL Loughman, and MR McLandress. 2003. Cues for investment: nest desertion in response to partial clutch depredation in dabbling ducks. Animal Behaviour 66(5): 871–883.

Adams, J, JW Mason, GJ McChesney, WR McIver, HR Carter, RT Golightly, DL Orthmeyer, JY Takekawa, JT Ackerman, W Perry, and JL Yee. 2003. Integrating seabird use and ocean features: an example with Cassin’s auklets. Minerals Management Service, Camarillo, California, September 9.

Airame, S. J. E. Dugan, K. D. Lafferty, H. M. Leslie, D. A. McArdle and R. R. Warner. 2003. Marine reserve design for conservation and fisheries management: a case study from the California Channel Islands. Ecological Applications 13:S170-S184.

Allgöwer, B., J. D. Carlson, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 2003. Fire danger rating and remote sensing- Will remote sensing enhance wildland fire danger prediction? Introduction in: Chuvieco, E. (ed.). Wildland fire danger estimation and mapping: the role of remote sensing data. World Scientific, London. 300 p.

Allison, L. J., C. E. Paradizick, J. W. Rourke, and T. D. McCarthey. 2003. A characterization of vegetation in nesting and non-nesting plots for Southwestern Willow Flycatchers in central Arizona. Studies in Avian Biology 26: 81-90.

Atkinson, A. J., B. S. Yang, R. N. Fisher, E. Ervin, T. J. Case, N. Scott, H. B. Shaffer. 2003. MCB Camp Pendleton Arroyo Toad Monitoring Protocol: 1. Summary of results from a workshop on August 27, 2002; 2. Monitoring protocol and targeted studies. Technical report prepared for Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. 42 pp.

Atkinson, A. J., R. N. Fisher, C. J. Rochester, and C. W. Brown. 2003. Sampling design optimization and establishment of baselines for herpetofauna arrays at the Point Loma Ecological Reserve. U. S. Geological Survey Western Ecological Research Center Technical Report prepared for Cabrillo National Monument, National Park Service. 39 pages.

Atkinson, A. J., R. N. Fisher, C. J. Rochester, and C. W. Brown. 2003. Sampling design optimization and establishment of baselines for herpetofauna arrays at the Point Loma Ecological Reserve. U. S. Geological Survey Western Ecological Research Center Technical Report prepared for Cabrillo National Monument, National Park Service. 39 pages. (Julie Yee, Robert N. Fisher)

Bell, T., M. Bowles and K. McEachern. 2003. Projecting the success of plant restoration with population viability analysis. Chapter in C.A. Brigham and M.W. Schwartz eds., Population Viability in Plants. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.

Berry, K. H. 2003. Declining trends continue in desert tortoise populations, Calfiornia, USA. Invited Presentation at the Gopher Tortoise Council’s 25th Anniversary. Apopka, Florida.

Berry, K. H. 2003. Declining trends in desert tortoise populations at long-term study plots in California between 1979 and 2002: Multiple issues. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Berry, K. H. 2003. Examples of recovery of vegetation following disturbance in the Jawbone-Butterbredt Area of Critical Environmental Concern. A Preliminary Report to the Bureau of Land Management, Sacramento, California. November 2003.

Berry, K. H. 2003. Health assessments of tortoises in the field: An integral part of research, monitoring, and mitigation projects. Invited Presentation at the Gopher Tortoise Council’s 25th Anniversary. Apopka, Florida.

Berry, K. H. 2003. Recovery of perennial vegetation at disturbed sites in the western, central, and eastern Mojave Desert. Presentation at the Arid Southwest Lands, Habitat Restoration Conference, Palm Springs, California

Berry, K. H. 2003. Spring wildflowers spectacular in 2003 at the Desert Tortoise Natural Area. Tortoise Tracks 23(2):1-3.

Berry, K. H. 2003. Declining trends continue in desert tortoise populations, California, USA. Invited Presentation at the Gopher Tortoise Council’s 25th Anniversary. Apopka, Florida.

Berry, K. H., et al. 2003. Health assessments of captive and wild desert tortoises at 26 sites in the Mojave and Colorado deserts, California, in 2002. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Berry, K. H., W. B. Jennings, and O.T. Oftedal. 2003. Restoring habitat for desert tortoises in the Mojave and Colorado deserts: What they need and why. Presentation at the Arid Southwest Lands, Habitat Restoration conference, Palm Springs, California.

Bishop, Christine A., David C. Cunnington, Gary M. Fellers, James P. Gibbs, Bruce D. Pauli, and Betsie B. Rothermel. 2003. Physical Habitat and its Alteration: A Common Ground for Exposure of Amphibians to Environmental Stressors. Pp. 209 - 241. In: Gregory Linder, Sherry K. Krest, and Donald W. Sparling (eds.). Amphibian Decline: An Integrated Analysis of Multiple Stressor Effects. Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, North America. Pensacola, FL. xxi+345 Pp.

Boarman, William I. 2003. Managing a subsidized predator population: reducing common raven predation on desert tortoises. Environmental Management 32: 205-217

Boydston, E. E., K. M. Kapheim, M. Szykman, and K. E. Holekamp. 2003. Individual variation in space use by female spotted hyenas. Journal of Mammalogy 84: 1006-1018.

Boydston, E. E., Kapheim, K. M., Watts, H. E., Szykman, M. & Holekamp, K. E. 2003. Altered behavior in spotted hyenas associated with increased human activity. Animal Conservation 6:207-219.

Boydston, E. E., Kapheim, K. M., Watts, H. E., Szykman, M. & Holekamp, K. E. 2003. Altered behavior in spotted hyenas associated with increased human activity. Animal Conservation 6:207-219.

Brehme, C.S. (R. Fisher, co-chair). 2003. Responses of small terrestrial vertebrates to roads in a coastal sage scrub ecosystem. Master's Thesis, San Diego State University.

Brooks, M., K. Berry, J. Proctor, and L. Shapiro. 2003. Effects of fenced habitat protection on annual and perennial plants in the Western Mojave Desert. Poster at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Brooks, M., T.C. Esque, J.R. Matchett. 2003. Current status and management of alien plants and fire in desert tortoise habitat. Presented at the 28th Annual Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Brooks, M.L. 2003. Effects of increased soil nitrogen on the dominance of alien annual plants in the Mojave Desert. Journal of Applied Ecology 40:344-353.

Brooks, M.L. 2003. Effects of increased soil nitrogen on the dominance of alien annual plants in the Mojave Desert. Journal of Applied Ecology.

Brooks, M.L. 2003. Introduction and overview of invasive species in the southwest. In M. Kelly (ed.). Proceedings of the California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium. Vol. 6:49.

Brooks, M.L. 2003. Multidisciplinary research needs for invasive plants in southwestern North America. In M. Kelly (ed.). Proceedings of the California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium. Vol. 6:52.

Brooks, M.L. 2003. Research highlight: fire and invasive annual grasses in western ecosystems. Pg. 14 In the Joint Fire Science Program, 2002 Business Summary.

Brooks, M.L. and C.M. D’Antonio. 2003. The role of fire in promoting plant invasions. In M. Kelly (ed.). Proceedings of the California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium. Vol. 6: 29-30.

Brooks, M.L. and J.R. Matchett. 2003. Evaluation of Mojave ground squirrel trapping data. USGS Publication Brief.

Brooks, M.L. and J.R. Matchett. 2003. Plant community patterns in unburned and burned blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) shrublands in the Mojave Desert. Western North American Naturalist 63:283-298.

Brooks, M.L. and J.R. Matchett. 2003. Plant diversity and fire effects in blackbrush shrublands. USGS Publication Brief.

Brooks, M.L. and T.C. Esque. 2003. Alien plants and fire in desert tortoise habitat. USGS Publication Brief.

Brooks, M.L., J.R. Matchett, T.C. Esque, and C. Wallace. 2003. Fire hazard mapping at the Mojave National Preserve. Presented at the Aridlands Restoration Workshop. 3 March 2003. Palm Springs, California.

Brooks, M.L., S.H. Cannon, and N.B. Kotliar. 2003. White paper on post-fire effects, including physical and biological. Pp. 53-56 in R.K. Livingston (ed.). Third U.S. Geological Survey Wildland Fire-Science Workshop, Denver, Colorado, November 12-15, 2002. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5005, 67pp.

Brooks, M.L., T. Esque, M. Pellant, and M. Whalen. 2003. Effectiveness of post-fire seedings to reduce cheatgrass - Study plan report. Technical Report Prepared for the Coordinated Intermountain Restoration Project Meeting Boise, Idaho, 31 March, 2003. 7pp.2003 Intermountain Restoration Coordination Meeting, 31 March to 1 April, Boise, Idaho.

Brooks, M.L., T.C. Esque, and J.R. Matchett. 2003. Fire behavior, effects, and management in unburned and previously burned blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) shrublands in the Mojave Desert. P. 17 in R.K. Livingston (ed.). Third U.S. Geological Survey Wildland Fire-Science Workshop, Denver, Colorado, November 12-15, 2002. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5005, 67pp.

Brooks, M.L., T.C. Esque, and T. Duck. 2003. Fuels and fire regimes in creosostebush, blackbrush, and interior chaparral shrublands. Technical Report for the Southern Utah Demonstration Fuels Project, USDA, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Science Lab, Missoula, Montana. 17pp.

Brooks, M.L., T.C. Esque, J.R. Matchett, and J. D’Elia. 2003. Recent fire history in the Mojave Desert, 1980-2001. Presented at the Aridlands Restoration Workshop. 3 March 2003. Palm Springs, California.

Brooks, M.L., T.C. Esque, J.R. Matchett. 2003. Management of alien plants and fire in the Mojave and Colorado deserts. Presented at the Aridlands Restoration Conference. 4 March 2003. Palm Springs, CA.

Burn, D.M., A.M. Doroff and M.T. Tinker, 2003. Carrying Capacity and pre-decline abundance of sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) in the Aleutian Islands. Northwestern Naturalist 84(3): 145-148

Choisy, M, Brown, S, Lafferty, KD & Thomas, F (2003) Evolution of trophic transmission in parasites: why add intermediate hosts? American Naturalist 162:172-181

Christopher Currens & William J. Liss. (In Press). Experimental studies of interactions of brook char, Salvelinus fontinalis, salamanders, Ambystoma gracile, and macroinvertebrates in high elevation lakes in the Central Oregon Cascades.

Christopher, M. M., K. H. Berry, B. T. Henen, and K. A. Nagy. 2003. Clinical disease and laboratory abnormalities in free-ranging desert tortoises in California (1990-1995). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 39(1): 35-56.

Chuvieco, E., D. Riaño, B. Allgöwer, E. Meier, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 2003. Fuel loads and fuel types. Chapter 5 in: Chuvieco, E. (ed.). Wildland fire danger estimation and mapping: the role of remote sensing data. World Scientific, London. 300 p.

Contaminant concentrations in diving ducks of the San Francisco Bay estuary. Miles, A.K., Takekawa, J.Y., Wainwright-de la Cruz, S., Lovvorn, J.R. 3rd North American Duck Symposium, Sacramento, CA 2003. Poster Presentation.

D.F. Haines*, T.C. Esque, M.L. Brooks, and R.H. Webb. 2003. Fire and exotics in the Mojave Desert: An irreversible change? Presented at the Aridlands Restoration Conference. 3 March 2003. Palm Springs, CA.

DeFalco, L. A. 2003. Physiological ecology of the invasive annual grass Bromus madritensis ssp. Rubens and its interactions with native Mojave Desert species. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Nevada, Reno. 130 pp.

DeFalco, L. A., D. R. Bryla, V. Smith-Longozo, and R. S. Nowak. 2003. Are Mojave Desert annual species equal? Resource acquisition and allocation for the invasive grass Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens (Poaceae) and two native species. American Journal of Botany 90:1045-1053.

DeFalco, L. A., S. J. Scoles, R. B. Hunter, T. C. Esque, D. F. Haines, P. A. Medica and R. H. Webb. 2003. Does dominance of the invasive annual grass Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens impact native annual plant communities? An investigation using long-term data from the Nevada Test Site, southern Nevada. Poster presented at the Desert Managers Group and Society for Ecological Restoration, Arid Lands Habitat Restoration Conference, Palm Springs, California.

Diets of Introduced Predators at South San Francisco Bay and Monterey County, California. National Wildlife Society Conference, Meckstroth, A., and Miles, A.K. Vt. September 2003. Presentation.

Doroff, A.M., J.A. Estes, M.T. Tinker, D.M. Burn and T.J. Evans. 2003. Sea otter population declines in the Aleutian Archipelago. Journal of Mammalogy, 84(1): 55-64

Downard, G.T., J.Y. Takekawa, and I. Woo. 2003. The Tubbs Setback Restoration Project: Establishment of Tidal Marsh Plants. Unpubl. Rep. of the San Pablo Bay NWR, Vallejo, CA. 19pp.

Eadie, JM, JT Ackerman, and M Deering. 2003. Ducks, death, and decision rules. Invited talk, The Winter Animal Behavior Conference, 25th Annual. Jackson Hole, Wyoming, January 18–25.

Eadie, JM, JT Ackerman, and M Deering. 2003. Ducks, death, and decision rules: further attempts to link behavioral ecology and waterfowl conservation and management. Invited talk, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, April 8.

Eadie, JM, TG Moore, and JT Ackerman. 2003. Experimental evaluation of the effect of spinning-wing decoys on hunting success and waterfowl response in California. 3rd North American Duck Symposium. Sacramento, California, November 5–8.

Ecotoxicology and wildlife management: are contaminants affecting wintering Steller's eiders? Stout, J.H., Flint, P.L., Miles, A.K., Trust, K.A., Hollmen, T. and Reeves, M.K. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Washington, D.C., 2003. Poster Presentation.

Effects of TCE and PCE on Wild Rodents, Edwards Air Force Base, California. Spring, S., and Miles, A.K. National Wildlife Society Conference, Vermont. September 2003. Presentation.

Eisenreich, K.M., N.H. Golden, B.A. Rattner, R.L. Kershnar, and R.L. Hothem. 2003. Terrestrial vertebrate ecotoxicological data gaps for the United States Pacific and Gulf Coasts. Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, November 8-13, 2003, Austin, TX.

Esque, T. C., J. E. Rogers, L. A. DeFalco, K. A. Goodwin, S. J. Scoles, D. F. Haines, S. E. Eckert and D. Flock. 2003. Challenges to Joshua tree recovery in the postfire environment: attenuated mortality and hungry rodents everywhere. Poster presented at the Desert Managers Group and Society for Ecological Restoration, Arid Lands Habitat Restoration Conference, Palm Springs, California.

Esque, T. C., P.A. Medica, S.B. VanderWall, R.H. Webb, D.F. Haines, L.A. DeFalco, and C. R. Tracy. 2003. The role of small animals, invasive plants and fire in Mojave Desert seed bank dynamics and vegetation recovery. Poster presented at the Desert Managers Group and Society for Ecological Restoration, Arid Lands Habitat Restoration Conference, Palm Springs, California.

Esque, T.C., C.R. Schwalbe, L.A. DeFalco, R.B. Duncan, and T.J. Hughes. 2003. Effects of desert wildfires on desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) and other small vertebrates. Southwestern Naturalist 48: 103-110.

Esque, T.C., D.F. Haines, L.A. DeFalco, J.E. Rodgers, K.A. Goodwin and S.J. Scoles. 2003. Mortality of adult Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) due to small mammal herbivory at Joshua Tree National Park, California. Report prepared for National Park Service, Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit. 10 pp.

Esque, T.C., S.E. Eckert, D.F. Haines, R.S. Schwartz, and C.R. Tracy. 2003. Fire behavior during a prescribed experimental fire in desert tortoise habitat on the Parashant National Monument in Pakoon Basin, Arizona. Report to the USDI-Bureau of Land Management, Parashant National Monument, Arizona. 12 pp.

Estes, J.A., E.M. Danner, D.F. Doak, B. Konar, A.M. Springer, P.D. Steinberg, M.T. Tinker, and T.M. Williams. 2003. Complex trophic interactions in kelp forest ecosystems. Bulletin of Marine Science, 74: 621-638.

Estes, J.A., M.L. Riedman, M.M. Staedler M.T. Tinker, B.E. Lyon. 2003. Individual variation in prey selection by sea otters: patterns, causes, and implications. Journal of Animal Ecology, 72(1): 144-155

Fain, M.M*, T.C. Esque, and M.L. Brooks. 2003. When seeds play hide and seek: A method for determining plant community structure independent of climate. Presented at the Aridlands Restoration Workshop. 3 March. Palm Springs, California.

Fellers, Gary M. 2003. Bat Inventories in the San Francisco Bay Area: research and bat vocalizations. http://www.werc.usgs.gov/bats/batstudiesnorth.html.

Fellers, Gary M. 2003. Secret Lives of Wildlife Exposed: Mountain lion, long-tailed weasel, and mountain beaver video. http://www.werc.usgs.gov/pt-reyes/movies.

Fellers, Gary M. and Greg Guscio. 2003. California Red-legged Frog Surveys of Lower Redwood Creek, Golden Gate National Recreation Area. National Park Service Report. 71 Pp.

Fellers, Gary M. and Patrick Kleeman. 2003. A technique for locating and recovering radio transmitters at close range. Herpetological Review. 34:123.

Fellers, Gary M. and Patrick Kleeman. 2003. A Technique for Locating and Recovering Radiotransmitters at Close Range. Herpetological Review. 34(2): 123.

Fellers, Gary M., Wang Yuezhao, and Liu Shaoyin. 2003. Status of Amphibians at the Zoige Wetlands, Sichuan Province, China. Froglog (Newsletter of the Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force of the World Conservation Union's Species Survival Commission). 58: 1. http://www2.open.ac.uk/biology/froglog/FROGLOG-58.html

Fleskes, J. P. November 2003. Northern pintail evening flight paths relative to urbanization and wetlands in the Grassland Ecological Area. 3rd North American Duck Symposium. Sacramento, CA.

Fleskes, J. P., and D. S. Battaglia. November 2003. Pintail habitat use during spring migration in the Klamath Basin and other southern Oregon-northeastern California locations. 3rd North American Duck Symposium. Sacramento, CA.

Fleskes, J. P., D. M. Mauser, and G. S. Yarris. December 2003. Survival of female mallards molting in the Klamath Basin region of California and Oregon. 3rd International Wildlife Mamagement Congress. Christchurch, New Zealand.

Fleskes, J. P., M. L. Casazza, J. G. Mensik, M. R. Miller, D.O. Orthmeyer, J. Y. Takekawa, J. L. Yee, and D. R. Yparraguirre. December 2003. Impacts of landscape changes on waterfowl wintering in the Central Valley of California. 3rd International Wildlife Mamagement Congress Christchurch, New Zealand.

Fleskes, J. P., M. L. Casazza, M. R. Miller, J. Y. Takekawa, J. L. Yee, D.O. Orthmeyer, J. G. Mensik, and D. R. Yparraguirre. November 2003. Impacts of landscape changes on waterfowl wintering in the Central Valley of California. 3rd North American Duck Symposium.Sacramento, CA.

Fleskes, J. P., M. R. Miller, and J. Y. Takekawa. 2003. Science support for managing migratory waterfowl. April 8, 2003. USGS WERC Fact Sheet.

Fleskes, J.P., R.L. Jarvis, and D.S. Gilmer. 2003. Selection of flooded agricultural fields and other landscapes by female northern pintails wintering in Tulare Basin, California. Wildlife Society Bulletin 31(3):793-803.

Fleskes, Joseph P. 2003. Effects of backpack radiotags on female northern pintails wintering in California. Wildlife Society Bulletin 31(1):212-219.

Fleskes, Joseph P., 2003. Northern pintail evening flight paths relative to urbanization and wetlands in the Grassland Ecological Area, California. The Wildlife Society-Western Section. Irvine, California. Poster and published abstract.

Gerlach, J.D., Jr., P. Moore, B. Johnson, G. Roy, P. Whitmarsh, D.M. Lubin, D.M. Graber, S. Haultain, A. Pfaff, and J.E. Keeley. 2003. Alien Plant Species Threat Assessment and Management Prioritization for Sequoia-Kings Canyon and Yosemite National Parks. USGS Open-File Report 02-170.

Goodwin*, K.A., M.B. Saethre, T.C. Esque, P.A. Medica, R. Marlow, C.R. Tracy. 2003. Determining the Carrying Capacity of Desert Tortoises In A Stochastic Environment. Presented at the 28th Annual Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Goodwin, K.A., M.B. Saethre, T.C. Esque*, P.A. Medica, R. Marlow, C.R. Tracy. 2003. Reproduction of the Desert Tortoise in Clark County, Nevada. Presented at the 28th Annual Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Goodwin, K.A., T.C. Esque, P.A. Medica, M.B. Saethre, R.W. Marlow, and C.R. Tracy. 2003. Variation in reproduction of the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) in the Mojave Desert of southern Nevada in relation to body size, primary production and climate. Submitted to the University of Navada, Reno under contract for Clark County Multi-Species Habitat Conservation Plan. 22pp.

Haines*, D.F., T.C. Esque, K.E. Nussear, C.R. Tracy. 2003. A regional study of hibernation of desert tortoises: Hibernation Temperatures, Timing, and Site Characteristics. Presented at the 28th Annual Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Haines, D. F., T. C. Esque, L. A. DeFalco, S. J. Scoles, M. L. Brooks and R. H. Webb. 2003. Blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) habitat, fire and exotics in the Mojave Desert. Poster presented at the Desert Managers Group and Society for Ecological Restoration, Arid Lands Habitat Restoration Conference, Palm Springs, California.

Haines, D. F., T. C. Esque, L. A. DeFalco, S. J. Scoles, M. L. Brooks and R. H. Webb. 2003. Fire and exotics in the Mojave Desert: An irreversible change? Paper presented at the Desert Managers Group and Society for Ecological Restoration, Arid Lands Habitat Restoration Conference, Palm Springs, California.

Haines, D.F., T.C. Esque, S.J. Scoles, M. L. Brooks, R.H. Webb. 2003. Do fire and exotics in the Mojave Desert: cause irreversible change? A state-transition model for blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) habitat. Presented at the Aridlands Restoration Workshop. 3 March 2003. Palm Springs, California.

Haines, DF., T.C. Esque, L.A. DeFalco, S.J. Scoles, M.L. Brooks, and R.H. Webb. 2003. Fire and exotics in the Mojave Desert: An irreversible change? A state-transition model for blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) habitat. P. 31 in R.K. Livingston (ed.). Third U.S. Geological Survey Wildland Fire-Science Workshop, Denver, Colorado, November 12-15, 2002. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5005, 67pp

Halstead, Brian J. 2003. The effects of generalist predators on fragmented Florida scrub lizard populations: A research proposal. Summer 2003 Meeting of the Lake Wales Ridge Ecosystems Working Group. Avon Park, Florida, USA.

Halstead, Brian J., Henry R. Mushinsky, Pablo Delis, and Earl D. McCoy. 2003. Spatial mechanisms influencing anuran diversity and abundance in Florida sandhill habitat. 2003 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.

Hothem, R.L., J.N. Moore, J.T. May, J. Gibson, and B. Rasmussen. 2003. Metals contamination at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, California: An assesment of the effects of historical mining on the environmental quality of aquatic ecosystems. The George Wright Society Biennial Conference. Protecting our diverse heritage: The role of parks, protected areas, and cultural sites. The GWS/CR2003 Joint Conference, April 13-18, 2003, San Diego, California.

Hui, Clifford A. 2003. Lead burdens and behavioral impairments in the lined shore crab Pachygrapsus crassipes. Annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Contamination, Austin Texas, 09-13 November 2003. p. 154.

Javed, S.,H. Higuchi, M. Nagendran, and J.Y. Takekawa. 2003. Satellite telemetry and wildlife studies in India: Advantages, options and challenges. Current Science. 85(10): 1439-1443.

Keeley, J.E. 2003. Fire and invasive plants in California ecosystems. Fire Management Today 63(2):18-19

Keeley, J.E. 2003. Relating species abundance distributions to species area curves in two mediterranean-type shrublands. Diversity and Distributions 9:253-259.

Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2003. Historical fire regime in southern California. Fire Management Today 63(1):8-9.

Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2003. Impact of past, present, and future fire regimes on North American Mediterranean shrublands, pp. 218-262. In T.T. Veblen, W.L. Baker, G. Montenegro, and T.W. Swetnam (eds), Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas. Springer, New York.

Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2003. Species area relationships in mediterranean-climate plant communities. Journal of Biogeography 30:1629-1657.

Keeley, J.E. and P.W. Rundel. 2003. Evolution of CAM and C4 carbon-concentrating mechanisms. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164 (3 Supplement):555-577.

Keeley, J.E., D. Lubin, and C.J. Fotheringham. 2003. Fire and grazing impacts on plant diversity and invasives in the southern Sierra Nevada. Ecological Applications 13:1355-1374

Kisner, D., B.E. Kus, and J.E. Diffendorfer. Impact of giant reed (Arundo donax) on the southern California riparian bird community. 75th Annual Meeting of the Cooper Ornithological, 30 April-3 May 2003, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Kisner, D.A. and B.E. Kus. 2003. The effect of Arundo donax on sensitive riparian bird species in southern California. Invited presentation at Invasive Plants in Natural and Managed Systems, 7th International Conference on the Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions, 3-7 November, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Kristan, W. B., III, and W. I. Boarman. 2003. Spatial pattern of risk of common raven predation on desert tortoises. Ecology 84: 2432-2443.

Kruse, K.L., J.R. Lovvorn, J.Y. Takekawa, and J. Mackay. 2003. Long term productivity of canvasbacks (Aythya valisineria) in a snowpacked-driven desert marsh. Auk 120(1):107-119.

Kus, B.E. 2003. Restoring habitat for endangered birds. Invited presentation at Arid Southwest Lands Habitat Restoration Conference (hosted by the Desert Managers Group). March 3-7, Palm Springs, CA.

Kus, B.E. Does cowbird parasitism reduce survival to breeding age in Least Bell’s Vireos? 75th Annual Meeting of the Cooper Ornithological Society, 30 April-3 May, 2003, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Kus, B.E. 2003. Reviewing the boundaries of professional conduct: a research biologist's perspective. Invited presentation in symposium on "Reviewing the Boundaries of Professional Conduct", annual meeting of The Wildlife Society, Western Section, Feb. 27 - Mar. 1, Irvine, CA.

Kus, B.E. and D. A. Kisner. 2003. Neotropical migratory bird monitoring study at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. 2002 Annual Report. Prepared for Assistant Chief of Staff, Environmental Security, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

Kus, B.E. and K.E. Kenwood. 2003. Distribution, abundance, and breeding activities of the southwestern willow flycatcher at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. 2002 Annual Report. Prepared for Assistant Chief of Staff, Environmental Security, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California.

Kus, B.E. and M. Whitfield. Managing cowbird parasitism in endangered hosts: management success or co-dependency? Symposium on “Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions and cowbird management,121st Annual Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, 6-9 August 2003, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.

Kus, B.E. and P.P. Beck. 2003. An approach for monitoring bird communities to assess development of restored riparian habitat. In: P.M. Faber (ed.) pages 396-406. California Riparian Systems: Process and Floodplain Management, Ecology, and Restoration. 2001 Riparian Habitat and Floodplain Conference Proceedings, Riparian Habitat Joint Venture, Sacramento, CA.

Kus, B.E., D.A. Kisner, and M.B. Mulrooney. 2003. Riparian and upland bird communities at Lower Topanga Canyon, Topanga State Park, California. Prepared for California State Parks, Southern Service Center, San Diego, California.

Kus, B.E., P.P. Beck, and J.M. Wells. 2003. Southwestern willow flycatcher populations in southern California: distribution, abundance, and potential for conservation. Studies in Avian Biology 26:12-21.

Kus, B.E.and K. Kenwood. 2003. Use of exotic species for nest placement by southwestern willow flycatchers. Presentation at the annual meeting of The Wildlife Society, Western Section, Feb. 27-Mar. 1, Irvine, CA.

Kus,B., D. Evans, B. Langan, and M.B. Mulrooney. 2003. Status and distribution of the least Bell's vireo and southwestern willow flycatcher at the Cleveland National Forest in 2002. Prepared for the USDA Forest Service, Cleveland National Forest, San Diego, California.

Lafferty, K. D., and R. D. Holt. 2003. How should environmental stress affect the population dynamics of disease? Ecology Letters 6:654-664.

Lafferty, K.D. 2003. The crisis discipline of conservation medicine. Conservation Biology 17:1859-1860

Lafferty, KD. 2003. Is disease increasing or decreasing, and does it impact or maintain biodiversity? Journal of Parasitology 89:S101-S105

Lesley A. DeFalco, David R. Bryla, Vickie Smith-Longozo and Robert S. Nowak. 2003. Are Mojave desert annual species equal? Resource acquisition and allocation for the invasive grass Bromus Madritensis subsp. Rubens (Poaceae) and two native species.

Madej, M. A. 2003. A Comparison of Restoration Strategies on Disturbed Forest Lands. George Wright Society Biennial Conference. San Diego, Ca.

Madej, M. A., M. A. Wilzbach, K. W. Cummins, S. J. Hadden, and C. C. Ellis. 2003. Composition of Suspended Load as a Measure of Stream Health. Progress Report for California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Contract 1.22-1757. 60 p.

Madej, M.A. 2003. Contrast in hillslope and channel response to large storms in Redwood Creek, California, USA. p. 71-80 in Proceedings of the International Workshop for "Source to Sink" Sedimentary Dynamics in Catchment Scale. Sapporo, Japan. 322 p.

Mahoney, Meredith J., Duncan S. M. Parks, Gary M. Fellers. 2003. Origin of Uta stansburiana and Elgaria multicarinata on the California Channel Islands: Natural dispersal versus artificial introductions. Journal of Herpetology. 37(3): 586-591.

Martin, PL, CA Schwemm, W Perry, and JT Ackerman. 2003. Nest occupancy and hatching success of Xantus’s murrelets breeding on Santa Barbara Island, California during a twenty-year period. Sixth California Islands Symposium, Ventura, California, December 1–3.

Mason, JW, GJ McChesney, WR McIver, HR Carter, RT Golightly, DL Orthmeyer, JY Takekawa, JT Ackerman, W Perry, JL Yee, MO Pierson, and MD McCrary. 2003. Distribution, abundance, and colony counts of seabirds off Southern California. Minerals Management Service, Camarillo, California, September 9.

Matchett, J. R., M. L. Brooks, and K. H. Berry. 2003. Plant community structure associated with livestock watering sites in the Central Mojave Desert. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

McGinnis, T.W., J.E. Keeley, M. Brooks, R. Sanford and J. Belnap. 2003. Above and Below Ground Fire-related Temperatures in a Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) Infested Sierra Nevada Yellow Pine Forest: Effects on Cheatgrass Seeds and Native Plants. North American Forest Ecology Workshop, Corvallis, Oregon, June 16-20, 2003.

McGinnis, T.W., J.E. Keeley, M. Brooks, R. Sanford and J. Belnap. 2003. Fire-related Temperatures in a Cheatgrass Infested Sierra Nevada Yellow Pine Forest: Effects on Cheatgrass Seeds and Native Plants. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Aug. 3-8, 2003.

Meckstroth, A., and A.K. Miles. 2003. Predator of nesting waterbirds in an urban environment. Final Report. Moffett Federal Airfield, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountainview, California. 49 pages.

Medica, P. A., T. C. Esque, D. F. Haines, L. A. DeFalco,and R. H. Webb. 2003. Long-term responses of nocturnal rodents to wildfires in the Mojave and Great Basin Desert ecotone. Poster presented at the Desert Managers Group and Society for Ecological Restoration, Arid Lands Habitat Restoration Conference, Palm Springs, California.

Miller, M. R., J.Y. Takekawa, D.L. Orthmeyer, J. P. Fleskes, M.L. Casazza, M.W. Perry. 2003. Tracking spring migration of northern pintails with satellite telemetry. Discovery for Recovery: An international pintail research initiative. Final Report. U.S. Geological Survey, Dixon, California. 63 pp.

Mora, M. A., J. W. Rourke, S. J. Sferra and K. King. 2003. Environmental contaminants in surrogate birds and insects inhabitating Southwestern Willow Flycatcher habitat in Arizona. Studies in Avian Biology 26: 168-176.

Murphy, R. W., D.J. Morafka, and K.H. Berry. 2003. Defining the desert tortoises(s): Our first priority for a coherent conservation strategy. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Overton, C. T. 2003. Habitat characteristics associated with abundance of band-tailed pigeons and use of mineral sites in the Pacific Northwest. M.Sc Thesis. Oregon State University. Corvallis, OR. 82pp

Packer, C, R. D. Holt, P. J. Hudson, K. D. Lafferty, and A. P. Dobson. 2003. Keeping the herds healthy and alert: implications of predator control for infectious disease. Ecology Letters 6: 797-802.

Peterson, B. L., B. E. Kus, and M. J. Wellik. 2003. Surveys for the Least Bell's Vireo and Southwestern Willow Flycatcher at the San Luis Rey River. 2002 Annual Summary. Prepared for the California Department of Transportation, District 11.

Petrie, M., C. Hickey, J. Eadie, J. Fleskes, M. Miller, L. Naylor, R. Shaffer, D. Smith, and G. Yarris. November 2003. Integrating management objectives for waterfowl and shorebirds in the Central Valley Habitat Joint Venture. 3rd North American Duck Symposium. Sacramento, CA.

Predator control and nesting waterbird success in an urban environment. Meckstroth, A.M., Miles, A.K. 3rd North American Duck Symposium, Sacramento, CA 2003. Poster Presentation

R. R. Root, J. W. van Wagtendonk, and C. H. Key, 2003. Burn severity detection enhancement using AVIRIS hyperspectral data. 4th International Workshop on Remote Sensing, GIS, and Fire Management; Ghent, Belgium, June 5-7, 2003.

Ricca, M. A., R. G. Anthony, D. H. Jackson, and S. A. Wolfe. 2003. Spatial use and habitat associations of Columbian white-tailed deer fawns in southwestern Oregon. Northwest Science 77:72-80.

Roberts, C. M., S. J. Andelman, G. M. Branch, R. Bustamante, J. C. Castilla, J. E. Dugan, B. Halpern, K. D. Lafferty, H. Leslie, J. Lubchenco, D. McArdle, H. P. Possingham, M. Ruckelshaus and R. R. Warner. 2003. Ecological criteria for evaluating candidate sites for marine reserves. Ecological Applications 13:S199-S215.

Roberts, C. M., S. J. Andelman, G. M. Branch, R. Bustamante, J. C. Castilla, J. E. Dugan, B. Halpern, K. D. Lafferty, H. Leslie, J. Lubchenco, D. McArdle, H. P. Possingham, M. Ruckelshaus and R. R. Warner. 2003. Ecological criteria for evaluating candidate sites for marine reserves. Ecological Applications 13:S199-S215.

Roberts, C., G. M. Branch, R. Bustamante, J. C. Castilla, J. E. Dugan, B. Halpern, K. D. Lafferty, H. Leslie, D. A. McArdle, M. H. Ruckleshaus and R. R. Warner. 2003. Application of ecological criteria in selecting marine reserves and developing reserve networks. Ecological Applications 13: S215-S228.

Roberts, C., G. M. Branch, R. Bustamante, J. C. Castilla, J. E. Dugan, B. Halpern, K. D. Lafferty, H. Leslie, D. A. McArdle, M. H. Ruckleshaus and R. R. Warner. 2003. Application of ecological criteria in selecting marine reserves and developing reserve networks. Ecological Applications 13: S215-S228.

Rothstein, S.I. and B.E. Kus. Finding solutions for threatened and endangered hosts and is that all there is to cowbird research? Symposium on “Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions and cowbird management,121st Annual Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, 6-9 August 2003, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.

Rothstein, S.I., B.E. Kus, M.J. Whitfield, and S.J. Sferra. 2003. Recommendations for cowbird management in recovery efforts for the southwestern willow flycatcher. Studies in Avian Biology 26:157-167.

Rourke, J., Kerry Kenwood, and Barbara Kus. 2003. Biological Reporting Database. Access-based software (CD) to manage electronic submittal of endangered bird survey and monitoring data into centralized databases, and generate summary reports to state and federal regulatory agencies.

Saethre*, M.B., K. Goodwin, T.C. Esque, P.A. Medica, R. Marlow, C.R. Tracy. 2003. Determining the Carrying Capacity of Desert Tortoises. Presented at the 28th Annual Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Scientific Advisory Board (J. N. Clarke, D. M. Graber, K. M. Nissen, D. D. Piirto, N. L. Stephenson, D. R. Tormey, and P. E. Waggoner). 2003. Advice for the Secretary of Agriculture about Management of the Giant Sequoia National Monument. USDA Forest Service; U.S. Government Printing Office document 2003-0-583-088/60013. 70 pages.

Scoles, S. J., L. A. DeFalco and A. C. Newton. 2003. The revegetation of disturbed Areas associated with roads at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada. Poster presented at the Desert Managers Group and Society for Ecological Restoration, Arid Lands Habitat Restoration Conference, Palm Springs, California.

Scoles, S.J. and L.A. DeFalco. 2003. The revegetation of disturbed areas associated with roads at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada. Report prepared for National Park Service, Lake Mead National Recreation Area. 11 pp.

Scoles, S.J., T.C. Esque, L.A. DeFalco, S.E. Eckert, and D.F. Haines. 2003. Evaluating options for revegetation following a catastrophic fire in a pinyon-juniper community at Grand Canyon/Parashant National Monument, Arizona. Draft Annual Report to USDI-Bureau of Land Management. 21pp with appendices.

Sogge, M., P. Dockens, S. Williams III, B. Kus and S. Sferra 2003. Southwestern willow flycatcher breeding site and territory summary - 2002. Prepared for the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Recovery Team, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 2, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Sogge, M.K., B.E. Kus, S.J. Sferra, and M.J. Whitfield (eds). 2003. Ecology and Conservation of the Willow Flycatcher. Studies in Avian Biology 26. 210 pp.

Sogge, M.K., S.J. Sferra, T. McCarthey, S.O. Williams, and B.E. Kus. 2003. Distribution and characteristics of Southwestern Willow Flycatcher breeding sites and territories. Studies in Avian Biology 26:5-11.

Stephenson, N. L. 2003. Mechanisms driving forest carbon dynamics: demography, growth, fire, and research needs. Abstracts, National Research Council Workshop on "Direct and Indirect Human Contributions to Terrestrial Greenhouse Gas Fluxes." Washington, D.C.

Stephenson, N. L. 2003. Mountain climatic gradients as natural ecological experiments: results from the Sierra Nevada Global Change Research Program. Abstracts, 20th Annual PACLIM Conference, Asilomar, California.

Stitt, E.W., R.C. Averill-Murray, T.E. Christopher, D.E. Swann, C.R. Schwalbe and T.C. Esque. 2003. Desert tortoise reproduction and home range at Saguaro National Park, Tucson, Arizona. Presented at the 28th Annual Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Stokes, D.C., C.S. Brehme, R.N. Fisher. 2003. Bat inventory of the Point Loma Peninsula Including the Cabrillo National Monument. USGS Technical Report prepared for the Cabrillo National Monument, National Park Service, 31 pp.

Stokes, D.C., C.S. Brehme, R.N. Fisher. 2003. Bat inventory of the San Diego County Multiple Species Conservation Program Area. USGS Technical Report prepared for the County of San Diego and the California Department of Fish and Game, 17 pp.

Suchanek, T.H., P.J. Richerson, D.C. Nelson, C.A. Eagles-Smith, D.W. Anderson, J.J. Cech, Jr., R. Zierenberg, G. Schladow, J.F. Mount, S.C. McHatton, D.G. Slotton, L.B. Webber, B.J. Swisher and M. Sexton. 2003. Evaluating and managing a multiply stressed ecosystem at Clear Lake, California: A holistic ecosystem approach. Chapter 121., p. 1239-1271, In: D.J. Rapport, W.L. Lasley, D.E. Rolston, N.O. Nielsen, C.O. Qualset, and A.B. Damania (Eds.) Managing for Healthy Ecosystems, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, Florida USA.

Suchanek, T.H., P.J. Richerson, D.C. Nelson, C.A. Eagles-Smith, D.W. Anderson, J.J. Cech, Jr., R. Zierenberg, G. Schladow, J.F. Mount, S.C. McHatton, D.G. Slotton, L.B. Webber, B.J. Swisher and M. Sexton. 2003. Evaluating and managing a multiply stressed ecosystem at Clear Lake, California: A holistic ecosystem approach. Chapter 121., p. 1239-1271, In: D.J. Rapport, W.L. Lasley, D.E. Rolston, N.O. Nielsen, C.O. Qualset, and A.B. Damania (Eds.) Managing for Healthy Ecosystems, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, Florida USA.

Switalski, T. A., J. A. Bissonette, T. H. DeLuca, C. H. Luce, and M.A. Madej. 2003. Wildland Road Removal: Research Needs. Proceedings of the International Conference on Ecology and Transportation August, 2003. Lake Placid, New York. p. 642-646.

Szykman, M., A. L. Engh, R. C. Van Horn, E. E. Boydston, K. T. Scribner, and K. E. Holekamp. 2003. Rare male aggression directed toward females in a female-dominated society: baiting behavior in the spotted hyena. Aggressive Behavior 29: 457-474.

T.C. Esque. 2003. How do wildfire , granivores and alien grasses change Mojave Desert Seed Banks? Presented at the Aridlands Restoration Workshop. 3 March 2003. Palm Springs, California.

Takekawa, J. Y., M. A. Bias, I. Woo, S. A. Demers, and E. E. Boydston. 2003. Small mammal survey at Big Lagoon, Muir Beach, Marin County, CA. Unpubl. Progr. Rep., U. S. Geological Survey, Vallejo, CA. 25pp.

Takekawa, J.Y., I. Woo, S.A. Demers, and G.T. Downard. 2003. The Tubbs Setback Restoration Project: Assessing Early Tidal Marsh Development. Unpubl. Rep., U.S. Geological Survey. Western Ecological Research Center. San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Station. Vallejo, CA. 36pp.

Thomas W McGinnis, Jon E Keeley, Matthew L Brooks, Robert L Sanford Jr.and Jayne Belnap. Effects of fire temperatures on cheatgrass in a Sierra Nevada yellow pine forest. Invasive Plants in Natural and Managed Systems: Linking Science and Management, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, November 3-7, 2003.

Torchin, M.E., K.D. Lafferty, A.P. Dobson, V.J. McKenzie and A.M. Kuris 2003. Introduced species and their missing parasites. Nature 421:628-630.

van Mantgem, P. and M. Schwartz. 2003. Bark heat resistance of small trees in Californian mixed conifer forests: testing some model assumptions. Forest Ecology and Management 178: 341-352.

van Mantgem, P. J. 2003. Resistance of small trees to fire-caused stem damage. Publication Brief for Resource Managers. USGS, Western Ecological Research Center.

van Mantgem, P. J. 2003. Resistance of small trees to fire-caused stem damage. Publication Brief for Resource Managers. USGS, Western Ecological Research Center.

van Mantgem, P. J. 2003. Which trees will be killed by fire? Pre-fire growth rate is a factor. Publication Brief for Resource Managers. USGS, Western Ecological Research Center.

van Mantgem, P. J. 2003. Which trees will be killed by fire? Pre-fire growth rate is a factor. Publication Brief for Resource Managers. USGS, Western Ecological Research Center.

van Mantgem, P. J., N. L. Stephenson, M. Keifer, and J. E. Keeley. 2003. White pine blister rust, fire and long-term demographic trends of sugar pine in the Sierra Nevada: a sticky mess? Abstracts, Fourth North American Forest Ecology Workshop, Corvallis, Oregon. p. 135.

van Mantgem, P. J., N.L. Stephenson, M.B. Keifer, and J.E. Keeley. 2003. The effects of white pine blister rust and fire exclusion on long-term demographic trends of sugar pine in the Sierra Nevada. Ecological Society of America annual meeting, Savannah, GA.

van Mantgem, P., N. L. Stephenson, L. S. Mutch, V. G. Johnson, A. M. Esperanza, and D. J. Parsons. 2003. Growth rate predicts mortality of Abies concolor in both burned and unburned stands. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 33:1029-1038.

van Wagtendonk, J. W. 2003. The wilderness use simulation model: an historical perspective. International Journal of Wilderness. 9(2): 9-13.

van Wagtendonk, J. W. 2003. The role of science in the sustainable management of the Yosemite Wilderness. P. 225-230 in: Watson, A. and J. Sproull (comps.). Seventh World Wilderness Congress symposium: science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values. USDA For. Serv. Proc. RMRS-P-27. 272 p.

van Wagtendonk, J. W., and R. R. Root. 2003. The use of multi-temporal Landsat Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data for mapping fuels in Yosemite National Park, USA. Int. J. Rem. Sense. 24(8):1639-1651.

Vandergast, A. G. and R. N. Fisher 2003. Phylogeography of the mahogany Jerusalem cricket. Oral Presentation. California Population and Evolutionary Genetics Meeting. Irvine, CA

Vandergast, A. G. and G. K. Roderick. 2003. Mermithid parasitism of Hawaiian Tetragnatha spiders in a fragmented landscape. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 84:128-136.

Vandergast, A. G., D. Weissman, M. Caterino and R. N. Fisher 2003. Phylogeography of the mahogany Jerusalem cricket in Southern California. Oral Presentation. The Society for the Study of Evolution. Chico, CA.

Warner, Peter J., Carla C. Bossard, Matthew L. Brooks, Joseph M. DiTomaso, John A. Hall, Ann Howald, Douglas W. Johnson, John M. Randall, Cynthia L. Roye, Maria M. Ryan, and Alison E. Stanton. 2003. Criteria for Categorizing Invasive Non-Native Plants that Threaten Wildlands. California Exotic Pest Plant Council and Southwest Vegetation Management Association. 24 pp.

Warnock, N. and Takekawa, J.Y. 2003. Use of radio telemetry in studies of shorebirds: past contributions and future directions. Wader Study Group Bull. 100:138-150.

Webb, R. H., T. C. Esque, K. A. Thomas, D. F. Haines, M. B. Murov, L. A. DeFalco, and P. A. Medica. 2003. Changes in undisturbed perennial vegetation in the northern Mojave Desert. Poster presented at the Desert Managers Group and Society for Ecological Restoration, Arid Lands Habitat Restoration Conference, Palm Springs, California.

Webb, R.H., Murov, M.B., Esque, T.C., Boyer, D.E., DeFalco, L.A., Haines, D.F., Oldershaw, D., Scoles, S.J., Thomas, K.A., Blainey, J.B., and Medica, P.A. 2003. Perennial vegetation data from permanent plots on the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-336, 200 p.

Weise, D. R., R. Kimberlin, M. Arbaugh, J. Chew, G. Jones, J. Merzenich, M. Witala, R. Keane, M. Schaff, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 2003. Comparing potential fuel treatment trade-off models. P. 15-26 in: Arthaud, G. J., and T. M. Barrett (eds.). Systems Analysis in Forest Resources. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 340 p.

Wylie G. D., M. L. Casazza, and M. Carpenter. 2003. Trophic Interactions Among Non-Native Crayfish and Bullfrogs and Endemic Giant Garter Snakes at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge. California Invasive Species Symposium, Western Section of The Wildlife Society, Sacramento, CA.

Wylie, G. D. 2003. Giant garter snakes: morphology, population characteristics, habitat use, and movements. Giant garter snake workshop, Sacramento-Shasta Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Elk Grove, CA.

Wylie, G. D., M. L. Casazza, and M. Carpenter. 2003. Diet of bullfrogs in relation to predation on giant garter snakes at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge. California Fish and Game 89(3): 139-145.

Wylie, G.D., M.L. Casazza, and M. Carpenter. 2003. Habitat of giant garter snakes in restored wetlands at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge. Annual meeting of The Wildlife Society, Burlington, VT.

Wylie, G.D., M.L. Casazza, and M. Carpenter. 2003. Diet of bullfrogs in relation to predation on giant garter snakes at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge. California Fish and Game 89(3): 139-145.

2002 van Mantgem, P. J., and N.L. Stephenson. Searching for a general model of tree mortality in burned and unburned stands. Ecological Society of America annual meeting, Tucson, AZ.

2002 van Mantgem. P. J., M.B. Keifer, and N.L. Stephenson. The sugar pine dilemma: prescription burning, naturalness and the management of a declining tree species. California Association of Fire Ecologists annual meeting, San Diego, CA.

Ackerman, JT, JM Eadie, DL Loughman, GS Yarris, and MR McLandress. 2002. The influence of partial clutch depredation on duck nest success. The Wildlife Society’s 9th Annual Conference. Bismarck, North Dakota, September 24–28.

Ackerman, JT. 2002. From individuals to populations: the direct and indirect effects of predation on waterfowl nest success. College of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, October 31.

Ackerman, JT. 2002. From individuals to populations: the direct and indirect effects of predation on waterfowl nest success. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Davis. 182 pp.

Ackerman, JT. 2002. Of mice and mallards: positive indirect effects of coexisting prey on waterfowl nest success. Oikos 99(3): 469–480.

Ackerman, JT. 2002. Resource selection in animals. College of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, October 31.

Alpers, C.N., M.P. Hunerlach, J.T. May, R.L. Hothem, H.E. Taylor, D.B. Peart, M. C. Marvin-Dipasquale, J.F.DeWild, and D.P. Krabbenhoft. 2002. Environmental legacy of the California gold rush: 1. Mercury contamination and bioaccumulation associated with abandoned placer-gold mines. Geological Society of America Fall Meeting, October 27-30, 2002, Denver, Colorado.

Alpers, C.N., M.P. Hunerlach, R.L. Hothem, and J.T. May. 2002. Mercury contamination associated with historical gold mining in the Bear-Yuba watersheds, Sierra Nevada, California. Annual Meeting of the Association of Engineering Geologists, September 2002, Reno, Nevada.

Angermann, Jeffrey E., Gary M. Fellers, Fumio Matsumura. 2002. Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Toxaphene in Pacific Treefrog Tadpoles (Hyla regilla) from the California Sierra Nevada, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 21(10): 2209-2215.

Atkinson, A. J., C. M. Marn, B. Fong. 2002. Terrestrial and Amphibious Monitoring Plan for the CALFED Bay-Delta Program. Technical Report prepared for the CALFED Bay-Delta Program. 432 pp.

Backlin, A., Fisher, R., and C. Haas. 2002. Metropolitan Water District Inland Feeder Project: Mountain Yellow-legged Frog (Rana muscosa) and California Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora) surveys. Prepared for San Bernardino National Forest.

Backlin, A., Haas, C., Fisher, R.N., 2002. Angeles and San Bernardino National Forest, Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog (Rana muscosa) Surveys, 2001. Prepared for Angeles National Forest, San Bernardino National Forest.

Berry, K. H. 2002. Losing the race for survival? The catastrophic decline of the desert tortoise in California. Public Lecture. U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. March 28.

Berry, K. H. 2002. Using growth ring counts to age wild juvenile desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) in the wild. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4(2):416-424.

Berry, K. H., and T. Duck. 2002. Answering Questions about Desert Tortoises: A Guide for People Who Work with the Public. http://www.deserttortoise.org/answeringquestions/

Berry, K. H., and T. Okamoto. 2002. Protocols for Drawing Blood from the Brachial Plexus of Desert Tortoises: Instructions for ordering equipment and culture media; summary of how to draw blood and conduct nasal lavages; and information on how to contract for laboratory analysis and ship laboratory samples. Prepared for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Berry, K. H., D. J. Morafka, and R. W. Murphy. 2002. Defining the desert tortoise(s): Our first priority for a coherent conservation strategy. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4(2):249-262.

Berry, K. H., E. K. Spangenberg, B. L. Homer, and E. R. Jacobson. 2002. Deaths of desert tortoises following periods of drought and research manipulation. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4(2):436-448.

Berry, K. H., et al. 2002. Health assessments of captive and wild desert tortoises at 17 sites in the Mojave and Colorado deserts, California. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Palm Springs, California.

Boarman, W. I. 2002. Reducing predation by common ravens on desert tortoises in the Mojave and Colorado Deserts. U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Sacramento, CA.

Boarman, W. I. 2002. Threats to desert tortoise populations: a critical review of the literature. U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Sacramento, CA.

Boarman, W. I. and S. J. Coe. 2002. An evaluation of the distribution and abundance of Common Ravens at Joshua Tree National Monument. Bull. Southern California Acad. Sci. 101: 86-102.

Boarman, W.I. 2002. Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). In: Boarman, W.I. and K. Beaman, editors. The sensitive plant and animal species of the Western Mojave Desert. U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Sacramento, CA.

Boyd, S. and J.E. Keeley. 2002. A new species of Ceanothus from northern Baja California. Madroño 49:289-294.

Briggs, M.K., C. Gorman, D. Lett, R. Gimblett, and W. Halvorson. 2002. Monitoring Riparian Ecosystems: A Second Inventory of Riparian Habitat Along Rincon Creek Near Tucson, Arizona. Final Report for the Arizona Game and Fish Department. Rincon Institute, Tucson, AZ. 88 p.

Briggs, M.K., C. Gorman, D. Lett, R. Gimblett, and W. Halvorson. 2002. Monitoring Riparian Ecosystems: A Second Inventory of Riparian Habitat Along Rincon Creek Near Tucson, Arizona. Final Report for the Arizona Game and Fish Department. Rincon Institute, Tucson, AZ. 88 p.

Brooks, M.L. 2002. Fire temperature patterns and effects on annual plants in the Mojave Desert. U.S. Geological Survey, Publication Brief for Resource Managers.

Brooks, M.L. 2002. Peak fire temperatures and effects on annual plants in the Mojave Desert. Ecological Applications 12:1088-1102.

Brooks, M.L. and D. Pyke. 2002. Invasive plants and fire in the deserts of North America. U.S. Geological Survey, Publication Brief for Resource Managers.

Brooks, M.L. and J.R. Matchett. 2002. Sampling methods and trapping success trends for the Mohave ground squirrel (Spermophilus mohavensis). California Fish and Game 88(4):165-177.

Brooks, M.L., and T.C. Esque. 2002. Alien annual plants and wildfire in desert tortoise habitat: status, ecological effects, and management. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4:330-340.

Brooks, M.L., and T.C. Esque. 2002. Alien plants and fire in desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) habitat of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts. Chelonian Conservation Biology 4: 330-340.

Brooks, M.L.. 2002. Potential effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on annual plants in the Mojave Desert. USGS Publication Brief.

Brown, C., Fisher, R.N., 2002. Inventory and Management Needs Study of Point Loma Herpetofauna (Reptiles and Amphibians) With Comments on Mammals and Invertebrates, 2001. Prepared for National Park Service, Cabrillo National Monument. 33pp.

Brown, C., Fisher, R.N., 2002. Survey results for the Arroyo Toad (Bufo californicus) in the San Bernardino National Forest, 2001. Prepared for U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service. 53pp.

Brown, C., R.N. Fisher, and S.A. Hathaway. 2002. Multitaxa Survey at Rancho Jamul 2001-2002.

Bueno, M. M., N. Stephenson, J. E. Keeley, and A. Pfaff. 2002. The southern Sierra repeat photography project: vegetation changes over the past 125 years. Sierra Nevada Science Symposium, Kings Beach, California, Oct. 8-10.

Carpenter, N.M., M.L. Casazza, and G.D. Wylie. 2002. Rana catesbeina (bullfrog). Diet. Herpetological Review 33: 130.

Casazza, M. L., J. L. Yee, D. L. Orthmeyer, M. R. Miller, C. T. Overton, and R. Schmitz. 2002. Development of a reliable population index for Pacific Coast band-tailed pigeons. 2002 Progress Report.

Casazza, M. L., J. L. Yee, D. L. Orthmeyer, M. R. Miller, C. T. Overton, and R. Schmitz. 2002. Development of a reliable population index for Pacific Coast band-tailed pigeons. Poster given at Pacific Flyway Symposium, Newport, OR, March 2002.

Chamblin, H. D. 2002. Small mammal communities on a reclaimed mountaintop mine/valley fill landscape in southern West Virginia. Thesis, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Chess, Katherine and Kathryn McEachern. 2002. Cabrillo National Monument vascular plant voucher collections: NPSpecies database. Collections information for 362 vascular plant specimens from searches at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego State University.

Christopher Currens, Peter Niewiarowski & Howard Whiteman. 2002. Effects of temperature and time of day on the resting metabolic rates of paedomorphic and metamorphic mole salamanders, Ambystoma talpoideum. Copeia 2: 489-495.

Coates, P. S., and D. J. Delehanty. 2002. Female sharp-tailed grouse captured early during the lek visitation period are poor candidates for population restoration. The Wildlife Society 2002 National Meeting. Bismark, ND.

Coates, P. S., S. Stiver, and D. J. Delehanty. 2002. Movement dynamics of Columbian sharp-tailed grouse translocated to northeastern Nevada. The Wildlife Society Western Section Annual Meeting. Visalia, CA.

Cochran , G. R. and K. D. Lafferty. 2002. Use of acoustic classification of sidescan sonar data for mapping benthic habitat in the northern Channel Islands, California. Continental Shelf Research 22:683-690.

Davis, Sr., R.D., Diswood, S., Dominguez, A., Engel-Wilson, R., Jefferson, K., Miles, A.K., Moore, E.F., Reidinger, R., Ruther, S., Valdez, R., Wilson, K., Zablan, M.A. 2002. Increasing diversity in our profession. Wildlife Society Bulletin. 30(2):628-633.

DeFalco, L. A. and R. S. Nowak. 2002. Seasonality of simulated rainfall influences the interaction between the invasive annual grass Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens and Mojave Desert perennials. Poster presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Tucson, Arizona.

Delehanty, D. J., and P. S. Coates. 2002. Cloacal lavage: a new technique to detect the presence of spermatozoa in live female grouse. The Wildlife Society Western Section Annual Meeting. Visalia, CA.

Edwards, T., C. R. Schwalbe, and K. H. Berry. 2002. Phylogeographic patterns in Mojave and Sonoran populations of the desert tortoise. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Palm Springs, California.

Ervin, E.L., Warburton, M., Fisher, R.N., 2002. Cattle Ponds: Are we overlooking an existing resource for the conservation of native aquatic breeding amphibian species?. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. July 3-8, 2002, Kansas City, Missouri.

Esque, T. C. and C. R. Tracy. 2002. Seed bank variation in Mojave desertscrub relative to wildfire, granivores and invasive species. Paper presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Tucson, Arizona.

Esque, T.C.*, D.F. Haines, and K.A. Goodwin. 2002. Management and Ecology of Buffelgrass in Wildlands of Arid and Humid Regions. Presented at the Southwest Vegetation Management Associations’ Annual Symposium. 6 November 2002. Mesa, Arizona.

Esque, T.C., A. Búrquez M., C.R. Schwalbe, T.R. Van Devender, Michelle J. M. Nijhuis, P. Anning. 2002. Fire ecology of the Sonoran desert tortoise. Chapter 13. In The Sonoran Desert Tortoise: Natural History, Biology, and Conservation. T.R. Van Devender, ed. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Pp. 312-333.

Esque, T.C., and C.R. Schwalbe. 2002. Alien annual plants and their relationships to fire and biotic change in Sonoran Desertscrub. Chapter 10 In Invasive exotic species in the Sonoran region. Tellman, B., ed. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Pp. 165-194.

Estes, J. A. and M. J. Paddack. 2002. No-take marine reserves in central California kelp forests: metrics of human take or the tip of the iceberg? Report to Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

Estes, J.A. 2002. Then and Now. Pp. 60-71 In, R. L. Knight and S. Riedel, eds., Aldo Leopold and the Ecological Conscience. Oxford University Press

Estes, J.A., R.G. Anthony, W.M. Jarman, A.K. Miles, J.R. Bodkin, and M.A. Ricca. 2002. Report on field activities at Adak and the western Aleutians, 2002. Annual report prepared for the U.S. Navy. 28pp.

Fellers, G. M., R. N. Fisher and C. R. Schwalbe. 2002. Status of Amphibians in California and Arizona. USGS WERC Fact Sheet.

Fellers, Gary M. and David Pratt. 2002. Terrestrial Vertebrate Inventory, Point Reyes National Seashore, 1998 - 2001. National Park Service Report. 73 Pp.

Fellers, Gary M. and Elizabeth D. Pierson. 2002. Habitat Use and Foraging Behavior of Townsend's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus townsendii) in Coastal California. Journal of Mammalogy. 83(1): 167-177.

Fellers, Gary M. and Greg Guscio. 2002. Red-legged Frog Surveys at Horseshoe Pond, Point Reyes National Seashore. National Park Service Report. 17 Pp.

Fisher, R.N., Suarez, A.V. and T.J. Case. 2002. Spatial patterns in the abundance of the coastal horned lizard. Conservation Biology 16:205-215.

Fleskes, J. P. 2002. September-March survival of female northern pintails radiotagged in San Joaquin Valley, California. July 2002. USGS Publication Brief for Resource Managers.

Fleskes, J. P. 2002. Distribution and movements of female northern pintails radiotagged in the San Joaquin Valley, California. April 2002. USGS-Publication Brief for Resource Managers.

Fleskes, J. P., D. M. Mauser, M. D. Samuel, and G. S. Yarris. 2002. Survival of female mallards molting at Lower Klamath and Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuges. Poster with published abstract. The Wildlife Society, 9th Annual Conference, Bismark, North Dakota

Fleskes, J. P., R. L. Jarvis, D. S. Gilmer. 2002. September-March survival of female northern pintails radiotagged in San Joaquin Valley, California. Journal of Wildlife Management 66(3): 899-909.

Fleskes, J.P., D.S. Gilmer, and R.L. Jarvis. 2003. Distribution of female northern pintails in relation to hunting and location of hunted and non-hunted habitats in the Grassland Ecological Area, California. California Fish and Game 88(2): 75-94.

Fleskes, J.P., R. L. Jarvis, and D. S. Gilmer. 2002. Distribution and movements of female northern pintails radiotagged in San Joaquin Valley, California. Journal of Wildlife Management 66(1):138-152.

Fleskes, Joseph P. 2002. Tulare Basin Waterfowl and Central Valley Duck Hunters. California Waterfowl, Dec 2002/Jan 2003:12-13.

Fleskes, Joseph P., and Daniel S. Battaglia. 2002. Pintail habitat use and abundance during spring migration in the Klamath Basin and other southern Oregon - northeastern California locations. Progress Report 2002. 18 pp.

Flint, P., and Miles. A.K. 2002. Relationships between boat harbors, fish processing, organic contamination, and Steller's eiders wintering in the Eastern Aleutian Islands and Alaska Peninsula. Progress Report Prepared for U.S Fish and Wildlife Service. 15 pp.

Gebow, B.S. and W.L. Halvorson. 2002. Fire History of Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico. Final Report for Carlsbad Caverns National Park. USGS Sonoran Desert Field Station, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 53 p.

Gelatt, T.S., D.B. Siniff, and J.A. Estes. 2002. Activity patterns and time budgets of the declining sea otter population at Amchitka Island, Alaska, Journal of Wildlife Management 66:29-39.

Golightly, R.T., P.N. Hebert, and D.L. Orthmeyer. 2002. Evaluation of Human caused disturbance on the breeding success of Marbled Murrelets in Redwood National and State Parks, California. Unpubl. Progress Report Humboldt State University, Department of Wildlife, Arcata CA, and U.S Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center.

Haas, C. D., K. L. Raymond, L. M. Lyren, and R. N. Fisher. 2002. East Orange/Central Irvine Ranch Mammal Movement Study. U.S. Geological Survey Technical Report prepared for University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Haas, C.D., Backlin, A.R., Rochester, C.J., and R.N. Fisher. 2002. Monitoring reptiles and amphibians at long-term biodiversity monitoring stations: the Puente-Chino Hills. Prepared for California State Parks and the Puente Hills Landfill Native Habitat Preservation Authority. 62 pp.

Haines, D. F., T. C. Esque, M. L. Brooks, C. R. Schwalbe and R. H. Webb. 2002. Fire and exotics in the Mojave Desert: an irreversible change? Paper presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Tucson, Arizona.

Hirsch, R., Hathaway, S., and Fisher, R.N. 2002. Herpetofauna and Small Mammal Surveys on the Marine Corps Air Gound Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, CA. March 1999-October 2001. 21pp.

Hothem, R.L., and D. Hatch. 2002. Reproductive success of black-crowned night-herons at Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California, 1990-2002. Twenty Sixth Annual Waterbird Society Meeting, LaCrosse, WI, November 7, 2002.

Hui, C.A., S.L. Goodbred, D.B. Ledig, and C.A. Roberts. 2002. Inorganic analytes in light-footed clapper rail eggs, in their primary prey, and in sediment from two California salt marsh habitats. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 68(6):870-877.

Hui, Clifford A. 2002. Concentrations of chromium, manganese, and lead in air and in avian eggs. Environmental Pollution 120:201-206.

Hui, Clifford A. 2002. Lead burdens and behavioral impairments of the lined shore crab Pachygrapsus crassipes. Ecotoxicology 11:417-421.

Hui, Clifford A. 2002. Lead distribution throughout soil, flora, and an invertebrate at a wetland skeet range. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A. 65:1093-1107.

Hui, Clifford A. 2002. Contaminant burdens among the Chinese mitten crabs of California (Invited presentation). Chinese Mitten Crab Workshop, Hayward, California, October. Interagency Ecological Program, Chinese Mitten Crab Project Work Team.

Hui, Clifford. 2002. Avian furcula morphology may indicate relationships of flight requirements among birds. Journal of Morphology 251:284-293.

Huxman, T., J. Nagel, S. Zitzer, T. Charlet, L. DeFalco, D. Housman, K. Griffin and S. Smith. 2002. Responses of the annual plant component of a Mojave Desert ecosystem to elevated CO2. Paper presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Tucson, Arizona.

Juha Laakkonen, Robert N. Fisher and Ted J. Case. 2002. Factors influencing the variation in capture rates of shrews in southern California, USA

Keeley, J.E. Relative impact of weather vs. fuels on fire regimes of coastal California, Pages 263-269. Fire Conference 2002: Managing Fire and Fuels in the Remaining Wildlands and Open Spaces of the Southwestern United States. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, General Technical Report PSW-GTR-189.

Keeley, J.E. 2002. Fire management of California shrubland landscapes. Environmental Management 29: 395-408.

Keeley, J.E. 2002. Fire management of California shrublands. In K.S. Blonksi, M.E. Morales, and T.J. Morales (editors) Proceedings of the California's 2001 Wildfire Conference: 10 Years After the 1991 East Bay Hills Fire. University of California Forest Products Laboratory, Technical Report 35.01.462, Richmond, CA

Keeley, J.E. 2002. Native American impacts on fire regimes of the California coastal ranges. Journal of Biogeography 29: 303-320.

Keeley, J.E. 2002. Plant diversity and invasives in blue oak savannas of the southern Sierra Nevada, pp. 693- 704. In R.B. Standiford, D. McCreary, and K.L. Purcell (eds) Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on California's Oak Woodlands: Oaks in California's changing landscape. US Forest Service General Technical Report, PSW-GTR-184, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Albany, CA.

Knapp, E. E., J. E. Keeley, and N. L. Stephenson. 2002. Ecological impacts of season of prescribed fire in a Sierran mixed conifer forest. Sierra Nevada Science Symposium, Kings Beach, California, Oct. 8-10, 2002.

Knapp, E. E., J. E. Keeley, and N. L. Stephenson. 2002. Tree mortality following reintroduction of fire to an old growth mixed conifer forest. Abstracts, Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, p. 181.

Kuris, A.M., M. E. Torchin and K.D. Lafferty. 2002. Fecampia erythrocephala rediscovered: prevalence and distribution of a parasitoid of the European shore crab, Carcinus maenas. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, UK 82:955-960.

Kus, B.E. 2002. Fitness consequences of nest desertion in an endangered host, the least Bell's vireo. Condor 104(4):795-802.

Kus, B.E. Analyzing guild structure of riparian birds to track development of restored habitats. Invited presentation in symposium on “Restoration of Wildlife and their Habitats”, annual meeting of The Wildlife Society, 24-28 September 2002, Bismarck, North Dakota.

Kus, B.E. and B. Peterson. 2002. Pilgrim Creek restoration project: bird community and vegetation structure. Prepared for the State of California Department of Transportation, District 11, San Diego, California.

Kus, B.E. and B.L. Sharp. 2002. Neotropical migratory bird monitoring study at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. 2001 Annual Report. Prepared for AC/S Environmental Security, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California.

Kus, B.E. and K. Ferree. 2002. Distribution, abundance, and breeding activities of the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. 2001 Annual Report. Prepared for Assistant Chief of Staff, Environmental Security, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

Kus, B.E., B.L. Peterson, K. Ferree, and M. Wellik. 2002. Pilgrim Creek restoration project: bird community and vegetation structure. 2001 Annual Report. Prepared for the California Department of Transportation, District 11.

Lafferty, K. D. 2002. Biological control of marine invasions. Pp 14-20 In Invasions in Aquatic Ecosystems: Impacts on Restoration and Potential for Control. Proceedings of a Workshop, April 25, 1998, Sacramento, California. Cohen, A.N. and K. Webb (eds.). San Francisco Estuary Institute, Oakland, California.

Lafferty, K. D. and L. Gerber. 2002. Good medicine for conservation biology: The intersection of epidemiology and conservation theory. Conservation Biology 16:593-604.

Lafferty, K.D. 2002. Inter-specific interactions in trematode communities. Pp 153-169 in E. E. Lewis, M. V. K. Sukhdeo and J. F. Campbell, eds. The Behavioral Ecology of Parasites. CABI

Lafferty, K.D. 2002. There's room for shorebirds too. Soundwaves, February, 2002. USGS newsletter.

Lafferty, K.D. 2002. Where Disease May Mean Good Health -- The Role of Parasites in Natural Ecosystems. Soundwaves, April, 2002. USGS newsletter.

Lafferty, K.D. and A.M. Kuris 2002. Trophic strategies, animal diversity and body size. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17:507-513.

Laidre K.L., Jameson, R.J., Jeffries, S.J., Hobbs, R.C., Bowlby, C. E., and G. R. VanBlaricom. 2002. Estimates of carrying capacity for sea otters in Washington state. Wildlife Society Bulletin 30(4): 1172-1181

Larson S., Jameson R., Bodkin J., Staedler M. and P. Bentzen. 2002. Microsatellite DNA and mitochondrial DNA variation in remnant and translocated sea otter (Enhydra lutris) populations. J. Mammol. 83(3): 893-906.

Larson S., Jameson R., Etnier M., Flemings M. and P. Bentzen. 2002. Loss of genetic diversity in sea otters (Enhydra lutris) associated with the fur trade of the 18th and 19th centuries. Molecular Ecology 11: 1899-1903.

Larson, S., R. Jameson, J. Bodkin, M. Staedler, and P. Bentzen. 2002. Microsatellite DNA and mitochondrial DNA variation in remnant and translocated sea otter (Enhydra lutris) populations. Journal of Mammalogy , 83(3): 893-906.

Lovich, J. and Meyer, K. 2002. The western pond turtle (Clemmys marmorata) in the Mojave River, California, USA: highly adapted survivor or tenuous relict? Journal of Zoology, London 256:537-545.

Lovich, J.E. 2002. Overview and parting shots. In, pp. 331-335, B. Tellman (ed.), Invasive species in the Sonoran Region. University of Arizona Press and the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum, Tucson. 424 pp.

Lovich, J.E. 2002. Terrapins and hurricanes. People, Land and Water (U.S. Department of the Interior). November, p. 17.

Lovich, R.E., Fisher, R.N., 2002. Camp Pendleton's Herpetofauna: Tracking the success of monitoring practices in a vanishing landscape. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. July 3-8, 2002, Kansas City, Missouri.

M.L. Brooks*, T.C. Esque, and J. D'Elia. 2002. Fire Behavior in the Mojave Desert: Potential Effects of the El Niño/La Niña Cycle. Presented at the joint symposium of the Association of Fire Ecologists and The Wildlife Society -- Western Section. 5 December 2002. San Diego, California.

Madej, M. A. 2002. Self-organization in disturbed stream channels. Humboldt State University Geology Department Speakers Series. Arcata, California. March, 2002.

Madej, M. A. 2002. Sticks and stones: The interface of biology and geomoprhology in river restoration research. U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Division Seminar. Washington, D.C. April, 2002.

Madej, M.A. 2002. Monitoring effectiveness of road restoration techniques. U.S. Forest Service Workshop on Road Decommissioning. Eureka, California. April 15-19, 2002.

Madej, M.A. 2002. Temporal and spatial scales in effectiveness monitoring. West by Northwest 2002. Navigating the Future: Protecting and Sharing the Legacy. p. 32 in Program and Abstracts. Seattle Washington. 51 pp.

Madej, M.A., E. Eschenbach, R. Teasley, C. Diaz, J. Wartella and J. Simi. 2002. Using Dynamic Programming and Genetic Algorithms to Reduce Erosion Risks from Forest Roads. American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, California. EOS 83(47) F588.

Madej, M.A., M. Wilzbach, K. Cummins, and C. Ellis. 2002. The effect of suspended organic sediment on turbidity. Workshop on Turbidity and Other Sediment Surrogates. Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference Series. Reno, Nevada.

Maender, Gloria. 2002. Parasites as Indicators of Coastal-Ecosystem Health. Soundwaves, August 2002

Matchett, J.R. and M.L. Brooks. 2002. Plant community structure associated with livestock watering sites in the central Mojave Desert. Presented at the Ecological Society of American Annual Meeting (Aug. 2002, Tucson, AZ)

Matchett, J.R., and M.L. Brooks. Dec. 2002. Postfire successional patterns of blackbrush in the Mojave Desert. Association for Fire Ecology Meeting. San Diego, CA.

May, J.T., R.L. Hothem, W.G. Duffy, C.N. Alpers, and J.J. Rytuba. 2002. Mercury bioaccumulation from historical mining in the Trinity River Watershed, California. Proceeding of the Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 16-20, 2002, P215.

McEachern, K. 2002. Demography database for eight Channel Islands rare plant taxa. This database is the baseline for rare plant monitoring for Channel Islands National Park.

McGinnis, T.W., J.E. Keeley, M. Brooks, R. Sanford and J. Belnap. 2002. The Response of Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) and Native Flora to Ecological Manipulations in the Yellow Pine-Mixed Conifer Forest. Sierra Nevada Science Symposium, Kings Beach, California, Oct. 8-10, 2002.

Medica, P. A., T. C. Esque, D. F. Haines, L. A. DeFalco and R. H. Webb. 2002. Long-term response of nocturnal rodents to wildfire in the Mojave and Great Basin Desert ecotone. Paper presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Tucson, Arizona.

Menning, K. M., J. J. Battles, T. L. Benning, and N. L. Stephenson. 2002. Forest litter densities under different dominant tree species: a factor affecting ground fire spread. Sierra Nevada Science Symposium Kings Beach, California, Oct. 8-10, 2002.

Miles, A.K., S.P Lawler, D. Dritz, S.E. Spring. 2002. Mosquito larvicide effects on mallard ducklings and prey. Wildlife Society Bulletin. Vol. 30:675-682.

Miller, M., J. Fleskes, D. Orthmeyer, J. Takekawa, M. Casazza, and B. Perry. 2002. Pintails on the move. California Waterfowl Aug/Sep 2002: 8, 10-13.

Miller, M.R., J.Y. Takekawa, D.L. Orthmeyer, J.P. Fleskes, M.L. Casazza, and W.M. Perry. 2002. Tracking Spring Migration of Northern Pintails with Satellite Telemetry. Progress Report 2002. U.S.G.S., Western Ecological Research Center, Dixon and San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Stations, California.

Miller, M.R., J.Y. Takekawa, D.O. Orthmeyer, J.P. Fleskes, M.L. Casazza, and W.M. Perry. 2002. The efficiency of the May Survey to account for pintails: Hiding in plain sight. The Wildlife Society, Annual Conference, Bismarck, ND, September 2002.

Mittermeier, C. G., W. R. Konstant, R. E. Lovich, and J. E. Lovich. 2002. The Mojave Desert. In, pp.351-356, Wilderness: Earth's Last Wild Places. Mittermeier, R, C. G. Mittermeier, P. Robles Gil, G. Fonseca, T. Brooks, J. Pilgrim, and W. R. Konstant (eds.). CEMEX, Mexico.

Morafka, D. J., and K. H. Berry. 2002. Is Gopherus agassizii a desert-adapted tortoise or an exaptive opportunist? Implications for tortoise conservation. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4(2):263-287.

Mullin, S.J., Imbert, H., Ervin, E.L., Fisher, R.N., 2002. Predatory Responses of a Native Semi-aquatic Snake to the Introduced anuran Xenopus laevis. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. July 3-8, 2002, Kansas City, Missouri.

Nebel, S., D.B. Lank, P.D. O'Hara, G. Fernández, B. Haase, F. Delgado, F.A. Estela, L.J. Evans Ogden, B. Harrington, B.E. Kus, J.E. Lyons, F. Mercier, B. Ortego, J.Y. Takekawa, N. Warnock & S.E. Warnock. 2002. Western Sandpipers (Calidris mauri) during the non-breeding season: spatial segregation on a hemispheric scale. Auk 119: 922-928.

Nussear, K.E., T.C. Esque, and C. R. Tracy. 2002. Continuously recording body temperature in terrestrial chelonians. Herpetological Review 33(2): 113-115.

Origgi, F., C. H. Romero, P. Klein, K. H. Berry, and E. R. Jacobson. 2002. Serological and molecular evidences of herpesvirus exposure in desert tortoises from the Mojave Desert of California. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Palm Springs, California.

Percy N. Hebert, Richard T. Golightly, Dennis L. Orthmeyer and Harry R. Carter. 2002. AT-SEA MOVEMENTS OF RADIO-TAGGED MARBLED MURRELETS OFF THE COAST OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. Pacific Sea Bird Group Meeting, Santa Barbara, CA

Peterson, B. L. (B. Kus, Chair). 2002. A multi-scale approach to nest predation of the least Bell's vireo (Vireo bellii pusillus). Master's Thesis, San Diego State University.

Peterson, B.L., B.E. Kus, and D. Deutschman. 2002. Multi-scale analysis of nest predation risk of the least Bell's vireo. 3rd North American Ornithological Conference, 24-28 September 2002, New Orleans, LA.

Poulton, V.K., J.R. Lovvorn, and J.Y. Takekawa. 2002. Clam density and scaup feeding behavior in San Pablo Bay, California. Condor 104:518-527.

Rattner, B.A., R.L. Kershnar, R.L. Hothem, N.H. Golden, K.M. Eisenreich, and S. Gerould. 2002. Mercury bioaccumulation in terrestrial vertebrates residing in U.S. coastal and estuarine habitat. Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Salt Lake City, November 16-20, 2002, Utah, P281.

Rebecca Green, Richard T. Golightly, Dennis L. Orthemeyer, and Percy N. Hebert 2002.Terrestrial Flights of Radio-tagged Marbled Murrelets in Redwood National and State Parks During the 2001 Breeding Season. Pacific Seabird Group Santa Barbara, CA February 2002.

Ricca, M. A., R. G. Anthony, D. H. Jackson, and S. A. Wolfe. 2002. Survival of Columbian white-tailed deer in western Oregon. Journal of Wildlife Management. 66:1255-1266.

Richard T. Golightly, Percy N. Hebert, and Dennis L. Orthmeyer. 2002. ASSESSMENT OF NOISE DISTURBANCE ON NESTING MARBLED MURRELETS IN REDWOOD NATIONAL AND STATE PARKS: A PROGRESS REPORT. Pacific Sea Bird Group Meeting, Santa Barbara, CA

Rochester, C. 2002. "G" Sub-0 Animal. A Pendragon Forms 3.2/Microsoft Access data collection form for the use on handheld computers using the Palm OS. This data form stores information regarding the individual desert tortoises of a radio tracking project.

Rochester, C. 2002. "G" Sub-0. A Pendragon Forms 3.2/Microsoft Access data collection form for use on handheld computers using the Palm OS. This data form stores information regarding desert tortoise radio tracking survey efforts.

Rochester, C. 2002. Climate. A Pendragon Forms 3.2/Microsoft Access data collection form for the use on handheld computers using the Palm OS. This data form stores information regarding weather conditions during a desert tortoise line transect survey.

Rochester, C. 2002. Corner Coordinates. A Pendragon Forms 3.2/Microsoft Access data collection form for the use on handheld computers using the Palm OS. This data form stores information regarding the corner points of a desert tortoise line transect survey.

Rochester, C. 2002. Observations. A Pendragon Forms 3.2/Microsoft Access data collection form for the use on handheld computers using the Palm OS. This data form stores information regarding the individual desert tortoises observed during a desert tortoise line transect survey.

Rochester, C. 2002. Radio Tortoise. A Pendragon Forms 3.2/Microsoft Access data collection form for the use on handheld computers using the Palm OS. This data form serves as a reference look-up list of tortoises included in the radio tracking project.

Rochester, C. 2002. Transects. A Pendragon Forms 3.2/Microsoft Access data collection form for the use on handheld computers using the Palm OS. This data form stores information regarding line transect survey efforts directed at measuring desert tortoise populations.

Rochester, C. 2002. z-sites. A Pendragon Forms 3.2/Microsoft Access data collection form for the use on handheld computers using the Palm OS. This data form serves as a reference look-up list of pre-defined desert tortoise study sites.

Russell, W. and J. Shulzitski. 2002. Effects of Habitat Restoration and Human Disturbance on the Diversity of Coastal Dune Communities in Northern California, an Update. 29th Natural Areas Conference. October 2002. Ashville, North Carolina.

Russell, W. and J. Shulzitski. 2002. Effects of Habitat Restoration and Human Disturbance on the Diversity of Coastal Dune Communities in Northern California. In: Proceedings of the west by Northwest Conference. Seattle Washington, March 20, 2002.

Russell, W., K. Schwartz, and S. Eda. 2002. Vegetation Monitoring on Remediation Sites In the Presidio of San Francisco: A Field Guide and Sampling Protocol. Report to the Presidio Trust.

Russell, William H. 2002. Indirect effects of timber management on riparian vegetation dynamics in coast redwood and mixed conifer forests. Page 40 in: Vaughn, H. Technical Coordinator. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Salmonid Restoration Federation Conference. February 28 - March 3, 2002. Ukiah, California.

Russell, William H. and C. Jones. 2002. The effects of timber harvesting on the structure and composition of adjacent old-growth coast redwood forest. Landscape Ecology 16:731-741.

Russell, William H., and J. R. McBride. 2002. Vegetation Change and Fire Hazard in the San Francisco Bay Area Open Spaces. Pages 27-38 in: Blonski, K.S., M.E., and T.J. Morales. Proceedings of the California’s 2001 Wildfire Conference: Ten Years After the East Bay Hills Fire; October 10-12, Oakland California. Technical Report 35.01.462. Richmond CA: University of California Forest Products Laboratory.

Scoles, S. J., L. A. DeFalco and A. C. Newton. 2002. Does topsoil removal, storage and replacement decrease abundance of viable seed? Poster presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Tucson, Arizona.

Scoles, S.J., T.C. Esque, L.A. DeFalco, S.E. Eckert and D.F. Haines. 2002. Evaluating options for revegetation following a catastrophic fire in a Pinyon-Juniper community at Grand Canyon/Parashaunt National Monument, Arizona. Report to USDI-Bureau of Land Management, Arizona Strip District, St. George, Utah.

Sharp, B. L. (B. Kus, Chair). 2002. Factors influencing the incidence of brood parasitism by brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater) of least Bell's vireos (Vireo bellii pusillus). Master's Thesis, San Diego State University.

Sogge, M., S. Sferra, T. McCarthey, S. Williams III, and B. Kus. 2002. Southwestern willow flycatcher breeding site and territory summary - 2001. Prepared for the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Recovery Team, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 2, Albuquerque, NM.

Sparling, Don and Gary M. Fellers. 2002. Contaminant studies in the Sierra Nevadas. People, Land & Water. Aug. 2002: 33.

Spring, S., and A. K. Miles. 2002. Validation study, ERP sites 25, 37, 133, and corresponding reference sites. Biological impact of TCE and PCE on wild rodent and reptile populations, Edwards Air Force Base, California. Final report. Edwards Air Force Base, California. 40 pages + appendices + attachments.

Stephenson, N. 2002. Sierra Nevada global change and fire research. People, Land, and Water (DOI news magazine) 8(10):18.

Stephenson, N. L. 2002. The National Park Service mission and ecosystem impairment in an era of rapid global change. National Park Service, West by Northwest 2002 workshop: "Navigating the Future: Protecting and Sharing the Legacy." Seattle, WA. p. 37.

Stephenson, N. L. 2002. The Story Continues. Closing chapter (pages 72-74) in R. J. Hartesveldt, H. T. Harvey, H. S. Shellhammer, and R. E. Stecker, "Giant Sequoias." Fourth printing with revisions. Sequoia Natural History Association, Three Rivers, CA.

Stephenson, N. L., J. E. Keeley, J. W. van Wagtendonk, D. L. Urban, T. W. Swetnam, and L. J. Graumlich. 2002. The Sierra Nevada Global Change Research Program. Sierra Nevada Science Symposium, Kings Beach, California, Oct. 8-10, 2002.

Stephenson, N. L., P. J. van Mantgem, and P. E. Moore. 2002. Tree growth and death in the Sierra Nevada. Sierra Nevada Science Symposium, Kings Beach, California, Oct. 8-10, 2002.

Stephenson, N., M. Keifer, and J. Manley. 2002. Restoring Western forests: fires, saws, or both? People, Land, and Water (DOI news magazine) 8(10):18.

Stokes, D.C., R.N. Fisher. 2002. Bat inventory of Descanso district of Cleveland National Forest. USGS Technical report prepared for the United States Forest Service, 3 pp.

Takekawa, J. Y., M. A. Bias, I. Woo, S. A. Demers, and G. T. Downard. 2002. Restoration research and monitoring in bayland wetlands of the San Francisco Bay Estuary: The Tolay Creek Project. U. S. Geological Survey, Unpubl. Prog. Rep. Vallejo, CA. 69pp.

Takekawa, J. Y., N. Warnock, G. M. Martinelli, A. K. Miles, and D. C. Tsao. 2002. Waterbird use of bayland wetlands in the San Francisco Bay estuary: movements of long-billed dowitchers during the winter. Waterbirds 25: 93-105.

Takekawa, J.Y. 2002. Teamwork Sheds Light on Shorebird-Migration Mysteries. Sound Waves, 40:3-4.

Takekawa, J.Y., S.E. Wainwright-De La Cruz, R.L. Hothem, and J. Yee. 2002. Relating body condition to inorganic contaminant concentrations of diving ducks wintering in coastal California. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 42:60-70.

Thomas Jensen, Percy N. Hebert, Dennis L. Orthmeyer,and Richard T. Golightly. 2002. THE USE OF ULTRASOUND SCANNING TO DETERMINE THE SEX OF MARBLED MURRELETS (Brachyramphus marmoratus). Pacific Seabird Group Meeting, Santa Barbara, CA

Thomas, F., Fauchier, J. and K. D. Lafferty. 2002. Conflict of interest between a nematode and a trematode in an amphipod host: test of the "sabotage" hypothesis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 51: 296-301.

Timothy J. Bell, Marlin Bowles, Jenny McBride, Kayri Havens, Pati Vitt, and Kathryn McEachern. Reintroducing Pitcher's Thistle. Endangered Species Bulletin XXVII - No. 3, July/August 2002, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Torchin, M. E., K. D. Lafferty and A. M. Kuris. 2002. Parasites and Marine Invasions. Parasitology 124:S137-S151.

Toure, T. A. and G. A. Middendorf. 2002. Colonization of herpetofauna to a created wetland. Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 38(4):99-117.

Toure, T.A., Fisher, R.N., 2002. Long-term monitoring in Fragmented habitats in coastal Southern California. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. July 3-8, 2002, Kansas City, Missouri.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2002. Recovery Plan for the Pitcher's Thistle (Cirsium pitcheri ). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fort Snelling, Minnesota, 103 pp. (Kathryn McEachern)

Van Devender, T. R., B. E. Martin, R. C. Averill-Murray, T. C. Esque, P. A. Holm, V. M. Dickinson, C. R. Schwalbe, E. B. Wirt, S. L. Barrett. 2002. Grasses, Mallows, Desert Vine, and More: Diet of the Desert Tortoise in Arizona and Sonora. Chapter 8 in The Sonoran Desert Tortoise: Natural History, Biology and Conservation. T.R. Van Devender, ed. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Pp. 159-193.

Van Kessel, C., J. Eadie, W. Horwath, F. Reid, J. Hill and J. P. Fleskes. 2002. Integrating agronomic management practices with waterfowl populations in rice fields: opportunities and mutual benefits. Pages 51-59 in J.E. Hill and B. Hardy, editors. Proc. Second Temperate Rice Conference, 13-17 June, 1999, Sacramento, CA., Los Banos (Phillipines):International Rice Research Institute. 714 p.

van Mantgem, P. J., and N. L. Stephenson. 2002. Searching for a general model of tree death in burned and unburned stands. Abstracts, Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, p. 288.

van Mantgem, P. J., and N. L. Stephenson. 2002. When life ain't so sweet: the decline of sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana Dougl.) in the Sierra Nevada. Sierra Nevada Science Symposium, Kings Beach, California, Oct. 8-10, 2002.

van Wagtendonk, J. W., K. A. van Wagtendonk, J. B. Meyer, and K. J. Paintner. 2002. The use of geographic information for fire management planning in Yosemite National Park. The George Wright Forum. 19(1): 19-39.

Warburton, M, Fisher, R.N., 2002. The Status and Distribution of Unarmored Threespine Stickleback in the Angeles National Forest. 2001 Final Report. Prepared of the U.S. Forest Service, Angeles National Forest.

Warburton, M., Kuperman, B., Matey, V., Fisher, R.N., 2002. Parasite Analysis of Native and Non-native Fish in the Angeles National Forest. 2001 Final Report. Prepared for the U.S. Forest Service, Angeles National Forest.

Warnock, N., G. W. Page, T. D. Ruhlen, N. Nur, J. Y. Takekawa, and J. T. Hanson. 2002. Management and conservation of San Francisco Bay salt ponds: effects of pond salinity, area, tide, and season on Pacific Flyway waterbirds. Waterbirds 25: 79-92.

Warnock, N., M. A. Bishop, and J. Y. Takekawa. 2002. Spring shorebird migration from Mexico to Alaska: Final Report 2002. Unpubl. Prog. Rep., Point Reyes Bird Observatory, Stinson Beach, CA, and U. S. Geological Survey, Vallejo, CA, 22pp.

Webb, R. H., T. C. Esque, K. A. Thomas, D. F. Haines, M. B. Murov, L. A. DeFalco and P. A. Medica. 2002. Long-term changes in perennial vegetation in permanent plots of the northern Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Tucson, Arizona.

Weise, D. R., J. van Wagtendonk, M. Arbaugh, J. Chew, G. J. Jones, M. Witala, J. Merzenich, M. Schaaf, S. Schilling, and R. Kimberlin. 2002. Simulation of historical fires and their impact on fuels in Yosemite National Park. Conference of Fire, Fuel Treatments and Ecological Restoration: Proper Place, Appropriate Time. April 16-18, Fort Collins, CO.

Weise, D. R., M. Arbaugh, J. Chew, G. J. Jones, M. Witala, J. Merzenich, J. van Wagtendonk, M. Schaaf, S. Schilling, J. Sullivan, and R. Kimberlin. 2002. Importance of fire occurrence in simulation of fuel landscapes on the Angeles National Forest. Conference of Fire, Fuel Treatments and Ecological Restoration: Proper Place, Appropriate Time. April 16-18, Fort Collins, CO.

Winton, B. R., and J. Y. Takekawa. 2002. Transportation impacts to wildlife on state route 37 in northern San Pablo Bay, California. Trans. W. Sec. Wildl. Soc. 37: 55-60.

Wylie, G.D., and M.L. Casazza. 2002. Thermal ecology of giant garter snakes (Thamnophis gigas) in the Sacramento Valley of California. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Kansas City, Missouri.

Wylie, G.D., and M.L. Casazza. 2002. Thermal ecology of giant garter snakes (Thamnophis gigas) in the Sacramento Valley of California. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Kansas City, Missouri.

Wylie, G.D., M. Wolder, M.L. Casazza, and N.M. Carpenter. 2002. Migratory bird use of wetlands restored for giant garter snakes. Pacific Flyway Winter Meeting, Newport, Oregon.

Wylie, G.D., M. Wolder, M.L. Casazza, N.M. Carpenter. 2002. Migratory bird use of wetlands restored for giant garter snakes. Poster presentation. Pacific Flyway Winter Meeting, Newport, Oregon.

Wylie, G.D., M.L. Casazza, and N.M. Carpenter. 2002. Monitoring giant garter snakes at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge: 2001 progress report. Dixon Field Station, WERC. 10 pp.

Wylie, Glenn D. and Lisa L. Martin. 2002. Investigations of Giant Garter Snakes in the Natomas Basin: 2002 Report. Report for The Natomas Basin Conservancy.

Wylie, Glenn D., Michael L. Casazza, and Lisa L. Martin. 2002. The Distribution of Giant Garter Snakes and Their Habitat in the Natomas Basin. Report for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Wylie, Glenn D., Michael L. Casazza, and Lisa L. Martin. 2003. Montioring Giant Garter Snakes at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge: 2002 Progress Report. Report for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Ackerman, JT. 2001. A summary of factors influencing nest success and duckling production in California. Adaptive Harvest Management Working Group Meeting. Suisun Marsh, California, April 10–13.

Ackerman, JT. 2001. Factors influencing waterfowl nest success: rodent abundance, nesting density, and partial depredation. Delta Waterfowl Foundation Student Symposium. Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, July 6–7.

Ackerman, JT. 2001. Nest predation: perspectives from multiple levels of organization. Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology Seminar Series. University of California, Davis, October 18.

Adams, J., J. Y. Takekawa, and H. R. Carter. 2001. At-sea distribution of breeding Cassin's auklets (Ptychoramphus aleuticus) off the northern Channel Islands in 1999-2000. Western Section of the Wildlife Society. Sacramento, CA.

Adams, J., J. Y. Takekawa, and H. R. Carter. 2001. At-sea distribution of Cassin's auklets (Ptychoramphus aleuticus) nesting in the California Channel Islands. Wildlife Society 8th Annual Conference. Reno, NV.

Alpers, C.N., M.P. Hunerlach, R.L. Hothem, J.T. May, H.E. Taylor, J. DeWild, Mark Olson, and D.P. Krabbenhoft. 2001. Mercury and methylmercury in water, sediment, and biota in an area impacted by historic gold mining: the Bear River and South Yuba River watersheds, California. US EPA Workshop on the Fate, Transport, and Transformation of Mercury in Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments, May 8-10, 2001. West Palm Beach, FL.

Alpers, C.N., M.P. Hunerlach, R.L. Hothem, J.T. May, J.J. Rytuba, and D. Lawler. 2001. Mercury contamination of water, sediment, and biota in watersheds affected by historic hydraulic gold mining in California. 2001 Department of the Interior Conference on the Environment, March 13-15, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Alpers, C.N., M.P. Hunerlach, R.L. Hothem, J.T. May, J.J. Rytuba, and D. Lawler. Mercury contamination of water, sediment, and biota in watersheds affected by historic hydraulic gold mining in California. DOI Conference on the Environment "The Path Before Us: Environmental Stewardship of the 21st Century." March 13-15, 2001, Albuquerque, NM.

Anderson, D.R., K.P. Burnham, B.C. Lubow, L. Thomas, P.S. Corn, P.A. Medica and R.W. Marlow. 2001. Field trials of line transect methods applied to estimation of desert tortoise abundance. J, Wildlife Management. 65(3):583-597.

Atkinson, A. J., C. M. Marn, B. Fong. 2001. Terrestrial and Amphibious Monitoring Plan for the CALFED Bay-Delta Program Workshop Summaries for Summer 2000: 1) Habitats of estuarine tidal and diked wetlands of the Delta, Suisun Marsh and North San Francisco Bay, August 30, 2000; 2) Habitats of freshwater and riparian wetlands of the Central Valley, September 7, 2000; 3) Ecological processes and biological communities across the CALFED landscape, September 14, 2000. Sacramento, California. 130 pp.

Backlin, A., R. Hirsch, C. Brown, R. N. Fisher. 2001. Current Status of Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs (Rana muscosa) in Southern California. Society for Conservation Biology, July 29-August 1 2001, Hilo, Hawaii.

Backlin, A., R. Hirsch, C. Brown, R.N. Fisher, 2001. Angeles and San Bernardino National Forest mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa) surveys, 2000. Final report submitted to the Angeles National Forest, Supervisor’s Office, Arcadia, California. 10pp.

Berry, K. H. 2001. Protocol -- June 2001. Salvaging injured, recently dead, ill, and dying wild, free-roaming desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii). Prepared at the request of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the California Department of Fish and Game.

Berry, K. H. 2001. Training and clinic for desert tortoise health assessments at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California: October 21-22, 2000. Prepared for Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Division, Twentynine Palms, California. 25 pp plus appendices.

Berry, K. H., and M. M. Christopher. 2001. Guidelines for the field evaluation of desert tortoise health and disease. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 37(3):427-450.

Berry, K. H., B. L. Homer, W. Alley, M. Chaffee, and G. Haxel. 2001. Health and elevated mortality rates in desert tortoise populations: The role of arsenic and other potential toxicants. Arsenic Group Meeting, U. S. Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado.

Berry, K. H., T. Goodlett, and K. Anderson. 2001. Recent declines in desert tortoise populations in eastern California: The Fenner and Chemehuevi valleys. Paper presented at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Tucson, Arizona.

Boarman, W. I. and W. Webb. 2001. Raven juvenile survival in the western Mojave Desert. Annual meeting of Society for Conservation Biology, Hilo Hawaii, August 2001.

Boydston, E. E. 2001. Socio-ecological determinants of space utilization in the spotted hyena, Crocuta crocuta. PhD Dissertation. East Lansing: Michigan State University.

Boydston, E. E., Morelli, T. L. & Holekamp, K. E. 2001. Sex differences in territorial behavior exhibited by the spotted hyena (Hyaenidae, Crocuta crocuta). Ethology, 107: 369-385

Brooks, M. 2001. Fire and Invasive Plants in the Wildlands of California. Noxious Times: a quarterly publication of the California Interagency Noxious Weed Coordinating Committee 3(4):4-5.

Brooks, M.L. 2001 The burning desert. Western Ecological Research Center, Annual Meeting.

Brooks, M.L. 2001. Introduction and overview of invasive species in the southwest. California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium. San Diego, CA.

Brooks, M.L. 2001. Multidisciplinary invasive plant research and management in southwestern North America. Summary report on the Joint Workshop of the United States Geological Survey and the California Exotic Pest Plant Council, 5 October 2001, San Diego CA. Delivered to the Joint Fire Sciences Program, 15 October, 2000.

Brooks, M.L. 2001. Multidisciplinary research needs for invasive plants in southwestern North America. California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium. San Diego, CA.

Brooks, M.L. 2001. Native and non-native invasive plants of the North American deserts. 6th Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau. Flagstaff, AZ.

Brooks, M.L. 2001. Peak fire temperatures and short-term ecological effects in the Mojave Desert. Symposium of the Ecological Society of America.

Brooks, M.L. and D.A. Pyke. 2001. Invasive plants and fire in the deserts of North America. Pages 1-14 in K.E.M. Galley and T.P Wilson (eds.). Proceedings of the Invasive Species Workshop: The Role of Fire in the Control and Spread of Invasive Species. Fire Conference 2000: the First National Congress on Fire Ecology, Prevention, and Management. Miscellaneous Publication No. 11, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL.

Brooks, M.L. and J.R. Matchett. 2001. Fire promotes exotic annual vegetation and reduces plant species richness in Mojave Desert blackbrush communities. 6th Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau. Flagstaff, AZ.

Brooks, M.L. and J.R. Matchett. 2001. Plant community patterns in unburned and burned blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) shrublands in the Mojave Desert. Technical Report prepared for the National Park Service, Pacific West Region, Fire Management, 1111 Jackson St. Suite 700, Oakland, CA 94607.

Brooks, M.L. and T.C. Esque. 2001. Non-native grass invasions and fire in the Mojave Desert. USGS Fact Sheet.

Brown, C., Fisher, R.N., 2001. Herpetofaunal Inventory and Monitoring at Silverwood Lake State Recreation Area. Prepared for the California Department of Parks and Recreation. 42pp.

Brown, C., L. Lyren, and R. N. Fisher. 2001. Summary of Arroyo Toad Surveys in the Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests. Technical Report prepared for the Angeles National Forest, San Bernardino National Forest.

Brown, C.W., Fisher, R.N., Case, T.J., 2001. Impacts of Fragmentation of a Coastal Dune/Marsh Complex on Terrestrial Vertebrates. Society for Conservation Biology. Hilo, Hawaii, July 29-August 1, 2001.

Carter, H. R., R. T. Golightly, J. Y. Takekawa, and D. L. Orthmeyer. 2001. Foraging ecology of Cassin's auklets in Southern California. Oiled Wildlife Care Symposium, Davis, CA.

Carter, H. R., U. W. Wilson, R. W. Lowe, M. S. Rodway, D. A. Manuwal, J. E. Takekawa, and J. L. Yee. 2001. Population trends of the common murre (Uria aalge californica). Pages 33–132 in D. A. Manuwal, H. R. Carter, T. S. Zimmerman, and D. L. Orthmeyer, editors. Biology and conservation of the common murre in California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Volume 1: Natural history and population trends. U.S. Geological Survey, Information and Technology Report USGS/BRD/ITR–2000-0012, Washington, D.C.

Casazza, M. L., J. L. Yee, C. T. Overton, D. L. Orthmeyer,and D. R. Yparraguirre. 2001. Development of mineral site counts to reliably index the Pacific Coast breeding population of band-tailed pigeons. USGS Final Report to Webless Migratory Game Bird Research Program, USFWS.

Casazza, M.L., J.L. Yee, D.L. Orthmeyer, and M.R. Miller. 2001. Developing a reliable population index for band-tailed pigeons. The Wildlife Society 8th Annual Conference. Reno, Nevada.

Case, T.J. & R.N. Fisher. 2001. Coastal Sage Scrub Case Study. In: Spatial Uncertainty in Ecology. Hunsaker, C., M. Goodchild, M. Friedl and T. Case (Eds.). 440 pgs. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Chess, Katherine and Kathryn McEachern. 2001. Channel Islands National Park vascular plant voucher collections: NPSpecies database. Collections information for 3898 vascular plant specimens from searches at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, San Diego Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. National Park Service NPSpecies database, Ft. Collins, CO.

Christopher, M. M., K. H. Berry, B. T. Henen, and K. A. Nagy. 2001. Clinical disease and laboratory abnormalities in free-ranging desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) in California (1990-1995). Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Tucson, Arizona.

Coates, P. S. 2001. Movement, survivorship, and reproductive behavior of Columbian sharp-tailed grouse translocated to Nevada. M.S., University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV.

Coates, P. S., S. Stiver, and D. J. Delehanty. 2001. Reproductive behavior of Columbian sharp-tailed grouse translocated to northeastern Nevada. The Wildlife Society Western Section Annual Meeting. Sacramento, CA.

Cole, David N., Mitchel P. McClaran, Jan van Wagtendonk, Peggy E. Moore, and Neil McDougald. 2001. Effects of grazing by horses and mules on subalpine meadows, Yosemite Wilderness, California. Annual Meeting, American Society for Range Management; Kona, Hawaii, February 20-22, 2001.

Corben, Chris and Gary M. Fellers. 2001. Choosing the "correct" bat detector - A reply. Acta Chiropterologica. 3(2): 253 - 256.

Corben, Chris and Gary M. Fellers. 2001. A Technique for Detecting Eyeshine of Amphibians and Reptiles. Herpetological Review. 32(2):89-91.

DeFalco, L. A. and R. S. Nowak. 2001. Biomass and nitrogen allocation in an invasive annual grass and two native Mojave Desert annuals. Paper presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Madison, Wisconsin.

DeFalco, L. A., J. K. Detling, C. R. Tracy, and S. D. Warren. 2001. Physiological variation among native and exotic winter annuals associated with microphytic soil crusts in the Mojave Desert. Plant and Soil 234:1-14.

Dickinson, V.M., T. Duck, C.R. Schwalbe, J.L. Jarchow, and M.H. Trueblood. 2001. Nasal and cloacal bacteria in free-ranging desert tortoises from the western United States. J. Wildlife Diseases 37(2):252-257.

Domico, L., B. L. Homer, K. H. Berry, P. Klein, E. Jacobson, R. Cousins, and E. Williams. 2001. Purification of desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) metallothionein, a potential biomarker of heavy metal exposure. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Tucson, Arizona.

Domico, Lisa. (Berry, K. H., Committee Member). 2001. Purification of desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) metallothionein, a potential biomarker of heavy metal exposure. University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine. M. S. thesis.

Douglas, J., T. J. Mills, D. Artly, D. Ashe, A. Bartuska, R. L. Black, S. Coloff, J. Cruz, M. Edrington, J. Edwardson, R. T. Gale, S. W. Goodman, L. Hamilton, R. Landis, B. Powell, S. Robinson, R. J. Schuster, P. K. Stahlschmidt, J. Stires, and J. van Wagtendonk. 2001. Review and update of the 1995 Federal wildland fire management policy. U. S. Dep’t. of the Interior and U. S. Dep’t. of Agriculture. 78 p.

Eckert, S. E., T. C. Esque, L. A. DeFalco and D. F. Haines. 2001. Evaluating options for revegetation following a catastrophic fire in a pinyon-juniper community at Grand Canyon / Parashant National Monument, on the Arizona Strip of Mohave County, Arizona. Report to the USDI Bureau of Land Management, Arizona Strip District, St. George, Utah.

Emerson, S. J., M. A. Bias, G. T. Downard, and J. Y. Takekawa. 2001. Biophysical monitoring of a tidal salt marsh rehabilitation in the San Francisco Bay estuary. Society of Wetland Scientists. Chicago.

Ervin, E. L., A. E. Anderson, T. L. Cass, R. E. Murcia. 2001. Elevation Record: Spea hammondii. Herpetological Review 32(1): 36.

Ervin, E. L., N. J. Scott, and R. N. Fisher. 2001. California Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora draytonii), Reconnaissance / Habitat Suitability Analysis in San Gabriel Canyon (West, North, and East Forks) Angeles National Forest, California: Year 2000. Report to Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Angeles National Forest, Arcadia, California.

Ervin, E. L., N. J. Scott, S. A. Hathaway, R. N. Fisher. 2001. Initial Report on the Monitoring of a California Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora draytonii) Population in San Francisquito Canyon. Angeles National Forest, California: Year 2000. Report to Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Angeles National Forest, Arcadia, California.

Ervin, E. L., R. N. Fisher 2001. Prey: Thamnophis hammondii (Two-striped Garter Snake). Herpetological Review 32(4): 265-266.

Ervin, E.L., Fisher, R.N., Crooks, K.R., 2001. Roads and Toads: Amphibian Mortality in Relation to Rainfall, Roadway Surface Moisture, and Traffic Volume. Society for Conservation Biology. Hilo, Hawaii. July 29-August 1, 2001.

Esque, T.C., L.A. DeFalco, S. Scoles and D.F. Haines. 2001. Evaluating revegetation options following wildfire in a Pinyon-Juniper community, northern Arizona. Paper presented at the 6th Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, November 6, 2001. Flagstaff, AZ.

Estes, J.A., R.G. Anthony, W.M. Jarman, A.K. Miles, J.R. Bodkin, and M.A. Ricca. 2001. Report on field activities at Adak and the western Aleutians, 2001. Annual report prepared for the U.S. Navy. 26pp.

Fellers, G.M., A. Launer, G.B. Rathbun, S. Bobzien, J. Alvarez, D. Sterner, R.B. Seymour, and M. Westphal. 2001. Overwintering tadpoles in the California red-legged frog (Rana aurora draytonii). Herpetological Review 32(3):156-157.

Fellers, Gary M. Charles A. Drost, and W. Ronald Heyer. 2001. Manipulación de Anfibios Vivos. Pp. 265-266. In: W. Ronald Heyer, Maureen A. Donnelly, Roy W. McDiarmid, Lee-Ann C. Hayek, y Mercedes S. Foster (eds.) Medición y Monitoreo de la Diversidad Biológica: Métodos estandarizados para Anfibios. Editorial Universitaria de la Patagonia. xxvii+349 Pp.

Fellers, Gary M. Charles A. Drost, and W. Ronald Heyer. 2001. Muestreos con cubiertas artificiales. Pp. 140-144. In: W. Ronald Heyer, Maureen A. Donnelly, Roy W. McDiarmid, Lee-Ann C. Hayek, y Mercedes S. Foster (eds.) Medición y Monitoreo de la Diversidad Biológica: Métodos estandarizados para Anfibios. Editorial Universitaria de la Patagonia. xxvii+349 Pp.

Fellers, Gary M., D. Earl Green, and Joyce E. Longcore. 2001. Oral Chytridiomycosis in Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs (Rana muscosa). Copeia. 2001(4): 945-953.

Fisher, R.N., Kuperman, B., Matey, V., Ervin, E.L., Warburton, M., 2001. The Silent Invasion: Parasites of Exotic Aquatic Species in Southern California. Society for Conservation Biology. Hilo, Hawaii. July 29-August 1, 2001

Fleskes, J. P., M. L. Casazza, D. S. Gilmer, J. G. Mensik, M. R. Miller, D.O. Orthmeyer, J. Y. Takekawa, J. L. Yee and D. R. Yparraguirre. 2001. Waterfowl ecology relative to recent habitat changes in the Central Valley of California. The Wildlife Society-The Western Section. Feb. 2001. Sacramento, CA.

Fleskes, J. P., M. L. Casazza, D. S. Gilmer, J. G. Mensik, M. R. Miller, D.O. Orthmeyer, J. Y. Takekawa, J. L. Yee and D. R. Yparraguirre. Waterfowl ecology relative to recent habitat changes in the Central Valley of California. The Wildlife Society-The Western Section. Feb. 2001. Sacramento, CA.

Fleskes, J. P., M. L. Casazza, D. S. Gilmer, J. G. Mensik, M. R. Miller, D.O. Orthmeyer, J. Y. Takekawa, J. L. Yee, and D. R. Yparraguirre. 2001. Waterfowl ecology relative to recent habitat changes in the Central Valley of California. The Wildlife Society-2001 Annual Meeting, Reno, NV. Sept. 2001.

Fleskes, J. P., M. L. Casazza, D. S. Gilmer, J. G. Mensik, M. R. Miller, D.O. Orthmeyer, J. Y. Takekawa, J. L. Yee, and D. R. Yparraguirre. Waterfowl use patterns and energetics relative to Central Valley Habitat Joint Venture Habitat goals. Central Valley Habitat Joint Venture Strategic Planning Meeting. May 21-22, 2001. Sacramento, CA. (Invited Oral presentation)

Fleskes, J.P., M.L. Casazza. D.S. Gilmer, J.G. Mensik, M.R. Miller, D.L. Orthmeyer, J.Y. Takekawa, J.L. Yee and D.R. Yparraguirre. 2001. Waterfowl ecology relative to recent habitat changes in the Central Valley of California. The Wildlife Society 2001 Annual Conference Reno, Nevada.

Galley K.E.M. and T.P Wilson (eds.). 2001. Proceedings of the Invasive Species Workshop: The Role of Fire in the Control and Spread of Invasive Species. M.L. Brooks and S.G. Coloff (technical coordinators). Fire Conference 2000: the First National Congress on Fire Ecology, Prevention, and Management. Miscellaneous Publication No. 11, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL.

Garcia-Hernandez, J., C. R. Schwalbe, F. M. Baucom, and B. S. Gebow. 2001. Sintesis actual de las actividades de conservacion a lo largo de la Frontera Mexico-Estados Unidos Parte I: Zona geografica de California-Baja California y Arizona-Sonora. Spanish report from DOI Habitat Conservation Issue Team (hard copy and Access data base).

Garcia-Hernandez, J., C. R. Schwalbe, F. M. Baucom, and B. S. Gebow. 2001. Synthesis of current habitat conservation activities along the U.S.-Mexico border Part I: California-Baja California and Arizona-Sonora border area. Report from DOI Habitat Conservation Issue Team (hard copy and Access data base).

Gebow, B. S. and W. L. Halvorson. 2001. Search, compile, and analyze fire literature and research associated with Chihuahuan Desert Uplands. Report Submitted to Carlsbad Caverns National Park.

Germano, D.J., G.B. Rathbun, and L.R. Saslaw. 2001. Managing exotic grasses and conserving declining species. Wildlife Society Bulletin 29(2):551-559.

Germano, D.J., G.B. Rathbun, and L.R. Saslaw. 2001. Managing exotic grasses and conserving declining species. Wildlife Society Bulletin 29(2):551-559.

Gibbons, J. W., J. E. Lovich, A. D. Tucker, N. N. FitzSimmons, and J. L. Greene. 2001. Demographic and ecological factors affecting conservation and management of the diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) in South Carolina. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4(1):66-74.

Gutsell, S.L., E.A. Johnson, K. Miyanishi, J.E. Keeley, M. Dickinson, and S.R.J. Bridge. 2001. Varied ecosystems need different fire protection. Nature 409:377.

Halterman, M.D., D.S. Gilmer, S.A. Laymon, and G.A. Falxa. 2001. Status of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo in California: 1999-2000. USGS-BRD-WERC Final report submiited to USFWS, USBR May 2001.

Halvorson, W. L. et al. 2001. Arizona GAP Report. Report submitted to the National GAP Office, Moscow, ID.

Homer, B. L., and K. H. Berry. 2001. Results of necropsy findings of desert tortoises from the Chemehuevi Valley study site in 1999 and from the Goffs study site in 2000. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Tucson, Arizona.

Homer, B. L., Chen Li, K. H. Berry, N. Denslow, E. R. Jacobson, R. Sawyer, and E. Williams. 2001. Soluble scute proteins of healthy and ill desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii). American Journal of Veterinary Research 2001:103-109.

Hothem, R.L., J.T. May, M.R. Jennings, M.A. Law, J.J. Crayon, and M.T. Atamian. 2001. Mercury contamination of biota associated with abandoned mine lands: Cache Creek, Bear River, and South Yuba river Watersheds, California. Eighth Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, September 25-29, 2001, Reno, NV.

Hui, C. A. , J. Y. Takekawa, and S. E. Warnock. 2001. Contaminant profiles of two species of shorebirds foraging together at two neighboring sites in south San Francisco Bay, California. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 71:107-121.

Jackson, J.B.C., M.X. Kirby, W.H. Berger, K.A.Bjorndal, L.W.Botsford, B.J. Bourque, R. Bradbury, R. Cooke, J. Erlandson, J.A. Estes, T.P. Hughes, S. Kidwell, C.B. Lange, H.S. Lenihan, J. M. Pandolfi, C.H. Peterson, R. S. Steneck, M.J. Tegner, and R. Warner. 2001. Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems. Science 293:629-638.

Jennings, Mark R., and Galen B. Rathbun. 2001. Petrodromus tetradactylus. Mammalian Species (682):1-6.

Johnson L.C., and J.R. Matchett. 2001. Fire and grazing regulate belowground processes in tallgrass prairie. Ecology 82:3377-3389.

Keane, R. E., R. E. Burgan, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 2001. Mapping wildland fuels for fire management across multiple scales: integrating remote sensing, GIS, and biophysical modeling. International Journal of Wildland Fire 10(3&4): 301-319.

Keeley, J.E. 2001. Book Review: Ecology, biogeography and management of Pinus halepensis and P. brutia forest ecosystems in the Mediterranean Basin. Journal of Vegetation Science. 12: 151.

Keeley, J.E. 2001. Fire and invasives in mediterranean-climate ecosystems of California. Pages 81-94 in K.E.M. Galley and T.P. Wilson (eds) Proceedings of the Invasive Species Workshop: The Role of Fire in the Control and Spread of Invasive Species. Fire Conference 2000: The First National Congress on Fire Ecology, Prevention, and Management. Miscellaneous Publication No. 11, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL.

Keeley, J.E. 2001. We still need Smokey Bear! Fire Management Today 61(1):21-22.

Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2001. History and management of crown-fire ecosystems: A summary and response. Conservation Biology 15: 1561-1567.

Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2001. The historical role of fire in California shrublands. Conservation Biology 15: 1536-1548.

Keeley, J.E. and W.J. Bond. 2001. On incorporating fire into our thinking about natural ecosystems: A response to Saha and Howe. American Naturalist 158: 664-670.

Kershnar, R., R. Hothem, B. Rattner, and N. Golden. CEE-TV: Contaminant exposure and effects-terrestrial vertebrates database. Puget Sound Research 2001, The Puget Sound/Georgia Basin Ecosystem: Status, stressors, and the road to recovery, Feb. 12-14, 2001, Bellevue, Washington.

Kershnar, R.L., R.L. Hothem, B.A. Rattner, and N.H. Golden. 2001. Contaminant exposure and effects-terrestrial vertebrates database (CEE-TV) Pacific Coast patterns. Eighth Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, September 25-29, 2001, Reno, NV.

Kevin D. Lafferty. 2001. Restoration of the White Abalone in Southern California: Population Assessment, Brood Stock Collection, and Development of Husbandry Technology. Final Report. S-K (NOAA) NA96FD0208.

Kristan, William K. (W.Boarman, committee) 2001. Spatial ecology of animals in a human-dominated environment. Ph.D. dissert. University of California, Riverside.

Kruse, K. L. (J. Takekawa, committee member). 2001. Long-term productivity, non-breeding survival, and winter site fidelity of canvasbacks breeding at Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada. Unpubl. Master's Thesis. University of Wyoming. Laramie, WY. 78pp.

Kruse, K. L., J. R. Lovvorn, J. Y. Takekawa, and J. MacKay. 2001. Factors that affect nest success of canvasbacks at Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada. Wildlife Society 8th Annual Conference. Reno, NV.

Kuperman, B.I., V.E. Matey, R.N. Fisher and M.L. Warburton. 2001. Bothriocephalus Acheilognathi Infection of Fish in Southern California. American Society of Parasitologists, 76th Annual Meeting, June 29-July 3 2001, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Kus, B.E. 2001. Just desert: is desertion of parasitized nests an effective stategy for maximizing productivity in the endangered least Bell's vireo? American Ornithologists' Union, Seattle, Washington.

Kus, B.E. 2001. Protecting California's endangered birds: the road to recovery. Bioforum on California's Endangered Species and Biodiversity Hotspots. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California.

Kus, B.E. 2001. Status of sensitive riparian birds in southern California. Riparian Habitat and Floodplains Conference. The Wildlife Society, Western Section and the California Riparian Habitat Joint Venture. Sacramento, California.

Kus, B.E., P.P. Beck, B. Peterson. 2001. Pilgrim Creek restoration project: bird community and vegetation structure. 2000 Annual report. Prepared for the California Department of Transportation, District 11.

Kus, B.E., P.P. Beck. 2001. An approach for monitoring bird communities to assess development of restored riparian habitat. Riparian Habitat and Floodplains Conference. The Wildlife Society, Western Section and the California Riparian Habitat Joint Venture. Sacramento, California.

Kus, B.E., P.P. Beck. 2001. Neotropical Migratory Bird Monitoring Study at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. Case Springs Station, 1995-1999. Final Report prepared for AC/S Environmental Security, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California.

Kus, B.E., P.P. Beck. 2001. Neotropical migratory bird monitoring study at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. Sixth Annual Progress Report, 2000. Prepared for the AC/S Environmental Security, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California.

Laakkonen, J., Fisher, R.N. & T.J. Case. 2001. Pneumocystis carinii in wild small mammals from California. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 37:408-412.

Laakkonen, J., Fisher, R.N., and T.J. Case. 2001. Effects of different land cover, habitat fragmentation, and ant colonies on the distribution and abundance of shrews in southern California. Journal of Animal Ecology 70:776-788.

Lafferty, K. D. 2001. Birds at a Southern California beach: seasonality, habitat use and disturbance by human activity. Biodiversity and Conservation 10: 1949-1962.

Lafferty, K. D. 2001. Disturbance to wintering western snowy plovers. Biological Conservation 101:315-325.

Laidre, K.L., Jameson, R.J., and D.P. DeMaster. 2001. An estimation of carrying capacity for sea otters along the California coast. Marine Mammal Science 17(2): 294-309.

Laidre, K.L., Jameson, R.J., Jeffries, S.J. and C.E. Bowlby. 2001. Developing carrying capacity estimates for sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) in Washington State. Poster Presented at the Fifth Puget Sound Research Conference, 12-14 February 2001.

Lawler, D., J. Clayton, C.N. Alpers, M.P. Hunerlach, R.L. Hothem, J.T. May, and J.J. Rytuba. 2001. Mercury contamination of water, sediment, and biota in watersheds affected by historic hydraulic gold mining in California. California Mining: 2001, Conference of the California Mining Association, Monterey, CA, May 23-25, 2001.

Lefebvre, L.W., M. Marmontel, J. Reid, G.B. Rathbun, and D. Domning. 2001. Status and biogeography of the West Indian manatee. Pp. 425-474 in C. Woods and F.E. Sergile (Eds.), Biogeography of the West Indies: past, present, and future, second edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. 582 pp.

Lovich, J and K. Meyer. 2001. Pleistocene Park: Ice Age Relict Turtle Survives in California Desert. In People, Land, and Water (DOI Newspaper). September/October Issue. Page 13.

Lovich, R.E. 2001. Phylogeography of the night lizard, Xantusia henshawi, in southern California: Evolution across fault zones. Herpetologica 57:470-487.

Lovich, R.E., Fisher, R.N., Ervin, E.L., 2001. Macroinvertebrate Community Composition of Arundo Donax in a Southern California Riparian Habitat. Society for Conservation Biology. Hilo, Hawaii. July 29- August 1, 2001.

Luke, C., R.Fisher, S. Hathaway, K. Crooks. 2001. Using data to plan wildlife habitat corridors in southern California. Society for Conservation Biology Conference.

Lyren, L. M. 2001. Movement Patterns of Coyotes and Bobcats Relative to Roads and Underpasses in the Chino Hills Area of Southern California. M.S. thesis. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. 127 pp.

Lyren, L. M. and K. R. Crooks. September 2001. Factors influencing the movement, spatial patterns, and wildlife underpass use of coyotes and bobcats along SR-71 in southern CA. 2nd Meeting of the International Conference on Ecology and Transportation (ICOET), Keystone, CO.

Madej, M. A., and V. Ozaki. 2001. Redwood Creek, California, USA in Source to Sink Sedimentary Cascades in Pacific Rim Geo-systems. T. Marutani, G. J. Brierley, N. A. Trustrum, and M. Page, eds. Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Nagano, Japan. 183 p.

Madej, M. A. 2001. An Analysis of Bank Erosion along the South Fork Eel River at Benbow Lake, California. A report to the California Department of Parks and Recreation. October, 2001. Arcata, CA. 42 p.

Madej, M. A. 2001. Changes in channel roughness values following large sediment inputs. Proceedings of "Gravel-bed Rivers 2000 Conference" C. Thorne and T. Nolan, eds. Special Publication of the New Zealand Hydrological Society. New Zealand. (CD-ROM).

Madej, M. A. 2001. Development of channel organization and roughness following sediment pulses in single-thread, gravel bed rivers. Water Resources Research. Vol. 37 No. 8, p. 2259-2272.

Madej, M. A. 2001. Road Decommissioning: How Effective Is It? Abstract of paper presented at Klamath Basin Fish and Water Management Symposium. May 22-25, 2001. Arcata, California.

Madej, M. A. 2001. Erosion and sediment delivery following removal of forest roads. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 26:175-190.

Malusa, J., B. Halvorson, and D. Angell. 2001. Distribution of the exotic mustard, Brassica tournefortii Gouan, in the Mohawk Dunes and Mountains, March 2001. Report submitted to the Yuma Office of the Bureau of Land Management.

Manley, J., M. Keifer, N. Stephenson, and W. Kaage. 2001. Restoring fire to wilderness: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Fire Management Today 61(2):24-28.

Manley, J., M. Keifer, N. Stephenson, and W. Kaage. 2001. Restoring fire to wilderness: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Fire Management Today 61(2):24-28.

Manuwal, D. A., H. R. Carter, T. S. Zimmerman, and D. L. Orthmeyer, Editors. 2001. Biology and conservation of the common murre in California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Volume 1: Natural history and population trends. U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Information and Technology Report USGS/BRD/ITR- 2000-0012, Washington, D.C. 132 pp.

Matchett, J.R., and M.L. Brooks. Nov. 2001. Fire promotes exotic annual vegetation and reduces plant species richness in Mojave Desert blackbrush communities. 6th Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau. Flagstaff, AZ.

May, J.T., R.L. Hothem, C.N. Alpers, and M.A. Law. Elevated mercury concentrations in game fish associated with historical gold mining in the South Yuba River, Deer Creek, and Bear River watersheds, California. Northern California Regional Chapter, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 11th Annual Meeting, June 17-19, 2001, University of California, Santa Cruz.

May, J.T., R.L. Hothem, C.N. Alpers, and M.A. Law. Mercury bioaccumulation in sportfish associated with historic gold mining in the Bear River and South Yuba River watersheds. Symposium and 35th Annual Meeting American Fisheries Society, California-Nevada chapter and Humboldt Chapter, March 29-31, 2001, Santa Rosa, CA.

McChesney G.J., J.W. Mason, W.R. McIver, H.R. Carter, D.L. Orthmeyer, and R. T. Golightly. 2001. Distribution and abundance of seabirds in southern California. The Wildlife Society 2001 Annual Conference Reno, Nevada.

McChesney G.J., J.W. Mason, W.R. McIver, H.R. Carter, D.L. Orthmeyer, and R. T. Golightly. 2001. Spatial and temporal movements of seabirds in the southern California Bight. The Western Section of the Wildlife Society. Sacramento, CA

McChesney, G, H.C. Carter, and D.L. Orthmeyer. 2001. At-sea distribution of seabirds and marine mammals. 28th Annual meeting Pacific Seabird Group. Hawaii.

McEachern, K, M. Semenoff-Irving, P. van der Leeden. 2001. Elk-Effects Vegetation Monitoring Program for Tomales Point Elk Range, Point Reyes National Seashore, California. USGS Open-File Report, USGS/BRD/WERC, Sacramento, California. 53pps.

McEachern, K. 2001. Vegetation monitoring program review for Channel Islands National Park. Technical report. USGS-BRD, Channel Islands Field Station, 1901 Spinnaker Dr., Ventura, CA 93001.

McEachern, K., M. Semenoff-Irving and A. Atkinson. 2001. Control/exclosure monitoring of tule elk effects on Tomales Point vegetation, Point Reyes National Seashore, 1998-1999. Technical report, USGS-BRD, Channel Islands Field Station, 1901 Spinnaker Dr., Ventura, CA 93001.

McGinnis, T.W. and S.D. Emslie. 2001. The Foraging Ecology of Royal and Sandwich Terns in North Carolina, USA. Waterbirds 24(3): 361-370.

Meckstroth, A.M. and A.K. Miles. 2001. Predation of nesting waterbirds in an urban environment, Annual Progress Report. Prepared for NASA Ames Research Station, Moffett Federal Air Field, CA.

Miles, A.K., C.M. Marn, N.T Garcia-Andersen, and R.A. Keister. 2001. Addendum to Work Plan. Scoping ecological risk assessment, installation restoration program sites, Edwards Air Force Base. Prepared for the Air Force Flight Test Center Environmental Management Office, Edwards Air Force Base, CA. August 2001. 23 pp.

Miles, A.K., C.M. Marn, N.T Garcia-Andersen, and R.A. Keister. 2001. Phase I Pre-scoping assessment OU4. Ecological risk assessment, installation restoration program sites, Edwards Air Force Base. Prepared for the Air Force Flight Test Center Environmental Management Office, Edwards Air Force Base, CA. Draft Report December 2001. 348 pp.

Miles, A.K., C.M. Marn, N.T Garcia-Andersen, and R.A. Keister. 2001. Phase I Pre-scoping assessment OUs 1, 2, 3, and 6. Ecological risk assessment, installation restoration program sites, Edwards Air Force Base. Prepared for the Air Force Flight Test Center, Environmental Management Office, Edwards Air Force Base, CA. Draft Report October 2001. 525 pp.

Miles, A.K., C.M. Marn, N.T Garcia-Andersen, and R.A. Keister. 2001. Phase I Scoping. Ecological risk assessment, Ous 1, 2, and 6 Edwards Air Force Base. Prepared for the Air Force Flight Test Center Environmental Management Office, Edwards Air Force Base, CA. Draft Report July 2002. 578 pp.

Miles, A.K., C.M. Marn, N.T Garcia-Andersen, and R.A. Keister. 2001. Work Plan. Phase I: Predictive assessment, ecological risk assessment, installation restoration program sites, Edwards Air Force Base. Prepared for the Air Force Flight Test Center Environmental Management Office, Edwards Air Force Base, CA. Final Report September 2001. 84 pp.

Miles, A.K., C.M. Marn, S.R. Stevens, N.T. Garcia-Andersen, and R.A. Keister. 2001. Work Plan, Scoping ecological risk assessment, installation restoration program sites, Edwards Air Force Base. Prepared for the Air Force Flight Test Center Environmental Management Office, Edwards Air Force Base, CA. January 2001. 98 pp.

Miles, A.K., Lawler, S.P., Hoffman, D.J., Albers, P.A., Melancon, M.J., Dritz, D., Spring, S., Buscemi, D.M. 2001. Experimental assessment of the toxicity of the mosquito larvicide Golden Bear Oil (GB-1111): (1) Field evaluations on duckling, target, and non-target prey survival; (2) Laboratory evaluations on reared mallard and bobwhite eggs, and wild redwing blackbird eggs. Final Report to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Portland, OR. 39pp.

Miles, A.K., S.E. Spring. 2001. Statement of Work/Study Plan. Potential impacts of organic contamiants on wildlife at Edwards Air Force Base. Prepared for the Air Force Flight Test Center Environmental Management Office, Edwards Air Force Base, CA. January 2001. 58 pp.

Miller, M. R., J. P. Fleskes, J. Y. Takekawa, D. L. Orthmeyer, M. L. Casazza, and W. M. Perry. 2001. Satellite tracking of northern pintail spring migration from California, USA: the route to Chukotka, Russia. Casarca 7: 229-233.

Miller, M.R. D.L. Orthmeyer, J. Fleskes, M. Casazza, W. Perry, and J. Takekawa. 2001. Spring migration strategies of northern pintails documented with satellite telemetry. The Wildlife Society 2001 Annual Conference Reno, Nevada.

Miller, M.R., C.L. Stemler, and S.D. Blankenship. 2001. Mourning dove productivity in California during 1992-95: was it enough? J. Wildl. Manage. 65(2):300-311.

Miller, M.R., C.L. Stemler, J.L. Yee, and D.S. Blankenship. 2001 Differences in mourning dove productivity among three time periods at Gray Lodge Wildlife Area, California California Fish and Game 87(3):93-101.

Miller, M.R., Takekawa, J.Y., Orthmeyer, D.L., Fleskes, J.P., Casazza, M.L., and W.M. Perry. 2001. PINSAT 2001 Progress Report.

Moore, P. E. and J. D. Gerlach, Jr. 2001. Exotic Species Threat Assessment in Sequoia, Kings Canyon and Yosemite National Parks. Crossing Boundaries in Park Management: Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Research and Resource Management in Parks and on Public Land. Pp. 96-103 in D. Harmon, ed. George Wright Society Biennial Conference, April 16-20, 2001, Denver, Colorado. The George Wright Society, Hancock, Michigan.

Nowak, R. S., D. N. Jordan, L. A. DeFalco, C. Wilcox, J. S. Coleman, J. R. Seemann and S. D. Smith. 2001. Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on leaf conductance and temperature for three desert perennials at the Nevada Desert FACE Facility. New Phytologist 150(2):449-458.

Orthmeyer, D. L., H. R. Carter, J. Y. Takekawa, and R. T. Golightly (eds.). 2001. At-sea distribution of seabirds and marine mammals in the Southern California Bight. 2001 Published Progress Report. 117pp.

Orthmeyer, D.L., J.Y. Takekawa, and J.L. Yee. 2001. Movement, home range, and nearest neighbor analysis comparing two Lessor Snow goose populations wintering in the Sacramento Valley. 10th North American Artic Goose Conference. Quebec City, Quebec CANADA.

Orthmeyer, D.L., J.Y. Takekawa, and J.L. Yee. 2001. Distribution and nearest neighbor analyses comparing two Lessor Snow goose populations wintering the Sacramento Valley of California. The Wildlife Society 2001 Annual Conference Reno, Nevada.

Pease, K., Fisher, R.N., Hearst, M., Lowe, S., 2001. Assessment of the Impact of Urbanization and Exotic Ants on Native Ant Diversity in Orange County, California. Society for Conservation Biology. Hilo, Hawaii. July 29-August 1, 2001.

Pease, K.H., Fisher, R.N., 2001. Report on Pitfall Trapping of Ants at the Biospecies Sites in the Nature Reserve of Orange County, California. Prepared for the Nature Reserve of Orange County and The Irvine Co. Open Space Reserve. 15pp.

Peterson, B.L., B.E Kus, D.H. Deutschman. 2001. Determining nest predators of the least Bell's vireo through point counts, tracking stations and videophotography. Cooper Ornithological Society. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Petrie, M., M. Eicholtz, J. Eadie, F. Reid, J. Fleskes, E. Burns, L. Naylor. 2001. Landscape Conservation in the Central Valley of California. The 8th International Waterfowl and Wetlands Symposium. July 2001. Washington, D.C.

Poulton, V. K., J. R. Lovvorn, and J. Y. Takekawa. 2001. Clam density and diurnal feeding behavior of scaup in northern San Francisco Bay. Wildlife Society 8th Annual Conference. Reno, NV.

Rathbun, G.B. and J. Schneider. 2001. Translocation of California red-legged frogs (Rana aurora draytonii). Wildlife Society Bulletin 29(4): 1300-1303.

Rochester, C. 2001. Animal 3.0. A Pendragon Forms 3.1 data collection form for use on handheld computers using the Palm OS. This form stores information regarding animal records.

Rochester, C. 2001. Control Form 2.0. A Pendragon Forms 3.1 data collection form for use on handheld computers using the Palm OS. This data form stores information regarding the survey effort.

Rochester, C. 2001. PDSite 1.0. A Pendragon Forms 3.1 data collection form for use on handheld computers using the Palm OS. This form stores information regarding predefined study sites which may be revisited multiple times.

Rochester, C. 2001. Site 3.0. A Pendragon Forms 3.1 data collection form for use on handheld computers using the Palm OS. This form stores information regarding the study site, including aquatic and terrestrial habitat variables.

Rochester, C. 2001. Water 1.2. A Pendragon Forms 3.1 data collection form for use on handheld computers using the Palm OS. This form stores information regarding water and water chemistry at a study site.

Rochester, C. 2001. Weather 1.4. A Pendragon Forms 3.1 data collection form for use on handheld computers using the Palm OS. This form stores information regarding weather variables connected to a survey.

Rochester, C., Hathaway, S., Brown, C., Pease, K., Fisher, R.N., 2001. Herpetofaunal Monitoring in MSCP Region of San Diego. Prepared for City of San Diego. 91pp.

Rochester, C., J. Diffendorfer, and R.N. Fisher. 2001. Natural History of the Rosy Boa (Charina trivirgata). Prepared for U.S. Geological Survey-Species at Risk. 71pp.

Russell, W. H., and J. R. McBride. 2001. The relative importance of fire and watercourse proximity in determining stand composition in mixed conifer riparian forests. Forest Ecology and Management 150: 259-265.

Russell, W. H., J. R. McBride, and K. Carnell. 2001. Feeding Damage by Black Bears (Ursus americanus) across timber harvest edges in Northern California Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) Forests (USA). Natural Areas Journal 2:324-329.

Russell. W. H. 2001. Review: Ecosystems of Disturbed Ground. Edited by Lawrence R. Walker. 1999. 868 pages. Elselvier Science Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In: Madrono, Vol 48. No. 4, p.301.

Save-the-Redwoods League. 2001. North Coastal California: A Stewardship Report. Proceedings from workshops held in Arcata, CA. November, 2001 ‘Chapter D-Redwood Creek' contributed by M. A. Madej. San Francisco, CA.

Schroeder, S.C., D.C. Reed, D.J. Kushner, J.A. Estes, and D.S. Ono. 2001. The use of marine reserves in evaluating the dive fishery for the warty sea cucumber, Parastichopus parvimensis in California, U.S.A. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58:1771-1781.

Schwalbe, C. R. 2001. Exotic amphibians in Arivaca Canyon and the Altar Valley. Workshop on Managing Exotic Aquatic Species, Pima County, Arizona, 27 February 2001.

Schwartz, M.W., S.M. Hermann and P. van Mantgem. 2000. Population persistence in Florida torreya: Comparing modeled projections of a declining coniferous tree. Conservation Biology, 14: 1023-1033.

Schwarzbach, Steven E., John D. Henderson, Carmen M. Thomas, Joy D. Albertson. 2001. Organochlorine concentrations and eggshell thickness in failed eggs of the California Clapper Rail from South San Francisco Bay. Condor 103:620-624.

Sharp, B.L. and B.E. Kus. 2001. Video documentation of natural brood-parasitism events. Cooper Ornithological Society. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Smith-Longozo, V., L. A. DeFalco and R. S. Nowak. 2001. Comparison of parental and growth condition effects between the invasive annual grass Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens and two native Mojave Desert annual species. Poster presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Madison, Wisconsin.

Sparling, Donald W., Gary M. Fellers, and Laura L. McConnell. 2001. Pesticides Are Involved With Population Declines of Amphibians in the California Sierra Nevadas. Directions in Science, The Scientific World (2001) 1.

Sparling, Donald W., Gary M. Fellers, and Laura McConnell. 2001. Pesticides and Amphibian Declines in California, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 20(7):1591-1595.

Steere, J. T., and N. Schaefer. 2001. Restoring the estuary: implementation strategy of the San Francisco Bay Joint Venture. San Francisco Bay Joint Venture, Oakland, CA. 124pp. (J. Takekawa, contributing author).

Stephenson, N. L. 2001. Predicting vegetation change: how good are our assumptions? Abstracts, The Big Unknowns of Global Change, University of Georgia State-of-the-Art Conference and Workshop, p. 15.

Stokes, D. 2001. Bats of Mission Trails Park. In Mission Trails Regional Park News: a publication of Mission Trails Regional Park Foundation, Inc. Vol. 12, no. 2. 8 pp.

Stokes, D., D. Griffin, S. Baldwin. 2001. Final Report: Monitoring and surveys for bats at the benchmark 19 mine, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twenty-nine Palms, California. Prepared for Tierra Data Systems. 19 pp.

Suarez, A., Fisher, R.N., Case, T.J., 2001. Bottom-Up Effects on Persistence in a Fragmented Landscape: Argentine Ants and Coastal Horned Lizards. Society for Conservation Biology. Hilo, Hawaii. July 29-August 1, 2001.

Takekawa, J. Y. 2001. Wintering ecology of Arctic nesting geese in the Central Valley. Central Valley Birding Symposium. Stockton, CA.

Takekawa, J. Y., C. T. Lu, and R. T. Pratt. 2001. Avian communities in baylands and artificial salt evaporation ponds of the San Francisco Bay estuary. Hydrobiologia 466: 317-328.

Takekawa, J.Y. and D.L. Orthmeyer. 2001. Application of radio telemetry in studies of cranes. Pages 85-98 in R.L. Johnson, Z. Hongfei, and R.C. Stendell (eds.). Cranes in East Asia: Proceedings of the Symposium held in Harbin, People's Republic of China. June 9-18, 1998. U.S. Geological Survey, Midcontinent Ecological Science Center, Fort Collins, CO. Open File Report 01-403. 98pp.

Takekawa, J.Y., and D.L. Orthmeyer. 2001. Application of radio telemetry in studies of cranes. Pages 85-98 in R.L. Johnson, Z. Hongfei, and R.C. Stendell, (eds.). Cranes in East Asia: Proceedings of the Symposium held in Hardin, People's Republic of China. June 9-18, 1998. U.S. Geological Survey, Midcontinent Ecological Science Center, Fort Collins. CO. Open File Report 01-403. 98pp.

Takekawa, J.Y., S.E. Wainwright-De La Cruz, R.L. Hothem, and J. Yee. 2001. Relating body condition and contaminant burdens of diving ducks wintering in coastal California. Eighth Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, September 25-29, 2001, Reno, NV.

Theodorakis, C.W., J.W. Bickham, T. Lamb, P.A. Medica and T.B.Lyne. 2001. Integration of genotoxicicity and population genetic analyses in kangaroo rats (Dipodomys merriami) exposed to radionuclide contamination at the Nevada Test Site, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 20(2):317-326

Threloff, D.L. and Sappington, J.M. 2001. The Birds of Death Valley National Park: A Comprehensive Database of Records Between the Years 1891 and 2000. 868 pp.

Torchin, M. E., K. D. Lafferty and A. M. Kuris. 2001. Release from parasites as natural enemies: increased performance of a globally introduced marine crab. Biological Invasions 3:333-345.

Toure', T. 2001. Vertebrate abundance and diversity in fragmented habitats of coastal southern California. Presented at 15th Annual Meeting, Society for Conservation Biology 2001.

Toure, T. A. 2001. A report on the population status and conservation of Rosy boa (Charina trivirgata): A two-year study in Anza Borrego State Park and Joshua Tree National Monument, 19 pp.

Toure, T. A. 2001. Monitoring program for amphibians and reptiles in the Nature Reserve of Orange County. Summary Report 2001.

Toure, T. A. and R. N. Fisher 2001. Vertebrate abundance and diversity in fragmented habitats of coastal southern California. 15th Annual Meeting Society for Conservation Biology. July 29- August 1, 2001, Hilo, Hawaii.

Toure, T. A. and R. N. Fisher, 2002. Long-term monitoring in fragmented habitats in coastal southern California. 82nd Annual Meeting American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.

van Mantgem, P. 2001. Fire-induced Tree Mortality in the Mixed Conifer Forests of the Sierra Nevada, California. Dissertation. University of California, Davis. 107 pp.

van Mantgem, P., M.W. Schwartz, and M.B. Keifer. 2001. Monitoring wildfire effects: Coming to terms with pseudoreplication. Natural Areas Journal 21: 266-273.

van Wagtendonk, J. W., and R. R. Root. 2001. The use of multi-temporal Landsat Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data for mapping fuels in Yosemite National Park, USA. 3rd Int. Workshop on Remote Sensing, GIS, and Fire Management; Paris, France, May 17-18, 2001.

van Wagtendonk, K. A., J. W. van Wagtendonk, and J. B. Meyer. 2001. The use of geographic information for fire management planning in Yosemite National Park. 2001 Spatial Odyssey: a Servicewide Conference on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Related Technologies, National Park Service; Primm, NV, December 3-7, 2001.

Vandergast, A. G., R. G. Gillespie and G. K. Roderick. 2001. The genetic impacts of habitat fragmentation: lessons from Hawaiian kipuka. Oral Presentation. The Society for Conservation Biology. Hilo, HI

Ver Hoef, J.M., Cressie, N., Fisher, R.N. & T.J. Case. 2001. Spatial linear models in ecology. In: Spatial Uncertainty in Ecology. Hunsaker, C., M. Goodchild, M. Friedl and T. Case (Eds.). 440 pgs. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Wainwright-De La Cruz, S. E., J. Y. Takekawa, A. K. Miles, and J. R. Lovvorn. 2001. Home ranges and foraging depth preferences of scaup in the San Francisco Bay estuary. Wildlife Society 8th Annual Conference. Reno, NV.

Wallace, Gary, Katherine Chess, Lena Lee. 2001. A database catalog of 14,408 California Channel Islands vascular plant specimens housed at numerous herbaria compiled by Dr. Gary Wallace from 1975 to 1985. USGS/BRD/WERC/Channel Islands Field Station and Channel Islands National Park Biological Inventory database, Ventura, California.

Warburton, M., Swift, C., Fisher, R.N., 2001. Dramatic Effects of Rainfall on Species Distributions in the Santa Margarita River. Society for Conservation Biology. July 29- August 1, 2001, Hilo, Hawaii.

Warburton, M.L, R.N. Fisher, B.I. Kuperman, V.E. Matey and E.E. Ervin. 2001. The Silent Invasion: Parasites of Exotic Aquatic Species in Southern California. 131st Annual American Fisheries Society Meeting, August 21st-August 23rd 2001, Phoenix, Arizona.

Warburton, M.L., R.N. Fisher and C.C. Swift. 2001. Dramatic Effects of Rainfall on Fish Species in the Santa Margarita River. 15th Annual Meeting, Society for Conservation Biology, July 29-August 1 2001, Hilo, Hawaii.

Warnock, N., G. W. Page, N. Nur, J. Y. Takekawa, and J. T. Hanson. 2001. Bird populations in the San Francisco Bay: what does the future hold? Fifth Biennial State of the Estuary Conference. San Francisco.

Warnock, N., M. A. Bishop, and J. Y. Takekawa. 2001. Spring migration of dunlin and dowitchers along the Pacific Flyway. Unpubl. Prog. Rep., Point Reyes Bird Observatory. Stinson Beach, CA. 16pp.

Webb, R. H., D. E. Boyer, and K. H. Berry. 2001. Riparian Vegetation in the Southwestern United States: Historical Changes Along the Mojave River. U. S. Geological Survey Open File Report.

Webb, R. H., T. C. Esque, P. A. Medica, L. A. DeFalco and M. B. Murov. 2001. Monitoring of ecosystem dynamics in the Mojave Desert: the Beatley permanent plots. USGS Fact Sheet prepared in cooperation with the Recoverability and Vulnerability of Desert Ecosystems Program.

Webb, William (W.Boarman, committee). 2001. Common raven (Corvus corax) juvenile survival and movements in a human augmented landscape. M.S. thesis. University of California, Riverside.

Weckerly, Floyd F., Mark A. Ricca and Katherin P. Meyer. 2001. Sexual segregation in Roosevelt Elk: Cropping rates and aggression in mixed sex groups. Journal of Mammology, 82(3):825-835

Wells. J.M., B.E. Kus. 2001. Least Bell's Vireo Surveys and Nest Monitoring at Anza Borrego Desert State Park in 2000. Prepared for California State Parks, Colorado Desert District.

Winton, B. R., L. A. Vicencio, J. Y. Takekawa, and C. Morton. 2001. Wildlife mortality on Highway 37 traversing tidal marshes, seasonal wetlands, and diked baylands in northern San Pablo Bay, California. Wildlife Society 8th Annual Conference. Reno, NV.

Wylie, G.D. 2001. Habitat use and movements of giant garter snakes in the Sacramento Valley. Symposium of the National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association. Lake Tahoe, NV, March 2001.

Wylie, G.D., and M.L. Casazza. 2001. Investigations of giant garter snakes in the Natomas Basin: 2001 field season. Progress report for the Natomas Basin Conservancy. 9 pp.

Wylie, G.D., and M.L. Casazza. 2001. Response of giant garter snakes to wetland restoration at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge. The Wildlife Society 8th Annual Conference, Reno, NV.

Wylie, G.D., and M.L. Casazza. 2001. Response of giant garter snakes to wetland restoration at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge. The Wildlife Society 8th Annual Conference, Abstracts, Reno, NV, September 2001.

Wylie, G.D., M.L. Casazza, and C.J. Gregory. 2001. Habitat use of a semi-aquatic snake (Thamnophis gigas, giant garter snake) in the Central Valley of California, USA. Fourth World Congress of Herpetology, Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 2001.

Wylie, G.D., M.L. Casazza, and C.J. Gregory. 2001. Habitat use of a semi-aquatic snake (Thamnophis gigas, giant garter snake) in the Central Valley of California, USA. Fourth World Congress of Herpetology, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Yang, B. 2001. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution of the Malagasy-Comoroan leaf-toed geckos, genus Paroedura. Master's Thesis, San Diego State University 71 pp.

Ackerman, JT and JM Eadie. 2000. The influence of partial clutch depredation on the parental investment decisions of nesting mallards. 2nd North American Duck Symposium. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, October 11–15.

Ackerman, JT, MC Kondratieff, SA Matern, and JJ Cech, Jr. 2000. Tidal influence on spatial dynamics of leopard sharks, Triakis semifasciata, in Tomales Bay, California. Environmental Biology of Fishes 58(1): 33–43.

Ackerman, JT. 2000. Of mice and mallards: the indirect effects of coexisting prey on waterfowl nest success. 2nd North American Duck Symposium. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, October 11–15.

Ackerman, JT. 2000. Positive indirect effects of rodents on waterfowl nest success. Raveling Waterfowl Professorship Symposium. University of California, Davis, October 14.

Adams, J., J. Y. Takekawa, H. R. Carter, D. L. Whitworth, and G. J. McChesney. 2000. At-sea distribution of radio-marked Cassin's auklets breeding at Prince Island, California in 1999. Pacific Seabird Group Meeting. Hawaii.

Agee, J. K., B. Bahro, M. A. Finney, P. N. Omi, D. B. Sapsis, C. N. Skinner, J. W. van Wagtendonk, and C. P. Weatherspoon. 2000. The use of fuel breaks in landscape fire management. Forest Ecology and Manage. 127(1-3):55-66.

Arbaugh, M. J., S. Schilling, J. Merzenich, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 2000. A test of the strategic fuels management model VDDT using historical data from Yosemite National Park. P. 85-89 in: Neuenschwander, L. F., and K. C. Ryan (Tech. Eds.). Proc. Joint Fire Sci. Conf. and Workshop, Vol. II. Univ. Idaho and Int. Assoc. Wildland Fire. 312 p.

Atkinson, A.J., C.M. Marn, and P.A. Stine. 2000. Development of a Baseline Monitoring Plan for CALFED's Ecosystem Restoration Program: Terrestrial and Amphibious Monitoring Recommendations. CALFED Science Conference, Sacramento, CA, Oct. 3-5, 2000.

Beauchamp, P. E., V. Dev, E. Munevar-Mendoza and P. E. Moore. 2000. Composition of Pteryxia terebinthina var. californica (Coult. and Rose) Mathias essential oils. J. Essential Oil Research 12: 372-376.

Berry, K. H. 2000. Preliminary Report on the Spring Survey of Desert Tortoises at the Goffs Permanent Study Plot and Special Project on Effects of Roads. Technical Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service (Mojave National Preserve). 11 p.

Berry, K. H., and M. Connor. 2000. Major scientific contributions from the Desert Tortoise Research Natural Area: 1974-1999. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Berry, K. H., G. Goodlett, and T. Goodlett. 2000. Desert Tortoise Cover Sites at Ft. Irwin, California: Geology and Vulnerability. Presentation at the Society for Conservation Biology Meeting, Missoula, MT.

Berry, K. H., G. Goodlett, and T. Goodlett. 2000. Gender-based vulnerability of desert tortoises in military vehicle use areas at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California. Presentation at the Western Section of The Wildlife Society Meeting, Riverside, California.

Bias, M. A., J. Takekawa, G. Downard, S. Emerson, and F. Reid. 2000. Guadalcanal Village tidal marsh mitigation annual monitoring report, December 2000. Unpubl. Rep., Calif. Dept. Trans., Oakland, CA. 45pp.

Blackmer, AL, CE Huntington, JT Ackerman, and GA Nevitt. 2000. The link between pair bond duration, parental coordination, and reproductive success in Leach's storm-petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa). Marine Ornithology 28(2): 127.

Boarman, W. I. and S. Coe. 2000. Finding value in pre-existing datasets. Conservation Biology in Practice 1:32-34.

Boarman, W. I. and S. J. Coe. 2000. An evaluation of the distribution and abundance of common ravens in and around Joshua Tree National Park. Report to National Park Service, Twentynine Palms, CA.

Boydston, E. E. and K. E. Holekamp. 2000. Applications of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to hyena conservation. I.U.C.N. Hyaena Specialist Group Newsletter 7:24-27.

Boyers, Laurel, Mark Fincher, and Jan van Wagtendonk. 2000. Twenty-eight years of wilderness campsite monitoring at Yosemite National Park. Pages 106-109 in Cole, D. N., S. F. McCool, W. T. Borrie, and J. O'Loughlin, compilers. Wilderness science in a time of change conference -- Volume 5: Wilderness ecosystems, threats, and management; 1999 May 23-27; Missoula, MT. Proceedings RMRS-P-15-VOL-5. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Brooks, M. L. 2000. A natural history of the Sonoran Desert. Edited by S.J. Phillips and P.W. Comus. Book review. Madroño 4:68.

Brooks, M. L. and T. C. Esque. 2000. Annual grass invasions and fire in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, National Program Review of the Invasive Species Program, Annapolis, MD.

Brooks, M. L., and T. C. Esque. 2000. Fire and exotic grasses changing Mojave's face. People, Land & Water (July/August): p. 25. U.S. Department of the Interior.

Brooks, M.L. 2000. An interagency approach to fire research in the Mojave Desert. West by Northwest 2000: A National Park Service, Pacific West Region, Resource Management and Interpretation Workshop. San Diego, CA.

Brooks, M.L. 2000. Bromus madritensis subsp. rubens (L.) Husnot. Pp. 72-76. In C. Bossard, M. Hoshovsky, and J. Randall (eds.). Invasive Plants of California's Wildlands. University of California Press. Berkeley, CA.

Brooks, M.L. 2000. Competition between alien annual grasses and native annual plants in the Mojave Desert. American Midland Naturalist 144:92-108.

Brooks, M.L. 2000. Does Protection of Desert Tortoise Habitat Generate Other Ecological Benefits in the Mojave Desert? Pages 68-73 in McCool, S. F., D. N. Cole, W. T. Borrie, and J. O'Loughlin (eds), Wilderness Science: In a Time of Change Conference, Volume 3: Wilderness as a place for scientific inquiry,Missoula, MT, May 23-27 1999. RMRS-P-15_VOL-3.

Brooks, M.L. 2000. Ecological effects and control of invasive annual plants in the Mojave Desert. Society for Ecological Restoration, California, Annual Symposium, Santa Barbara, CA.

Brooks, M.L. 2000. Effects of a changing fire regime in the Mojave Desert. California Association of Fire Ecology Symposium, San Diego, CA.

Brooks, M.L. 2000. Management of alien annual plants and fire in the Mojave and Colorado deserts. Western Ecological Research Center, Center Review presentation.

Brooks, M.L. 2000. Management of alien annual plants and fire in the Mojave and Colorado deserts. Western Section of the Wildlife Society, Riverside, CA.

Brooks, M.L. 2000. Schismus arabicus Nees, Schismus barbatus (L.) Thell. Pp. 287-291. In C. Bossard, M. Hoshovsky, and J. Randall (eds.), Invasive Plants of California's Wildlands. University of California Press. Berkeley, CA.

Brooks, M.L. and C. D’Antonio. 2000. The role of fire in promoting plant invasions. California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium. Concord, CA.

Brooks, M.L. and D. Pyke. 2000. Invasive plants and fire in the deserts of North America. Invasive Species Workshop: The Role of Fire in the Control and Spread of Invasive Species. Special Session of the Fire Conference 2000: The First National Congress on Fire, Ecology, Prevention and Management. San Diego, CA.

Brooks, M.L. and T. Esque. 2000. Alien grasses in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. Proceedings of the 1999 California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium 6:39-44.

Brown, C., E. Ervin, and L. Lyren. 2000. Arroyo Toad, Bufo californicus 2000 USGS/USFS Survey Data. Angeles, Cleveland, and San Bernardino National Forests, California: Year 2000. Report to Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.

Brown, C., Ervin, E., Lyren, L. and R.N. Fisher, 2000. Arroyo Toad, Bufo Californicus 2000. USGS/USFS Survey Data.

Burke, V. J., J. E. Lovich, and J. W. Gibbons. 2000. Conservation of freshwater turtles. In, pp. 156-179, M. Klemens (ed.). Turtle Conservation. Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington, D.C.

CALFED Bay-Delta Program. 2000. Comprehensive Monitoring, Assessment and Research Program. Final Programmatic EIS/EIR Technical Appendix.

Carter, H. R., D. L. Whitworth, J. Y. Takekawa, T. W. Keeney, and P. R. Kelly. 2000. At-sea threats to Xantus' murrelets (Synthliborampus hypoleucus) in the Southern California Bight. Pages 435-447. In D. R. Browne, K. L. Mitchell, and H. W. Chaney (eds.). Proc. of the Fifth Calif. Islands Symposium. 29 March to 1 April 1999. U. S. Minerals Management Service. Camarillo, CA.

Casazza, M. L. and M. R. Miller. 2000. The Northern Pintail. In: Goals Project 2000. Baylands Ecosystem Species and Community Profiles: Life histories and environmental requirements of key plants, fish, and wildlife. Prepared by the San Francisco Bay Area Wetland Ecosystem Goals Project. P.R. Olofson, editor. San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, Oakland, Calif.

Casazza, M. L., G. D. Wylie, and C. J. Gregory. 2000. A funnel trap modification for surface collection of aquatic amphibians and reptiles. Herpetological Review 31(2): 91-92.

Casazza, M. L., J. P. Fleskes and M. R. Miller. 2000. Daily movement patterns of northern pintails wintering in diverse Central Valley landscapes. Second North American Duck Symposium. Oct. 2000. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Casazza, M.L., J. L. Yee, M.R. Miller, D.L. Orthmeyer. D. Yparraguirre, and R.L. Jarvis. 2000. Development of Reliable population indices for Band-tailed pigeons. USGS Final Report to Webless Migratory Game Bird Research Program Denver CO.

Chaffee, M., and K. H. Berry. 2000. Tortoise health and elemental chemistry of forage plants from desert tortoise habitat between the Rand Mining District and the Desert Tortoise Natural Area, California. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Chaney, S. and K, McEachern. 2000. Development and Implementation of an Alien Plant Control Strategy for Channel Islands National Park. Technical report. Channel Islands National Park and USGS-BRD-Channel Islands Field Station, Ventura, California.

Cornelius, S.E., G. Acheson, W. L. Halvorson, B. Miller, V. Morill, M. Taylor, D. Tiller, and B. Wellman. 2000. Building a case for ecosystem monitoring in the Sonoran Desert. Pp 21-22 in W. L. Halvorson and B. S. Gebow (eds), Creative Cooperation in Resource Management, Proceedings of the Third Conference on Research and Resource Management in the Southwestern Deserts, USGS Sonoran Desert Field Station, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

D. R. Weise, R. Kimberlin, M. Arbaugh, J. Chew, G. Jones, J. Merzenich, M. Witala, R. Keane, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 2000. Comparing potential fuel treatment trade-off models: initial results. Proc. Society Amer. Foresters Systems Analysis Symp.

Davis, K. and W. L. Halvorson. 2000. A study plan to inventory vascular plants and vertebrates: Sonoran Desert Network, National Park Service. A Report to the National Park Service, USGS Sonoran Desert Field Station, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 37 pp.

DeFalco, L. A. and R. S. Nowak. 2000. Does more carbon dioxide mean more plants in the Mojave? Should the native plants care? TipSheet News Release for Ecological Society of America Meeting, Snowbird, Utah.

DeFalco, L. A. and R. S. Nowak. 2000. Plant-plant interactions in an intact Mojave Desert plant community exposed to elevated atmospheric CO2. Paper presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Snowbird, Utah.

DeFalco, L. A. and R. S. Nowak. 2000. Plant-plant interactions in an intact plant community exposed to elevated atmospheric CO2 at the Nevada Desert FACE Facility. Poster presented at the FACE 2000 Meeting, Tsukuba, Japan.

DeFalco, L. A. and R. S. Nowak. 2000. Understanding the invasion of Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens into the Mojave Desert. Poster presented at the US Geological Survey Invasive Species Program Review, Annapolis, Maryland.

DeLoach, C.J., R.I. Carruthers, J.E. Lovich, T.L. Dudley, and S.D. Smith. 2000. Ecological interactions in the biological control of saltcedar (Tamarix spp.) in the United States: toward a new understanding. In, pp. 819-873, N. R. Spencer (ed.), Proceedings of the X International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds. 4-14 July, 1999, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana.

Dugan, J. E., D. M. Hubbard, D. L. Martin, J. M. Engle, D. M. Richards, G. E. Davis, K. D. Lafferty, R. F. Ambrose 2000. Macrofauna communities of exposed sandy beaches on the Southern California mainland and Channel Islands. pp 339-346 in, DR Brown, KL Mitchell and HW Chang eds., Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium. Minerals Management Service Publication # 99-0038.

Eadie, JM, TG Moore, and JT Ackerman. 2000. Experimental evaluation of the effect of mechanical wing decoys (‘moto-duck’) on hunting success and waterfowl response in California, 1999–2000. Technical Report to the California Waterfowl Association. 56 pp.

Ervin, E, L., R. N. Fisher, K. Madden. 2000. Predation: Hyla cadaverina. Herpetological Review 31(4): 234.

Esque, T., and C. Schwalbe. 2000. Non-native grasses and fires create double jeopardy. People, Land & Water(July/August): p. 26. . U.S. Department of the Interior.

Esque, T.C., L. A. DeFalco, P. A. Medica, M. L. Brooks and R. H. Webb. 2000. Predicted changes in Mojave fire frequency related to invasive annual grasses. Effects of a Hotter and Drier Climate, a USGS Workshop. Tuscon, AZ.

Estes. J.A. and C.H. Peterson. Marine ecological research in seashore and seafloor systems: accomplishments and future directions. Marine Ecology Progress Series 195:281-289.

Fellers, Gary M. 2000. Predation on Corynorhinus townsendii by Rattus rattus. Southwestern Naturalist 45(4):524-527.

Fellers, Gary M., Virginia Norris, Wilma Follette, Doreen Smith. 2000. Plant Checklist for Point Reyes National Seashore (Revised). Point Reyes National Seashore Association. ii+48 Pp.

Fisher, R.N. 2000. Reptile and Amphiban survey on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. Prepared for AC/S Environmental Security, Resource Management Division, MCB Camp Pendleton.

Fisher, R.N. & K. Crooks. 2000. Design and implementation of a wildlife monitoring program for the Tenaja Corridor. Annual Report to the Nature Conservancy.

Fisher, R.N. & T.J. Case. 2000. Final Report on Herpetofauna Monitoring in the Tijuana Estuary. Final Report to USFWS NAFTA Research Program.

Fisher, R.N. & T.J. Case. 2000. Southern California Herpetofauna Research and Monitoring: 1995-1999 Data Summation Report. Submitted to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and California Department of Fish and Game (on Hardcopy (200 pp.) and CD).

Fisher, R.N. and T.J. Case. 2000. A field guide to the reptiles and amphibians of coastal southern California. Website: http://www.werc.usgs.gov/fieldguide/

Fisher, R.N. and T.J. Case. 2000. Distribution of the herpetofauna of southern California with reference to elevation effects. Pages 137-143 in Keeley, J.E., M. Baer-Keeley, and C.J. Fotheringham (eds). 2nd Interface between ecology and land development in California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-Fire Report 00-62.

Fisher, R.N., Rochester, C., 2000. Monitoring Reptile and Amphibians at Long-Term Biodiversity Monitoring Stations: Nature Reserve of Orange County. Prepared for the Nature Reserve of Orange County.

Fleskes, J. P. 2000. Waterfowl distribution, movements and habitat use relative to recent habitat changes in the Central Valley of California. The Wildlife Society-The Western Section. January 2000. Riverside, CA.

Fleskes, J. P. 2000. Waterfowl distribution, movements and habitat use relative to recent habitat changes in the Central Valley of California. 3rd Annual Pacific Flyway Symposium. Mar., 2000, Otter Crest, OR.

Fleskes, J. P., M. L. Casazza, D. S. Gilmer, J. G Mensik, M. R. Miller, D.O. Orthmeyer, J. Y. Takekawa, J. L. Yee and D. R. Yparraguirre. 2000. Waterfowl ecology relative to recent habitat changes in the Central Valley of California. Second North American Duck Symposium. Oct. 2000. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Fleskes, J. P., M. L. Casazza, D. S. Gilmer, J. G. Mensik, M. R. Miller, D.O. Orthmeyer, J. Y. Takekawa, J. L. Yee and D. R. Yparraguirre. 2000. Waterfowl ecology relative to recent habitat changes in the Central Valley of California. CALFED Bay-Delta Program Science Conference 2000. Oct. 2000. Sacramento, CA.

Fleskes, J.P., M.L. Casazza. D.S. Gilmer, J.G. Mensik, M.R. Miller, D.L. Miller, J.Y. Takekawa, J.L. Yee and D.R. Yparriguirre. 2000. Waterfowl Ecology relative to recent habitat changes in the Central Valley, California. Second North American Duck Symposium and Workshop. Oct 11-15, 2000. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA.

Fleskes, J.P., Yee, J.Y., Casazza, M.L., Daugherty, J., and W.M. Perry. 2000. Waterfowl Distribution, Movements and Habitat Use Relative to Recent Habitat Changes in the Central Valley of California: Progress Report - June 2000.

Gilmer, D. S. 2000. Pepperweed: a growing threat to western wildlife habitat. People, Land & Water (July/August): p. 27. U.S. Department of the Interior.

Goldberg, C. S., C. R. Schwalbe, and B. Alberti. 2000. Population ecology and natural history of the barking frog at Coronado National Memorial. Pages 34-35 in W. L. Halvorson and B. S. Gebow (eds), Creative Cooperation in Resource Management, Proceedings of the Third Conference on Research and Resource Management in the Southwestern Deserts, USGS Sonoran Desert Field Station, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

Goode, M., P. Anning, and C. R. Schwalbe. 2000. Ecology and management of tiger rattlesnakes along the boundary of Saguaro National Park. Page 36 in W. L. Halvorson and B. S. Gebow (eds), Creative Cooperation in Resource Management, Proceedings of the Third Conference on Research and Resource Management in the Southwestern Deserts, USGS Sonoran Desert Field Station, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

Haas, C.D. 2000. Distribution, relative abundance, and roadway underpass responses of carnivores throughout the Puente-Chino Hills. M.S. thesis. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. 110p.

Halvorson, W. L. 2000. Arizona vegetation map. Report to the Arizona Game and Fish Department.

Halvorson, W. L. and B. S. Gebow (eds). 2000. Creative Cooperation in Resource Management, Proceedings of the Third Conference on Research and Resource Management in the Southwestern Deserts, USGS Sonoran Desert Field Station, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. 109 p.

Halvorson, W. L. and B. S. Gebow. 2000. Floristic surveys of Saguaro National Park Protected Natural Areas. USGS Sonoran Desert Field Station, University of Arizona, Technical Resport No. 68. 46 p.

Halvorson, W. L. and P. P. Guertin. 2000. Invaders in the Desert. Pp 42-43 in W. L. Halvorson and B. S. Gebow (eds), Creative Cooperation in Resource Management, Proceedings of the Third Conference on Research and Resource Management in the Southwestern Deserts, USGS Sonoran Desert Field Station, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

Hatfield, B., and R.J. Jameson. 2000. Abstract. Status of the California (USA) sea otter population as indicated by recent surveys and mortality patterns. In Gorbics C.S., G.R. VanBlaricom, B.E. Ballachey, N.J. Thomas, and M. Staedler (editors). Sea otter conservation: report from the sixth joint U.S. Russia sea otter workshop. Forks, Washington, 9-15 November 1997. Page 41.

Hathaway, S.A. 2000. An Exploratory Analysis of the Biogeographic Distribution of Herpetofauna (Reptiles and Amphibians) And Environmental Variation in San Diego County Using Museum Records and Survey Data. Master's Thesis, San Diego State University 81 pp.

Haxel, G. B., R. J. Knight, K. H. Berry, B. L. Homer, and M. A. Chaffee. 2000. Trace element systematics of desert tortoise shell. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Hickey, C., N. Warnock, and J. Takekawa. 2000. Space and habitat use of black-necked stilts in the San Francisco Bay estuary. Colonial Waterbirds Meeting. Boston, MA.

Hoffman, D.J., P.H. Albers, M.J. Melancon, and A.K. Miles. 2000. Effects of the mosquito larvicide GB-1111 on mallard and bobwhite embryos. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, annual meeting abstract book 21:230.

Holekamp, K. E., Boydston, E. E., and L. Smale. 2000. Group travel in social carnivores. In: On the Move: How and Why Animals Travel in Groups. S. Boinski and P. Garber (Eds.). Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 587-627.

Homer, B. L., L. Domico, J. E. Williams, B. Heaton-Jones, and K. H. Berry. 2000. Desert tortoises as sentinels of environmental toxicants. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Hothem, R.L. and A.N. Powell. 2000. Contaminants in eggs of western snowy plovers and California least terns: Is there a link to population decline? Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 65 (1):42-50.

Hothem, R.L., J.T. May, M.R. Jennings, M.A. Law, C.N. Alpers, and M.P. Hunerlach. 2000. Biological indicators of mercury contamination from historic gold mining in the Bear River and Yuba River watershed, California. Assessing and managing mercury from historic and current mining activities conference, San Francisco, CA November 28-30, 2000.

Howell, J.A., Brooks, G.C. and Semenoff-Irving, M. 2000. Population dynamics of tule elk at Point Reyes National Seashore, California. USGS - Western Ecological Research Center, Golden Gate Field Station, Sacramento, CA. 38 pp.

Hui, Clifford A. and W.N. Beyer. 2000. Direct ingestion of environmental contaminants: geophagy in two sympatric shorebird species. Science Conference 2000, CalFed Bay-Delta Program. Oct 3-5, 2000.

J. L. Yee, J. P. Fleskes, D. S. Gilmer, J. G. Mensik and D. R. Yparraguirre. 2000. Aerial surveying of waterfowl in the California Central Valley. Second North American Duck Symposium. Oct. 2000. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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Miles, A. K., J. Y. Takekawa, D. H. Schoellhamer, C. T. Lu, W. G. Duffy, and M. K. Saiki. 2000. Science support for wetland restoration in the Napa-Sonoma salt ponds, San Francisco Bay estuary, 1999 progress report. Unpubl. Prog. Rep., U. S. Geological Survey, Davis and Vallejo, CA. 57pp.

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Miles, A.K., S.E. Spring. 2000. Investigation of the biological impact of TCE and PCE on wild rodent and reptile populations, Edwards Air Force Base, CA. Field Activity at IRP Sites 25, 37, 133, and corresponding reference areas. 2000 Progress Report to Edwards Air Force Base. U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Western Ecological Research Center, Davis Field Station, University of California, Davis, California. 15 pp.

Miles, A.K., S.P. Lawler, D.J. Hoffman, P.H. Albers, M.J. Melancon, D. Dritz, S.E. Spring and D.M. Buscemi. 2000. Experimental assessment of the toxicity of mosquito larvicide golden bear oil (GB-1111): (1) Field evaluations on duckling, target, and non-target prey survival; (2) Laboratory evaluations on reared mallard and bobwhite eggs, and wild redwing blackbird eggs. Final Report to the US Fish and Wildlife Service Environmental Contaminants Program, On-Refuge Investigations Sub-Activity. 38 pp.

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Miner, K., D. Stokes. 2000. Status, conservation issues, and research needs of bats in the South coast ecoregion. Presented at the USGS/USDA biodiversity conference in Pomona, California.

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Morafka, D. J., and K. H. Berry. 2000. Is Gopherus agassizii a desert-adapted tortoise or an exaptive opportunist? Implications for tortoise nutrition. Presentation at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Morales-Vela, B., D. Olivera-Gomez, J.E. Reynolds, III, and G.B. Rathbun. 2000. Distribution and habitat use by manatees Trichechus manatus manatus in Belize and Chetumal Bay, Mexico. Biological Conservation 95:67-75.

Nicolai, N. C. and J. E. Lovich. 2000. Preliminary observations of the behavior of male, flat-tailed horned lizards before and after an off-highway vehicle race in California. California Fish and Game 86(3):208-212.

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Paddack, M., and J.A. Estes. 2000. Comparison of kelp forest fish populations inside and outside of marine reserves in central California. Ecological Applications 10:855-870.

Pease, K., Fisher, R.N., 2000. Report on Pitfall Trapping of Ants at the Biospecies Sites in the Nature Reserve of Orange County, California. Prepared for Nature Reserve of Orange County and The Irvine Co. Open Space Reserve. 14pgs.

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Yoder, C. K., P. Vivin, L. A. DeFalco, J. R. Seemann, and R. S. Nowak. 2000. Root growth and function of three Mojave Desert grasses in response to elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration. New Phytologist 145:245-256.

Ackerman, JT. 1999. Hard times for nesting ducks on Grizzly Island. California Waterfowl, December 1998/January 1999: 36–37.

Ackerman, JT. 1999. The impact of predation and small mammal densities on waterfowl nest success. Delta Waterfowl Foundation Student Symposium. Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, July 29–August 1.

Anthony, R.G., A.K. Miles, J.A. Estes and F.B. Isaacs. 1999. Productivity, diets, and environmental contaminants in nesting bald eagles from the Aleutian Archipelago. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Vol. 18, No. 9, pp. 2054-2062.

Avery, H.W. 1999. Livestock grazing in the Mojave Desert in relation to the desert tortoise. Mojave Desert Science Symposium, USGS, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, Feb. 25-27, 1999.

Bacon, C.E., W.M. Jarman, J.A. Estes, M. Simon, and R.J. Norstrom. 1999. Comparison of organochlorine contaminants among sea otter (Enhydra lutris) populations in California and Alaska. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 18:452-458.

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Brooks, M., T. Esque, S. Benjamin, and D. DelSordo. 1999. Digital database of fire perimeters in the Mojave Desert. United States Department of the Interior.

Brooks, M.L. 1999. Alien annual grasses and fire in the Mojave Desert. Madroño 46(1):13-19

Brooks, M.L. 1999. Does protection of desert tortoise habitat generate other ecological benefits in the Mojave Desert? Wilderness Science: In a Time of Change conference. Missoula, MT.

Brooks, M.L. 1999. Effects of Protective Fencing on Birds, Lizards, and Black-Tailed Hares in the Western Mojave Desert. Environmental Management 23:387-400.

Brooks, M.L. 1999. Factors affecting alien annual plant abundance at a site in the western Mojave Desert: effects of human disturbance, microhabitat, topography, and rainfall. Mojave Desert Science Symposium. Las Vegas, NV

Brooks, M.L. 1999. Habitat invasibility and dominance by alien annual plants in the western Mojave Desert. Biological Invasions 1:325-337.

Brooks, M.L. and K.H. Berry. 1999. Ecology and Management of Alien Annual Plants in the California Deserts. CalEPPC News (California Exotic Pest Plant Council Newsletter). 7(3/4):4-6.

Brooks, M.L. and L. DeFalco. 1999. Exotic Plant Species in Desert Tortoise Habitat. Desert Tortoise Council Symposium. St. George, UT.

Brooks, M.L. and T. Esque. 1999. Non-native grass invasions and fire in the Mojave Desert. USGS Fact Sheet, last updated 8 September, 2001. Available online at http://www.werc.usgs.gov/invasivespecies/mojavegrassfire.html

Brown, M. B. K. H. Berry, I. M. Schumacher, K. A. Nagy, M. M. Christopher, and P. A. Klein. 1999. Seroepidemiology of upper respiratory tract disease in the desert tortoise of California. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 35(4):716-727.

CALFED Bay-Delta Program. 1999. Organic Carbon Drinking Water Quality Workshop Proceedings. August 26-27, 1999. Lawrence Smith, Andrea Atkinson, Carolyn Marn, editors. Final draft. 84 pp.

Carrington, M.E. and J.E. Keeley. 1999. Comparison of postfire seedling establishment between scrub communities in mediterranean- and non-mediterranean-climate ecosystems. Journal of Ecology 87:1025-1036.

Chaney, S.and K. McEachern. 1999. Development of a weed control strategy for Channel Islands National Park. Fifth California Islands Symposium, April, 1999, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California.

Chaney, S.and K. McEachern. 1999. Development of a weed control strategy for Channel Islands National Park. Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium, April, 1999, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California. 3pps.

Chaney, S.and K. McEachern. 1999. Erosion control and revegetation on Santa Barbara Islands in Channel Islands National Park. Fifth California Islands Symposium, April, 1999, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California.

Chaney, S.and K. McEachern. 1999. Erosion control and revegetation on Santa Barbara Islands in Channel Islands National Park. Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium, April, 1999, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California. 3pps.

Christopher, M. M., K. H. Berry, I. R. Wallis, K. A. Nagy, B. T. Henen, and C. C. Peterson. 1999. Reference intervals and physiologic alterations in hematologic and biochemical values of free-ranging desert tortoises in the Mojave Desert. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 35(2):212-238.

Coonan, et al. 1999. Conservation strategies for rare taxa of the Channel Islands National Park. Fifth California Islands Symposium, April, 1999, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California.

Corry, P. and K. McEachern. 1999. Native shrub recovery in nonnative annual grasslands, California Channel Islands. Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium, April, 1999, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California. 3pps.

DeFalco, L. A., D. M. Bryla and R. S. Nowak. 1999. The effects of nitrogen fertilization and plant density on resource acquisition by non-native and native Mojave Desert ephemerals (poster presentation). The 84th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Spokane, Washington.

DeFalco, L. and M.L. Brooks. 1999. Ecology and Management of Alien Plants. Mojave Desert Science Symposium. Las Vegas, NV

Dobson, A., K. Ralls, M. Foster, M.E. Soulé, D. Simberloff, D. Doak, J.A. Estes, L.S. Mills, D. Mattson, R. Dirzo, H. Arita, S. Ryan, E.A. Norse, R.F. Noss, and D. Johns. 1999. Connectivity: maintaining flows in fragmented landscapes. Pp. 129-170 in, M. E. Soulé and J. Terborgh, eds., Continental Conservation, Island Press, Washington, D.C.

Douglas, C.L. and D.M. Leslie, Jr. 1999. Management of bighorn sheep. Chapter 8: pp.238-262 In Valdez, R. and P.R. Krausman Mountain sheep in North America. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Dugan, J. E., D. M. Hubbard, D. L. Martin, J. M. Engle, D. M. Richards, G. E. Davis, K. D. Lafferty, R. F. Ambrose 1999. Macrofauna communities of exposed sandy beaches on the Southern California mainland and Channel Islands. California Channel Islands Symposium (Research Paper).

Esque, T. C. 1999. Managing fire and invasive plants in the Mojave Desert: defining an integrated research program to address knowledge gaps. In, 25-27. Jeffrey Lovich (ed.), Proceedings: Mojave Desert Science Symposium. Las Vegas, NV.

Esque, T. C., D. F. Haines, and J. McCleave. 1999. Impacts of recreation on the desert tortoise and other wildlife in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve. Report prepared for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 12 pp.

Esque, T. C., M. J. Nijhuis, D. F. Haines, J. W. Clark, P. J. Swantek, and C. R. Schwalbe. 1999. Effects of fire on desert tortoises at Saguaro National Park. In, W. Halvorson (ed.), Proceedings: Conference on a Century of Research In Parks. Tucson, Arizona, May 5-7, 1998.

Esque, T., S. Eckert, L. Evers, T. Duck, B. Bracken, T. Bartlett. 1999. Interagency cooperation and a large-scale habitat manipulation: the effects of alien plants and granivores on ecological recovery following wildfire (poster presentation). Mojave Desert Science Symposium, Las Vegas, NV.

Esque, T.C., C.R. Schwalbe, M.J. Nijhuis, D.F. Haines, and J.W. Clark. 1999. Short-term effects of fire on desert tortoises at Saguaro National Park. In, B. Bartholomew (ed.), Proceedings: The 23th Annual Desert Tortoise Council Symposium. Tucson, Arizona, April 3-5, 1998.

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Estes, J.A. 1999. Reply to Garshelis and Johnson. Science 283:177.

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Falk, D. A., M. K. Briggs, and W. L. Halvorson. 1999. The riparian ranking (R3) System: A tool for setting Priorities in a Resource-Limited World. Proceedings of the Restoration Conference, March 1999, Tucson, AZ.

Falk, D. A., M. K. Briggs, and W. L. Halvorson. 1999. The riparian ranking (R3) System: A tool for setting priorities in a resource-limited world., Report to the U.S. Forest Service, Region 2, Albuquerque, NM.

Fisher, R. and B. Kus. 1999. Research support for urban-wildland planning in Southern California (poster).

Fisher, R. and B. Kus. 1999. Research support for urban-wildland planning in Southern California. Poster and Powerpoint Presentation developed for David Hayes, Deputy Secretary of the Interior.

Fisher, R.N., Swift, C.C., 1999. Second year of surveying for fishes on the Santa Margarita River, San Diego and Riverside counties, California: September-December, 1998. Prepared for The Nature Conservancy.

Fleskes, J. P. 1999. Ecology of female northern pintails during winter in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Ph. D. Dissertation, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR. 215pp.

Fleskes, J. P. , M. Casazza, J. Yee, D. Orthmeyer, W. Perry and J. Daugherty. 1999. Waterfowl distribution, movements and habitat use relative to recent habitat changes in the Central Valley of California. Unpubl. Progress Report.

Fleskes, J. P. 1999. Waterfowl distribution, movements and habitat use relative to recent habitat changes in the Central Valley of California. 2nd Annual Pacific Flyway Symposium. Mar. 1999, Monterey, CA.

Goforth, D. and M. A. Madej 1999. Longpro (Software application). Plots and calculates stream bed elevations, pool depths, and pool statistics for longitudinal profile surveys of rivers.

Goforth, D. and M. A. Madej 1999. Scour (Software application). Plots and calculates changes in channel area and hydraulic parameters for river cross-sectional surveys.

Gosz, J., Asher, J., Holder, B., Knight, R., Naiman, R., Raines, G., Stine, P.A., and Wigley, B. 1999 Ecosystem and Landscape Diversity IN Ecological Stewardship: A Common Reference for Ecosystem Management; Edited by W.T. Sexton, R.C. Szaro, N.C. Johnson, and A.J. Malk, Elsevier Science, Oxford, England.

Griffin, P.C., Case, T.J., & R.N. Fisher. 1999. Radio telemetry study of Bufo californicus, arroyo toad movement patterns and habitat preferences. Contract Report for the California Department of Transportation Southern Biology Pool. 66 pp.

Griffin, P.C., Case, T.J., and R.N. Fisher. 1999. Radio telemetry study of Bufo californicus, arroyo toad movement patterns and habitat preferences. Contract Report for the California Department of Transportation Southern Biology Pool. 66 pp.

Haas, C.D. and K.R. Crooks. 1999. Carnivore abundance and distribution throughout the Puente/Chino Hills. Prepared for the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority and State of California Department of Transportation. 128 pp.

Haines, D. F., T. C. Esque, and C. R. Tracy. 1999. Hibernation temperatures, timing, and site characteristics for desert tortoises in the northeast Mojave Desert (poster presentation). The 24th Annual Desert Tortoise Council Symposium. St. George, UT.

Halstead, Brian J. 1999. Distribution and quantification of mononuclear lymphoid cells in the northern leopard frog, Rana pipiens, during metamorphosis. 1999 North-central Regional βββ Meeting. Naperville, Illinois, USA.

Halvorson, W. L. 1999. A review of science and ecosystem management in the U. S. National Parks. Pp 147-148 in Harmon, D. (ed), On the Frontiers of Conservation, Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Research and Resource Management in Parks and on Public Lands, The George Wright Society, Hancock, Michigan.

Halvorson, W. L. and C. Eastin. 1999. The partnership between park wild life management policy and landscape wild life management policy. How shall we then manage? George Wright Society Bulletin 16: 77-90.

Harker, M, G.B. Rathbun, and C.A. Langtimm. 1999. Beaded-chain collars: a new method to radiotag kangaroo rats for short-term studies. Wildlife Society Bulletin 27:314-317.

Hatfield, B.B. and G.B. Rathbun. 1999. Interactions between northern elephant seals and vehicles near Point Piedras Blancas, California. Marine Mammal Science 15(2):598-600.

Hiett, K. L., W. L. Halvorson, and B. Alberti. 1999. Status and long-term monitoring of Palmer's Agave at Coronado National Memorial. Pp 42-43 in Benson, L. and B. Gebow (eds), A Century of Parks in Southern Arizona: Second Conference on Research and Resource Management in Southern Arizona National Parks. National Park Service and USGS Sonoran Desert Field Station, University of Arizona, Tucson.

Holekamp, K. E., Boydston, E. E., Szykman, S., Graham, I., Nutt, K., Birch, S., Piskiel, A., and M. Singh. 1999. Vocal recognition in the spotted hyaena and its possible implications regarding the evolution of intelligence. Animal Behaviour 58:383-395.

Holekamp, K. E., Szykman, M., Boydston, E. E. & Smale, L. 1999. Association of seasonal reproductive patterns with changing food availability in an equatorial carnivore, the spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta). Journal of Reproduction and Fertility, 116: 87-93.

Howell, J.A. 1999. Habitat use and urban influences on bobcat and gray fox. Ph.D. Dissertation. S.P. Riley. University of California, Davis

Howell, J.A. and D. Fong. 1999. Distribution and abundance of signal crayfish (Pacifasticus leniusculus) and larval California giant salamander (Dicamptodon ensatus) in Muir Woods National Monument, Marin County, CA. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division, 80th Annual Meeting, June 1999, San Francisco, California.

Howell, J.A. and M. Semenoff-Irving. 1999. Grazing effects on biodiversity of terrestrial vertebrates in a California national park. The George Wright Society biannual Conference. March 1999. Asheville, North Carolina.

Howell, J.A. and M. Semenoff-Irving. 1999. Terrestrial Vertebrate Inventory and Monitoring at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area: some highlights and insights since 1990. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division, 80th Annual Meeting, June 1999, San Francisco, California.

Howell, J.A., D.A. Hatch, R.L. Hothem, A. Fish, W. Sydeman, and M.E. Brown. 1999. The role of island biogeography in the management of wildlife on Alcatraz Island, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California. 4th International Symposium on Urban Wildlife, May 1999, Tucson, Arizona.

Hui, C. A. and O. Ellers. 1999. Effect of high aluminum consumption on mechanics and composition of furculae of free-ranging coots. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 18:970-975.

Hui, Clifford A. 1999. Elemental contaminants in the livers and ingesta of four subpopulations of the American coot (Fulica americana): an herbivorous winter migrant in San Francisco Bay. State of the Estuary Conference, San Franicsco, CA, March 17-19, 1999. page 62.

J. W. van Wagtendonk, and P. E. Moore. 1999. Plant community analysis and mapping for Yosemite National Park. USGS Status and Trends Review. May 18-20, 1999, Tucson, AZ.

Jameson R.J. 1999. Status of Wild Sea Otters in California, Oregon, and Washington. Abstract. Proceedings of a workshop on research on captive and wild sea otter populations, 17-20 February 1999, Seattle, WA.

Jameson, R. J. 1999. Distribution and abundance of sea otters in Washington State, 1997-1999. This is the database for the annual surveys of the Washington sea otter population. Surveys are ongoing, including an annual survey report.

Jameson, R. J., and S. Jeffries. 1999. Results of the 1999 survey of the reintroduced sea otter population in Washington state. IUCN Otter Specialist Bulletin 16(2): 79-85.

Jameson, R.J. and B.B. Hatfield. 1999. Distribution and abundance of sea otters in California, 1982-1999. This is the database for the semiannual surveys of the California sea otter population. Surveys are ongoing. Reports on each survey are produced by Brian Hatfield.

Jameson, R.J., M. Stafford, B. Krausse, and S. Jeffries. 1999. An overview of the Biological Resources Division (USGS) sea otter project in Washington. In Bowlby, C.E. and J.Parrish (eds.). Olympic Coast Marine Research '98: Proceedings of a workshop. Seattle, Washington, Feb. 12-13, 1998. Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary.

Jameson, R.J., M. Stafford, B. Krausse, and S. Jeffries. 1999. An overview of the Biological Resources Division (USGS) sea otter project in Washington. In Bowlby, C.E. and J.Parrish (eds.). Olympic Coast Marine Research '98: Proceedings of a workshop. Seattle, Washington, Feb. 12-13, 1998. Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary.

Jennings, M. R. 1999. Angeles and San Bernadino National Forest mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa) surveys, 1998. Final report prepared for the United States Department of Agriculture, Angeles National Forest, Arcadia, California, through Interagency Agreement (IA-97-5-01-67-019). U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Western Ecological Research Center, Piedras Blancas Field Station, San Simeon, California. 7 pp.

Jordan, D. N., C. Biggart, S. F. Zitzer, L. A. DeFalco, and R. S. Nowak. 1999. Interaction of leaf conductance and soil water availability of three native Mojave Desert species exposed to Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) (poster presentation). The 84th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Spokane, Washington.

Junak, S. A., W. L. Halvorson, C. Schwemm, and T. Keeney. 1997. San Nicoloas Island Sensitive Plants II. University of Arizona, USGS Cooperative Park Studies Unit, Technical Report 57.

Keeley, J.E. 1999. Photosynth