Contact information and publications of graduate students mentored by Catherine A. Toft:
[Selected publications, listing those from their dissertations or collaboration with me]

Publications of Rebecca Balogh Benard

  • Benard, R.B. and C.A. Toft. 2007. Effect of seed size on seedling performance in a long-lived desert perennial shrub (Ericameria nauseosa: Asteraceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 186: 1027-1033.

  •  Benard, R.B. and C.A. Toft. 2008. Fine-scale spatial heterogeneity and seed size determine early seedling survival in a desert perennial shrub (Ericameria nauseosa: Asteraceae).  Plant Ecology 194:195-205.

Publications of David M. Brown:

  • Brown, D.M. and C.A. Toft. 1999. Molecular systematics and biogeography of the cockatoos (Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae). Auk 116(1):141-157.

Publications of Gary A. Falxa:

  • Andres, B.A. and G.A. Falxa. 1995. Black oystercatcher Haematopus bachmani. The Birds of North America 155:1-20.

Publications of Tamara D. Fraizer:

  • Toft, C.A. and T.. Fraizer.  2003.  Spatial dispersion and density dependence in a perennial desert shrub (Chrysothamnus nauseosus : Asteraceae).  Ecological Monographs 73: 605-624.

  • Fraizer, T. 1997. A dynamic model of mating behavior in digger wasps: the energetics of male-male competition mimic size-dependent thermal constraints. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 41:423-434.

  • Fraizer, T.D. 1996. Sexual size dimorphism: mating systems and sexual selection for large males in the digger wasp Microbembex (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Davis.

Publications of James D. Gilardi

Executive Director

World Parrot Trust

Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 4HB

http://www.parrots.org/index.php/aboutus/aboutjamesgilardi/

  • Gilardi, J.D., S.S. Duffey, C.A. Munn, and L.A. Tell. 1999.  Biochemical functions of geophagy in parrots: detoxification of dietary toxins and cytoprotective effects. Journal of Chemical Ecology 25: (4) 897-922.

  • Gilardi, J.D., C.A. Munn..  1998.  Patterns of activity, flocking, and habitat use in parrots of the Peruvian Amazon   Condor 100: (4) 641-653.

  • Diamond, J., K.D. Bishop, and J.D. Gilardi.  1999.  Geophagy in New Guinea birds.  Ibis 141:181-193.

  • Wright, T.F., C.A. Toft , E. Enkerlin-Hoeflich, J. Gonzalez-Elizondo, M.Albornoz, A. Rodríguez-Ferraro, F.J. Rojas-Suárez, V. Sanz, A. Trujillo, S.R. Beissinger, V. Berovides A., X. Gálvez A., A. T. Brice, K. Joyner, J. Eberhard, J. Gilardi, S. E. Koenig, S. Stoleson, P.  Martuscelli, J. M. Meyers, K. Renton, A. M. Rodríguez, A. C. Sosa-Asanza, F. Vilella, and J. W. Wiley.  2001.  Nest poaching in Neotropical parrots. Conservation Biology 15:710-720.

 

Publications of John H. Harris:

Professor, Biology
Environmental Studies Program Head
Mills College

Oakland, California
johnh@mills.edu
Click here for John's full CV and list of publications:

http://www.mills.edu/academics/faculty/bio/johnh/johnh.php

  • Harris, J.H. 1987. Variation in the caudal fat deposit of Microdipodops megacephalus. Journal of Mammalogy 68:58-63.

  • Harris, J.H. 1985. Microhabitat segregation in two desert rodent species: the relation of prey availability to diet. Oecologia 68:417-421.

  • Harris, J.H. 1984. An experimental analysis of desert rodent foraging ecology. Ecology 65:1579-1584.

  • Harris, J.H. 1982. Mammals of the Mono Lake - Tioga Pass region. Kutsavi Books, Lee Vining, CA. 73 pp

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Publications of Scott R. McWilliams:  (Major Professors Dennis Raveling and Catherine Toft)

Dept. Natural Resources Science
College of the Environment and Life Sciences
105 Coastal Institute in Kingston
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881
(401) 874-7531
email: srmcwilliams@uri.edu

http://www.nrs.uri.edu/Scott_R__McWilliams.mcwilliams.0.html

 

Click here for furll list of Scott's publications with PDF copies available:

http://www.nrs.uri.edu/fileadmin/user_upload/mcwilliams/ResearchArticles.html

  • McWilliams, S. R., J. P. Dunn, D. G. Raveling. 1994. Predator-prey interactions between eagles and cackling Canada and Ross' geese during winter in California. WILSON BULLETIN 106:272-288.

  • McWilliams, S.R., T. Sloat, C.A. Toft, and D. Hatch.  2007. Effects of prescribed fall burning on a wetland plant community with implications for management of plants and herbivores. Western North American Naturalist 67:299-317.

Publications of Peter Sherman:

  • Sherman, P.T. 1995. Breeding biology of white-winged trumpeters (Psophia leucoptera) in Peru. The Auk 112:285-295.

  • Sherman, P.T. 1995. Social organization of cooperatively polyandrous white-winged trumpeters (Psophia leucoptera). The Auk 112:296-309.

  • Eason, P.K. and P.T. Sherman. 1995. Dominance status, mating strategies and copulation success in cooperatively polyandrous white-winged trumpeters, Psophia leucoptera (Aves: Psophiidae). Animal Behavior 49:725-736.

  • Sherman, P. T. and P. K. Eason. Determinants of size in territories with inflexible boundaries: manipulation experiments on territories of white-winged trumpeters. Ecology 79:1147-1159

Publications of Timothy F. Wright (Major Professor Jack Bradbury):

Department of Biology
New Mexico State University
 Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
 Phone: (505) 646-1136
e-mail: wright@nmsu.edu
Click here for a full CV and list of Tim's publications

: http://biology-web.nmsu.edu/twright/lab

  • Wright, T.F. & G.S. Wilkinson. 2001. Population genetic structure and vocal dialects in an amazon parrot. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 268:609-616.

  • Eberhard*, J. R., T.F. Wright* & E. Bermingham. 2001. Duplication and concerted evolution of the mitochondrial control region in the parrot genus Amazona. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 18:1330-1342.   *co-first authors

  • Wright, T.F., C.A. Toft , E. Enkerlin-Hoeflich, J. Gonzalez-Elizondo, M. Albornoz, A. Rodriguez-Ferraro, F. Rojas-Suarez, V. Sanz, A. Trujillo, S.R. Beissinger, V. Berovides A., X. Galvez A., A.T. Brice, K. Joyner, J.R. Eberhard, J. Gilardi, S.E. Koenig, S. Stoleson, P. Martuscelli, J.M. Meyers, K. Renton, A. M. Rodriguez, A C. Sosa-Asanza, F.J. Vilella, & J.W. Wiley. 2001.  Nest poaching in Neotropical parrots. Conservation Biology. 15:710-720.

  • Wright, T.F. & M. Dorin. 2001. Pair duets in the yellow-naped amazon (Amazona auropalliata): responses to playbacks of different dialects. Ethology 107:111-124.

  • Wright, T.F.  1996.  Regional dialects in the contact call of a parrot.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 263:867-872

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