Steury Lab

Lowery, D.R., W.C. Morse, and T.D. Steury. Biological and social investigation of human-black bear conflicts in the panhandle of Florida. Human Dimensions of Wildlife: In press.

Sparkman, A.M. J. Adams, T.D. Steury, L. Waits, and D.L. Murray. Evidence for a genetic basis for delayed dispersal in a cooperatively breeding canid. Animal Behaviour: In press.

Dellinger, J.A., B.L. Ortman, T.D. Steury, J. Bohling, and L.P. Waits. 2012. Food habits of red wolves during pup-rearing season. Southeastern Naturalist: In press.

McCoy, J.C., S.S. Ditchkoff, and T.D. Steury. 2011. Bias associated with baited camera sites for assessing population characteristics of deer. Journal of Wildlife Management. 75:472-477. PDF.

Sparkman, A.M., J. Adams, A. Beyer, T.D. Steury, L. Waits, and D.L. Murray. 2011. Helper effects on pup lifetime fitness in the cooperatively breeding red wolf (Canis rufus). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 278:1381-1389. PDF.

Sparkman, A.M., J.R. Adams, T.D. Steury, L.P. Waits, and D.L. Murray. 2011. Direct fitness benefits of delayed dispersal in the cooperatively breeding red wolf (Canis rufus). Behavioral Ecology 22:199-205. PDF.

Steury, T.D., J.E. McCarthy, T.C. Roth, II, S.L. Lima, and D.L. Murray. 2010. Evaluation of a root-n bandwidth selector for kernel home range estimation. Journal of Wildlife Management 74(3):539-548. PDF. Software and code for root-n bandwidth estimation.

Murray, D.L., M.G. Anderson, and T.D. Steury. 2010. Temporal shifts in density dependence among North American breeding duck populations (1955-2005). Ecology 91:571-581. PDF

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., T.D. Steury, and J.D. Roth. 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