Steury Lab

• Steury, T.D., J.E. McCarthy, T.C. Roth, II, S.L. Lima, and D.L. Murray. In Press. Evaluation of a root-n bandwidth selector for kernel home range estimation. Journal of Wildlife Management.

• Steury, T.D., K. Beck, A. Byers, and D.L. Murray. In review. Does density-dependent habitat use limit the utility of resource selection: models? Ecological Applications.

• Murray, D.L., M.G. Anderson, and T.D. Steury. In Press. Temporal shifts in density dependence among North American breeding duck populations. Ecology.

• Boulerice, J., M.D. Smith, and S.S. Ditchkoff. 2009. Alabama cougars: sorting fact from fiction. Alabama Cooperative Extension System publication #ANR-1358, Auburn, AL. PDF

• Murray, D.L., and T.D. Steury. 2008. Lynx and snowshoe hare ecology across a latitudinal gradient: Another kick at the cat. Journal of Wildlife Management 72:1463-1472. PDF

• Roth, J.D., D.L. Murray, and T.D. Steury. 2008. Spatial dynamics of sympatric canids: modeling the impact of coyotes on red wolf recovery. Ecological Modelling 214:391-403. PDF

• Roth, J.D., J.D. Marshall, D.L. Murray, D.M. Nickerson, and T.D. Steury. 2007. Geographical gradients in diet affect population dynamics of Canada lynx. Ecology 88:2736-2743. PDF

• Steury, T.D., and D.L. Murray. 2005. Regression vs. ANOVA. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3:356-357. PDF

• Lima, S.L., and T.D. Steury. 2005. Perception of predation risk: the foundation of non-lethal predator-prey interactions. In P. Barbosa and I. Castellanos, editors. Ecology of Predator-prey Interactions. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

• Angilletta, Jr., M.J., T.D. Steury, and M.W. Sears. Temperature, growth rate, and body size in ectotherms: fitting pieces of a life-history puzzle. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 44:498-509. PDF

• Steury, T.D., and D.L. Murray. 2004. Modeling the reintroduction of lynx to the southern portion of its range. Biological Conservation 117:127-141. PDF

• Steury, T.D., and D.L. Murray. 2003. Causes and Consequences of individual variation in territory size in red squirrel. Oikos 101:147-156. PDF

• Steury, T.D., A.J. Wirsing, and D.L. Murray. 2002. Using multiple treatment levels as a means of improving inference in wildlife research. Journal of Wildlife Management 66:292-299. PDF

• Wirsing, A.J., T.D. Steury, and D.L. Murray. 2002. A demographic analysis of a southern snowshoe hare population in a fragmented habitat: evaluating the refugium model. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80:169-177. PDF

• Wirsing, A.J., T.D. Steury, and D.L. Murray. 2002. The relationship between body condition and vulnerability to predation in two small mammals. Journal of Mammalogy 83:707-715. PDF

• Murray, D.L., J.D. Roth, E. Ellsworth, A.J. Wirsing, and T.D. Steury. 2002. Estimating low-density snowshoe hare populations using fecal pellet counts. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80:771-781. PDF

• Wirsing, A.J., T.D. Steury, and D.L. Murray. 2002. Non-invasive estimation of body composition in small mammals: A comparison of conductive and morphometric techniques. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 75:489-497. PDF

IN PREP

• Steury, T.D., and D.L. Murray. A continuum in predator diet breadth can explain dichotomies in predator-prey dynamics. to be submitted to Oikos.

• Steury, T.D., and S.L. Lima. Competitive co-existence in prey with optimal anti-predator behavior.

• Steury, T.D., and S. L. Lima. The role of background mortality on the stability of systems with optimal anti-predator behavior.

• Steury, T.D., W. Mitchell, and S.L. Lima. When should predators have large non-lethal effects of prey populations?

• Steury, T.D., W. Mitchell, and S.L. Lima. The effects of time on the fitness consequences of estimating predation risk.