• Advantages of nonlinear mixed models for fitting avian growth curves 

  Sofaer, Helen R.; Chapman, Phillip L.; Sillett, T. S.; Ghalambor, Cameron K. (2013)
• Parthenogenesis in a captive Asian water dragon (<I>Physignathus cocincinus</I>) identified with novel microsatellites 

  Miller, Kyle L.; Castañeda Rico, Susette; Muletz-Wolz, Carly; Campana, Michael G.; McInerney, Nancy; Augustine, Lauren; Frere, Celine; Peters, Alan M.; Fleischer, Robert C. (2019)
• Gut microbiome differences between wild and captive black rhinoceros - implications for rhino health 

  Gibson, Keylie M.; Nguyen, Bryan N.; Neumann, Laura M.; Miller, Michele; Buss, Peter; Daniels, Savel; Ahn, Michelle J.; Crandall, Keith A.; Pukazhenthi, Budhan (2019)

  A number of recent studies have shown the importance of the mammalian gut microbiome in host health. In the context of endangered species, a few studies have examined the relationship between the gut microbiome in wild ...
• Fungal disease and temperature alter skin microbiome structure in an experimental salamander system 

  Muletz-Wolz, Carly; Fleischer, Robert C.; Lips, Karen R. (2019)

  Pathogens compete with host microbiomes for space and resources. Their shared environment impacts pathogen-microbiome-host interactions, which can lead to variation in disease outcome. The skin microbiome of red-backed ...
• Growing season moisture drives interannual variation in woody productivity of a temperate deciduous forest 

  Helcoski, Ryan; Tepley, Alan J.; Pederson, Neil; McGarvey, Jennifer C.; Meakem, Victoria; Herrmann, Valentine; Thompson, Jonathan R.; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina (2019)

  1.The climate sensitivity of forest ecosystem woody productivity (ANPPstem ) influences carbon cycle responses to climate change. For the first time, we combine long-term annual growth and forest census data of a diverse ...
• Identifying Evolutionarily Significant Units and Prioritizing Populations for Management on Islands 

  Robertson, Jeanne M.; Langin, Kathryn M.; Sillett, T. S.; Morrison, Scott A.; Ghalambor, Cameron K.; Funk, W. C. (2014)
• Stand Structure and Acorn Production of the Island Scrub Oak ( <I>Quercus pacifica</I> ) 

  Pesendorfer, Mario B.; Langin, Kathryn M.; Cohen, Brian; Principe, Zachary; Morrison, Scott A.; Sillett, T. S. (2014)
• Approaches for the Direct Estimation of Rate of Increase in Population Size ( ? ) Using Capture-Recapture Data 

  Nichols, James D.; Sillett, T. Scott; Hines, James E.; Holmes, Richard T. (U.S. Forest Service. Pacific Southwest Research Station, 2005)
• Increasing conservation translocation success by building social functionality in released populations 

  Goldenberg, Shifra Z.; Owen, Megan A.; Brown, Janine L.; Wittemyer, George; Oo, Zaw Min; Leimgruber, Peter (2019)

  The importance of animal behavior to successful wildlife translocations has been acknowledged in recent decades, and it has been increasingly considered and more frequently incorporated into translocation management and ...
• Demographic Tipping Points as Early Indicators of Vulnerability for Slow-Breeding Megafaunal Populations 

  de Silva, Shermin; Leimgruber, Peter (2019)

  Decisions based on trends in population abundance and distribution may fail to protect populations of slow-breeding, long-lived megafauna from irrevocable decline if they ignore demographic constraints. For such taxa, we ...
• Activin promotes growth and antral cavity expansion in the dog ovarian follicle 

  Nagashima, Jennifer B.; Wildt, David E.; Travis, Alexander J.; Songsasen, Nucharin (2019)

  Understanding regulators of folliculogenesis remains limited in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris), which challenges our ability to develop in vitro follicle culture systems for canid genome rescue efforts. Here, we ...
• Spatial and temporal patterns of public and private land protection within the Blue Ridge and Piedmont ecoregions of the eastern US 

  Lacher, Iara; Akre, Thomas; Mcshea, William J.; Fergus, Craig (2019)

  Protected lands are an established method for conserving biodiversity and ecosystem services. Moreover, agencies and organizations are increasingly looking to private lands as places for new protected lands establishment. ...
• Orangutans (<I>Pongo pygmaeus</I> and Hybrid) and Gorillas (<I>Gorilla gorilla gorilla</I>) Modify Their Visual, but Not Auditory, Communicative Behaviors, Depending on the Attentional State of a Human Experimenter 

  Botting, Jennifer; Bastian, Meredith L. (2019)

  The ability to judge the visual attention of others is a key aspect of human social cognition and communication. While evidence has shown that chimpanzees can discriminate human attention based on eye cues alone, findings ...
• Concurrent visual encounter sampling validates eDNA selectivity and sensitivity for the endangered wood turtle (<I>Glyptemys insculpta</I>) 

  Akre, Thomas S.; Parker, Lillian D.; Ruther, Ellery; Maldonado, Jesus E.; Lemmon, Lorien; McInerney, Nancy Rotzel (2019)

  Environmental DNA (eDNA) has been used to record the presence of many different organisms in several different aquatic and terrestrial environments. Although eDNA has been demonstrated as a useful tool for the detection ...
• Whole Genome Sequencing and Re-sequencing of the Sable Antelope (Hippotragus niger): A Resource for Monitoring Diversity in ex Situ and in Situ Populations 

  Koepfli, Klaus-Peter; Tamazian, Gaik; Wildt, David E.; Dobrynin, Pavel; Kim, Changhoon; Frandsen, Paul B.; Godinho, Raquel; Yurchenko, Andrey A.; Komissarov, Aleksey; Krasheninnikova, Ksenia; Kliver, Sergei; Kolchanova, Sofia; Gonçalves, Margarida; Carneiro, Miguel; Vaz Pinto, Pedro; Ferrand, Nuno; Maldonado, Jesús E.; Ferrie, Gina M.; Chemnick, Leona; Ryder, Oliver A.; Johnson, Warren E.; Comizzoli, Pierre; O'Brien, Stephen J.; Pukazhenthi, Budhan S. (2019)

  Genome-wide assessment of genetic diversity has the potential to increase the ability to understand admixture, inbreeding, kinship and erosion of genetic diversity affecting both captive (ex situ) and wild (in situ) ...
• A comprehensive analysis of autocorrelation and bias in home range estimation 

  Noonan, Michael J.; Tucker, Marlee A.; Fleming, Christen H.; Akre, Thomas S.; Alberts, Susan C.; Ali, Abdullahi H.; Altmann, Jeanne; Antunes, Pamela Castro; Belant, Jerrold L.; Beyer, Dean; Blaum, Niels; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Cullen, Laury; Paula, Rogerio Cunha; Dekker, Jasja; Drescher-Lehman, Jonathan; Farwig, Nina; Fichtel, Claudia; Fischer, Christina; Ford, Adam T.; Goheen, Jacob R.; Janssen, René; Jeltsch, Florian; Kauffman, Matthew; Kappeler, Peter M.; Koch, Flávia; LaPoint, Scott; Markham, A. Catherine; Medici, Emilia Patricia; Morato, Ronaldo G.; Nathan, Ran; Oliveira-Santos, Luiz Gustavo R.; Olson, Kirk A.; Patterson, Bruce D.; Paviolo, Agustin; Ramalho, Emiliano Esterci; Rösner, Sascha; Schabo, Dana G.; Selva, Nuria; Sergiel, Agnieszka; Xavier da Silva, Marina; Spiegel, Orr; Thompson, Peter; Ullmann, Wiebke; Zieba, Filip; Zwijacz-Kozica, Tomasz; Fagan, William F.; Mueller, Thomas; Calabrese, Justin M. (2019)
• Diagnosing cardiovascular disease in western lowland gorillas (<I>Gorilla gorilla gorilla</I>) with brain natriuretic peptide 

  Murray, Suzan; Kishbaugh, Jennifer C.; Hayek, Lee-Ann C.; Kutinsky, Ilana; Dennis, Patricia M.; Devlin, William; Hope, Katharine L.; Danforth, Marietta D.; Murphy, Hayley W. (2019)

  Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in zoo-housed great apes, accounting for 41% of adult gorilla death in North American zoological institutions. Obtaining a timely and accurate diagnosis of cardiovascular ...
• Population Genomics and Structure of the Critically Endangered Mariana Crow (<I>Corvus kubaryi</I>) 

  Cortes-Rodriguez, Nandadevi; Campana, Michael G.; Berry, Lainie; Faegre, Sarah; Derrickson, Scott R.; Ha, Renee Robinette; Dikow, Rebecca B.; Rutz, Christian; Fleischer, Robert C. (2019)

  The Mariana Crow, or &amp;Aring;ga (Corvus kubaryi), is a critically endangered species (IUCN -International Union for Conservation of Nature), endemic to the islands of Guam and Rota in the Mariana Archipelago. It is ...
• No significant increase in tree mortality following coring in a temperate hardwood forest 

  Helcoski, Ryan; Tepley, Alan J.; McGarvey, Jennifer C.; Gonzalez-Akre, Erika; Meakem, Victoria; Thompson, Jonathan R.; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina (2019)

  The collection of tree-ring data from living trees is widespread and highly valuable in ecological and dendro-climatological research, yet there is concern that coring injures trees, potentially contributing to mortality. ...
• Railway underpass location affects migration distance in Tibetan antelope (<I>Pantholops hodgsonii</I>) 

  Xu, Wenjing; Huang, Qiongyu; Stabach, Jared; Buho, Hoshino; Leimgruber, Peter (2019)

  Wildlife crossings are designed to mitigate barrier effects of transportation infrastructure on wildlife movement. Most efforts in evaluating crossing efficiency focus on counting animal use. However, crossings placed at ...

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