Dr. Charles van Riper III

USGS Research Scientist and Professor
 
USGS Southwest Biological Science Center Sonoran Desert Research Station, Leader

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PUBLICATIONS SUBMITTED AND IN REVIEW

Carlisle, J. D., S. K. Skagen, B. E. Kus, C. van Riper III, K. L. Paxton, and J. F. Kelly. (In Review). Landbird migration in the American West: Recent progress and future research directions. The Condor.

Hultine, K. R., Jayne Belnap, Phillip E. Dennison, James R Ehleringer, Martha E. Lee, Pamela L. Nagler, Keirith A. Snyder, Shauna M. Uselman, Charles van Riper III, Jason B. West . (In Review). Ecologic and societal implications of tamarisk defoliation and removal by the saltcedar leaf beetle. Ecological Applications.

Jones, A. L., E. Aumack, P. Beier, J. Belnap, J. Catlin, J. Fleischner, T. Grumbine, D. Mattson and C. van Riper III. (In Review). The legacy of future visions of conservation biology on the Colorado Plateau. Pp. xxx-xxx, In: The Colorado Plateau IV: Integrating research and resources management for effective conservation (van Riper, C., III, B. F. Wakeling, and T. D. Sisk, Eds). University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. xxx pp.

Crow, C., and C. van Riper III. (Submitted – accepted with revisions September 2008). The influences of pinyon-juniper woodland mechanical thinning on Colorado Plateau birds. Journal of Range Ecology and Management.

Johnson, M. J., Robert T. Magill and C. van Riper III, (Submitted July 2008 –accepted with revisions January 2009). Yellow-billed Cuckoo Distribution and Habitat Associations in Arizona, 1998-1999. Pp. xxx-xxx, In: The Colorado Plateau IV: Integrating research and resources management for effective conservation (van Riper, C., III, B. F. Wakeling, and T. D. Sisk, Eds). University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. xxx pp.

O’Brien, C., A. D. Flesch, E. Wallace, M. Bogan, S. E. Carrillo-Percástegui, S. Jacobs, and C. van Riper III. (In Press 2009). Biological inventory of the Rio Aros, Sonora, Mexico: A river unknown. USGS OFR 2008-xxxx. US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Sonoran Desert Research Station, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. 59 pp.

O’Brien, C., and van Riper, C., III. (In Press 2009). The ecology of parasite-host interactions at Montezuma Well National Monument, Arizona: Appreciating the importance of parasites. USGS OFR 2008-xxxx. US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Sonoran Desert Research Station, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

van Riper, C., III and T. R. Arundel Modeling Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus occidentalis) habitat in Arizona. (Submitted July 2008). Pp. xxx-xxx, In: The Colorado Plateau IV: Integrating research and resources management for effective conservation (van Riper, C., III, B. F. Wakeling, and T. D. Sisk, Eds). University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. xxx pp.

Sogge, M. K., M. J. Johnson, and C. van Riper III. (Submitted Dec 2009 ). The birds of Montezuma Castle National Monument, AZ. Pp. xxx-xxx, In: The Colorado Plateau IV: Integrating research and resources management for effective conservation (van Riper, C., III, B. F. Wakeling, and T. D. Sisk, Eds). University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. xxx pp.

van Riper, C., III, and S. Knick. (Accepted and In Revision). Biotic and abiotic influences on avian disease transmission in Hawaii. Auk.

Crow, C., and C. van Riper III. (In Press 2009). Avian community responses to mechanical thinning of pinyon-juniper woodland at Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA. Pp xx-xx, In: Learning from the Land II. (M. Eaton Ed.). Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City and Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT.

Halvorson, W. L., C. S. Schwalbe, and C. van Riper III. (In Press -Accepted 2009). The Sonoran Desert I: Biophysical, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Research. Accepted for publication submission to the University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. (19 Chapters) xxx pp.

PUBLICATION IN PREPARATION

Esque, T. C., R. H. Webb, C. S. A. Wallace, C. van Riper III, C. McCreedy, and L. Smythe. (In Preparation). Desert fires fueled by native annual forbs: The King Valley fire of 2005 in the Lower Sonoran Desert of Arizona. Journal of Arid Environments.

Moring, B., D. Papoulias, and C. van Riper III. (In Preparation). Biological Resources. Chapter #3. pp xxx-xxx. In: Parcher, J. – A web/based publication on the US/Mexico Border Environmental Health. http://borderhealth.cr.usgs.gov/ 

Rosemartin, A., and C. van Riper III. (In Preparation). Assessing potential impacts to the distribution and abundance of breeding Least Terns (Sternula antillarum) in northern Sonora, Mexico. Waterbirds.

van Riper, C., III., R. H. Webb, , K. A. Howard, P. Nagler, E. Glen, P. Shafroth, , and Daniel Moyenahan. (In Preparation). The state of resources on the Lower Colorado River. BioScience.

van Riper, C. III, and L. A. Ellison. (In Preparation). A Mark-recapture analysis of the California Scrub Jay. Conservation Biology.

van Riper, C., III., B. W. Wakeling and T. K. Sisk. (In Preparation). The Colorado Plateau IV: Integrating research and resources management for effective conservation. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. i-xiv; xxx pp.

Willey, D. A. and C. van Riper III. . (In Preparation). Roost behavior of juvenile Mexican Spotted Owls in the canyonlands of Utah. Journal of Raptor Research.

Willey, D. A. and C. van Riper III. . (In Preparation) Response of Mexican Spotted Owls to prescribed fire in Saguaro National Park, Arizona. Journal of Wildlife Management.
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