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Joshua Millspaugh

Joshua Millspaugh, Ph.D.

Pauline O'Connor Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Management
Fisheries and Wildlife

Education

  • Ph.D., 1999, University of Washington

Research

  • Quantitative ecology, wildlife stress physiology, and ecology and management of large mammals.

Research Summary

  • Millspaugh's research centers on the study of vertebrate population ecology at three scales: physiological processes, individual space use and resource selection and population-level dynamics. Many of these topics overlap within individual studies and include several themes. At each scale, he focuses on rigorous development and evaluation of field, laboratory, and statistical methods and application of these methods to help answer important conservation issues. His research has focused on large mammals, but increasingly he works with other taxa to address questions of interest.
  • Current graduate and postdoctoral student projects include black-backed woodpecker demographics and space use in the Black Hills, South Dakota; modeling wildlife response to forest management and climate change; survival and space use of hellbenders in Missouri; elephant movements and stress physiology in South Africa; development of ecological monitoring protocols for the National Park Service; and spatial relationships among ungulates (bison, elk, mule deer, white-tailed deer, and pronghorn) and forage allocation in South Dakota.
  • Other current projects include collaborating with Professor Rob Slotow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal to assess how ecotourism impacts elephant stress and behavior; collaborating with Professor John Skalski at the University of Washington to develop quantitative tools to assess status and trends of harvested populations; and collaborating with Rochelle Renken of the Missouri Department of Conservation to assess the effects of forest management on reptiles and amphibians.

Selected Publications

Books

  • Millspaugh, J. J., and J. M. Marzluff, editors. 2001.
    Radio Tracking and Animal Populations. Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA. 467 pages.
  • Skalski, J. R., K. E. Ryding, and J. J. Millspaugh. 2005.
    Wildlife Demography: Analysis of Sex, Age, and Count Data. Elsevier Science, San Diego, California, USA. 656 pages.
  • Millspaugh, J. J., and F. R. Thompson, III, editors. 2009.
    Models for Planning Wildlife Conservation in Large Landscapes. Elsevier Science, San Diego, California, USA. 674 pages.

Journal Articles

  • Baasch, D. M., A. J. Tyre, J. J. Millspaugh, S. E. Hygnstrom, and K. C. Vercauteren. 2010.
    An evaluation of three statistical methods used to model resource selection. Ecological Modeling: In press.
  • Broms, K., J. R. Skalski, J. J. Millspaugh, C. A. Hagen, and J. H. Schulz. 2010.
    Using population reconstruction to estimate demographic trends in small game populations. Journal of Wildlife Management: In press.
  • Jachowski, D. S., J. J. Millspaugh, D. E. Biggins, T. M. Livieri, and M. R. Matchett. 2010.
    Home range size and the spatial organization of black-footed ferrets in South Dakota. Wildlife Biology: In press.
  • Lesmeister, D. B., J. J. Millspaugh, M. E. Gompper, and T. W. Mong. 2010.
    Eastern spotted skunk survival and cause-specific mortality in the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas. American Midland Naturalist: In press.
  • Licht, D. S., J. J. Millspaugh, K. E. Kunkel, C. O. Kochanny, and R. O. Peterson. 2010.
    Using small populations of wolves for ecosystem stewardship. Bioscience: In press.
  • Rittenhouse, C. D., F. R. Thompson, III, J. J. Millspaugh, W. D. Dijak, and R. L. Clawson. 2010.
    Evaluation of landscape-level habitat suitability models using demographic data. Journal of Wildlife Management: In press.
  • Bonnot, T., J. J. Millspaugh, and M. Rumble. 2009.
    Multi-scale nest-site selection by Black-backed Woodpeckers in outbreaks of mountain pine beetles. Forest Ecology and Management 259:220-228.
  • Cao, J., Z. He, K. Suedkamp Wells, J. J. Millspaugh, and M. R. Ryan. 2009.
    Modeling age and nest-specific survival using a hierarchical Bayesian approach. Biometrics 65:1052-1062.
  • Chinnadurai, S., J. J. Millspaugh, W. Matthews, K. Canter, R. Slotow, and R. J. Woods. 2009.
    Validation of fecal glucocorticoid metabolite assays for African herbivores. Journal of Wildlife Management 73:1014-1020.
  • Lesmeister, D. B., M. E. Gompper, and J. J. Millspaugh. 2009a.
    Habitat selection and home range dynamics of eastern spotted skunks in the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas. Journal of Wildlife Management 73:18-25.
  • Lesmeister, D. B., M. E. Gompper, and J. J. Millspaugh. 2009b.
    Summer resting and den site selection by eastern spotted skunks (Spilogale putorius) in the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas. Journal of Mammalogy 89:1512-1520.
  • Millspaugh, J. J., R. A. Gitzen, D. R. Larsen, M. A. Larson, and F. R. Thompson, III. 2009.
    Considerations in modeling wildlife habitat suitability in large landscapes. Pages 1-32 in J. J. Millspaugh and F. R. Thompson, III, editors. Models for Planning Wildlife Conservation in Large Landscapes. Elsevier Science, San Diego, California, USA.
  • Millspaugh, J. J., J. R. Skalski, D. R. Diefenbach, M. S. Boyce, L. P. Hansen, and K. Kammermeyer. 2009.
    An evaluation of SAK model performance. Journal of Wildlife Management 73:442-451.
  • Moll, R. J., J. J. Millspaugh, J. Beringer, J. Sartwell, R. J. Woods, and K. Vercauteren. 2009.
    Physiological stress response of white-tailed deer to video collars. Journal of Wildlife Management 73:609-614.
  • Moll, R. J., J. J. Millspaugh, J. Beringer, J. Sartwell, Z. He, J. Eggert, and X. Zhao. 2009.
    A terrestrial animal-borne video system for large mammals. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 66:133-139.
  • Woolley, L. A., J. J. Millspaugh, R. J. Woods, S. Janse van Rensburg, B. R. Page, and R. Slotow. 2009.
    Intraspecific strategic responses of African elephants to temporal variation in forage quality. Journal of Wildlife Management 73:827-835.
  • Bonnot, T., M. Rumble, and J. J. Millspaugh. 2008.
    Nest survival of black-backed woodpeckers in mountain pine beetle infestations in the Black Hills, South Dakota. Condor 110:450-457.
  • Burke, T., B. Page, G. van Dyk, J. Millspaugh, and R. Slotow. 2008.
    Risk and ethical concerns of hunting male elephants. PLoS ONE 3:e2417:1-10.
  • He, Z., J. Eggert, X. Wen, J. Millspaugh, R. Moll, J. Beringer, and J. Sartwell. 2008.
    Energy-aware portable video communication system design for wildlife activity monitoring. IEEE Communications 2008:25-37.
  • Jachowski, D., J. J. Millspaugh, D. E. Biggins, T. Livieri, and R. Matchett. 2008.
    Implications of black-tailed prairie dog spatial dynamics on black-footed ferrets. Natural Areas Journal 28:14-25.
  • Licht, D., R. Slotow, and J. Millspaugh. 2008.
    Out of Africa: lessons from park managers in Africa. George Wright Forum 25:20-29.
  • Millspaugh, J. J., R. A. Gitzen, D. S. Licht, S. Amelon, T. W. Bonnot, D. S. Jachowski, D. T. Jones-Farrand, B. J. Keller, C. P. McGowan, M. S. Pruett, C. D. Rittenhouse, and K. M. Suedkamp Wells. 2008.
    Effects of culling on bison demographics in Midwestern National Parks. Natural Areas Journal 28:240-250.
  • Millspaugh, J. J., J. Sartwell, R. A. Gitzen, R. J. Moll, and J. Beringer. 2008.
    A pragmatic view of animal-borne video technology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23:294-295.
  • Rittenhouse, C. D., J. J. Millspaugh, M. W. Hubbard, S. L. Sheriff, and W. D. Dijak. 2008.
    Resource selection by translocated three-toed box turtles in Missouri. Journal of Wildlife Management 72:268-275.
  • Skalski, J. R., J. J. Millspaugh, and K. E. Ryding. 2008.
    Effects of asymptotic and maximum age estimates on calculated rates of population change. Ecological Modelling 212:528-535.
  • Skalski, J. R., R. L. Townsend, L. L. McDonald, J. W. Kern, and J. J. Millspaugh. 2008.
    Type I errors linked to faulty endangered species classification. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 13:199-220.
  • Suedkamp Wells, K. M., J. J. Millspaugh, M. R. Ryan, and M. W. Hubbard. 2008.
    Factors affecting home range size and movements of post-fledging grassland birds. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 120:120-130.
  • Woolley, L. A., J. J. Millspaugh, S. Janse van Rensburg, B. Page, and R. Slotow. 2008.
    Population and individual elephant responses to a catastrophic fire in Pilanesburg National Park. PLoS ONE 3(9)e3233:1-10.
  • Bajer, P. G., J. J. Millspaugh, and R. S. Hayward. 2007.
    Application of discrete choice models to predict white crappie temperature selection in two Missouri impoundments. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136:889-901.
  • Millspaugh, J. J., T. Burke, G. van Dyk, R. Slotow, B. E. Washburn, and R. J. Woods. 2007.
    Stress response of working African elephants to transportation and safari adventures. Journal of Wildlife Management 71:1257-1260.
  • Moll, R. J., J. J. Millspaugh, J. Beringer, J. Sartwell, and Z. He. 2007.
    A new ‘view' of ecology and conservation through animal-borne video systems. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22:660-668.
  • Rittenhouse, C. D., J. J. Millspaugh, M. W. Hubbard, and S. L. Sheriff. 2007.
    Movements of translocated and resident three-toed box turtles. Journal of Herpetology 41:114-120.
  • Ryding, K., J. J. Millspaugh, and J. R. Skalski. 2007.
    Using time series to estimate the finite rate of population increase from abundance data. Journal of Wildlife Management 71:202-207.
  • Buskirk, S. W., and J. J. Millspaugh. 2006.
    Metrics of use and availability in studies of resource selection. Journal of Wildlife Management 70:358-366.
  • Gitzen, R. A., J. J. Millspaugh, and B. J. Kernohan. 2006.
    Bandwidth selection for fixed kernel analysis of animal range use. Journal of Wildlife Management 70:1334-1344.
  • Millspaugh, J. J., R. M. Nielson, L. McDonald, J. M. Marzluff, R. A. Gitzen, C. D. Rittenhouse, M. W. Hubbard, and S. L. Sheriff. 2006.
    Analysis of resource selection using utilization distributions. Journal of Wildlife Management 70:384-395.
  • Shifley, S. R., F. R. Thompson, III, W. D. Dijak, M. A. Larson, and J. J. Millspaugh. 2006.
    Simulated effects of forest management alternatives on landscape structure and habitat suitability in the Midwestern United States. Forest Ecology and Management 229:361-377. Skalski, J. R., and J. J. Millspaugh. 2006.
    Application of multidimensional change-in-ratio methods in program USER. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34:433-439.
  • Skalski, J. R., J. J. Millspaugh, and K. E. Ryding. 2006.
    The impact of hunter postseason survey design on harvest estimation. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34:329-337.
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