Luther Scott Mills

Cross-species transmission and evolutionary dynamics of canine distemper virus during a spillover in African lions of Serengeti National Park

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 29(22), 4308–4321.

Identifying Candidate Genetic Markers of CDV Cross-Species Pathogenicity in African Lions

PATHOGENS, 9(11).

Snow-mediated plasticity does not prevent camouflage mismatch

OECOLOGIA, 194(3), 301–310.

A camouflage conundrum: unexpected differences in winter coat color between sympatric species

ECOSPHERE, 10(3).

Effects on white‐tailed deer following eastern coyote colonization

The Journal of Wildlife Management, 83(4), 916–924.

Noninvasive measures of physiological stress are confounded by exposure

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 9.

White‐tailed deer and coyote colonization: a response to Kilgo et al. (2019)

The Journal of Wildlife Management, 83(8), 1641–1643.

Adaptive introgression underlies polymorphic seasonal camouflage in snowshoe hares

SCIENCE, 360(6395), 1355-+.

Winter color polymorphisms identify global hot spots for evolutionary rescue from climate change

SCIENCE, 359(6379), 1033–1036.

Short-term response of snowshoe hares to western larch restoration and seasonal needle drop

RESTORATION ECOLOGY, 26(1), 156–164.

The transcriptional landscape of seasonal coat colour moult in the snowshoe hare

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 26(16), 4173–4185.

Evaluating the benefit of captive breeding and reintroductions to endangered Sonoran pronghorn

BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, 196, 133–146.

High fitness costs of climate change-induced camouflage mismatch

ECOLOGY LETTERS, 19(3), 299–307.

Examining Temporal Sample Scale and Model Choice with Spatial Capture-Recapture Models in the Common Leopard Panthera pardus

PLOS ONE, 10(11).

Conservation implications of the evolutionary history and genetic diversity hotspots of the snowshoe hare

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 23(12), 2929–2942.

The hidden history of the snowshoe hare, Lepus americanus: extensive mitochondrial DNA introgression inferred from multilocus genetic variation

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 23(18), 4617–4630.

Camouflage mismatch in seasonal coat color due to decreased snow duration

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 110(18), 7360–7365.

Combined Effects of Energy Development and Disease on Greater Sage-Grouse

PLOS ONE, 8(8).

Conservation of wildlife populations : demography, genetics, and management (2nd Ed.)

Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell.

Disproportionate predation on endemic marmots by invasive coyotes

JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, 94(3), 702–713.

Human-caused mortality influences spatial population dynamics: Pumas in landscapes with varying mortality risks

BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, 159, 230–239.

Royal Manas National Park, Bhutan: a hot spot for wild felids

ORYX, 47(2), 207–210.

Wildlife population dynamics

In Wildlife management: Contemporary principles and practices. Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press.

A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Common Management Actions on the Nest Success of North American Birds

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, 26(4), 657–666.

Noninvasive Sampling for carnivores

In L. Boitani & R. Powell (Eds.), Carnivore ecology and conservation: a handbook of techniques.

Wildlife research techniques in rugged mountainous Asian landscape

Influence of stand and landscape features on snowshoe hare abundance in fragmented forests

JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, 92(3), 561–567.

Managing multiple vital rates to maximize greater sage-grouse population growth

JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT, 76(2), 336–347.

Translating Effects of Inbreeding Depression on Component Vital Rates to Overall Population Growth in Endangered Bighorn Sheep

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, 25(6), 1240–1249.

Combining ground count, telemetry, and mark-resight data to infer population dynamics in an endangered species

JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY, 47(5), 1083–1093.

Foraging patterns of cavity-nesting birds in fire-suppressed and prescribe-burned ponderosa pine forests in Montana

Open Environmental Sciences, 41, 41–52.

Population-specific vital rate contributions influence management of an endangered ungulate

ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS, 20(6), 1753–1765.

Procedures for implementing small mammal inventories in Bhutan

Bhutan: Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and the Environment.

Ranking Mahalanobis Distance Models for Predictions of Occupancy From Presence-Only Data

JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT, 74(5), 1112–1121.

Restoration of genetic connectivity among Northern Rockies wolf populations

Hebblewhite, M., Musiani, M., & Mills, L. S. (2010, October). MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, Vol. 19, pp. 4383–4385.

A better way to estimate population trends

OIKOS, 118(12), 1940–1946.

DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF SNOWSHOE HARES IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, 90(4), 870–878.

MARMOTS ON THE MOVE? DISPERSAL IN A DECLINING MONTANE MAMMAL

JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, 90(3), 686–695.

Sinks without borders: snowshoe hare dynamics in a complex landscape

OIKOS, 118(10), 1487–1498.

Crossing disciplines for endangered Species (review of Scott, J. Michael, Dale D. Goble, and Frank W. Davis, editors. 2006. The Endangered Species Act at thirty. Conserving Biodiversity in Human-dominated Landscape)

[Review of ]. Ecology, 89, 592–593.

Designing fecal pellet surveys for snowshoe hares

FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, 256(11), 1918–1926.

Inferences about ungulate population dynamics derived from age ratios

JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT, 72(5), 1143–1151.

Optimising methods for monitoring programs: Olympic marmots as a case study

WILDLIFE RESEARCH, 35(8), 788–797.

The case of the missing marmots: Are metapopulation dynamics or range-wide declines responsible?

BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, 141(5), 1293–1309.

Chapter 14: North America

In C. B. Field, M. B. L. D. Mortsch, P. K. D. L. Forbes, S. W. R. J. A. Patz, & M. J. Scott (Eds.), Climate change 2007 - impacts, adaptation and vulnerability working group ii contribution to the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. New York : Cambridge University Press.

Conservation of wildlife populations : demography, genetics, and management (1st Ed.)

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub.

Effects of tourists on behavior and demography of olympic marmots

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, 21(4), 1070–1081.

Female olympic marmots (Marinota olympus) reproduce in consecutive years

AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST, 158(1), 221–225.

Precommercial thinning reduces snowshoe hare abundance in the short tenn

JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT, 71(2), 559–564.

Genetic implications of reduced survival of male red deer Cervus elaphus under harvest

WILDLIFE BIOLOGY, 12(4), 427–441.

Ecology and management of small populations

In Techniques for wildlife investigations and management (6th ed.) (pp. 691–713). Bethesda, Md. : Wildlife Society.

Gene flow after inbreeding leads to higher survival in deer mice

BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, 123(4), 413–420.

Habitat selection of endangered and endemic large flying-foxes in Subic Bay, Philippines

BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, 126(1), 93–102.

Mortality by moonlight: predation risk and the snowshoe hare

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, 16(5), 938–944.

Pellet count indices compared to mark-recapture estimates for evaluating snowshoe hare density

JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT, 69(3), 1053–1062.

Snowshoe hares in Yellowstone

Yellowstone Science, 13, 3–6.

Edge effects and isolation: Red-backed voles revisited

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, 18(6), 1658–1664.

Recent record of a cougar (Puma concolor) in Louisiana, with notes on diet, based on analysis of fecal materials

SOUTHEASTERN NATURALIST, 3(4), 653–658.

Snowshoe hares in a dynamic managed landscape

In M. A. B. Editors H. R. Akcakaya, C. W. O. Kindvall, J. H. P. Sjogren-Gulve, & M. A. McCarthy (Eds.), Species conservation and management : case studies. New York : Oxford University Press.

Estimating pregnancy rates and litter size in snowshoe hares using ultrasound

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 31(4), 1066–1072.

Identification of mustelids using mitochondrial DNA and non-invasive sampling

CONSERVATION GENETICS, 4(2), 241–243.

Landscape location affects genetic variation of Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis)

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 12(7), 1807–1816.

Measuring and interpreting changes in connectivity for mammals in coniferous forests

In R. G. A. Cynthia J. Zabel (Ed.), Mammal community dynamics : management and conservation in the coniferous forests of western North America.

Of mice and men and trillium: Cascading effects of forest fragmentation

ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS, 13(5), 1193–1203.

Potential causes of population declines in forest fragments in an Amazonian frog

BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, 111(2), 205–214.

DNA reveals high dispersal synchronizing the population dynamics of Canada lynx

NATURE, 415(6871), 520–522.

Effects of plot size and shape on pellet density estimates for snowshoe hares

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 30(3), 751–755.

Emerging issues in population viability analysis

[Review of ]. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, 16(1), 7–19.

False samples are not the same as blind controls - Informal efforts to "test" a laboratory corrupt the data stream, where integrity is crucial.

Mills, L. S. (2002, January 31).

Genetics, Demography, and Viability of Fragmented Populations

[Review of ]. Quarterly Review of Biology, 77, 222–223.

Insights into recently fragmented vole populations from combined genetic and demographic data

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 11(4), 699–709.

Sensitivity analyses of the life cycle of midcontinent mallards

[Review of ]. JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT, 66(3), 883–900.

Sensitivity analysis to evaluate the consequences of conservation actions

In S. R. Beissinger & D. R. McCullough (Eds.), Population viability analysis. Chicago : University of Chicago Press.

Terrestrial and stream amphibians across clearcut-forest interfaces in the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon

Northwest Science, 76(2), 129–140.

What is missing in amphibian decline research: Insights from ecological sensitivity analysis

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, 16(3), 728–734.

Elasticity analysis for conservation decision making: Reply to Ehrlen et al.

Conservation Biology, 15(1), 281–283.

Book review: Principles of conservation biology

[Review of ]. Northwest Science, 68, 303–304.

Do highways fragment small mammal populations?

Proceedings of the International Conference on Ecology and Transportation.

Estimating animal abundance using noninvasive DNA sampling: Promise and pitfalls

Ecological Applications, 10(1), 283–294.

Identifying lynx and other North American felids based on mtDNA analysis

Conservation Genetics, 1, 285–288.

Life stage simulation analysis: Estimating vital-rate effects on population growth for conservation

ECOLOGY, 81(3), 628–641.

Buffer zones: Benefits and dangers of compatible stewardship

In M. E. Soule & J. Terborgh (Eds.), Continental conservation : scientific foundations of regional reserve networks (pp. 191–198). Washington, D.C. : Island Press.

Connectivity: Maintaining flows in fragmented landscapes

In M. E. Soule? & J. Terborgh (Eds.), Continental conservation : scientific foundations of regional reserve networks. Washington, D.C. : Island Press.

Ecological consequences of forest fragmentation in the Klamath region

Natural Areas Journal, 19(4), 368–378.

Reliability of conservation actions based on elasticity analysis of matrix models

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, 13(4), 815–829.

The role of genetics in understanding forest fragmentation

In L. A. L. James A. Rochelle & J. Wisniewski (Eds.), Forest fragmentation : wildlife and management implications. Leiden : Brill.

What do demographic sensitivity analyses tell us about controlling Brown-headed Cowbirds?

Research and management of the brown-headed cowbird in western landscapes, (18), 121–134.

No need to Isolate Genetics

Science, 282, 1658–1659.

Population genetics - No need to isolate genetics

Soule, M. E., & Mills, L. S. (1998, November 27). SCIENCE, Vol. 282, pp. 1658–1659.

Book review: Population management for survival and recovery: analytical methods and strategies in small population conservation

[Review of ]. Journal of Wildlife Management, 61, 251–252.

Sensitivity analysis to guide population recovery: Prairie-chickens as an example

JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT, 61(2), 302–312.

Challenges in the quest for keystones

[Review of ]. BIOSCIENCE, 46(8), 609–620.

Cheetah extinction: Genetics or extrinsic factors?

Mills, L. S. (1996, April).

Factors leading to different viability predictions for a grizzly bear data set

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, 10(3), 863–873.

Fragmentation of a natural area: Dynamics of isolation for small mammals on forest remnants

In National parks and protected areas : their role in environmental protection (pp. 199–219). Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell Science.

Study and management of an isolated, rare population: The Fresno kangaroo rat

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 24(4), 602–606.

The one-migrant-per-generation rule in conservation and management

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, 10(6), 1509–1518.

EDGE EFFECTS AND ISOLATION - RED-BACKED VOLES ON FOREST REMNANTS

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, 9(2), 395–402.

Keystone species

In Encyclopedia of environmental biology (pp. 381–387). San Diego : Academic Press.

SOCIOECONOMICS AND THE RECOVERY OF ENDANGERED SPECIES - BIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT IN A POLITICAL WORLD

SCOTT, J. M., TEAR, T. H., & MILLS, L. S. (1995, February). CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Vol. 9, pp. 214–216.

THE KEYSTONE COPS MEET IN HILO

POWER, M. E., & MILLS, L. S. (1995, May). TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, Vol. 10, pp. 182–184.

Woodland caribou: A conservation dilemma

Endangered Species Update, 12(10/11).

A USEFUL ROLE FOR THEORY IN CONSERVATION

ECOLOGY, 75(3), 615–626.

DEMOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES OF INBREEDING IN REMNANT POPULATIONS

AMERICAN NATURALIST, 144(3), 412–431.

Hypogeous sporocarps in forest remnants and clearcuts in Southwest Oregon

Northwest Science, 68(4), 259–265.

USE OF LOGS WITHIN HOME RANGES OF CALIFORNIA RED-BACKED VOLES ON A REMNANT OF FOREST

JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, 75(1), 97–101.

CHARACTERISTICS OF OLD-GROWTH FORESTS ASSOCIATED WITH NORTHERN SPOTTED OWLS IN OLYMPIC-NATIONAL-PARK

JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT, 57(2), 315–321.

THE KEYSTONE-SPECIES CONCEPT IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION

BIOSCIENCE, 43(4), 219–224.

Conservation genetics and conservation biology: a troubled marriage

In K. H. O. T. Sandlund & A. H. D. Brown (Eds.), Conservation of biodiversity for sustainable development (pp. 55–69). Oslo, Norway : Scandinavian University Press.

COYOTE SPACE USE IN RELATION TO PREY ABUNDANCE

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE ZOOLOGIE, 69(6), 1516–1521.

OBSERVER PERFORMANCE IN KNOWN AND BLIND RADIO-TELEMETRY ACCURACY TESTS

JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT, 53(2), 340–342.