The Catastrophic Decline of Tortoises at a Fenced Natural Area

Broad-scale impacts of an invasive native predator on a sensitive native prey species within the shifting avian community of the North American Great Basin

(2020) Peter S. Coates et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The effects of geography, habitat, and humans on the ecology and demography of the Gopher tortoise in the southern Lake Wales Ridge region of Florida

(2019) Walter Meshaka Jr.   HERPETOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Novel management tools for subsidized avian predators and a case study in the conservation of a threatened species

(2019) Timothy Shields et al.   Ecosphere

Identification of a novel nidovirus as a potential cause of large scale mortalities in the endangered Bellinger River snapping turtle (Myuchelys georgesi)

(2018) Jing Zhang et al.   PLoS One

Post-catastrophe patterns of abundance and survival reveal no evidence of population recovery in a long-lived animal

(2018) Matthew G. Keevil et al.   Ecosphere

California's Drought of the Future: A Midcentury Recreation of the Exceptional Conditions of 2012-2017

(2018) P. A. Ullrich et al.   Earths Future

Alternative pathways to landscape transformation: invasive grasses, burn severity and fire frequency in arid ecosystems

(2017) Rob Klinger et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Unexpected decline in a population of speckled tortoises

(2017) Victor J. T. Loehr   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Fencing bodes a rapid collapse of the unique Greater Mara ecosystem

(2017) Mette Løvschal et al.   Scientific Reports

A Short Review of the International Trade of Wild Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles Across the World and Throughout Two Decades

(2016) Luca Luiselli et al.   CHELONIAN CONSERVATION AND BIOLOGY

Bidirectional recovery patterns of Mojave Desert vegetation in an aqueduct pipeline corridor after 36 years: I. Perennial shrubs and grasses

(2016) Kristin H. Berry et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Predicting diet quality and genetic diversity of a desert-adapted ungulate with NDVI

(2016) Tyler G. Creech et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Modeling Agassiz's desert tortoise population response to anthropogenic stressors

(2016) Michael W. Tuma et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Off-highway vehicle road networks and kit fox space use

(2016) Andrew S. Jones et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

The desert tortoise trichotomy: Mexico hosts a third, new sister-species of tortoise in the Gopherus morafkai–G. agassizii group

(2016) Robert Murphy et al.   ZooKeys

Enhancing and Restoring Habitat for the Desert Tortoise

(2016) Scott R. Abella et al.   Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management

Negative impacts of invasive plants on conservation of sensitive desert wildlife

(2016) K. Kristina Drake et al.   Ecosphere

Not putting all their eggs in one basket: bet-hedging despite extraordinary annual reproductive output of desert tortoises

(2015) Jeffrey E. Lovich et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Electric crows: powerlines, climate change and the emergence of a native invader

(2015) S. J. Cunningham et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Turbines and Terrestrial Vertebrates: Variation in Tortoise Survivorship Between a Wind Energy Facility and an Adjacent Undisturbed Wildland Area in the Desert Southwest (USA)

(2015) Mickey Agha et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Bidirectional recovery patterns of Mojave Desert vegetation in an aqueduct pipeline corridor after 36 years: II. Annual plants

(2015) Kristin H. Berry et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Factors Affecting the Thermal Environment of Agassiz's Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) Cover Sites in the Central Mojave Desert during Periods of Temperature Extremes

(2015) Jeremy S. Mack et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Recent shifts in the occurrence, cause, and magnitude of animal mass mortality events

(2015) Samuel B. Fey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Testing Taxon Tenacity of Tortoises: evidence for a geographical selection gradient at a secondary contact zone

(2015) Taylor Edwards et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Enhancing Quality of Desert Tortoise Habitat: Augmenting Native Forage and Cover Plants

(2015) Scott R. Abella et al.   Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management

Dates and Times Made Easy withlubridate

(2015) Garrett Grolemund et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

The Split-Apply-Combine Strategy for Data Analysis

(2015) Hadley Wickham   Journal of Statistical Software

Desert Tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) Are Selective Herbivores that Track the Flowering Phenology of Their Preferred Food Plants

(2015) W. Bryan Jennings et al.   PLoS One

Mitigating Reptile Road Mortality: Fence Failures Compromise Ecopassage Effectiveness

(2015) James H. Baxter-Gilbert et al.   PLoS One

Fencing protected areas: A long-term assessment of the effects of reserve establishment and fencing on African mammalian diversity

(2014) Aimee L. Massey et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Protection Benefits Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) Abundance: The Influence of Three Management Strategies on a Threatened Species

(2014) Kristin H. Berry et al.   HERPETOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Reptile bycatch in a pest-exclusion fence established for wildlife reintroductions

(2014) Bruno O. Ferronato et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Impacts of Upper Respiratory Tract Disease on Olfactory Behavior of the Mojave Desert Tortoise

(2014) Jennifer Germano et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

EFFECTS OF MYCOPLASMAL UPPER-RESPIRATORY-TRACT DISEASE ON MOVEMENT AND THERMOREGULATORY BEHAVIOR OF GOPHER TORTOISES (GOPHERUS POLYPHEMUS) IN GEORGIA, USA

(2014) Jessica L. McGuire et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

Distance to human populations influences epidemiology of respiratory disease in desert tortoises

(2014) Kristin H. Berry et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

To Fence or Not to Fence

(2014) R. Woodroffe et al.   SCIENCE

Mycoplasmosis and upper respiratory tract disease of tortoises: A review and update

(2014) Elliott R. Jacobson et al.   VETERINARY JOURNAL

Models of Invasion and Establishment for African Mustard (Brassica tournefortii)

(2014) Kristin H. Berry et al.   Invasive Plant Science and Management

Relative abundance and demographic structure of Agassiz’s desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) along roads of varying size and traffic volume

(2013) Melia G. Nafus et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Quantifying effects of abiotic and biotic drivers on community dynamics with multivariate autoregressive (MAR) models

(2013) Stephanie E. Hampton et al.   ECOLOGY

Living with Wildlife and Mitigating Conflicts Around Three Indian Protected Areas

(2013) Krithi K. Karanth et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Multiple Factors Affect a Population of Agassiz's Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) in the Northwestern Mojave Desert

(2013) Kristin H. Berry et al.   HERPETOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Thermal utility of desert vegetation for the Egyptian tortoise and its conservation implications

(2013) Omar Attum et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

OXALOSIS IN WILD DESERT TORTOISES, GOPHERUS AGASSIZII

(2013) Elliott R. Jacobson et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

SEROLOGIC AND MOLECULAR EVIDENCE FOR TESTUDINID HERPESVIRUS 2 INFECTION IN WILD AGASSIZ'S DESERT TORTOISES, GOPHERUS AGASSIZII

(2013) Elliott R. Jacobson et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

Protected Areas and Effective Biodiversity Conservation

(2013) S. Le Saout et al.   SCIENCE

Restoration of the endangered Arabian OryxOryx leucoryx, Pallas 1766 in Saudi Arabia lessons learnt from the twenty years of re-introduction in arid fenced and unfenced protected areas

(2013) M. Zafar-ul Islam et al.   ZOOLOGY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Treatment Alternatives and Timing Affect Seeds of African Mustard (Brassica tournefortii), an Invasive Forb in American Southwest Arid Lands

(2013) Scott R. Abella et al.   Invasive Plant Science and Management

Trend Change Detection in NDVI Time Series: Effects of Inter-Annual Variability and Methodology

(2013) Matthias Forkel et al.   Remote Sensing

Sexual and environmental variation in the space requirements of the Critically Endangered geometric tortoise, Psammobates geometricus

(2012) Margaretha Hofmeyr et al.   AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA

Nesting Ecology of a Population of Gopherus agassizii at a Utility-Scale Wind Energy Facility in Southern California

(2012) Joshua R. Ennen et al.   COPEIA

Fluvial transport and surface enrichment of arsenic in semi-arid mining regions: examples from the Mojave Desert, California

(2012) Christopher S. Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

Bottom-up regulation of desert grassland and shrubland rodent communities: implications of species-specific reproductive potentials

(2012) David C. Lightfoot et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Mycoplasma testudineum in Free-ranging Desert Tortoises, Gopherus agassizii

(2012) Elliott R. Jacobson et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

Effects of predator exclusion on nest and hatchling survival in the gopher tortoise

(2012) Lora L. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Spatial and temporal variation in survival of a rare reptile: a 22-year study of Sonoran desert tortoises

(2012) Erin R. Zylstra et al.   OECOLOGIA

Phenology, Growth, and Fecundity as Determinants of Distribution in Closely Related Nonnative Taxa

(2012) Robin G. Marushia et al.   Invasive Plant Science and Management

Predation determines the outcome of 10 reintroduction attempts in arid South Australia

(2011) K.E. Moseby et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Conservation Means Behavior

(2011) P. WESLEY SCHULTZ   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Estimating the probability of illegal desert tortoise collection in the Sonoran Desert

(2011) David D. Grandmaison et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

The dazed and confused identity of Agassiz’s land tortoise, Gopherus agassizii (Testudines: Testudinidae) with the description of a new species and its consequences for conservation

(2011) Robert Murphy et al.   ZooKeys

A Global Analysis of Protected Area Management Effectiveness

(2010) Fiona Leverington et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Seasonal Variation in Survivorship and Mortality of Desert Tortoises in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona

(2010) J. Daren Riedle et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Nutritional Quality of Natural Foods of Juvenile and Adult Desert Tortoises (Gopherus agassizii): Calcium, Phosphorus, and Magnesium Digestibility

(2010) Lisa C. Hazard et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Disturbance and Plant Succession in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of the American Southwest

(2010) Scott R. Abella   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Effects of subsidized predators, resource variability, and human population density on desert tortoise populations in the Mojave Desert, USA

(2010) TC Esque et al.   Endangered Species Research

Vital rate sensitivity analysis as a tool for assessing management actions for the desert tortoise

(2009) J. Michael Reed et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Home Range, Spatial Overlap, and Burrow Use of the Desert Tortoise in the West Mojave Desert

(2009) Meagan L. Harless et al.   COPEIA

Nutritional Quality of Natural Foods of Juvenile Desert Tortoises (Gopherus agassizii): Energy, Nitrogen, and Fiber Digestibility

(2009) Lisa C. Hazard et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Home Range and Landscape Use of Coyotes in a Metropolitan Landscape: Conflict or Coexistence?

(2009) Stanley D. Gehrt et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Using long-term data and a stage-classified matrix to assess conservation strategies for an endangered turtle (Clemmys guttata)

(2008) Jean J. Enneson et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Fencing for conservation: Restriction of evolutionary potential or a riposte to threatening processes?

(2008) Matt W. Hayward et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION