Utah Staff Member
Erica Stuber
Assistant Unit Leader
Email: estuber@usgs.gov
Alt. Email: erica.stuber@usu.edu
Email: estuber@usgs.gov
Alt. Email: erica.stuber@usu.edu
Education
- Ph D Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich 2015
- MS The Pennsylvania State University 2011
- BS The Pennsylvania State University 2009
| Research Publications | Publication Date |
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| Zink, R.M. and Stuber, E.F., 2017. No relationship between brain size and risk of being shot in hunted birds: a comment on Møller & Erritzøe (2016). Biology letters, 13(5), p.20160946. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0946 | December 2017 |
| Wszola, L.S., L.N. Messinger, L.F. Gruber, E.F. Stuber, C.J. Chizinski, and J.J. Fontaine. 2020. Use and expenditures on public access hunting lands. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism 29:100256. | December 2020 |
| Wszola, L.S., E.F. Stuber, C.J. Chizinski, J.J. Lusk, and J.J. Fontaine. 2019. Prey availability and accessibility drive hunter movement. Wildlife Biology 2019:wlb.00526. https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00526 | December 2019 |
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Wszola, L., V. Simonsen, C. Gillespie, L.N. Messinger, J.J. Lusk, K.L. Decker, C.F. Jorgensen, E.F. Stuber, and J.J. Fontaine. 2017. Translating statistical wildlife-habitat models to interactive decision support tools. Plos One 12:e0188244. https://doi.org/10.1371/ journal.pone.0188244 |
December 2017 |
| Wszola, L. S., A. L. Madsen, E. F. Stuber, C. J. Chizinski, J. J. Lusk, J. S. Taylor, K. L. Pope, and J. J. Fontaine. 2020. Public access for pheasant hunters: understanding an emerging need. Journal of Wildlife Management 84:45-55. | Download | January 2020 |
| Van Doren, B.M., Willard, D.E., Hennen, M., Horton, K.G., Stuber, E.F., Sheldon, D., Sivakumar, A.H., Wang, J., Farnsworth, A. and Winger, B.M., 2021. Drivers of fatal bird collisions in an urban center. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(24). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101666118 | April 2021 |
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Stuber, E.F., Verpeut, J., Horvat-Gordon, M., Ramachandran, R. and Bartell, P.A., 2013. Differential regulation of adipokines may influence migratory behavior in the white-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis). PLoS One, 8(6), p.e59097. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059097 |
December 2013 |
| Stuber, E.F., Mathot, K.J., Kempenaers, B., Dingemanse, N.J. and Mueller, J.C., 2015. Sex-specific association between sleep and basal metabolic rate in great tits. Animal Behaviour, 109, pp.15-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.08.004 | December 2015 |
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Stuber, E.F., L.F. Gruber, and J.J. Fontaine. 2017. A Bayesian method for assessing multiscale species-habitat relationships. Landscape Ecology 32:2365-2381. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-017-0575-y |
December 2017 |
| Stuber, E.F., L. Gruber, and J.J. Fontaine. 2018. Predicting species-habitat relationships: does body size matter? Landscape Ecology 33:1049-1060. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-018-0648-6 | July 2018 |
| Stuber, E.F., Gruber, L.F. 2020. Recent Methodological Solutions to Identifying Scales of Effect in Multi-scale Modeling. Current Landscape Ecology Reports 5, 127–139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40823-020-00055-8 | January 2020 |
| Stuber, E.F., Grobis, M.M., Abbey-Lee, R., Kempenaers, B., Mueller, J.C. and Dingemanse, N.J., 2014. Perceived predation risk affects sleep behaviour in free-living great tits, Parus major. Animal Behaviour, 98, pp.157-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.10.010 | December 2015 |
| Stuber, E.F., Dingemanse, N.J., Kempenaers, B. and Mueller, J.C., 2015. Sources of intraspecific variation in sleep behaviour of wild great tits. Animal Behaviour, 106, pp.201-221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.05.025 | December 2015 |
| Stuber, E.F., Dingemanse, N.J. and Mueller, J.C., 2017. Temperature affects frequency but not rhythmicity of nocturnal awakenings in free-living great tits, Parus major. Animal Behaviour, 128, pp.135-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.03.004 | December 2017 |
| Stuber, E.F., C.J. Chizinski, J.J. Lusk, and J.J. Fontaine. 2019. Multivariate models and analyses. Pp. 32-62 in L.A. Brennan, A.N. Tri, and B.G. Marcot (editors). Quantitative Analyses in Wildlife Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. | December 2019 |
| Stuber, E.F., Baumgartner, C., Dingemanse, N.J., Kempenaers, B. and Mueller, J.C., 2016. Genetic correlates of individual differences in sleep behavior of free-living great tits (Parus major). G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 6(3), pp.599-607. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.115.024216 | December 2016 |
| Stuber, E.F., Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Mathot, K.J., Mutzel, A., Nicolaus, M., Wijmenga, J.J., Mueller, J.C. and Dingemanse, N.J., 2013. Slow explorers take less risk: a problem of sampling bias in ecological studies. Behavioral Ecology, 24(5), pp.1092-1098. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/art035 | December 2013 |
| Stuber, E.F. and J.J. Fontaine. 2019. How characteristic is the species characteristic selection scale? Global Ecology and Biogeography 28:1839-1854. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12998 | December 2019 |
| Stuber, E.F. and J.J. Fontaine. 2018. Ecological neighborhoods as a framework for umbrella species selection. Biological Conservation 223:112–119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.04.026 | May 2018 |
| Stuber, E.F. and Bartell, P.A., 2013. Seasonal differences in behavior patterns of the migratory white-throated sparrow. Journal of ethology, 31(2), pp.151-158. DOI 10.1007/s10164-013-0361-5 | December 2013 |
| Ruiz‐Gutierrez, V., Bjerre, E.R., Otto, M.C., Zimmerman, G.S., Millsap, B.A., Fink, D., Stuber, E.F., Strimas‐Mackey, M. and Robinson, O.J., 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, 58(6), pp.1104-1111. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13870 | April 2021 |
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Messinger, L.N., E.F. 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:e0222272. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222272 |
December 2019 |
| Gruber, L.F., E.F. Stuber, L.S. Wszola and J.J. Fontaine. 2019. Estimating use of public lands: Integrated model of open populations with convolution likelihood ecological abundance regression. Bayesian Analysis 14:1-27. | December 2019 |
| Fontaine, J.J., A.D. Fedele, L.S. Wszola, L.N. Messinger, C.J. Chizinski, J.L. Lusk, K.L. Decker, J.S. Taylor, and E.F. Stuber. 2019. Hunters and their perceptions of public access: a view from afield. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 10:589-601. | December 2019 |
| Abbey‐Lee, R.N., Araya‐Ajoy, Y.G., Mouchet, A., Moiron, M., Stuber, E.F., Kempenaers, B. and Dingemanse, N.J., 2018. Does perceived predation risk affect patterns of extra‐pair paternity? A field experiment in a passerine bird. Functional Ecology, 32(4), pp.1001-1010. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13052 | December 2018 |
| Project | Completion Date |
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| Mule deer space use of UT Watershed Restoration Initiative treatment lands | December 2023 |
| Avian habitat relationships across ecological scales | December 2018 |
| Presentations | Presentation Date |
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| Wszola, L.S., E.F. Stuber, L.F. Gruber, and J.J. Fontaine. 2018. Hunter distribution in a unique public access landscape. South Dakota Chapter of The Wildlife Society. Chamberlain, SD. | February 2018 |
| Wszola, L.S., E.F. Stuber, L. Gruber, and J.J. Fontaine. 2018. Mapping anthropogenic predation risk at the landscape scale. Gordon research conversant predator prey interaction. Santa Barbara, CA | February 2018 |
| Stuber, E.F., O. Robinson, E. Bjerre, M. Otto, B. Millsap, G. Zimmerman, V. Ruiz-Gutierrez. 2021. Validating the performance of citizen science establishes novel evidence base for conservation decision-making. American Ornithological Society and Society of Canadian Ornithologists Joint Virtual Meeting 9-13 August<br><br><br> | August 2021 |
| Stuber, E.F., L.F. Gruber, and J.J. Fontaine. 2016. A Bayesian model for assessing multiscale species-habitat relationships. North American Ornithological Conference, Washington, D.C. | August 2016 |
| Stuber, E.F. and and J.J. Fontaine. 2017. The importance of scale in evaluating the effectiveness of umbrella species. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Lincoln, NE. | February 2017 |
| Stuber, E.F. and J.J. Fontaine. 2018. Human-induced rapid environmental change and spatial mismatches in species distribution. International association for landscape ecology annual meeting. Chicago, IL. | April 2018 |
| Stuber, E.F. and J.J. Fontaine. 2018. Human-induced rapid environmental change and spatial mismatches in species distribution. Central Mountains and Plains Section of the Wildlife Society Annual Meeting. Kearney, NE. | February 2018 |
| Stuber, E.F. and J.J. Fontaine. 2017. The value of scale in optimizing umbrella species. American Ornithological Society meeting, East Lansing, MI. | August 2017 |
| Stuber, E., and W. Jetz. August 2019. “Towards a global, high resolution map of biodiversity” Ecological Society of America Conference. Louisville, KY. | August 2019 |
| Stuber, E. September 2020. “Using citizen science data to drive decision making” Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Virtual Conference. | September 2020 |
| Mirochnitchenko, N., E.F. Stuber, and J.J. Fontaine. 2018. Phylogenetic and functional diversity of grassland bird communities across an alter landscape. Central Mountains and Plains Section of the Wildlife Society Annual Meeting. Kearney, NE. | February 2018 |
| Mirochnitchenko, N., E.F. Stuber, and J.J. Fontaine. 2017. Influence of environmental gradients on the relationship between taxonomic and functional diversity in grassland birds. American Ornithological Society meeting, East Lansing, MI. | August 2017 |
| Mirochnitchenko, N., E.F. Stuber and J.J. Fontaine. 2017. Free food is not free: Do food plots pose greater predation risk than benefit for Northern bobwhite quail? Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Lincoln, NE. | February 2017 |
| Technical Publications | Publication Date |
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| U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2020. Final Report: Bald Eagle Population Size: 2020 Update. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Migratory Bird Management, Washington, D.C. U.S.A. | March 2021 |