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You can also check out Sarah’s Google Scholar<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

Books<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Runge MC, SJ Converse<\/strong>, JE Lyons, and DR Smith, editors. 2020. <\/em>Structured decision making: case studies in natural resource management. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.<\/p>\n

French JB Jr, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and JE Austin, editors. 2018. <\/em>Whooping Cranes: biology and conservation. Biodiversity of the world: conservation from genes to landscapes. Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.<\/p>\n

Journal Articles and\u00a0<\/strong>Book Chapters<\/strong><\/h3>\n

2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amburgey SM, A Prakash, AA Yackel Adams, SR Siers, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. Accepted. Development and evaluation of the remote passive interated transponder tag reader for customizable monitoring of wildlife. The Wildlife Society Bulletin.<\/p>\n

2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brusa JL, MT Farr, J Evenson, E Silverman, B Murphie, TA Cyra, H Tschaekofske, KA Spragens, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2024. Correcting for measurement errors in a long-term aerial survey with auxiliary photographic data. Ecosphere 15:e4961.<\/p>\n

Gerber BD, BA Mosher, LL Bailey, E Muths, HJ Crockett, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2024. Just do it: optimal management decisions are robust to unknown dynamics in an amphibian metapopulation plagued by disease. Animal Conservation 27:65-77.<\/p>\n

Petracca LS, B Gardner, BT Maletzke, and SJ Converse. 2024. Response toSantiag-\u00c1<\/span><\/span>vila et al. (2024). Biological Conservation 110926.<\/p>\n

Petracca LS, B Gardner, BT Maletzke, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2024. Merging integrated population models and individual-based models to project population dynamics of a recolonizing species. Biological Conservation 289:110340.<\/p>\n

Sorel MH, JC Jorgensen, RW Zabel, MD Scheuerell, AR Murdoch, CM Kamphaus, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2024. Incorporating individual heterogeneity in an integrated population model to inform viability analysis. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 81:535-548.<\/p>\n

Thompson BK, JD Olden, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2024. Evaluating spatially explicit management alternatives for an invasive species in a riverine network. NeoBiota 96:151-172.<\/p>\n

Warlick AJ, GK Himes Boor, TL McGuire, KEW Shelden, EK Jacobson, C Boyd, PR Wade, AE Punt, SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2024. Identifying demographic and environmental drivers of population dynamics and viability in an endangered top predator using an integrated model. Animal Conservation 27:240-252.<\/p>\n

West L, K Rafiq, SJ Converse<\/strong>, AM Wilson, NR Jordan, KA Golabek, JW McNutt, and B Abrahms. 2024. Droughts reshape apex predator space use and intraguild overlap. Journal of Animal Ecology 93:1785-1798.<\/p>\n

Yackel Adams AA, NJ Hostetter, WA Link, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2024. Identifying Pareto-efficient eradication\u00a0strategies for invasive populations. Conservation Letters: e13051.<\/p>\n

2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ewen JG, S Canessa, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and KA Parker. 2023. Decision making in animal translocations: biological considerations and beyond. Chapter\u00a0in\u00a0<\/em>Gaywood M, Ewen JG, Hollingsworth P, and A Moehrenschlager. Conservation Translocations. Cambridge University Press, London, UK.<\/p>\n

Himes Boor GK, TL McGuire, AJ Warlick, RL Taylor, SJ Converse<\/strong>, JR McClung, and AD Stephens. 2023. Estimating reproductive and juvenile survival rates when offspring ages are uncertain: a novel multievent mark-resight model with beluga whale case study. Methods in Ecology and Evolution: In Press<\/p>\n

Mendgen P, SJ Converse<\/strong>, AT Pearse, CS Teitelbaum, and T Mueller. 2023. Differential shortstopping behaviour in Whooping Cranes: habitat or social learning? Global Ecology and Conservation 41:e02365.<\/p>\n

Sorel MH, AR Murdoch, RW Zabel, JJ Jorgensen, CM Kamphaus, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2023. Juvenile life history diversity is associated with lifetime individual heterogeneity in a migratory fish. Ecosphere 14:e4366.<\/p>\n

Todd Zaragoza MI, AJ DuVall, JA Howard, DM Mazurkiewicz, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2023. Laying sequence and oceanographic factors affect egg size in Scripps’s Murrelets Synthliboramphus scrippsi<\/em> at Santa Barbara Island. Marine Ornithology: In Press.<\/p>\n

2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, BT McClintock, and PB Conn. 2022. Special Feature: Linking capture-recapture and movement. Ecology 103:e3770.<\/p>\n

Doll CF, SJ Converse<\/strong>, CB Edwards, and CB Schultz. 2022. Using structured decision making to guide habitat restoration for butterflies: a case study of Oregon silverspots. Journal of Insect Conservation 26:219-230.<\/p>\n

Doll CF, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and CB Schultz. 2022. Non-target effects of herbicides on the Zerene silverspot butterfly, a surrogate for the Oregon silverspot butterfly. Journal of Insect Conservation 26:1-15.<\/p>\n

Edwards HA, SJ Converse<\/strong>, KD Swan, and A Moehrenschlager. 2022. Trading off hatching success and cost in the captive breeding of Whooping Cranes. Animal Conservation 25:101-109.<\/p>\n

Gardner B, BT McClintock, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and NJ Hostetter. 2022. Integrated animal movement and spatial capture-recapture models: simulation, implementation, and inference. Ecology 103:e3771.<\/p>\n

Hemming V, AE Camaclang, MS Adams, M Burgman, K Carbeck, J Carwardine, I Chades, L Chalifour, SJ Converse<\/strong>, LNK Davidson, GE Garrard, R Finn, JR Fleri, J Huard, HJ Mayfield, E McDonald-Madden, I Naujokaitis-Lewis, HP Possingham, L Rumpff, MC Runge, D Stewart, VJD Tulloch, T Walshe, and TG Martin. 2022. An introduction to decision science for conservation. Conservation Biology 36:e13868.<\/p>\n

Hostetter NJ, EV Regehr, RR Wilson, JA Royle, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2022. Modeling spatiotemporal abundance and movement dynamics using an integrated spatial capture-recapture movement model. Ecology 103:e3772.<\/p>\n

McClintock BT, B Abrahms, RB Chandler, PB Conn, SJ Converse<\/strong>, RL Emmet, B Gardner, NJ Hostetter, and DS Johnson. 2022. An integrated path for spatial capture-recapture and animal movement modeling. Ecology 103:e3473.<\/p>\n

Oppel S, BL Clark, MM Risi, C Horswill, SJ Converse<\/strong>, CW Jones, AM Osborne, K Stevens, V Perold, AL Bond, RM Wanless, R Cuthbert, J Cooper, PG Ryan. 2022. Cryptic population decrease due to invasive species predation in a long-lived seabird supports need for eradication. Journal of Applied Ecology 59:2059-2070.<\/p>\n

Warlick AJ, DS Johnson, TS Gelatt, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2022. Environmental drivers of demography and potential factors limiting the recovery of an endangered marine top predator. Ecosphere 13:e4325.<\/p>\n

2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abrahms B, CS Teitelbaum, T Mueller, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2021. Ontogenetic shifts from social to experiential learning drive avian migration timing. Nature Communications 12:7326.<\/p>\n

Amburgey SM, AA Yackel Adams, B Gardner, NJ Hostetter, SR Siers, BT McClintock, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2021. Evaluation of camera trap-based abundance estimators for unmarked populations. Ecological Applications 31:e02410.<\/p>\n

Amburgey SM, AA Yackel Adams, B Gardner, B Lardner, AJ Knox, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2021. Tools for increasing visual encounter probabilities for invasive species removal: a case study of brown treesnakes. Neobiota 70:107-122.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong> and HA Sipe. 2021. Commentary: Finding the win-win strategies in endangered species conservation. Animal Conservation 24:161-162.<\/p>\n

Hostetter NJ, NJ Lunn, ES Richardson, EV Regehr, SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2021. Age-structured Jolly-Seber model expands inference and improves parameter estimation from capture-recapture data. PLoS ONE 16:e0252748.<\/p>\n

Regehr EV, MC Runge, A Von Duyke, RR Wilson, L Polasek, KD Rode, NJ Hostetter, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2021. Demographic risk assessment for a harvested species threatened by climate change: polar bears in the Chukchi Sea. Ecological Applications 31:e02461.<\/p>\n

Sorel MH, RW Zabel, DS Johnson, AM Wargo Rub, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2021. <\/em>Estimating population-specific predation effects on Chinook salmon via data integration. Journal of Applied Ecology 58:372-381.<\/p>\n

Thompson BK, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and JD Olden. 2021. Mechanistic invasive species management models and their application in conservation. Conservation Science and Practice 3:e533.<\/p>\n

Thurner SD, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and TA Branch. 2021. Modeling opportunistic exploitation: increased extinction risk when targeting more than one species. Ecological Modelling 454:109611.<\/p>\n

2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, B Gardner, and S Morey. 2020. Reserve network design for prairie-dependent taxa in South\u00a0Puget Sound. Pages 124-134 in<\/em> MC Runge, SJ Converse, JE Lyons, and DR Smith. Structured decision making: case studies in natural resource management. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>. 2020. Introduction to multi-criteria decision analysis. Pages 51-61 in<\/em> MC Runge, SJ Converse, JE Lyons, and DR Smith. Structured decision making: case studies in natural resource management. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>. 2020. Prioritizing uncertainties to improve management of a reintroduction program. Pages 214-224 in<\/em> MC Runge, SJ Converse, JE Lyons, and DR Smith. Structured decision making: case studies in natural resource management. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.<\/p>\n

Runge MC and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2020. Introduction to risk analysis. Pages 149-155 in<\/em> MC Runge, SJ Converse, JE Lyons, and DR Smith. Structured decision making: case studies in natural resource management. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.<\/p>\n

Royle JA and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2020. Estimating abundance from capture-recapture data. Pages in <\/em>103-122 D Murray and B Sandercock, editors. Population ecology in practice: underused, misused, and abused methods. Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, USA.<\/p>\n

2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adler PH, J Barzen, E Gray, A Lacy, RP Urbanek, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2019. The dilemma of pest suppression in the conservation of endangered species. Conservation Biology 33:788-796.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong> and EHC Grant. 2019. <\/em>A three-pipe problem: dealing with complexity to halt amphibian declines. Biological Conservation 236:107-114.<\/em><\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, JB French Jr, and JE Austin. 2019. <\/em>Future of Whooping Crane conservation and science. Pages 505-516 in <\/em>JB French Jr, SJ Converse, and JE Austin, editors. Whooping Cranes: biology and conservation. Biodiversity of the world: conservation from genes to landscapes. Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, S Servanty, CT Moore, and MC Runge. 2019. <\/em>Population dynamics of reintroduced Whooping Cranes. Pages 139-160 in <\/em>JB French Jr, SJ Converse, and JE Austin, editors. Whooping Cranes: biology and conservation. Biodiversity of the world: conservation from genes to landscapes. Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, BN Strobel, and JA Barzen. 2019. <\/em>Reproductive failure in the eastern migratory population: the interaction of research and management. Pages 161-178 in <\/em>JB French Jr, SJ Converse, and JE Austin, editors. Whooping Cranes: biology and conservation. Biodiversity of the world: conservation from genes to landscapes. Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.<\/p>\n

French JB Jr, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and JE Austin. 2019. <\/em>Whooping cranes past and present. Pages 3-16 in <\/em>JB French Jr, SJ Converse, and JE Austin, editors. Whooping Cranes: biology and conservation. Biodiversity of the world: conservation from genes to landscapes. Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.<\/p>\n

Funk WC, BR Forester, SJ Converse<\/strong>, C Darst, and S Morey. 2019. Improving conservation policy with genomics: a guide to integrating adaptive potential into U.S. Endangered Species Act decisions for conservation practitioners and geneticists. Conservation Genetics 20:115-134.<\/p>\n

Kadin M, M Frederiksen, S Niiranen, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2019. Linking demographic and food-web models to understand management trade-offs. Ecology and Evolution 9:8587-8600.<\/p>\n

Lloyd NA, NJ Hostetter, CL Jackson, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and A Moehrenschlager. 2019. Optimizing release strategies: a stepping-stone approach to reintroduction. Animal Conservation 22:105-115.<\/p>\n

Lloyd NA, NJ Hostetter, CL Jackson, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and A Moehrenschlager. 2019. Response: future directions to escalate benefits of the stepping-stone approach for conservation translocations. Animal Conservation 22:122-123.<\/p>\n

Songsasen N, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and ME Brown. 2019. <\/em>Reproduction and reproductive technologies relevant to management of whooping cranes ex situ.<\/em> Pages 373-387 in <\/em>JB French Jr, SJ Converse, and JE Austin, editors. Whooping Cranes: biology and conservation. Biodiversity of the world: conservation from genes to landscapes. Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.<\/p>\n

Teiteilbaum CS, SJ Converse<\/strong>, WF Fagan, and T Mueller. 2019. <\/em>Movement ecology of reintroduced migratory whooping cranes. Pages 217-238 in <\/em>JB French Jr, SJ Converse, and JE Austin, editors. Whooping Cranes: biology and conservation. Biodiversity of the world: conservation from genes to landscapes. Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.<\/p>\n

Teitelbaum CS, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and T Mueller. 2019. The importance of early life experience and animal cultures in reintroductions. Conservation Letters 12:e12599.<\/p>\n

2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barzen JA, SJ Converse<\/strong>, PH Adler, A Lacy, E Gray, and A Gossens. 2018. Examination of multiple working hypotheses to address reproductive failure in reintroduced Whooping Cranes. The Condor 120:632-649.<\/p>\n

Cummings JW, SJ Converse<\/strong>, DR Smith, S Morey, and MC Runge. 2018. Implicit decision framing as an unrecognized source of confusion in endangered species classification. Conservation Biology 32:1246-1254.<\/p>\n

Gerber BD, SJ Converse<\/strong>, E Muths, HJ Crockett, BA Mosher, and LL Bailey. 2018. Identifying species conservation strategies to reduce disease-associated declines. Conservation Letters 11:1-10<\/p>\n

Link WA, SJ Converse<\/strong>, AA Yackel Adams, and NJ Hostetter. 2018. Analysis of population change and movement using robust design removal data. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 23:463-447.<\/p>\n

Regehr EV, NJ Hostetter, RR Wilson, KD Rode, M St. Martin, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2018. Integrated population modeling provides the first empirical estimates of vital rates and abundance for polar bears in the Chukchi Sea. Scientific Reports 8:16780.<\/p>\n

2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brown ME, SJ Converse<\/strong>, JN Chandler, AL Crosier, W Lynch, DE Wildt, CL Keefer, and N Songsasen. 2017. Time within reproductive season, but not age or inbreeding coefficient, influences seminal and sperm quality in the whooping crane (Grus americana<\/em>). Reproduction, Fertility, and Development 29:294-306.<\/em><\/p>\n

Clement MJ, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and JA Royle. 2017. Accounting for imperfect detection of groups and individuals when estimating abundance. Ecology and Evolution 7:7304-7310.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, LL Bailey, BA Mosher, WC Funk, and E Muths. 2017. A model to inform management actions as a response to chytridiomycosis-associated decline. EcoHealth 14(Suppl 1): 144-155.<\/p>\n

Garrard GE, L Rumpff, MC Runge, and SJ Converse. <\/strong>2017. <\/em>Rapid prototyping for decision structuring: an efficient approach to conservation decision analysis. <\/em>Pages 46-64 in <\/em>N Bunnefeld, E Nicholson, and EJ Milner-Gulland, editors. Decision-making in conservation and natural resource management: models for interdisciplinary approaches. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Teitelbaum CS, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and T Mueller. 2017. Birds choose long-term partners years before breeding. Animal Behaviour 134:147-154.<\/p>\n

2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brown ME, SJ Converse<\/strong>, JN Chandler, C Shafer, JL Brown, CL Keefer, and N Songsasen. 2016. Female gonadal hormones and reproductive behaviors as key determinants of successful reproductive output of breeding whooping cranes (Grus americana<\/em>). General and Comparative Endocrinology 230:158-165.<\/p>\n

Canessa S, SJ Converse<\/strong>, M West, N Clemman, G Gillespie, M McFadden, AJ Silla, KM Parris, and MA McCarthy. 2016. <\/em>Planning for ex-situ conservation in the face of uncertainty. Conservation Biology 30:599-609.<\/p>\n

Canessa S, G Guillera-Arroita, J Lahoz-Monfort, DM Southwell, DP Armstrong, I Chad\u00e8s, RC Lacy, and\u00a0SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2016. Adaptive management for improving species conservation across the captive-wild spectrum. Biological Conservation 199:123-131.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong> and DP Armstrong. 2016. <\/em>Demographic modeling for reintroduction decision-making. Pages 123-146 in <\/em>DS Jachowski, JJ Millspaugh, PL Angermeier, and R Slotow, editors. Reintroduction of fish and wildlife populations. University of California Press, Oakland, California, USA.<\/p>\n

Lyons JE, WL Kendall, JA Royle, SJ Converse<\/strong>, BA Andres, and JB Buchanan. 2016. Population size and stopover duration estimation using mark-resight data and Bayesian analysis of a superpopulation model. Biometrics 72:262-271.<\/p>\n

Lunn NJ, S Servanty, EV Regehr, SJ Converse<\/strong>, E Richardson, and I Stirling. 2016.<\/em> Demography of an apex predator at the edge of its range \u2013 impacts of changing sea ice on polar bears in Hudson Bay. Ecological Applications 26:1302-1320.<\/em><\/p>\n

Teitelbaum CS, SJ Converse<\/strong>, WF Fagan, K B\u00f6hning-Gaese, RB O\u2019Hara, AE Lacy, and T Mueller. 2016.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Experience drives innovation of new migration patterns in response to global change. Nature Communications 7:12793.<\/p>\n

2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canessa S, G Guillera-Arroita, J Lahoz-Monfort, DM Southwell, DP Armstrong, I Chad\u00e8s, RC Lacy, and\u00a0SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2015. <\/em>When do we need further research? A primer on calculating the value of information for applied ecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 6:1219-1228.<\/p>\n

Klimstra RL, CE Moorman, SJ Converse<\/strong>, JA Royle, and CA Harper. 2015. Small mammal use of hayed native warm-season and non-native cool-season forage fields. Wildlife Society Bulletin 39:49-55.<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brown ME, RC Doyle, JN Chandler, GH Olsen, JB French Jr., DE Wildt, SJ Converse<\/strong>, CL Keefer, and N Songsasen. 2014. Chromic and iron oxides as fecal markers to identify individual whooping cranes.\u00a0 Proceedings of the North American Crane Workshop 9:68-72.<\/p>\n

Krause A, D Golovin, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2014. Sequential decision making in computational sustainability via adaptive submodularity. Artificial Intelligence Magazine 35:8-18.<\/p>\n

Royle JA and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2014. Hierarchical spatial capture-recapture models: modeling population density from replicated capture-recapture experiments. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5:37-43.<\/p>\n

Servanty S, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and LL Bailey. 2014. Demography of a reintroduced population: moving toward management models for an endangered species, the whooping crane. Ecological Applications 24:927-937.<\/p>\n

2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, CT Moore, and DP Armstrong. 2013. Demographics of reintroduced populations: estimation, modeling, and decision analysis. Journal of Wildlife Management 77:1081-1093.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, CT Moore, MJ Folk, and MC Runge. 2013. A matter of tradeoffs: reintroduction as a multiple objective decision. Journal of Wildlife Management 77:1145-1156.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, JA Royle, PH Adler, RP Urbanek, and JA Barzen. 2013. A hierarchical nest survival model integrating incomplete temporally-varying covariates. Ecology and Evolution 3:4439-4447.<\/p>\n

Mueller T, RB O\u2019Hara, SJ Converse<\/strong>, RP Urbanek, and WF Fagan. 2013. Social learning of migratory performance. Science 341:999-1002.<\/p>\n

2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Campbell EW III, AA Yackel Adams, SJ Converse<\/strong>, TH Fritts, and GH Rodda. 2012. Do predators control prey species abundance? An experimental test with brown treesnakes on Guam. Ecology 93:1194-1203.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong> and JA Royle. 2012. Dealing with incomplete and variable detectability in multi-year, multi-site monitoring of ecological populations. Pages 426-442 in<\/em> RA Gitzen, JJ Millspaugh, AB Cooper and DS Licht, editors. Design and analysis of long-term ecological monitoring studies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Smith DHV, A Moehrenschlager, N Christensen, D Knapik, K Gibson, and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2012. <\/em>Archive eggs: a research and management tool for avian conservation breeding. Wildlife Society Bulletin 36:342-349.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, JA Royle, and RP Urbanek. 2012. Bayesian analysis of multi-state data with individual covariates for estimating genetic effects on demography. Journal of Ornithology 152:S561-S572.<\/p>\n

Moore CT, SJ Converse<\/strong>, MJ Folk, MC Runge, and SA Nesbitt. 2012. Evaluating release alternatives for a long-lived bird species under uncertainty about long-term demographic rates. Journal of Ornithology 152:S330-S353.<\/p>\n

2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, KJ Shelley, S Morey, J Chan, A LaTier, C Scafidi, DT Crouse, and MC Runge. 2011. A decision-analytic approach to the optimal allocation of resources for endangered species consultation. Biological Conservation 144:319-329.<\/em><\/p>\n

Golovin D, A Krause, B Gardner, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and S Morey. 2011. <\/em>Dynamic resource allocation in conservation planning. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 25:1331-1336.<\/p>\n

Runge MC, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and JE Lyons. 2011. <\/em>Which uncertainty? Using expert elicitation and expected value of information to design an adaptive program. Biological Conservation 144:1214-1223.<\/p>\n

Smith DHV, SJ Converse<\/strong>, KW Gibson, A Moehrenschlager, WA Link, GH Olsen, and K Maguire. 2011. Decision analysis for conservation breeding: maximizing production for reintroduction of whooping cranes. Journal of Wildlife Management 75:501 508.<\/p>\n

Tyre AJ, JT Peterson, SJ Converse<\/strong>, T Bogich, D Miller, M Post van der Burg, C Thomas, R Thompson, J Wood, DC Brewer, and MC Runge. 2011. Adaptive management of bull trout populations in the Lemhi Basin. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 2:262-281.<\/p>\n

2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bailey LL, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and WL Kendall. 2010. Bias, precision, and parameter redundancy in complex multi-state models with unobservable states. Ecology 91:1598-1604.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, JN Chandler, GH Olsen, and CC Shafer. 2010.<\/em> Evaluating propagation method performance over time with Bayesian updating: an application to incubator testing at USGS Patuxent\u00a0Wildlife Research Center. Proceedings of the North American Crane Workshop 11:110-117.<\/p>\n

Farris<\/strong> KL, SJ Converse<\/strong>, S Zack, WD Robinson, AJ Amacher, T Contreras, WL Gaines, ES Kilpatrick, JD Lanham, D Miles, G Rompr\u00e9, KE Sieving, and JC Pierson. 2010. <\/em>Short-term effects of fire and fire-surrogate treatments on avian nest survival: a national-scale analysis. Open Environmental Sciences 4:61-70.<\/p>\n

Martin J, AF O\u2019Connell Jr, WL Kendall, MC Runge, TR Simons, AH Waldstein, SA Schulte, SJ\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Converse<\/strong>, GW Smith, T Pinion, M Rikard, and EF Zipkin. 2010. Optimal control of native predators. Biological Conservation 143:1751-1758.<\/em><\/p>\n

2009 and earlier <\/strong><\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, WL Kendall, PF Doherty Jr, and PG Ryan. 2009. Multistate models for estimation of survival and reproduction in grey-headed albatross. The Auk 126:77-88.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, WL Kendall, PF Doherty Jr, MB Naughton, and JE Hines. 2009. A traditional and a less- invasive robust design: choices in optimizing effort allocation for seabird population studies. Pages 727-744 in <\/em>DL Thomson, EG Cooch and MC Conroy, editors. Modeling demographic processes in marked populations. Springer Science+Business Media, New York, New York, USA.<\/p>\n

Kendall WL, SJ Converse<\/strong>, PF Doherty Jr, MB Naughton, JE Hines, A Anders, and E Flint. 2009. Design considerations in demographic studies of animal populations: a case of colonial seabirds. Ecological Applications 19:55-68.<\/p>\n

Mazerolle MJ, LL Bailey, WL Kendall, JA Royle, SJ Converse<\/strong>, and JD Nichols. 2007. Making great leaps forward in herpetology: accounting for detectability in field studies. Journal of Herpetology 41:672-689.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, WM Block, and GC White. 2006. Small mammal population and habitat responses to forest thinning and prescribed fire. Forest Ecology and Management 228:263-273.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, GC White, and WM Block. 2006. Small mammal responses to thinning and wildfire in ponderosa pine-dominated forests of the southwestern United States. Journal of Wildlife Management 70:1711-1722.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, GC White, KL Farris, and S Zack. 2006. Small mammal responses to forest fuel reduction: national-scale results from the fire and fire surrogate project. Ecological Applications 16:1717-1729.<\/p>\n

Iverson JB, SJ Converse<\/strong>, GR Smith, and JM Valiulis. 2006. Long-term trends in the demography of the Allen Cays rock iguana (Cyclura cychlura inornata<\/em>): human disturbance and density-dependent effects. Biological Conservation 132:300-310.<\/em><\/p>\n

Monroe ME and SJ Converse<\/strong>. 2006. The effects of early season and late season prescribed fires on small mammals in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management 236:229-240.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, JB Iverson, and JA Savidge. 2005. Demographics of an ornate box turtle population experiencing minimal human-induced disturbances. Ecological Applications 15:2171-2179.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, BG Dickson, GC White, and WM Block. 2004. Estimating small mammal abundance on fuels treatment units in southwestern ponderosa pine forests. Pages 113-120 in<\/em> C van Riper III and KL Cole, editors. The Colorado Plateau: cultural, biological, and physical research. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, USA.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong> and JA Savidge. 2003. Ambient temperature, activity, and microhabitat use by ornate box turtles (Terrapene ornata ornata<\/em>). Journal of Herpetology 37:665-670.<\/p>\n

Converse SJ<\/strong>, JB Iverson, and JA Savidge. 2002. Activity, reproduction and overwintering behavior of ornate box turtles (Terrapene ornata ornata<\/em>) in the Nebraska Sandhills. American Midland Naturalist 148:416-422.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can also check out Sarah’s Google Scholar page. Books Runge MC, SJ Converse, JE Lyons, and DR Smith, editors. 2020. Structured decision making: case studies in natural resource management. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. French JB Jr, SJ Converse, and JE Austin, editors. 2018. Whooping Cranes: biology and conservation. Biodiversity of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/fullwidth.php","meta":{"spay_email":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}