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Wayne E. Thogmartin

Position title: Quantitative Ecologist (Research Statistician [Biology])

Email: wthogmartin@usgs.gov
Phone: 608.781.6309
Fax: 608.783.6066

Education:
2002, Ph.D., Zoology (Wildlife Ecology), Southern Illinois University
1998, M.S., Zoology, University of Arkansas
1990, B.A., Ecology / Behavior / Evolution, University of California, San Diego

Primary Responsibilities/Activities:
My career and research interests include advancing a dynamic body of research in landscape and habitat ecology for animals declining in abundance, asking new questions of multiple, combined data sets to gain novel insight into the dynamics of animal populations over space and time, and continuing to publish in peer-reviewed journals, translating science into guidance for practical, applicable management decisions. I am particularly interested in wildlife ecology, population biology of rare species, and habitat relationships of birds.  I participate on a number of committees and working groups such as the International Scientific Committee of Partners in Flight, USFWS Upper Mississippi River / Great Lakes Region All-bird Joint Venture Technical Committee, and a number of working groups relating to rare and endangered species (e.g., Cerulean Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler, Henslow’s Sparrow, Karner Blue Butterfly).

Research Interests:

• Avian Ecology
• Conservation Design
• Extinction Risk
• Habitat Ecology
• Spatial, Temporal, and Spatio-temporal Analyses

Active Projects:

• Maps, models, and tools for bird conservation planning
• Bird-habitat associations on the Upper Mississippi River National Fish & Wildlife Refuge
• Translating regional population goals for bird species of concern into local habitat conservation objectives
• Grassland bird nest survival analyses for Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge, with a focus on the Henslow’s Sparrow

Select Publications:
Murray, L. D., C. A. Ribic, and W. E. Thogmartin. 2008. Relationship of obligate grassland birds to landscape structure in Wisconsin. Journal of Wildlife Management 72(2): 463–467.

Beever, E. A., R. J. Tausch, and W. E. Thogmartin.  In press.  Multi-scale responses of vegetation to removal of horse grazing from Great Basin (U.S.A.) mountain ranges.  Plant Ecology.

Thogmartin, W. E., B. R. Gray, M. Gallagher, N. Young, J. J. Rohweder, and M. G. Knutson. 2007. Power to detect trend in short-term time series of bird abundance. Condor 109:943-948.

Thogmartin, W. E., M. Gallagher, N. Young, J. J. Rohweder, and M. G. Knutson.  In press.  Factors associated with succession of abandoned agricultural lands along the lower Missouri River.  Restoration Ecology.

Forcey, G. M., G. M. Linz, W. E. Thogmartin, and W. J. Bleier. 2007. Influence of land use and climate on wetland breeding birds in the Prairie Pothole region of Canada. Canadian Journal of Zoology 85:421–436.

Kirsch, E. M., B. R. Gray, T. J. Fox, and W. E. Thogmartin. 2007. Response of breeding birds in riparian wet meadows to invasive reed canary grass, Phalaris arundinacea. Wetlands 27:644–655.

Thogmartin, W. E., J. R. Sauer, and M. G. Knutson. 2007. Modeling and mapping abundance of American woodcock across their breeding range in the United States. Journal of Wildlife Management 71(2):376–382.

Thogmartin, W. E., and M. G. Knutson. 2007. Scaling local species-habitat relations to the larger landscape with a hierarchical spatial count model. Landscape Ecology 22:61–75.

Thogmartin, W. E., F. P. Howe, F. C. James, D. H. Johnson, E. Reed, J. R. Sauer, and F. R. Thompson III. 2006. A review of the population estimation approach of the North American Landbird Conservation Plan. Auk 123(3):892–904.

Thogmartin, W. E., T. J. Fox , J. J. Rohweder, M. G. Knutson, and T. C. Will. 2006. Emerging Technologies: LINK: a land conservation decision support tool. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 87(3) [online] URL: <http://www.esapubs.org/bulletin/backissues/087-3/web_pdfs_july/emergingjul06bulletin.pdf>

Thogmartin, W. E., M. G. Knutson, and J. R. Sauer. 2006. Predicting regional abundance of rare grassland birds with a hierarchical spatial count model. Condor 108:25–46.

Thogmartin, W. E., J. R. Sauer, and M. G. Knutson. 2004. A hierarchical spatial model of avian abundance with application to Cerulean Warblers. Ecological Applications 14:1766–1779. (Ecological Archive)

Thogmartin, W. E., A. Gallant, M. G. Knutson, T. Fox, and M. Suarez. 2004. A cautionary tale regarding the 1992 National Land Cover Data. The Wildlife Society Bulletin 32:970–978.

Thogmartin, W. E. 2002. Spatio-temporal dynamics of Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) in Illinois. Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA. 327 pp. (dissertation introduction)

Thogmartin, W. E., J. A. Roseberry, and A. Woolf. 2002. Cyclicity of northern bobwhite: a time-analytic review of the evidence. Proceedings of the National Quail Symposium 5:192–200.

Thogmartin, W. E. 2001. Home-range size and habitat selection in wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) of Arkansas. American Midland Naturalist 145:247–260.

Thogmartin, W. E., and B. A. Schaeffer. 2000. Landscape attributes associated with mortality events in wild turkeys of Arkansas. Wildlife Society Bulletin 29:865–874.

Thogmartin, W. E., and J. E. Johnson. 1999. Reproduction in a declining population of wild turkeys in Arkansas. Journal of Wildlife Management 63:1281–1290.

Thogmartin, W. E. 1999. Landscape and nest-site selection in Wild Turkeys of Arkansas. Auk 116:912–923.

Links:
Maps, Models, and Tools for Bird Conservation Planning

Bird-habitat associations on the Upper Mississippi River National Fish & Wildlife Refuge

Translating Regional Population Goals for Bird Species of Concern into Local Habitat Conservation Objectives

Henslow's Sparrow productivity analyses for Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge

Bird-habitat associations on the lower Missouri River

Predicting succession of abandoned agricultural land in the lower Missouri River floodplain

Wayne involved in exhausting field work, Karner Blue Butterfly DISTANCE Workshop, Crex Meadows, 6 May 2007. Photo Credit: E. M. Barrows.

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