Recent publications, links, and downloads
Wisely, S. M., J. J. Ososky, and S. W. Buskirk. 2002. Morphological changes to black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) resulting from captivity. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80:1562-1568. Link to PDF
Wisely, S. M., S. W. Buskirk , M. A. Fleming, D. B. McDonald, and E. A. Ostrander. 2002. Genetic variability in black-footed ferrets before and during a bottleneck. Journal of Heredity 93:231-237. Link to PDF
Buskirk, S. W., and W. J. Zielinski. 2003. Small and mid-sized carnivores. Pages 207-249 in C. J. Zabel and R. G. Anthony, editors. Mammal community dynamics: management and conservation in coniferous forests of western North America. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U. K. Link to PDF
Powell, R. A., S. W. Buskirk, and W. J. Zielinski. 2003. Fisher and marten. Pages 635-649 in G. A. Feldhamer, B. Thompson, and J. A. Chapman, editors. Wild mammals of North America. Second edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.
Wisely, S. M., D. B. McDonald, and S. W. Buskirk. 2003. Evaluation of the genetic management of the endangered black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes). Zoo Biology 22:287-298. Link to PDF
Wisely, S. M., S. W. Buskirk, G. A. Russell, K. B. Aubry, and W. J. Zielinski. 2004. Phylogeography and genetic diversity of the fisher (Martes pennanti) in a peninsular and peripheral metapopulation. Journal of Mammalogy 85:640-648. Link to PDF
Aubry, K. B., S. M. Wisely, C. M. Raley, and S. W. Buskirk. 2004. Zoogeography, spacing patterns, and dispersal in fishers: insights gained from combining field and genetic data. Pages 187-206 in D. J. Harrison, A. K. Fuller, and G. Proulx, editors. Marten and fishers (Martes) in human-altered environments: an international perspective. Springer, New York, New York. Link to PDF
Buskirk, S. W. 2004. Keeping an eye on the neighbors. Science 306:238-239. Link to URL
Buskirk, S. W., and S. M. Wisely. 2005. Appraising conservation value on private lands. Pages 173-189 in J. F. Shogren, editor. Species at risk: using economic incentives to shelter endangered species on private lands. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.
Stephens, P. A., S. W. Buskirk, G. D. Hayward, and C. Martinez del Rio. 2005. Information theory and hypothesis testing: a call for pluralism. Journal of Applied Ecology 42:4-12. Link to PDF
Donadio, E., and S. W. Buskirk. 2006. Flight behavior of guanacos and vicunas in areas of western Argentina with and without poaching. Biological Conservation 127:139-145. Link to PDF
Buskirk, S. W., and J. J. Millspaugh. 2006. Metrics for studies of resource selection. Journal of Wildlife Management 70:358-366. Link to PDF
Pauli, J. N., S. W. Buskirk, E. S. Williams, and W. H. Edwards. 2006. A plague epizootic in the black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 42:74-80.
Donadio, E., and S. W. Buskirk. 2006. Diet, morphology and interspecific killing in Carnivora. American Naturalist 167:524-536. Link to PDF Link to URL
Donadio, E., and S. Buskirk. 2006. Pourquoi les carnivores tuent-ils d’autres carnivores? La Gazette des Grands Prédateurs 20:20-21.
Pauli, J. N., and S. W. Buskirk. 2007. Recreational shooting of prairie dogs: a portal for lead entering wildlife food chains. Journal of Wildlife Management 71:103-108. Link to PDF
Stephens, P., S. Buskirk, and C. Martinez del Rio. 2007. Inference in ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22:192-197.
Stephens, P., S. Buskirk, G. Hayward, and C. Martinez del Rio. 2007. A call for statistical pluralism answered. Journal of Applied Ecology 44:461-463.
Pauli, J. N. and S. W. Buskirk. 2007. Risk-disturbance overrides density dependence in a hunted colonial rodent, the black-tailed prairie dog Cynomys ludovicianus. Journal of Applied Ecology 44:1219-1230. Link to PDF
Martinez del Rio, C., S. W. Buskirk, and P. A. Stephens. 2007. Response to Gibbons et al.: Null hypothesis significance tests in education and inference. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22:446.
Zahratka, J. L., and S. W. Buskirk. 2007. Is size of fecal pellets a reliable indicator of species of leporids in the southern Rocky Mountains? Journal of Wildlife Management 71:2081-2083.
Kim, S., J. Tschirhart, and S. W. Buskirk. 2007. Reconstructing past ecosystem processes with general equilibrium models: house mice in Kern County, California, 1926-27. Ecological Modelling 209:235-248. Link to PDF
Grenier, M. B., D. B. McDonald, and S. W. Buskirk. 2007. Rapid population growth of a critically endangered carnivore. Science 317:779. Link to URL
Pauli, J. N., M. B. Hamilton, E. B. Crain, and S. W. Buskirk. 2008. A single-sampling hair trap for mesocarnivores. Journal of Wildlife Management 72:1650-1652.
Thomas, J. G., J. N. Pauli, E. Donadio, and S. W. Buskirk. 2008. Soboliphyme baturini infection does not affect the nutritional condition of American marten (Martes americana) in Alaska. Journal of Parasitology 94:1335-1336.
Grenier, M. B., S. W. Buskirk, and R. Anderson-Sprecher. 2009. Estimating abundance of the black-footed ferret: comparing correlated density estimates to population indices. Journal of Wildlife Management 73:669-676. Link to PDF
Pauli, J. N., M. Ben-David, S. W. Buskirk, J. E. DePue, and W. P. Smith. 2009. An isotopic technique to mark mid-sized vertebrates non-invasively. Journal of Zoology (London) 278:141-148. Link to PDF
Donadio, E., A. J. Novaro, S. W. Buskirk, A. Wurstten, M. S. Vitali and M. J. Monteverde. 2009. Evaluating a potentially strong trophic interaction: pumas and wild camelids in protected areas of Argentina. Journal of Zoology (London), published online. Link to PDF