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James
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Telephone: 301-497-5660 Fax: 301-497-5666 Email: jnichols@usgs.gov Wildlife Biologist / Senior Scientist |
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| Areas of Expertise/Interest: Animal population dynamics and management, demographic estimation methods. | |
Accomplishments/Awards/Achievements: 2005 - U.S. Presidential Rank Award (Meritorious Senior Professional) 2004 - U.S. Geological Survey Meritorious Service Award 2004 - IFAS Scholar Award, University of Florida 1998 - Promoted to Senior Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey 1984 - Southeastern Section of the Wildlife Society,
Outstanding Publication Award |
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Active Projects: Adaptive management and assessment of habitat changes on migratory birds Development of models of mallard population dynamics for adaptive harvest management Development of methods to estimate parameters associated with animal population dynamics Statistical methods for species richness estimation Technical Assistance -Tiger Monitoring and Population Research Development of methods for estimating patch occupancy and patch-dynamic parameters from detection-nondetection survey data Development of methods to estimate species richness and community-dynamic parameters from species list data |
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Selected Publications/Products: Moniz, L.J., J.D. Nichols, and J.M. Nichols. 2007. Mapping the information landscape: discerning peaks and valleys for ecological monitoring. J. Biol. Physics (in press) Nichols, J.D., J.E. Hines, D.I. MacKenzie, M.E. Seamans, and R.J. Gutierrez. 2007. Occupancy estimation with multiple states and state uncertainty. Ecology (in press). Ferraz, G., J.D. Nichols, J.E. Hines, P.C. Stouffer, R.O. Bierregaard, Jr., and T.E. Lovejoy. 2007. A large-scale deforestation experiment: Effects of patch area and isolation on Amazon birds. Science 315:238-241. Nichols, J.D., and B.K. Williams. 2006. Monitoring for conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21:668-673. Mackenzie, D.I., J.D. Nichols, J.A. Royle, K.H. Pollock, L.A. Bailey, and J.E. Hines. 2006. Occupancy modeling and estimation. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. 324pp. Nichols, J.D., W.L. Kendall, J.E. Hines, and J.A. Spendelow. 2004. Estimation of sex- specific survival from capture-recapture data when sex is not always known. Ecology 85:3192-3201. Williams, B.K., J.D. Nichols, and M.J. Conroy. 2002. Analysis and management of animal populations. Academic Press, San Diego. 817pp. Karanth, K.U. and J.D. Nichols (eds.) Monitoring tigers and their prey. 2002. A manual for wildlife managers, researchers, and conservationists. Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bangalore, India. 193pp. Nichols, J.D., and J.E. Hines. 2002. Approaches for the direct estimation of 8, and demographic contributions to 8, using capture-recapture data. J. Appl. Stat. 29:539-568. Clobert, J., E. Danchin, A.A. Dhondt, and J.D. Nichols (eds.) 2001. Dispersal. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, UK. 452pp. Nichols, J.D. 2001. Using models in the conduct of science and management of natural resources. Pages 11-34 in T.M. Shenk and A.B. Franklin (eds.) Modeling in Natural Resource Management: Development, Interpretation and Application. Island Press, Washington. Nichols, J.D. 2000. Evolution of harvest management for North American waterfowl: Selective pressures and preadaptations for adaptive harvest management. Trans. N. Amer. Wildl. Natural Resour. Conf. 65:65-77. Nichols, J.D., J.E. Hines, J.-D. Lebreton, and R. Pradel. 2000. Estimation of contributions to population growth: a reverse-time capture-recapture approach. Ecology 81:3362-3376. Pollock, K.H., J.D. Nichols, C. Brownie, and J.E. Hines. 1990. Statistical inference for capture-recapture experiments. Wildl. Monogr. 107. 97pp. |
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