Steven R. Beissinger

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PhD Ecology University of California, Davis
Masters Zoology University of California, Davis
Bachelors Biology University of California, Santa Cruz

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On the Use of Demographic Models of Population Viability in Endangered Species Management (1998) (1041)
Impact of a Century of Climate Change on Small-Mammal Communities in Yosemite National Park, USA (2008) (946)
Limitations of Captive Breeding in Endangered Species Recovery (1996) (692)
Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions (2013) (637)
Birds track their Grinnellian niche through a century of climate change (2009) (547)
Effects of Urbanization on Avian Community Organization (1982) (475)
Emerging Issues in Population Viability Analysis (2002) (423)
Population viability analysis (2003) (365)
The push and pull of climate change causes heterogeneous shifts in avian elevational ranges (2012) (357)
Detecting range shifts from historical species occurrences: new perspectives on old data. (2009) (336)
Managing Climate Change Refugia for Climate Adaptation (2016) (312)
Hatching Asynchrony and the Onset of Incubation in Birds, Revisited (1995) (266)
Detecting diversity: emerging methods to estimate species diversity. (2014) (258)
Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient (2019) (230)
Two-species occupancy models: a new parameterization applied to co-occurrence of secretive rails. (2010) (230)
Nest Poaching in Neotropical Parrots (2001) (206)
Species’ traits as predictors of range shifts under contemporary climate change: A review and meta‐analysis (2017) (186)
Minimum viable populations: is there a 'magic number' for conservation practitioners? (2011) (181)
Trans–shell infection by pathogenic micro–organisms reduces the shelf life of non–incubated bird's eggs: a constraint on the onset of incubation? (2003) (179)
Estimating abundance of unmarked animal populations: accounting for imperfect detection and other sources of zero inflation (2015) (169)
Polymorphic trinucleotide microsatellite loci for a neotropical parrot, the green-rumped parrotlet, Forpus passerinus. (1998) (161)
Why Economics Matters for Endangered Species Protection (1999) (158)
Demography of the California Condor: Implications for Reestablishment (2000) (155)
Beyond a warming fingerprint: individualistic biogeographic responses to heterogeneous climate change in California (2014) (149)
Incubation reduces microbial growth on eggshells and the opportunity for trans-shell infection. (2005) (148)
Modeling Extinction in Periodic Environments: Everglades Water Levels and Snail Kite Population Viability (1995) (145)
Microbial infection affects egg viability and incubation behavior in a tropical passerine (2005) (144)
Centennial Decline in the Trophic Level of an Endangered Seabird after Fisheries Decline (2006) (139)
Applying the Declining Population Paradigm: Diagnosing Causes of Poor Reproduction in the Marbled Murrelet (2004) (132)
Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 May 2009–31 July 2009 (2009) (129)
Egg viability as a constraint on hatching synchrony at high ambient temperatures (1999) (127)
ESTIMATING DORMANCY AND SURVIVAL OF A RARE HERBACEOUS PERENNIAL USING MARK–RECAPTURE MODELS (2001) (127)
Survival rates of a neotropical parrot: implications for latitudinal comparisons of avian demography (2000) (127)
Collapse of a desert bird community over the past century driven by climate change (2018) (124)
Effects of parturition on home ranges and social affiliations of female white-tailed deer (1996) (118)
Cryptic loss of montane avian richness and high community turnover over 100 years. (2013) (113)
Spatially heterogeneous impact of climate change on small mammals of montane California (2015) (111)
Extraordinary Clutch Size and Hatching Asynchrony of a Neotropical Parrot (1991) (109)
Ocean climate and prey availability affect the trophic level and reproductive success of the marbled murrelet, an endangered seabird (2007) (108)
HATCHING ASYNCHRONY, BROOD REDUCTION, AND FOOD LIMITATION IN A NEOTROPICAL PARROT (1997) (107)
Using Logistic Regression to Analyze the Sensitivity of PVA Models: a Comparison of Methods Based on African Wild Dog Models (2001) (105)
Phenological shifts conserve thermal niches in North American birds and reshape expectations for climate-driven range shifts (2017) (102)
Demography, Environmental Uncertainty, and the Evolution of Mate Desertion in the Snail Kite (1986) (99)
Evaluation of four methods for estimating Parrot population size (1997) (94)
Avian Incubation Inhibits Growth and Diversification of Bacterial Assemblages on Eggs (2009) (93)
LIFE HISTORY TRADE‐OFFS IN A RARE ORCHID: THE COSTS OF FLOWERING, DORMANCY, AND SPROUTING (2003) (88)
Current threats faced by Neotropical parrot populations (2017) (85)
Cooling requirements fueled the collapse of a desert bird community from climate change (2019) (84)
Avian Targets. (Book Reviews: New World Parrots in Crisis. Solutions from Conservation Biology.) (1992) (83)
Combining demographic and count-based approaches to identify source-sink dynamics of a threatened seabird. (2006) (83)
THE SHELF LIFE OF BIRD EGGS: TESTING EGG VIABILITY USING A TROPICAL CLIMATE GRADIENT (2005) (82)
Breeding Behavior of the Green-Rumped Parrotlet (1992) (78)
Vertical transmission of learned signatures in a wild parrot (2012) (78)
Characterizing source-sink dynamics with genetic parentage assignments. (2008) (76)
Mate desertion in the snail kite (1987) (74)
Ecological mechanisms of extinction. (2000) (73)
Climate refugia of snow leopards in High Asia (2016) (73)
CAN PARROTS BE CONSERVED THROUGH SUSTAINABLE HARVESTING (1992) (73)
REPORT OF THE AOU CONSERVATION COMMITTEE ON THE PARTNERS IN FLIGHT SPECIES PRIORITIZATION PLAN (2000) (72)
Genetic factors in threatened species recovery plans on three continents (2016) (72)
Estimating adult sex ratios in nature (2017) (71)
Scale-dependent habitat selection by a nearshore seabird, the marbled murrelet, in a highly dynamic upwelling system (2003) (67)
Modeling Approaches in Avian Conservation and the Role of Field Biologists (2006) (66)
Variation in the onset of incubation and its influence on avian hatching success and asynchrony (2009) (66)
Demographic origins of skewed operational and adult sex ratios: perturbation analyses of two-sex models. (2009) (65)
DIET–FEATHER STABLE ISOTOPE (δ15N AND δ13C) FRACTIONATION IN COMMON MURRES AND OTHER SEABIRDS (2007) (65)
Microbial and environmental effects on avian egg viability: do tropical mechanisms act in a temperate environment? (2011) (63)
Do birds differentially distribute antimicrobial proteins within clutches of eggs (2008) (62)
Cyclic Drought, Dispersal, and the Conservation of the Snail Kite in Florida: Lessons in Critical Habitat (1989) (60)
Exposure to climate change drives stability or collapse of desert mammal and bird communities (2021) (59)
A practical toolbox for design and analysis of landscape genetics studies (2014) (57)
Contact calls are used for individual mate recognition in free-ranging green-rumped parrotlets, Forpus passerinus (2011) (56)
Anthropogenic refugia ameliorate the severe climate-related decline of a montane mammal along its trailing edge (2012) (56)
Reproduction and Demography of the Florida Everglade (Snail) Kite (1989) (54)
Population Trends of the Marbled Murrelet Projected From Demographic Analyses (1995) (53)
Sex ratios (2017) (53)
Differential deposition of antimicrobial proteins in blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) clutches by laying order and male attractiveness (2010) (52)
ANATOMY OF A BOTTLENECK: DIAGNOSING FACTORS LIMITING POPULATION GROWTH IN THE PUERTO RICAN PARROT (2008) (52)
Effects of a habitat-altering invader on nesting sparrows: An ecological trap? (2009) (50)
A robust-design formulation of the incidence function model of metapopulation dynamics applied to two species of rails. (2011) (50)
Evaluation of species distribution models by resampling of sites surveyed a century ago by Joseph Grinnell (2013) (50)
Incorporating evolutionary processes into population viability models (2015) (49)
Mate desertion and reproductive effort in the snail kite (1987) (48)
At-Sea Density Monitoring of Marbled Murrelets in Central California: Methodological Considerations (1997) (48)
Experimental Brood Manipulations and the Monoparental Threshold in Snail Kites (1990) (47)
Partial Incubation in Birds: Its Occurrence, Function, and Quantification (2011) (47)
Reconstructing the historic demography of an endangered seabird. (2007) (45)
Estimating rates of population change for a neotropical parrot with ratio, mark-recapture and matrix methods (2002) (44)
HUNTING BEHAVIOR, PREY SELECTION, AND ENERGETICS OF SNAIL KITES IN GUYANA: CONSUMER CHOICE BY A SPECIALIST (1983) (43)
Conservation Planning for US National Forests: Conducting Comprehensive Biodiversity Assessments (2003) (42)
Incorporating Imperfect Detection into Joint Models of Communities: A response to Warton et al. (2016) (42)
Genetic analyses of historic and modern marbled murrelets suggest decoupling of migration and gene flow after habitat fragmentation (2010) (41)
Impact of cattle grazing on the occupancy of a cryptic, threatened rail. (2012) (41)
Local Survival of Marbled Murrelets in Central California: Roles of Oceanographic Processes, Sex, and Radiotagging (2006) (40)
Inferring recent historic abundance from current genetic diversity (2013) (40)
INDIVIDUAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION IN INLAND FLIGHT BEHAVIOR OF MARBLED MURRELETS: IMPLICATIONS FOR POPULATION MONITORING (2004) (38)
Social constraints on the onset of incubation in a neotropical parrot: a nestbox addition experiment (1998) (38)
Null Models for Assessing Ecosystem Conservation Priorities: Threatened Birds as Titers of Threatened Ecosystems in South America (1996) (37)
Defining priorities for global snow leopard conservation landscapes (2020) (37)
AGE RATIOS AS ESTIMATORS OF PRODUCTIVITY: TESTING ASSUMPTIONS ON A THREATENED SEABIRD, THE MARBLED MURRELET (BRACHYRAMPHUS MARMORATUS) (2007) (37)
Dispersal polymorphisms from natal phenotype-environment interactions have carry-over effects on lifetime reproductive success of a tropical parrot. (2012) (36)
Characterizing dispersal patterns in a threatened seabird with limited genetic structure (2009) (35)
Climate change refugia and habitat connectivity promote species persistence (2017) (34)
Landscape-Level Associations of Wintering Waterbird Diversity and Abundance from Remotely Sensed Wetland Characteristics of Poyang Lake (2016) (33)
Distribution of California Black Rails in the Sierra Nevada foothills (2008) (32)
Solar Radio-Transmitters on Snail Kites in Florida (1989) (31)
Experimental analysis of mass change in female green-rumped parrotlets (Forpus passerinus): the role of male cooperation (1995) (30)
Apple snail (Pomacea doliodes) and freshwater crab (Dilocarcinus dentatus) population fluctuations in the Llanos of Venezuela (1993) (30)
Modelling effects of nonbreeders on population growth estimates (2017) (30)
Experimental analysis of diet specialization in the snail kite: the role of behavioral conservatism (1994) (30)
California black rails depend on irrigation-fed wetlands in the Sierra Nevada foothills (2010) (30)
Nesting Habitat Characteristics of the Marbled Murrelet in Central California Redwood Forests (2006) (29)
Resource allocation varies with parental sex and brood size in the asynchronously hatching green-rumped parrotlet (Forpus passerinus) (2009) (29)
Meeting Reproductive Demands in a Dynamic Upwelling System: Foraging Strategies of a Pursuit-Diving Seabird, the Marbled Murrelet (2009) (29)
Anisogamy Overcome: Female Strategies in Snail Kites (1987) (29)
Erosion of refugia in the Sierra Nevada meadows network with climate change (2017) (29)
When Relocation of Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta) Nests Becomes a Useful Strategy (1997) (28)
Save water or save wildlife? Water use and conservation in the central Sierran foothill oak woodlands of California, USA (2017) (28)
Against the odds? Nestling sex ratio variation in green-rumped parrotlets (2004) (28)
Alternative foods of a diet specialist, the Snail Kite (1990) (28)
Uncloaking a cryptic, threatened rail with molecular markers: origins, connectivity and demography of a recently-discovered population (2010) (27)
Factors shaping the ontogeny of vocal signals in a wild parrot (2013) (27)
WATER LEVELS AFFECT NEST SUCCESS OF THE SNAIL KITE IN FLORIDA: AIC AND THE OMISSION OF RELEVANT CANDIDATE MODELS (2002) (25)
Revisiting methods for estimating parrot abundance and population size (2018) (25)
Innovations in data integration for modeling populations. (2019) (25)
THE AOU CONSERVATION COMMITTEE REVIEW OF THE BIOLOGY, STATUS, AND MANAGEMENT OF CAPE SABLE SEASIDE SPARROWS: FINAL REPORT (2000) (23)
Variation in the onset of incubation in a neotropical parrot (1999) (23)
DOES RISK OF NEST FAILURE OR ADULT PREDATION INFLUENCE HATCHING PATTERNS OF THE GREEN-RUMPED PARROTLET? (2001) (23)
Opposing selection and environmental variation modify optimal timing of breeding (2013) (21)
Nesting Ecology of Snail Kitesin Water Conservation Area· 3A (1988) (21)
On the Limited Breeding Opportunities Hypothesis for Avian Clutch Size (1996) (21)
Egg mass in an asynchronously hatching parrot: does variation offset constraints imposed by laying order? (2005) (21)
LONG-TERM STUDIES OF THE GREEN-RUMPED PARROTLET (FORPUS PASSERINUS) IN VENEZUELA: HATCHING ASYNCHRONY, SOCIAL SYSTEM AND POPULATION STRUCTURE (2008) (19)
Are Variable Environments Stochastic? A Review of Methods to Quantify Environmental Predictability (1993) (19)
Hatching asynchrony in birds. (1997) (18)
Quantity versus Quality in California Condor Reintroduction: Reply to Beres and Starfield (2001) (17)
Effects of Rapid Flight-Feather Molt on Postbreeding Dispersal in a Pursuit-Diving Seabird (2008) (17)
A century of climate and land‐use change cause species turnover without loss of beta diversity in California’s Central Valley (2018) (16)
Vocalizations, food habits, and nesting biology of the Slender-billed Kite with comparisons to the Snail Kite (1988) (16)
Assessing parental effort in a Neotropical parrot: a comparison of methods (1999) (16)
Why Grow Slowly in a Dangerous Place? Postnatal Growth, Thermoregulation, and Energetics of Nestling Green-Rumped Parrotlets (Forpus passerinus) (2010) (15)
Artificial water catchments influence wildlife distribution in the Mojave Desert (2019) (15)
Predation and infanticide influence ideal free choice by a parrot occupying heterogeneous tropical habitats (2010) (15)
Limitations of Captive Breeding: Reply to Gippoliti and Carpaneto (1997) (15)
Why Are Species’ Traits Weak Predictors of Range Shifts? (2021) (15)
Hatching asynchrony reduces the duration, not the magnitude, of peak load in breeding green-rumped parrotlets (Forpus passerinus) (1999) (15)
Inferring the timing of long-distance dispersal between Rail metapopulations using genetic and isotopic assignments. (2017) (14)
WEAK ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MEASURES OF HEALTH AND REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS IN GREEN-RUMPED PARROTLETS (FORPUS PASSERINUS) IN VENEZUELA (2004) (14)
Scientific standards for conducting viability assessments under the Nathional Forest Management Act: report and recoomendations of the NCRAS Working Group (2001) (14)
Protecting Endangered Species in the United States: Extinction, Recovery, and the Endangered Species Act (2001) (13)
Directions in endangered species research (1998) (13)
Biome‐scale signatures of land‐use change on raptor abundance: insights from single‐visit detection‐based models (2017) (13)
Evaluating at-sea sampling designs for Marbled Murrelets using a spatially explicit model (2006) (12)
Diet–Feather Stable Isotope (δ15N and δ13C) Fractionation in Common Murres and Other SeabirdsFraccionamiento de Isótopos (δ15N y δ13C) Entre la Dieta y las Plumas en Uria aalge y en Otras Aves MarinasShort Communications (2007) (12)
Digging the pupfish out of its hole: risk analyses to guide harvest of Devils Hole pupfish for captive breeding (2014) (11)
The scientific bases for preservation of the Mariana crow (1997) (11)
Correction: Managing Climate Change Refugia for Climate Adaptation (2017) (11)
On the limits and directions of conservation biology (1990) (10)
No safety in numbers (2011) (10)
Validating dispersal distances inferred from autoregressive occupancy models with genetic parentage assignments. (2018) (9)
Cloning and characterization of 29 tetranucleotide and two dinucleotide polymorphic microsatellite loci from the endangered marbled murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) (2006) (9)
Integrating social and ecological data to model metapopulation dynamics in coupled human and natural systems. (2019) (9)
Application of Population Viability Analysis to Landscape Conservation Planning (2009) (9)
Environmental determinants of total evaporative water loss in birds at multiple temperatures (2019) (9)
A general target for MVPs: unsupported and unnecessary (2011) (9)
Science, Conservation, and National Parks (2016) (8)
Conservation Report: Report of the AOU Conservation Committee on the Partners in Flight Species Prioritization Plan (2000) (8)
In transition: Avian biogeographic responses to a century of climate change across desert biomes (2020) (8)
The rescue effect and inference from isolation-extinction relationships. (2020) (7)
Preliminary Observations on Juvenile: Adult Ratios of Marbled Murrelets in Auke Bay, Southeast Alaska (1995) (5)
CONSERVATION REPORT THE AOU CONSERVATION COMMITTEE REVIEW OF THE BIOLOGY, STATUS, AND MANAGEMENT OF CAPE SABLE SEASIDE SPARROWS: FINAL REPORT (2000) (5)
Unresolved Problems in the Condor Recovery Program: Response to Risebrough (2002) (5)
Environmental and ecological correlates of avian field metabolic rate and water flux (2020) (5)
Voices of New World Parrots (2003) (4)
Impact of invasive Spartina alterniflora on song sparrow and marsh wren populations in San Francisco Bay salt marshes (2005) (3)
Endangered Species Recovery Criteria: Reconciling Conflicting Views (2015) (3)
Ontogeny of the adrenocortical response in an extremely altricial bird. (2019) (3)
Protecting Endangered Species in the United States: Why Economics Matters for Endangered Species Protection and the ESA (2001) (3)
Assessing impacts of social-ecological diversity on resilience in a wetland coupled human and natural system (2021) (3)
The California Condor: a Flagship Adrift (2001) (3)
Fund the Biological Survey Unit (2018) (2)
Can Parrots Be Conserved through Sustainable Harvesting ? A new model for sustainable harvesting regimes when biological data are incomplete (2007) (2)
Bird species diversity and guild structure of a tropical fallow rice field (1979) (2)
Adult sex ratios: causes of variation and implications for animal and human societies (2022) (1)
Biased sampling : no ‘ Homer Simpson Effect ’ among high achievers (1)
Thermal adaptation of pelage in desert rodents balances cooling and insulation (2022) (1)
The Paint-billed Crake in Guyana (1979) (1)
The impact of an invasive Atlantic cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) on San Francisco Bay Song Sparrow populations: direct and indirect influence (2002) (1)
Editors' Acknowledgments (2017) (0)
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2013 (2013) (0)
Current Biology Magazine Sex ratios (2017) (0)
Species' Traits as Predictors of Range Shifts Under Contemporary Climate Change: A Meta-analysis (2016) (0)
Reviewers for the Auk 2010 (2010) (0)
The impact of invasive Spartina on San Francisco Bay Song Sparrow populations: direct and indirect influences (2002) (0)
Keeping your cool: thermoregulatory performance and plasticity in desert cricetid rodents. (2022) (0)
Symposium: Avian feeding mechanisms: Their ecological and evolutionary significance (1994) (0)
The Race to Balance Time--Biodiversity Conservation (1994) (0)
Author Correction: Adult sex ratios: causes of variation and implications for animal and human societies (2022) (0)
Testing methods for predicting mammalian species’ responses to 20th century climate change in California (2011) (0)
Vocal babbling in a wild parrot shows life history and endocrine affinities with human infants (2022) (0)
Book Review:A Bird-Finding Guide to Ontario. Clive E. Goodwin (1984) (0)
Abstracts from the 2009 Joint Annual Meeting of the Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology and Washington Chapter of the Wildlife Society, Held at Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, Washington, February 18–21, 2009 (2009) (0)
Estimating recent historic abundance from contemporary levels of genetic diversity (2012) (0)
Reference genome of the black rail, Laterallus jamaicensis. (2023) (0)
Acknowledgment of Reviewers, 2019 (2019) (0)
PSG2000 MEETING SCHEDULE (2000) (0)
Stability of patch‐turnover relationships under equilibrium and nonequilibrium metapopulation dynamics driven by biogeography (2022) (0)
Ecological mechanisms o (2016) (0)
Supplementary material from "Estimating adult sex ratios in nature" (2017) (0)
William Brewster Memorial Award, 2010 (2011) (0)
Hardship at birth alters the impact of climate change on a long-lived predator (2022) (0)
Monitoring and Science: Comfortable Bedfellows (1995) (0)
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) 2009- GOALS: To quantify dynamic landscapes at the human-wildlife interface; pursue projects in primate conservation pertaining to disease transmission and management (2009) (0)
Book Review:Cormorants, Darters, and Pelicans of the World. Paul A. Johnsgard (1994) (0)
Data for: Current threats faced by Neotropical parrot populations (2017) (0)
Voices of New World Parrots Bret M. Whitney Theodore A. Parker, III Gregory F. Budney Charles A. Munn Jack W. Bradbury (2003) (0)
OF THE SOUTHERN FORMS OF $ ELASPHORUS ( TROCHILIDAE ) (2003) (0)
Concordant and opposing effects of climate and land-use change on avian assemblages in California’s most transformed landscapes (2023) (0)
Birds' Eggs.Michael Walters (1996) (0)
THE PRAIRIE DOG ECOSYSTEM : MANAGING FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY Montana BLM Wildlife Technical Bulletin No . 2 August 1989 (2017) (0)
A practical toolbox for design and analysis of landscape genetics studies (2014) (0)
Reference genome of the Virginia rail, Rallus limicola. (2023) (0)

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