Erica F. Stuber | X-SCALE ECOLOGY
Assistant Unit Leader - USGS UT Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Assistant Professor - Utah State University Department of Wildland Resources & Ecology Center
PUBLICATIONS
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Peer-reviewed Book Chapter
Stuber, E., C. Chizinski, J. Lusk, and J.J. Fontaine. Multivariate Models and Analyses. In: Quantitative Analyses in Wildlife Science, eds.: Marcot, B., A. Tri, and L. Brennan. Johns Hopkins University Press (2019).
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
2024
N.A. Pershyn*, E.M. Gese, E. Stuber, and B.M. Kluever. (2024) Coyotes in the Great Basin Desert Do Not Exhibit a Spatial Response Following Removal of Anthropogenic Water Sources. Journal of Arid Environments – 220:105097
N.A. Pershyn*, E.M. Gese, E. Stuber, and B.M. Kluever. (2024) Kit Foxes demonstrate characteristics of safety and resource matching under intraguild predation pressure by Coyotes in the Great Basin Desert. Scientific Reports – Accepted
Van Tatenhove, A.*, J. Neill, R. Norvell, E. Stuber, and C. Rushing. (2024) Scale-dependent population drivers inform avian management in a declining saline lake ecosystem. Ecological Applications – Accepted
2023
Stillman, A., P. Howell, G. Zimmerman, E. Bjerre, B. Millsap, O. Robinson, D. Fink, E. Stuber, and V. Ruiz-Gutierrez. (2023) Leveraging the strengths of citizen science and structured surveys to achieve scalable inference on population size. Journal of Applied Ecology – 60(11): 2389-2399
Gould, E., H. Fraser, T. Parker, S. Nakagawa, S. Griffith, P. Vesk, F. Fidler … E. Stuber… et al. (2023) Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology. BMC Biology - Preliminary Acceptance as a Stage 1 Registered Report (https://doi.org/10.32942/X2GG62)
2022
Stuber, E, O. Robinson, E.R. Bjerre, M.C. Otto, B.A. Millsap, G.S. Zimmerman, M. G. Brasher, K. M. Ringelman, A.M.V. Fournier, A. Yetter, J.E. Isola, V. Ruiz-Gutierrez. (2022) The potential of semi-structured citizen science data as a supplement for conservation decision-making: Validating the performance of eBird against targeted avian monitoring efforts. Biological Conservation – 270: 109556
Stuber, E., B. Carlson*, and B. Jesmer. (2022) Spatial Personalities: a meta-analysis of consistent individual differences in spatial behavior. Behavioral Ecology – 33(3): 477-86 Invited Review - https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab147
Stuber, E, B. Carlson*, and B. Jesmer. (2022) Many avenues for spatial personality research: a response to comments on Stuber et al. 2022. Behavioral Ecology – 33(3): 492-3 https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arac018.
Chambers, S., M. L. Villarreal, O. Duane, S. M. Munson, E. Stuber, G. Tyreef, E. K. Waller, and M.C. Duniway. (2022) Conflict of Energies: Mapping Mule Deer’s Caloric Expenditure in Response to Oil and Gas Development. Landscape Ecology - Accepted
O. Robinson, J. Socolar, E. Stuber, T. Auer, A. Berryman, P. H. Boersch-Supan, D. Brightsmith, A. Burbidge, S. Butchart, C. L. Davis, A. M. Dokter, A. S. Di Giacomo, A. Farnsworth, D. Fink, W. M. Hochachka, P. E. Howell, F. A. La Sorte, A. C. Lees, S. Marsden, R. Martin, R. O. Martin, J. F. Masello, E. T. Miller, Y. Moodley, A. Musgrove, D. Noble, V. Ojeda, P. Quillfeldt, J. A. Royle, V. Ruiz-Gutierrez, J. L. Tella, P. Yorio, C. Youngflesh, A. Johnston. (2022) Extreme uncertainty and unquantifiable bias do not inform population sizes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(10): e2113862119
Simonsen, V.*, E. Stuber, and J.J. Fontaine. (2022) Examining the effects of patch size and nest density on artificial nest survival. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology - 134(2): 182–192
2021
Corral, L.*, E. Stuber, T. Frink, A. Bishop, and J.J. Fontaine. Can scale-dependent land cover relationships explain canid community composition independent of intraguild occupancy? Landscape Ecology – 37:249–266. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01350-3
Mirochnitchenko, N.*, E. Stuber, and J.J. Fontaine. (2021) Biodiversity scale-dependence, and opposing multi-level covariance lead to mismatches among taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography – 48:2989– 3003. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14248
Van Doren, B.M., D.E. Willard, M. Hennen, K.G. Horton, E. Stuber, D. Sheldon, A.H. Sivakumar, J. Wang, A. Farnsworth, and B.M. Winger. (2021) Drivers of fatal bird collisions in an urban center. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(24).
Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., E. Bjerre, M. Otto, G. Zimmerman, B. Millsap, D. Fink, E. Stuber, M. Strimas-Mackey, and O. Robinson. (2021) A pathway for citizen-science data to inform policy: a case study using eBird data for defining low-risk collision areas for wind energy development. (Journal of Applied Ecology – in press)
2020
Stuber, E., and L. Gruber. (2020) Recent methodological solutions to identifying scales of effect in multi-scale modelling. Current Landscape Ecology Reports 5:127-139
Wszola, L.*, L. Gruber, E. Stuber, L. Messinger*, C. Chizinski, and J.J. Fontaine. (2020) Use and expenditures on public access hunting lands. J. Outdoor Recreation and Tourism 29:100256-100269
Wszola, L.*, A. Madsen*, E. Stuber, C. Chizinski, J. Lusk, J. Taylor, K. Pope, and J.J. Fontaine. (2020) Public access for modern pheasant hunters: understanding an emerging need. J. Wildlife Management – in press DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.21785
2019
Wszola, L.*, A. Madsen*, E. Stuber, C. Chizinski, J. Lusk, J. Taylor, K. Pope, and J.J. Fontaine. (2020) Public access for modern pheasant hunters: understanding an emerging need. J. Wildlife Management – in press DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.21785
Stuber, E., and J.J. Fontaine. (2019) How characteristic is the species characteristic selection scale? Global Ecology and Biogeography – 28:1839-1854 DOI: 10.1111/geb.12998
Messinger, L.*, E. Stuber, C.J. Chizinski, and J.J. Fontaine. (2019) Mortality, perception, and scale: understanding how predation shapes space use in a wild prey population. PLoS One 14(9) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222272
Fontaine, J.J., A. Fedele, L. Wszola*, L. Messinger*, J. Lusk, K. Decker, J. Taylor, and E. Stuber. (2019) Hunters and their perceptions of public access: a view from afield. J. Fish and Wildlife Management 10:589-601 DOI: 10.3996/082018-JFWM-077
Wszola, L.*, E. Stuber, C. Chizinski, J. Lusk, and J.J. Fontaine. (2019) Prey availability and accessibility drive hunter movement. J. Wildlife Biology 2019(1) DOI: 10.2981/wlb.00526
Gruber, L., E. Stuber, L. Wszola*, and J.J. Fontaine. (2019) Estimating the Use of Public Lands: Integrated Modeling of Open Populations with Convolution Likelihood Ecological Abundance Regression. Bayesian Analysis – DOI: 10.1214/19-BA1152.
2018
Stuber, E., L. Gruber, and J.J. Fontaine. (2018) Predicting species-habitat relationships: Does body size
matter? Landscape Ecology – DOI: 10.1007/s10980-018-0648-6.
Stuber, E., and J.J. Fontaine. (2018) Ecological neighborhoods as a framework for umbrella species
selection. Biological Conservation – DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2018.04.026.
Abbey-Lee, R., Y. Araya-Ajoy, A. Mouchet, E. Stuber, B. Kempenaers, and N. Dingemanse. (2018)
Does perceived predation risk affect patterns of extra‐pair paternity? A field experiment in a passerine bird. Functional Ecology 32:1001-1010.
2017
Stuber, E., L. Gruber, and J.J. Fontaine. (2017) A Bayesian method for assessing multiscale species-
habitat relationships. Landscape Ecology 32:2365-2381.
Wszola, L.S.*, V. Simonsen, E. Stuber, C. Gillespie, L.N. Messinger, K.L. Decker, J.J. Lusk, C.F.
Jorgensen, A.A. Bishop, and J.J. Fontaine. (2017) Translating statistical wildlife-habitat models to
interactive decision support tools. PLoS ONE 12(12): e0188244. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188244.
Stuber, E., N. Dingemanse, and J.C. Mueller. (2017) Temperature increase affects frequency but not
rhythmicity of nocturnal awakenings in free-living great tits. Animal Behaviour 128:135-141.
Fontaine, J., C.F. Jorgensen, E. Stuber, L. Gruber, A. Bishop, J. Lusk, E. Zach, and K.L. Decker.
(2017) Species distribution models in wildlife planning: agricultural policy and wildlife management in the Great Plains. Wildlife Society Bulletin – DOI: 10.1002/wsb.763.
Zink, B., and E. Stuber. (2017) No relationship between brain size and risk of being shot in hunted
birds: a response to Møller and Erritzøe (2016). Biology Letters 13(5).
2016
Stuber, E., N. Dingemanse, B. Kempenaers, and J. C. Mueller. (2016) Genetic correlates of individual
differences in sleep behavior of free-living great tits (Parus major). G3 Genes | Genomes | Genetics 6:599-607.
2015
Stuber, E., K. J. Mathot, B. Kempenaers, N. Dingemanse, and J. C. Mueller. (2015) Sex-specific
association between sleep and basal metabolic rate in great tits. Animal Behaviour 109:15-22.
Stuber, E., N. Dingemanse, B. Kempenaers, and J. C. Mueller. (2015) Sources of intraspecific
variation in sleep behaviour of wild great tits (Parus major). Animal Behaviour 106:201-221.
2014
Stuber, E., M. Grobis*, R. Abbey-Lee, B. Kempenaers, J. C. Mueller, and N. Dingemanse. (2014)
Perceived predation risk affects sleep behaviour in free-living great tits (Parus major). Animal
Behaviour 98:157-165.
2013
Stuber, E. Y. Araya-Ajoy, K. Mathot, A. Mutzel, M. Nicolaus, J. Wijmenga, J. Mueller, and N.
Dingemanse. (2013) Slow explorers take less risk: a problem of sampling bias in ecological studies.
Behavioral Ecology 24:1092-1098.
Stuber, E., and P. Bartell. (2013) Seasonal differences in behavior patterns of the migratory white-
throated sparrow. J. Ethology 31:151–158.
Stuber, E., J. Verpeut*, M. Horvat-Gordon, R. Ramachandran, and P. Bartell. (2013) Differential
Regulation of Adipokines May Influence Migratory Behavior in the White-throated Sparrow
(Zonotrichia albicolis). PLoS One 8 (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059097)