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Joshua Millspaugh

Joshua Millspaugh, Ph.D.

Professor
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 student projects include black-backed woodpecker demographics and nest site selection in the Black Hills, South Dakota; modeling wildlife response to forest management activities; an assessment of non-invasive stress measures in African herbivores; black-footed ferret resource selection in South Dakota and Montana; ruffed grouse occupancy modeling; advancements in animal-mounted environmental sensors; space use by pronghorn in North Dakota; survival and space use of hellbenders in Missouri; and spatial relationships among ungulates (bison, elk, mule deer, white-tailed deer, and pronghorn) and forage allocation in South Dakota. He is also collaborating with Professor Rob Slotow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal to assess how ecotourism impacts elephant stress and behavior.

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

  • 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: In press.
  • 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: In press.
  • 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: In press.
  • 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: In press.
  • 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: In press.
  • Burke, T., B. Page, G. van Dyk, J. Millspaugh, and R. Slotow. 2008.
    Risk and ethical concerns of hunting male elephants. PLoS ONE: In press.
  • 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: In press.
  • 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.
  • 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: In press.
  • 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: In press.
  • 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: In press.
  • 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.
  • Washburn, B. E., J. J. Millspaugh, D. L. Morris, J. H. Schulz, and J. Faaborg. 2007.
    Using a commercially available enzyme immunoassay to quantify testosterone in avian plasma. Condor 109:181-186.
  • Suedkamp Wells, K. M., M. R. Ryan, J. J. Millspaugh, F. R. Thompson, III, and M. W. Hubbard. 2007.
    Survival of post-fledging grassland birds in Missouri. Condor 109:781-794.
  • 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.
  • Schulz, J. H., J. J. Millspaugh, A. J. Bermudez, X. Gao, T. W. Bonnot, L. G. Britt, and M. Paine. 2006.
    Experimental acute lead toxicosis in mourning doves. Journal of Wildlife Management 70:413-421.
  • 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.
  • Fuller, M. R., J. J. Millspaugh, K. E. Church and R. E. Kenward. 2005.
    Wildlife Radiotelemetry. Pages 377-417 in Techniques for wildlife investigations and management. Sixth edition. The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
  • Goldstein, E. J., J. J. Millspaugh, B. E. Washburn, G. C. Brundige, and K. J. Raedeke. 2005.
    Relationships among fecal glucocorticoids, lungworm levels, and recruitment in bighorn sheep in South Dakota. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 41:416-425.
  • Skalski, J. R., J. J. Millspaugh, and R. D. Spencer. 2005.
    Population estimation and biases in paint-ball mark-resight surveys of elk. Journal of Wildlife Management 69:1043-1052.
  • Beringer, J., J. J. Millspaugh, J. Sartwell, and R. Woeck. 2004.
    Real-time video recording of food selection by captive white-tailed deer. Wildlife Society Bulletin 32:648-654.
  • Larson, M. A., F. R. Thompson, III, J. J. Millspaugh, W. D. Dijak, and S. R. Shifley. 2004.
    Linking population viability, habitat suitability, and landscape simulation models for conservation planning. Ecological Modelling 180:103-118.
  • Marzluff, J. M., J. J. Millspaugh, P. Hurvitz, and M. S. Handcock. 2004.
    Resource utilization of an avian nest predator: relating resources to a probabilistic measure of animal use. Ecology 85:1411-1427.
  • Millspaugh, J. J., and K. F. Millenbah. 2004.
    Value and structure of research experiences for undergraduate wildlife students. Wildlife Society Bulletin 32:1185-1194.
  • Millspaugh, J. J., and B. E. Washburn. 2004.
    Use of fecal glucocorticoid metabolite measures in conservation biology research: considerations for application and interpretation. General and Comparative Endocrinology 138:189-199.
  • Millspaugh, J. J., R. A. Gitzen, B. J. Kernohan, M. Larson, and C. Clay. 2004.
    Comparability of three analytical techniques to assess joint space use. Wildlife Society Bulletin 32:148-157.
  • Millspaugh, J. J., G. C. Brundige, K. J. Raedeke, and R. A. Gitzen. 2004.
    Herd organization of Rocky Mountain elk, Cervus elaphus nelsoni, in South Dakota. Wildlife Society Bulletin 32:506-514.
  • Washburn, B. E., D. Tempel, J. J. Millspaugh, R. J. Gutiérrez, and M. Seamans. 2004.
    Factors related to fecal estrogens and fecal testosterone in California Spotted Owls. Condor 106:567-579.
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