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Publications

Miller, Kathryn M., and Brian R. Mitchell. 2014. A new tool for power analysis of fixed plot data: Using simulations and mixed effects models to evaluate forest metrics. Ecosphere 5(9): Article 110. Download (7.7 MB)

Mitchell, Brian R., Geraldine L. Tierney, E. William Schweiger, Kathryn M. Miller, Don Faber-Langendoen, and James B. Grace. 2014. Getting the Message Across: Using Ecological Integrity to Communicate with Resource Managers. pp. 199-230 in Application of Threshold Concepts in Natural Resource Decision Making, Glenn R. Guntenspergen, Editor. Springer, New York. Download (1.2 MB)

Schoolmaster, Donald R., Jr., James B. Grace, E. William Schweiger, Brian R. Mitchell, Glenn R. Guntenspergen. 2013. A causal examination of the effects of confounding factors on multimetric indices. Ecological Indicators 29: 411-419. Download (0.5 MB)

Schoolmaster, Donald R., Jr., James B. Grace, E. William Schweiger, Glenn R. Guntenspergen, Brian R. Mitchell, Kathryn M. Miller, Amanda M. Little. 2013. An algorithmic and information-theoretic approach to multimetric index construction. Ecological Indicators 26:14-23. Download (0.9 MB)

Grace, James B., Donald R. Schoolmaster, Jr., Glenn R. Guntenspergen, Amanda M. Little, Brian R. Mitchell, Kathryn M. Miller, and E. William Schweiger. 2012. Guidelines for a graph-theoretic implementation of structural equation modeling. Ecosphere 3(8):73. Download (5.2 MB)

Pearson, David L., Corey D. Anderson, Brian R. Mitchell, Michael S. Rosenberg, Ronald Navarette, and Paul Coopmans. 2010. Testing hypotheses of bird extinctions at Rio Palenque, Ecuador, with informal species lists. Conservation Biology 24(2): 500-510. Download (0.5 MB)

Rinehart, Kurt A., Therese M. Donovan, Brian R. Mitchell, and Robert A. Long. 2009. Factors influencing occupancy patterns of Eastern Newts across Vermont. Journal of Herpetology 43(3):521-531. Download (0.4 MB)

Tierney, Geraldine L., Don Faber-Langendoen, Brian R. Mitchell, W. Gregory Shriver, and James P. Gibbs. 2009. Monitoring and evaluating the ecological integrity of forest ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7(6):308-316. Download (0.7 MB)

Wang, Yeqiao, Brian R. Mitchell, Jarunee Nugranad-Marzilli, Gregory Bonynge, Yuyu Zhou, and Gregory Shriver. 2009. Remote sensing of land-cover change and landscape context of the National Parks: A case study of the Northeast Temperate Network. Remote Sensing of Environment 113(7):1453-1461. Download (1.9 MB)

Mitchell, Brian R., and Therese Donovan. 2008. Mob mentality: Effect of a mobbing playback on avian detection probabilities during point count surveys. Open Ornithology 1:8-19. Live Link Download (0.7 MB)

Smith, Katherine Manaras, William S. Keeton, Therese M. Donovan, and Brian Mitchell. 2008. Stand-level forest structure and avian habitat: Scale dependencies in predicting occurrence in a heterogeneous forest. Forest Science 54(1):36-46. Download (0.2 MB)

Mitchell, Brian R., W. Greg Shriver, Fred Dieffenbach, Theresa Moore, Don Faber-Langendoen, Geraldine Tierney, Pamela Lombard, and James Gibbs. September 2006. Northeast Temperate Network Vital Signs Monitoring Plan. Technical Report NPS/NER/NRTR--2006/059. National Park Service, Northeast Temperate Network, Woodstock, Vermont. Live Link (10 MB)

Mitchell, Brian R. 2006. Comparison of programs for fixed kernel home range analysis. Remotely Wild (Issue 21, June 2006). Live Link Download (0.1 MB)

Mitchell, Brian R, Maja M. Makagon, Michael M. Jaeger, and Reginald H. Barrett. 2006. Information content of coyote barks and howls. Bioacoustics 15:289-314. Download (0.3 MB)

Riede, Tobias, Brian R. Mitchell, Isao Tokuda, and Michael J. Owren. 2005. Characterizing noise in nonhuman vocalizations: Acoustic analysis and human perception of barks by coyotes and dogs. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 118(1):514-522. Download (0.5 MB)

Sacks, Benjamin N., Brian R. Mitchell, Christen L. Williams, and Holly B. Ernest. 2005. Coyote movements and social structure along a cryptic population genetic subdivision. Molecular Ecology 14: 1241-1249. Download (0.3 MB)

Mitchell, Brian R., Michael M. Jaeger, and Reginald H. Barrett. 2004. Coyote depredation management: Current methods and research needs. Wildlife Society Bulletin 32(4): 1209-1218. Download (0.2 MB)

Mitchell, Brian R. 2004. Coyote vocal communication and its application to the selective management of problem individuals. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, California. x + 197 pp. Download (3.4 MB)

Mitchell, Brian R., and Brian A. Hazlett. 1996. Predator avoidance strategies of the crayfish Orconectes virilis. Crustaceana, 69(3):400-412. Download (1.1 MB)


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