Referreed Journal Publications

Wilcox, C., B. Cairns , and H.P. Possingham. in press The Role of Habitat Disturbance and Recovery in Metapopulation Persistence. Ecology.

J. Worthington Wilmer, J.M. Hughes, J. Ma, and C. Wilcox. in press . Characterisation of microsatellite loci in the endemic mound spring snail Fonscochlea accepta and cross species amplification. Molecular Ecology Notes.

Wilcox, C and M. Los Huertos 2005 . A rapid and accurate method for mapping wetland basins. Journal of Hydrology 301:29-36

Jonzen, N., C. Wilcox, and H.P. Possingham 2004 . Habitat selection and population regulation in temporally fluctuating environments . American Naturalist 164:103-114.

Wilcox, C. and B. Elderd. 2003a. The endangered species act: conservation of species or natural systems? An analysis of endangered species listing proposals from California, Oregon, and Washington. Society and Natural Resources 6:551-559.

Wilcox, C. and B. Elderd. 2003b. The effect of density dependent catastrophes on population persistence time. Journal of Applied Ecology 40:859-871.

Wilcox, C. and C. Pomeroy. 2003. Do commercial fishermen aggregate around marine reserves? Evidence from Big Creek Reserve, Central California . North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:241-250.

Giske, J., M. Mangel, P. Jokobsen, G. Huse, and C. Wilcox. 2003. An individual-based model of genetic adaptation in a density-dependent environment . Evolutionary Ecology Research.

Wilcox, C. 2002. Habitat size and isolation affect colonization of season wetlands by aquatic insects. Israel Journal of Ecology, special feature on seasonal wetland ecology 47:459-476.

Wilcox, C. and H. Possingham. 2002 . Do life history traits affect the accuracy of diffusion approximations for mean time to extinction? Ecological Applications 12:1163-1179

Ellner, S.P., J. Fieberg, D. Ludwig, and C. Wilcox. 2002. Precision in population viability analysis. Conservation Biology 16:258-261.

Keitt, B.S. C. Wilcox, B.R. Tershy, D. Croll, C.J. Donlan. 2002. The effect of feral cats on the population viability of black-vented shearwaters (puffinus opisthomelas) on Natividad Island , Mexico . Animal Conservation 5:217-223.

Harding, E.K., E.E. Crone, B.D. Elderd, J.M. Hoekstra,, A.J. McKerrow, J.D. Perrine, J. Regetz,, L.J. Rissler, A.G. Stanley, E. L. Walters, and the NCEAS Habitat Conservation Plan Working Group. 2001. The Scientific Foundations of Habitat Conservation Plans: a Quantitative Assessment. Conservation Biology 15:488-500.

Milner-Gulland, E.J., K. Shea, H. Possingham, T. Coulson, C. Wilcox. 2001. Competing harvesting strategies in a simulated population under uncertainty. Animal Conservation 4:157-167.

Parma, A.M., P. Amarasekare, M. Mangel, J. Moore, W.W. Murdoch, E. Noonburg, M.A. Pascual, H.P. Possingham, K. Shea, C. Wilcox, and D. Yu. 1998. What can adaptive management do for our fish, forests, food, and biodiversity? Integrative Biology 1:16-26

Shea, K., P. Amarasekare, M.S. Mangel, J. Moore, W.W. Murdoch, E. Noonburg, A. Parma, M.A. Pascual, H.P. Possingham, C. Wilcox, D. Yu. 1998. Management of populations in conservation, harvesting, and control. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13:371-375.

Brodman P., C. Wilcox, and S. Harrison 1997. Mobile parasitoids may restrict the spatial spread of an insect outbreak. Journal of Animal Ecology 66:65-72.

Harrison S. and C. Wilcox 1995. Evidence that predator satiation may restrict the spatial spread of a tussock moth ( Orgyia vetusta ) outbreak. Oecologia 7:23-34.

 

Book Chapters, Reports and Other Publications

Wilcox, C. and J. Diffendorfer. 2003. Review of the current extionction models for the endangered Alabama beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus ammobates). Report to United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

Karieva, P., S. Andelman, D. Doak, B. Elderd, M. Groom, J. Hoekstra, L. Hood, F. James, J. Lamoreux, G. LeBuhn, C. McCulloch, J. Regetz, L. Savage, M. Ruckelshaus, D. Skelly, H. Wilbur, K. Zamudio, and the NCEAS HCP working group. 1998. Using science in Habitat Conservation Plans. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara , CA .

Hoopes M., C. Wilcox, P. Trenham, and E. Sandoval 1996. Biological Inventory and GIS database of the Great Valley Grassland State Park, Merced Co., CA with projections of the impacts of proposed changes to flooding regimes. Report to California State Parks and Recreation Department.

Manuscripts in Review

Wilcox, C. and C. Pomeroy. in review . Increasing fishing pressure near a marine reserve: Can we predict regional redistribution of effort from fishery data? Canadian Jounal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

Wilcox, C. and C.J. Donlan. in review . Resolving Economic Inefficiencies in Fisheries Management and Biodiversity Conservation: a role for Compensatory Mitigation? Science.

Wilcox, C. in review . Fairy shrimp metapopulations: investigating mechanisms complicated by dormancy and implications for reserve design. Ecological Applications.

Vuilleumier, S., C. Wilcox, B.J. Cairns , H.P. Possingham. in review . The effect of spatially and temporally aggregated habitat disturbance on metapopulations under different spatial configurations and connectivity. Journal of Animal Ecology

Manuscripts in Preparation

Wilcox, C. in prep for Ecology . Long-term dormancy in an endangered crustacean: the biogeography and dynamics of fairy shrimp cyst banks.

Wilcox, C. and J. Diffendorfer. in prep for Conservation Biology . Spatial variation in density-dependent and independent population regulation, and its implications for the the conservation of the endangered Alabama beach mouse ( Peromyscus polionotus ammobates) .

Wilcox, C. and J. Diffendorfer. in prep for Conservation Biology . Integrating the spatial dynamics of threats, catastrophes, and population regulation to predict extinction risk in the critically endangered Alabama beach mouse.

Kuhnert, P.M., C. Wilcox, C. Hauser, and H. Possingham. in prep for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Adaptive management of complex systems: a Bayesian approach to stochastic dynamic programming.