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GRADUATE STUDENT READINGS

Week 1	Organizational meeting
Week 2	Johnson 1999 Anderson et al. 2000
Week 3	Stephens et al. 2005 Guthery et al. 2001 Guthery et al. 2005 Robinson and Wainer 2002 Herman 2003
Week 4	Parmenter et al. 2003
Week 5	Cancelled
Week 6	Rotella et al. 2003 Lucaks and Burnham 2005
Week 7	Burnham and Anderson 1979 Anderson et al. 1985
Week 8	Nicoll et al. 2003 Pollock and Raveling 1982
Week 9	Exam. No meeting.
Week 10	Lindberg et al. 2001 Anderson et al. 2001
Week 11	Senar and Conroy 2002 Nichols and Hines 2002
Week12	Cooch et al. 2001
Week 13	Gauthier and Lebreton 2004 Brooks et al. 2004
Week 14 Week 15	Student seminars Student seminars

REFERENCES FOR GRADUATE READINGS

Anderson, D. R., and K. P. Burnham. 2002. Avoiding pitfalls when using information-theoretic methods. Journal of Wildlife management 66:912-918.

Anderson, D. R., K. P. Burnham and W. L. Thompson. 2000. Null hypothesis testing: problems, prevalence, and an alternative. Journal of Wildlife Management 64:912-923.

Anderson, D. R., K. P. Burnham, and G. C. White. 1985. Problems in estimating age-specific survival rates from recovery data of birds ringed as young. J. Anim. Ecol. 54: 89-98.

Anderson, D. R., K. P. Burnham, A. B. Franklin, R. J. Gutierrez, E. D. Forsman, R. G. Anthony, G. C. White and T. M. Shenk. 1999. A protocol for conflict resolution in analyzing empirical data related to natural resources controversies. Wildlife Society Bulletin 27:1050-1058.

Anderson, M.G., M.S. Lindberg, and R.B. Emery. 2001. Probability of survival and breeding for juvenile female canvasbacks. Journal of Wildlife Management 65:403-415.

Boyce, M. S. 2001. Population viability analysis; development, interpretation, and application. Pages 123-136 in Modeling in natural resource management (T. M. Shenk and A. B. Franklin, eds.). Island Press, Washington, DC.

Brooks, S. P., R. King, and B. J. T. Morgan. 2004. A Bayesian approach to combining animal abundance and demographic data. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 27: 515-529.

Burnham, K. P., and D. R. Anderson. 1979. The composite dynamic method as evidence for age-specific waterfowl mortality. Journal of Wildlife Management 43:356-366

Clark, J. S. 2003. Uncertainty and variability in demography and population growth: a hierarchical approach. Ecology 84:1370-1381.

Cooch, E., R. F. Rockwell, and S. Brault. 2001. Retrospective analysis of demographic responses to environmental change: a Lesser Snow Goose example. Ecological Monographs 71:377-400.

Cooke, F., Francis, C.M., Cooch, E.G. & Alisauskas, R.T. (2000) Impact of hunting on population growth of mid-continent lesser snow geese. CWS Occas. Pap., 102, 17-31.

Franklin, A.B., D. R. Anderson, and K. P. Burnham. 2002. Estimation of long-term trends and variation in avian survival probabilities using random effects models. J. Appl. Stat. 29:267-288.

Fox, G. A., and B. E. Kendall. 2002. Demographic stochasticity and the variance reduction effect. Ecology 83:1928-1934.

Gauthier, G., and J.-D. Lebreton. 2004. Population models for Greater Snow Geese: a comparison of different approaches to assess potential impacts of harvest. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 27:503-514.

Gross, K. 2002. Efficient data collection for estimating growth rates of structured populations. Ecology 83:1762-1767.

Guthery, F. S., L. A. Brennan, M. J. Peterson, and J. J. Lusk. 2005. Information theory in wildlife science: critique and viewpoint. J. Wildlife Manage. 69:457-465.

Guthery, F. S.,J. J. Lusk, M. J. Peterson. 2001. The fall of the null hypothesis: liabilities and opportunities. Journal of Wildlife Management 65:379-384.

Heokman, S. T., L. S. Mills, D. W. Howerter, J. H. Devries, and I. J. Ball. 2002. Sensitivity analysis of the life cycle of midcontinent mallards. J. Wildl. Manage. 66:883-900.

Herman, S. G. 2002. Wildlife biology and natural history: time for a reunion. J. Wildl. Manage. 66:933-946.

Johnson, D. H. 1999. The insignificance of statistical significance testing. Journal of Wildlife Management 63:763-772.

Johnson, D. H. 2002. The importance of replication in wildlife research. J. Wildl. Manage. 66:919-932.

Lebreton, J.-D., and R. Pradel. 2002. Multistate recapture models: modeling incomplete individual histories. J. Appl. Stat. 29:353-370.

Lindberg, M.S., W.L. Kendall, J.E. Hines, and M.G. Anderson. 2001. Combining band recovery data and Pollock’s robust design to model temporary and permanent emigration. Biometrics 57:273-281.

Lucaks, P. M., and K. P. Burnham. 2005. Estimating population size from DNA-based closed capture-recapture data incorporating genotyping error. Journal of Wildlife Management 69:396-403.

McPherson, R. J., T. W. Arnold, L. M. Armstrong, and C.J. Scharz. 2003. Estimating the nest- success rate and the number of nests initiated by radiotransmittered mallards. J. Wildl. Manage. 67:843-851.

Nichols, J. D., and J. E. Hines. 2002. Approaches for the direct estimation of lambda and demographic contribution to lambda, using capture-recapture data. J. Appl. Stat. 29:539-568.

Nicoll, M. A. C., C. G. Jones, and K. Norris. 2003. Declining survival rates in a reintroduced population of the Mauritius kestrel: evidence for non-linear density dependence and environmental stochasticity. J. Anim. Ecol. 72:917-926.

Nisbet, I. C. T., and E. Cam. 2002. Test for age-specificity in survival of the common tern. J. Appl. Stat. 29:65-84.

Noon, B. R., and K. S. McKelvey. 1996. Management of the spotted owl: a case history in conservation biology. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 27:135-162.

Ozgul, A., L.L. Getz, and M. K. Oli. 2004. Demography of fluctuating populations: temporal and phase-related changes in vital rates of Microtus ochrogaster. J. Anim. Ecol. 73:201-215.

Parmenter, R. R. et al. 2003. Small-mammal density estimation: a field comparison of grid-based vs. web-based density estimators. Ecol. Monogr. 73:1-26.

Pollock, K. P., and D. G. Raveling. 1982. Assumptions of modern band recovery models, with emphasis on heterogeneous survival rates. Journal of Wildlife Management 46:88-98.

Reynolds, R. T., G. C. White, S. M. Joy, and R. W. Mannon. 2004. Effects of radiotransmitters on Northern Goshawks: do tail mounts lower survival of breeding males. J. Wildl. Manage. 68:25-32.

Robinson, D. H., and H. Wainer. 2002. On the past and future of null hypothesis significance testing. Journal of Wildlife Management 66:263-271.

Romesburg, H. C. 1981. Wildlife science: gaining reliable knowledge. Journal of Wildlife Management 45:293-313.

Rotella, J. J., S. J. Dinsmore, and T. L. Shaffer. 2004. Modeling nest survival data: a comparison of recently developed methods that can be implemented in Mark and SAS. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 27:187-205.

Royle, J. A., and J. D. Nichols. 2003. Estimating abundance from repeated presence-absence data or point counts. Ecology 84:777-790.

Rubin, E. S., W. M. Boyce, and E. P. Caswell-Chen. 2002. Modeling demographic processes in an endangered population of bighorn sheep. J. Wildl. Manage. 66:796-810.

Senar, J. C., and M. J. Conroy. 2004. Multi-state analysis of the impacts of avian pox on a population of Serins (Serinus serinus): the importance of estimating recapture rates. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 27:133-146.

Stephens, P. A., S. W. Buskirk, G. D. Hayward, and C. Los Martinez del Rio. 2005. Information theory and hypothesis testing: a call for pluralism. J. Applied Ecology 42:4-12.

Zens, M. S., and D. R. Peart. 2003. Dealing with death data: individual hazards, mortality and bias. Trends in Ecol. and Evol. 18:366-373.