February 28, 2011

Publications and Presentations

Publications

Journal

Wolf, M. and Ale, S. 2009. Signs at the top: using sign data to determine habitat features influencing snow leopard (Uncia uncia) activity in Sagarmatha National park, Nepal. Journal of Mammalogy 90:604-611

Wolf, M., Frair, J., Merrill, E., and Turchin, P. 2009. The attraction of the known: the importance of spatial familiarity in habitat selection in wapiti (Cervus elaphus). Ecography 32: 401-410

Wolf, M., Friggens, M., and Salazar, J. 2009. Does Weather Shape Mice? Climate Related Changes in Morphology of Heteromyid Rodents. Naturwissenschaften 96:93-101

Wolf, M., and Batzli, G.O. 2004. Forest edge – high or low quality habitat for white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus)? Ecology 85:756-769

Wolf, M., and Batzli, G.O. 2002b. Relationship of previous trap occupancy to capture of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus). Journal of Mammalogy 83:728-733.

Wolf, M., and Batzli, G.O. 2002a. Effects of forest edge on populations of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus). Ecography 25:193-199

Wolf, M., and Batzli, G. O. 2001. Increased prevalence of bot flies (Cuterebra fontinella) on white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) near forest edges. Canadian Journal of Zoology 79:106-109

Wolf, M. and Werner, Y. L. 1994. The striped color pattern and striped-nonstriped polymorphism in snakes (Reptilia: Ophidia). Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 69:599-610

Wolf, M. and Shmida, A. 1994. Synchronization and association of flower and pollinator activity in the Negev Desert. In: Blume, H. P. and Berkowitcz, S. M. (eds.) GeoEcology 28: Arid Ecosystems, Publ. Catena-Verlag, Cremlingen-Destedt, Germany, pp. 173-192

Book Reviews

Wolf, M. 2009. Noninvasive survey methods for carnivores: don’t touch! Invited review of Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores, edited by Long, R. MacKay, P. Ray, J. and Zielinski, W. (Island Press 2008) Ecology 90: 859–860

Presentations

Invited

Highways and Ecology: Impacts of Highways on Native
Species. CTS Seminar Series, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago

Life in the City: Ecology in the Urban Context. Department of Urban Planning and Policy Analysis, University of Illinois at Chicago

Beasts in Space: Adventure in Spatial Ecology. Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University, October 2010.

The Attraction of the Known? Spatial Familiarity and Habitat Selection by Elk (Cervus elaphus) in the Rocky Mountains, Alberta. Department of Biological Sciences Seminar Series, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, February 2006

The Attraction of the Known? Spatial Familiarity and Habitat Selection by elk (Cervus elephas) in the Rocky Mountains, Alberta. Biological Sciences Seminar Series, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, October 2005

Living at the edge: effects of forest edges on populations of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus). BioComplexity Seminar Series, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, October 2003

Professional Meetings

Wolf, M., Frair, J., Merrill, E, and Turchin, P. 2005. Analyzing cognitive processes using indirect methods: the effect of previous experience on habitat selection in wapiti (Cervus elaphus) as revealed by GPS data. 89th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Wolf, M., Salazar, J., and Friggens, M. 2003. Morphological differentiation in plains pocket mice Perognathus flavescens populations in different habitats. 87th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Savannah, Georgia

Wolf, M. and Batzli, G. O. 2001. The effect of previous trap occupancy on capture of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus)

. 81st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, Missoula, MT

Wolf, M. and Batzli, G. O. 2000. The effect of edge on white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) in eastern deciduous woodlands. 85th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Snowbird, UT

Wolf, M. and Batzli, G. O. 2000. Higher incidence of botfly (Cuterebra sp.) parasitism of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) at woodland edges. 80th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, Durham, NH

Wolf, M. and Seligmann, H. 1996. Habitat options and speciation on islands. 33rd Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Israel, Jerusalem (abstract in Israel Journal of Zoology 42:87-88)

Wolf, M. and Werner, Y. L. 1992. Striped-nonstriped polymorphism in snakes of the family Colubridae: toward general rules of the phenomenon. 29th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Israel, Jerusalem (abstract in Israel Journal of Zoology 39:77)

Work in progress

Wolf, M. and Pizzatto, L. The relationship between ecological attributes and dorsal color patterns of Colubrids (Reptilia: Serpentes). In Prep.

Wolf, M., Salazar, J., and Friggens, M. Climate related changes in morphology of Peromyscus truei. In Prep.

Wolf, M., and Moll, J. Mast production in oak tree species: alternating survival strategies? In Prep.

Wolf, M., Frair, J., and Merrill, E. Memories of place: spatial familiarity in habitat selection of translocated versus resident elk (Cervus elephas). In Prep