Ecosystem and Species Modeling
Publications on Process Models
(migration, movement, dispersal, predation, and competition)
Geremia, Chris, P. J. White, Rick L. Wallen, Fred G. R. Watson, John J. Treanor, John Borkowski, Christopher S. Potter, and Robert L. Crabtree. Accepted. Predicting Bison Migration out of Yellowstone National Park using Bayesian Models. PLoSOne.
Jaclyn Hatala, Michael Dietze, Robert Crabtree, the Interagency Whitebark Pine Monitoring Working Group, Katherine Kendall, Diana Six, and Paul Moorcroft. 2011. An ecosystem model of white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola) spread in whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. In press. Ecological Applications
Crabtree, R.L., Christopher Potter, Randall Mullen, Jennifer Sheldon, Shengli Huang, Joshua Harmsen, Ann Rodman, and Cathie Jean, 2009. A Modeling and Spatiotemporal Analysis Framework for Monitoring Environmental Change using NPP as an Ecosystem Indicator, Remote Sensing of Environment 113: 1486-1496.
Jacyln Hatala, Robert Crabtree, Kerry Halligan, Paul Moorcroft. 2009. Landscape-scale patterns of forest pest and pathogen damage in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Remote Sensing of Environment
White PJ, TL Davis, KK Barnowe-Meyer, RL Crabtree, and RA Garrott. 2007. Partial Migration and Philopatry of Yellowstone Pronghorn. Biol. Cons. 135: 518-526.
Lynch HJ, Moorcroft PR, Crabtree RL, and Renkin RA. 2006. The Influence of Previous Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) Activity on the 1988 Yellowstone Fires. Ecosystems 9(8):1318-1327.
Noonburg EG, Newman LA, Lewis M, Crabtree RL, Potapov AB. 2006. Sequential decision-making in a variable environment: modeling elk movement in Yellowstone National Park as a dynamic game. Theor Popul Biol. 71(2):182-195.
Moorcroft PR, Lewis MA, Crabtree RL. 2006. Mechanistic Home Range Models Predict Spatial Patterns and Dynamics of Coyote Territories in Yellowstone. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273(1594):1651-1659.
Crabtree, R.L., P.R. Moorcroft, S.S. Saatchi, S. Huang, C.S. Potter, J.W. Sheldon, and K.Q. Halligan. Forecasting in the Yellowstone Ecosystem: Development of Remotely-Sensed Estimates of Vegetation 3-D Structure, and Disturbance Dynamics for Initializing, Constraining and Testing Terrestrial Biosphere Models. [Poster]. Washington, DC: The Joint Workshop on NASA Biodiversity, Terrestrial Ecology, and Applied Sciences Research, August 21-25, 2006.
Hannon, MJ, Jenkins SH, Crabtree RL, and AK Swanson. 2006. Visibility and Vigilance: Behavior and Population Ecology of Unita Ground Squirrels (Spermophilis armatus) in Different Habitats. J. Mamm. 87(2):287-295.
Swanson, BJ, RT Fuhrmann, and RL Crabtree. 2005. Elevational isolation of red fox populations in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Conservation Genetics 6(1):123-131.
Wilmers CC, Crabtree RL, Smith DW, Murphy KM, and Getz WM. 2003. Trophic facilitation by introduced top predators: grey wolf subsidies to scavengers in Yellowstone National Park. Journal of Animal Ecology 72:909-916
Wilmers CC, DR Stahler, RL Crabtree, DW Smith, WM Getz. 2003. Resource dispersion and consumer dominance: scavenging at wolf- and hunter-killed carcasses in Greater Yellowstone, USA. Ecology Letters 6 (11), 996–1003.
Crabtree RL, Sheldon JW 1999. Coyotes and Canid Coexistence in Yellowstone National Park. Chapter 6 In Carnivores in Ecosystems; The Yellowstone Experience, T. Clark, P. Curlee, P. Kareiva, and S. Minta, eds., Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
Moorcroft PR, Lewis MA, Crabtree RL. 1999. A mechanistic and spatially explicit model for carnivore home ranges. Ecology 80(5):1656-1665.
Johnson, KA and RL Crabtree. 1999. Small Prey of Carnivores in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Chapter 8 In Carnivores in Ecosystems: The Yellowstone Experience, T. Clark, P. Curlee, P. Kareiva, and S. Minta, eds., Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
Crabtree, RL, 1992. The small mammal prey base for wolves in Yellowstone National Park. In Wolves for Yellowstone?: A Report to the United States Congress, Volume IV, Research and Analysis. Yellowstone National Park, WY, 580 pp.
Garton, E.O., RL Crabtree, B.B. Ackerman, and G.L. Wright, 1990. The potential impact of a reintroduced wolf population on the northern Yellowstone elk herd. In Wolves for Yellowstone?: A Report to the United States Congress, Volume II, Research and Analysis. Yellowstone National Park, WY, 580 pp.
Garton, E.O., RL Crabtree, B.B. Ackerman, and G.L. Wright, 1990. The potential impact of a reintroduced wolf population on Clark’s Fork elk herd. In Wolves for Yellowstone?: A Report to the United States Congress, Volume II, Research and Analysis. Yellowstone National Park, WY, 580 pp.
