Professional Outreach
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Organization and Service Activities
2012 Invited participant at the Professional Enhancement Awards Dinner during the 27th Annual U.S. Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Newport, RI. Dinner event was sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Michigan State University.
2010-2013 Invited member of the Advisory Board for the 2013 Annual U.S. Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (Theme: Landscape Dynamics along Environmental Gradients), Austin, TX.
2008-Present Research Grade Evaluation reference for U.S. Geological Survey scientists.
2007 Participant in student mentoring activities at the 14th Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Tucson, AZ.
2007 Invited member of a discussion panel for “Application of Landscape Ecology Principles in Environmental Decision-Making,” a symposium at the 22nd Annual U.S. Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Tucson, AZ.
2007 Participant in Student-Mentor Luncheon at the 22nd Annual U.S. Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Tucson, AZ.
2004-2016 Member of the Editorial Board for Landscape Ecology.
2004-2006 Member of the Publications Committee, The Wildlife Society.
2000 Convened and chaired a symposium titled “Applying Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation” at the 14th Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Missoula, MT.
1999 Chaired the “Spatial and Temporal Analyses of Populations and Species” session at the 5th World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Snowmass, CO.
1998 Invited participant in a meeting between students and distinguished landscape ecologists at the 13th Annual U.S. Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, East Lansing, MI.
1997-1998 Scientific Program Chair for the 13th Annual U.S. Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (Theme: Applications of Landscape Ecology in Natural Resource Management), East Lansing, MI.
1997-1999 Invited member of the Publications Committee for The Condor (an international journal of avian biology) and Studies in Avian Biology (peer-reviewed book-length manuscripts), Cooper Ornithological Society.
1997 Served as a judge for the Best Student Paper Award at the 12th Annual U.S. Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Durham, NC.
1996-1998 Member of the U.S. Executive Board of the International Association for Landscape Ecology.
1996 Served as a judge for the Best Student Paper Award at the 11th Annual U.S. Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Galveston, TX.
1996 Chaired the “Avian Diversity II” session at the 11th Annual U.S. Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Galveston, TX.
1994 Invited participant in a roundtable discussion on the “Status of Woodpeckers” at the 21st International Ornithological Congress, Vienna, Austria.
1994 Co-convened and chaired a symposium titled “Bird Community Responses to Human Activity” for the 21st International Ornithological Congress, Vienna, Austria.
1994 Chaired the “Vegetation Patterns II” session at the 9th Annual U.S. Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Tucson, AZ.
1992 Convened and chaired an invited-paper session titled “Landscape Structure and Avian Populations and Communities” for the 7th Annual U.S. Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Corvallis, OR.
1991 Chaired the “Disturbance Effects 1” session at the 3rd World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Ottawa, Ontario.
1990 Provided written review of “The Sustainable Biosphere Initiative: An Ecological Research Agenda” for the Ecological Society of America.
1990 Co-chaired the “Communities and Ecosystems” session at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Gainesville, FL.
1990 Chaired the “Landscape as Habitat” session at the 5th Annual U.S. Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Oxford, OH.
1989-1992 Special Committee on Advertising and Sales, American Ornithologists’ Union.
1989 Created an international membership advertisement for the American Ornithologists’ Union.
1989 Co-chaired the “Ecology” session at the 107th American Ornithologists’ Union Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
Scientific Papers Presented
* A colleague presented the research
+ A student presented the research
Oral Presentations
2023 +Assessing the reliability of random forest model predictions using spatial extrapolation risk. 30th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Louisville, KY.
2023 *Applying landscape ecology approaches to understand visitor use disturbance on habitat connectivity and potential fragmentation at park-wide scales. Annual Meeting of the International Association for Society and Natural Resources, Portland, ME.
2022 +Predicting yearly variation in breeding-season abundance of a declining sagebrush-obligate bird using tree-based machine learning methods. North American Congress for Conservation Biology, Reno, NV.
2022 +Comparison of tree-based machine learning methods to predict average breeding-season abundance of a declining sagebrush-obligate bird. Annual Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology−North America (virtual). Received a student registration award from IALE–North America.
2021 +Spatial optimization, statistical criteria, and prediction accuracy of random forest models for variation in avian abundance. 28th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society (virtual).
2021 +Spatial optimizations using Spearman’s correlation and univariate random forest modeling yield multiscale random forest models with comparable prediction accuracy. Annual Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology−North America, Reno, NV (virtual). Received a student registration award from IALE–North America.
2021 +Forest bird abundances are associated with interactions between two environmental contexts of forested habitats—sub-regional climate and landscape-scale agriculture. Annual Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology−North America, Reno, NV (virtual). Received a student registration award from IALE–North America.
2020 +Basic machine learning models using spatially optimized landscape variables predict the abundance of a declining sagebrush-obligate bird. 27th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Louisville, KY (virtual).
2020 +Cross-scale interaction effects of climate and forest patch size on declining forest birds in the eastern United States. 105th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT (virtual). Received a student registration award from the Ecological Society of America.
2020 +Cross-scale interaction effects of sub-regional climate and landscape-scale exurban cover on forest-edge birds in the eastern United States. North American Congress for Conservation Biology, Denver, CO (virtual).
2020 +Machine learning models using landscape composition variables predict the abundance of a declining sagebrush-obligate bird. Annual Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology–North America, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (virtual).
2019 +Cross-scale interaction effects of sub-regional climate and landscape-scale exurban cover on declining forest-interior birds in the eastern United States. Joint Meeting of the Ecological Society of America and the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics, Louisville, KY. Received a student travel award from the Ecological Society of America to present this paper.
2019 +Cross-scale interaction effects of climate and deciduous-forest patch size on the persistence of forest-interior bird species. 137th Annual Meeting of the American Ornithological Society, Anchorage, AK. Received a student travel award from the American Ornithological Society to present this paper.
2018 *Landscape ecology meets recreation ecology: quantifying broad-scale spatial patterns of wildland recreation disturbance. Presented at the workshop: Integrated Planning for and Management of Recreation and Wildlife Resources: Building a Shared Understanding of Obligations, Opportunities, and Challenges. U.S. Forest Service Region 6 Recreation and Wildlife Programs and Pacific Northwest Research Station, Bureau of Land Management, and Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
2018 +Influences of human socioeconomic factors and their interactions with temperature on forest bird persistence. 103rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, New Orleans, LA.
2018 +Within-scale and cross-scale interactions of temperature and socioeconomic factors affect Neotropical migrant persistence. 136th Annual Meeting of the American Ornithological Society, Tucson, AZ. Received a diversity student travel award from the American Ornithological Society to present this paper.
2017 *Landscape ecology meets recreation ecology: quantifying broad-scale spatial patterns of wildland recreation disturbance. 102nd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Portland, OR.
2017 +Do cross-scale interactions between climate and socioeconomic factors affect the persistence of avian species? Joint Meeting of the American Ornithological Society and the Society of Canadian Ornithologists, East Lansing, MI. Received a student travel award from the American Ornithological Society to present this paper.
2017 +Do effects of landscape-scale socioeconomic factors on avian persistence vary with regional climate? 32nd Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Baltimore, MD. Received a student travel award from the NASA-Michigan State University Professional Enhancement Awards Committee to present this paper.
2016 Bird-landscape thresholds can inform siting and prioritization of broad-scale habitat management for sagebrush-obligate passerines. 23rd Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Raleigh, NC.
2016 +Cross-scale interaction effects of regional climate and local proportion of land cover in agriculture on avian persistence: implications for conservation. 101st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
2016 Bird-landscape thresholds and the conservation of sagebrush-obligate passerines: prioritizing landscape management. 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Madison, WI.
2016 +Cross-scale interaction effects of regional climate and local proportion of land cover in agriculture on avian persistence. 31st Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Asheville, NC. Received a student travel award from the U.S. Section of the International Association for Landscape Ecology to present this paper.
2015 Cross-pattern and cross-scale interaction effects of landscape characteristics on avian persistence thresholds reveal the need for landscape-specific management. 22nd Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
2015 Cross-pattern and cross-scale interaction effects of landscape characteristics on avian persistence thresholds: implications for broad-scale conservation. International Association for Landscape Ecology World Congress, Portland, OR.
2014 Landscape pattern, prevalence of avian persistence thresholds, and daunting conservation challenges. 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Missoula, MT.
2014 +The relative importance of niche and neutral processes in guild-level bird community assembly. Joint Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, Cooper Ornithological Society, and Society of Canadian Ornithologists, Estes Park, CO.
2014 The prevalence of relatively simple broad-scale limiting factors on avian persistence belies the complexity of assemblage-level conservation. Joint Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, Cooper Ornithological Society, and Society of Canadian Ornithologists, Estes Park, CO.
2014 Pervasive and diverse threshold relationships between avian persistence and landscape characteristics complicate broad-scale conservation. 21st Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Pittsburgh, PA.
2013 +Evidence of different mechanisms of bird-community assembly: implications for conserving habitat connectivity and diversity. 20th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Milwaukee, WI. Received a student travel award from The Wildlife Society to present this paper.
2013 +Species site occupancy is underestimated when temporal dependencies in detections are not considered: implications for avian conservation. 131st Annual Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union and the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Cooper Ornithological Society, Chicago, IL. Received a student travel award from the American Ornithologists’ Union and the Cooper Ornithological Society to present this paper.
2013 *Using the North American Breeding Bird Survey in landscape assessments to support Forest Service planning. Invited paper in Symposium 3: North American Breeding Bird Survey Research. 131st Annual Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union and the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Cooper Ornithological Society, Chicago, IL.
2013 +Accounting for temporal dependency in detections can improve the fit of animal-landscape occupancy models. 28th Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Austin, TX.
2012 +Broad-scale habitat conditions, but not cowbird or avian predator abundance, predict the occurrence of declining bird species. 19th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Portland, OR.
2012 +Variation in community-assembly processes has important implications for assemblage-wide conservation. 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Oakland, CA.
2012 +Investigating niche and neutral processes in bird community assembly: implications of interannual variation in community assembly processes. 27th Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Newport, RI.
2011 +Investigating niche and neutral processes in bird community assembly: regression with spatial eigenvectors can be more informative than regression on distance matrices. 96th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Austin, TX.
2011 +Brown-headed cowbird presence in relation to avian predator abundance, brood host abundance, and landscape conditions. 129th Annual Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, Jacksonville, FL.
2011 +Brown-headed cowbird presence in relation to avian predator abundance, brood host abundance, and landscape legacy conditions. 26th Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Portland, OR.
2010 +Distance decay in bird community similarity: investigating predictions of neutral theory and niche-assembly theory. 95th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA.
2010 +Distance decay in bird community similarity in relation to geographic distance, interspecific associations, and legacy effects of landscape conditions. 25th Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Athens, GA. Received a USDA-NIFA Professional Enhancement Award from the U.S. Section of the International Association for Landscape Ecology for travel to present this paper.
2009 *Modeling interannual variation in bird-landscape relations: effects of model selection criteria on model consistency. 24th Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Snowbird, UT.
2009 +Distance decay in bird community similarity: are neutral theory and niche-assembly theory possible explanations? 127th Annual Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, Philadelphia, PA.
2009 *The relative importance of climate and broad-scale habitat for predicting regional bird richness. 94th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Albuquerque, NM.
2009 *The relative importance of climate and broad-scale habitat conditions for predicting forest bird richness: projecting effects of environmental change. 16th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Monterey, CA.
2008 A predictive model of wetland loss for the southeastern United States: implications for avian conservation. 126th Annual Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, 78th Annual Meeting of the Cooper Ornithological Society, and 28th Annual Meeting of the Society of Canadian Ornithologists. Portland, OR.
2008 *Predicting wetland loss on private lands in the southeastern United States: implications for land-use planning. 93rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Milwaukee, WI.
2008 A predictive model for wetland loss on private lands in the southeastern United States: implications for land-use decision making. 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Chattanooga, TN.
2007 Does a landscape’s dominant vegetation define the spatial distribution of avian richness? Conservation implications. 125th Annual Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, Laramie, WY.
2007 Putting theory into practice: application of landscape ecology principles in environmental decision-making. Invited co-speaker. 22nd Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Tucson, AZ.
2007 *Understanding year-to-year inconsistency in bird-landscape relations: the influences of life-history traits and model selection uncertainty. 22nd Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Tucson, AZ.
2007 *Do abundance and distribution explain year-to-year inconsistency in bird-landscape relations? 71st Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Academy of Science, Mississippi State, MS.
2006 *Combined landscape and winter bird distribution modeling: influences of climate change, increased CO2, and fire management in the Chihuahuan Desert. 91st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Memphis, TN.
2006 *Human intrusion and the abundance of a mammalian nest predator: multi-year experimental evidence. 91st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Memphis, TN.
2006 *Inter-observer variation in detection of frog calls during auditory surveys. 109th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, Beaumont, TX.
2005 +Broad-scale boundary length influences the structure of desert bird assemblages. 20th Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Syracuse, NY.
2005 +Does aquatic invertebrate family richness vary with nutrient level? 108th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, Edinburg, TX.
2005 +Do cowbird-host status and boundary-nester status mediate bird-boundary relations in deserts? 20th Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Syracuse, NY.
2004 *Quantitative enclosure sampling of larval amphibians. Texas Herpetological Society Meeting, Waco, TX.
2004 *Detection efficiency of frog call surveys in central Texas in relation to survey duration. Texas Herpetological Society Meeting, Waco, TX.
2004 *Past and future trends in fire impacts on Chihuahuan Desert lowland communities. 6th Symposium on the Natural Resources of the Chihuahuan Desert, Alpine, TX.
2004 +Occurrence of medium- and large-sized mammals at highway underpasses along Interstate 35 in Texas. 107th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, Kerrville, TX.
2003 *Modeling vegetation community response to climate change and CO2 increases in the Chihuahuan Desert. 88th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Savannah, GA.
2003 *The effect of fire on a mixed Chihuahuan Desert plant community. 88th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Savannah, GA.
2003 *Interactive effects of climate change and fire on bird communities: landscape and regional projections. Global Change Symposium, Lafayette, LA; and USGS Global Change Project Review and Planning Meeting, Phoenix, AZ.
2002 *Species richness of medium- and large-sized mammals in relation to landscape features in Big Bend National Park. 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, Lake Charles, LA; and 20th Annual Meeting of the Texas Society of Mammalogists, Junction, TX.
2000 Constraints and prospects of applying landscape ecology. 14th Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Missoula, MT.
2000 *Species diversity of medium- and large-sized mammals in a variety of habitats in Big Bend National Park. 47th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists, Denton, TX; 18th Annual Meeting of the Texas Society of Mammalogists, Junction, TX; and 80th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, Durham, NH.
1999 Bird-landscape relations in the Chihuahuan Desert: coping with uncertainties about predictive models. 5th World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Snowmass, CO.
1999 +Does human intrusion increase the abundance of a known nest predator, the Gray Jay? 117th Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, Ithaca, NY.
1998 *Spatial extent of human-intrusion effects on bird distributions. North American Ornithological Conference, St. Louis, MO.
1997 *The integration of GPS data into a GIS landscape ecology model database for assessing Neotropical bird stopover habitat in Big Bend National Park. Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, TX.
1996 *GIS-GPS: a tool for monitoring Neotropical bird stopover habitat in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Environmental Systems Research Institute Users’ Conference, Palm Springs, CA.
1996 +The influence of landscape ruggedness on avian richness and abundance. 11th Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Galveston, TX.
1995 *The integration of GPS data into a GIS database for assessing Neotropical bird stopover habitat in Big Bend National Park. Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Rapid City, SD.
1995 +The validity of assumptions for quantitative enclosure sampling of larval amphibians. Annual Meeting of the North American Amphibian Monitoring Program, Burlington, Ontario.
1995 +Effects of vegetation on the restoration of mosquito larval populations in artificial containers. Annual Meeting of the Texas Mosquito Control Association, Galveston, TX.
1995 *Vertical distributions of breeding birds in response to human intrusion. 113th Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, Cincinnati, OH.
1995 *Minimizing animal displacement due to nonconsumptive recreation: implementing periods of visitor restriction. Animal Behavior Society Meeting, Lincoln, NE.
1995 +The relationship of pH and conductivity to crustacean diversity in east Texas oil field ponds. 98th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, Waco, TX.
1994 Concluding remarks. Symposium titled “Bird Community Responses to Human Activities.” 21st International Ornithological Congress, Vienna, Austria.
1994 Bird community responses to human activities. 21st International Ornithological Congress, Vienna, Austria.
1994 *Reactions to observer clothing color and implications for estimates of richness, density and abundance. Animal Behavior Society Meeting, Seattle, WA.
1994 +Hedgerow intersections and plant-species richness: a test of the intersection-effect hypothesis. 9th Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Tucson, AZ.
1993 *Responses to observer clothing color: a test of the species-confidence hypothesis. 111th Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, Fairbanks, AK.
1993 +Are avian richness and abundances higher at intermediate levels of human intrusion? 7th Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Tempe, AZ.
1993 +Effects of human intrusion on the vertical distributions of breeding birds. 7th Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Tempe, AZ. Received the 1993 Society for Conservation Biology Travel Award for Presentation of Undergraduate Research.
1993 +Does human intrusion generate influence fields in avian distributions? 8th Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Oak Ridge, TN.
1993 Predicting whether human intrusion will perforate subalpine landscapes for birds. 8th Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Oak Ridge, TN.
1993 Serial management experiments: an adaptive approach to reduce recreational impacts on wildlife. Invited presentation. 58th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, Washington, DC.
1992 Recreational disturbance: impacts, management options, and research needs. Invited presentation. National Workshop: Status and Management of Neotropical Migratory Birds, Estes Park, CO.
1992 *Biological and life-history traits as predictors of avian displacement due to human intrusion. 6th Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Blacksburg, VA.
1992 +Effects of human intrusion on the singing behavior of breeding birds: conservation implications. 6th Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Blacksburg, VA.
1992 *Chromotropic responses to observer apparel: caveats from winter point counts. 110th American Ornithologists’ Union Meeting, Ames, IA. Presentation showcased by Living Bird (1993, Volume 12, pp. 5-6).
1992 Repeated human intrusion and landscape perforation: influences on breeding bird distributions. 7th Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Corvallis, OR.
1991 Predicting whether human intrusion will generate gaps in subalpine bird distributions. 3rd World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Ottawa, Ontario.
1991 Human intrusion as a gap-generating influence on bird distributions in subalpine landscapes. 3rd World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Ottawa, Ontario.
1991 Assessing recreational impacts on wildlife: the value and design of experiments. Invited presentation. 56th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, Edmonton, Alberta.
1990 +Effects of repeated human intrusion on singing consistency in subalpine birds. Joint Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union and the Cooper Ornithological Society, Los Angeles, CA.
1990 Effects of repeated human intrusion on the distribution of subalpine birds: implications for community persistence. 4th Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Gainesville, FL.
1990 +Effects of repeated human intrusion on song occurrence in subalpine birds. Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists, Denton, TX, and 4th Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Gainesville, FL.
1990 Bird community structure and patch orientation: migrant interception on the landscape scale. 5th Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Oxford, OH.
1989 Optimal winter detection of individual species using unlimited-distance point counts. 107th American Ornithologists’ Union Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
1989 Estimating winter species richness with unlimited-distance point counts. 107th American Ornithologists’ Union Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
1987 Assembly of cavity-nesting bird communities in Wyoming cottonwood stands. 72nd Ecological Society of America Meeting, Columbus, OH.
1985 Simultaneous and sequential use of snags and limbs by breeding cavity-nesting birds. Joint Meeting of the Wilson and Cooper Ornithological Societies, Boulder, CO.
1984 Improving vertebrate-habitat regression models. Wildlife 2000: Modeling Habitat Relationships of Terrestrial Vertebrates, Fallen Leaf Lake, CA.
1984 *Assessment and defensive escalation in prairie rattlesnakes: effects of social and habitat context. Animal Behavior Society Meeting, Cheney, WA; and Joint Annual Herpetology (ASIH, HL, SSAR) Meetings, Norman, OK.
1983 Riparian habitat use by breeding cavity nesters in southeastern Wyoming. 101st American Ornithologists’ Union Meeting, New York, NY.
1980 *Relationships between land use and woodcock habitat in Pennsylvania, with guidelines for rangewide research. 7th American Woodcock Symposium, University Park, PA.
1980 Differential use of woodcock singing grounds in relation to habitat characteristics. 7th American Woodcock Symposium, University Park, PA. Received award for best paper and presentation.
Poster Presentations
2023 +Use of spatial extrapolation risk to assess the reliability of boosted regression tree predictions. 30th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Louisville, KY.
2012 +Predator abundance, host abundance, and landscape variables are not consistent predictors of brown-headed cowbird presence across years. 5th North American Ornithological Conference, Vancouver, BC.
2011 +Brown-headed cowbirds are associated more with edge density within a small extent than with edge density within a large extent. 26th Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Portland, OR.
1997 +Topographic effects on avian richness, abundance and probability of site use during spring migration. 12th Annual Landscape Ecology Meeting, Durham, NC. Received Honorable Mention for Best Student Presentation from the U.S. Section of the International Association for Landscape Ecology.
1997 +GIS analysis of effects of topographic features on avian richness and abundance during spring migration, Big Bend National Park. 100th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, Huntsville, TX.