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List of works by Chris Ray

A Long-Term Comparison of Hydrology and Plant Community Composition in Constructed Versus Naturally Occurring Vernal Pools

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Acquisition of nonspecific Bartonella strains by the northern grasshopper mouse (Onychomys leucogaster).

scientific article

Are carnivores universally good sentinels of plague?

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Assessing the Roles of Patch Quality, Area, and Isolation in Predicting Metapopulation Dynamics

scholarly article by Erica Fleishman et al published June 2002 in Conservation Biology

Assessing trends and vulnerabilities in the mutualism between whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) and Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) in national parks of the Sierra-Cascade region

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Characterization of 14 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus)

scientific article published in 2005

Characterization of Bartonella strains isolated from black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus).

scientific article published in January 2008

Children’s book series and associated curricula support elementary education and outreach in water resources

scientific article published in 2015

Climate-driven spatial dynamics of plague among prairie dog colonies.

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Community epidemiology

Connectivity of prairie dog colonies in an altered landscape: inferences from analysis of microsatellite DNA variation

Contemporary climate change alters the pace and drivers of extinction

article by ERIK A. BEEVER et al published 28 March 2011 in Global Change Biology

Determinants of pika population density vs. occupancy in the Southern Rocky Mountains

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Disease Ecology

Disease limits populations: plague and black-tailed prairie dogs

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Distribution of American pikas in a low-elevation lava landscape: conservation implications from the range periphery

scientific article published in 2010

Habitat availability and gene flow influence diverging local population trajectories under scenarios of climate change: a place-based approach

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Identification of a contact zone and hybridization for two subspecies of the American pika (Ochotona princeps) within a single protected area

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Individual-based analysis of hair corticosterone reveals factors influencing chronic stress in the American pika.

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Landscape Structure and Plague Occurrence in Black-tailed Prairie Dogs on Grasslands of the Western USA

scientific article published in 2005

Long-term dynamics of biotic and abiotic resistance to exotic species invasion in restored vernal pool plant communities

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Maintaining genetic diversity despite local extinctions: effects of population scale

Modeling contemporary range retraction in Great Basin pikas (Ochotona princeps) using data on microclimate and microhabitat

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Multilocus approaches reveal underestimated species diversity and inter-specific gene flow in pikas (Ochotona) from southwestern China.

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Of plants and pikas: evidence for a climate-mediated decline in forage and cache quality

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On the generality of a climate-mediated shift in the distribution of the American pika (Ochotona princeps).

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Potential effects of a keystone species on the dynamics of sylvatic plague

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Prairie dog presence affects occurrence patterns of disease vectors on small mammals

scientific article published in 2008

Quantifying the dominance of local control and the sources of regional control in the assembly of a metacommunity

scientific article published in August 2014

Relating sub-surface ice features to physiological stress in a climate sensitive mammal, the American pika (Ochotona princeps)

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Replicated landscape genetic and network analyses reveal wide variation in functional connectivity for American pikas

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Revisiting talus and free-air temperatures after 50 years of change at an American pika (Ochotona princeps) study site in the Southern Rockies

scientific article published on 14 July 2022

Rodent and flea abundance fail to predict a plague epizootic in black-tailed prairie dogs

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Rodent-Pika Parasite Spillover in Western North America.

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Sin Nombre virus infection in field workers, Colorado, USA

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Spatial variation in keystone effects: small mammal diversity associated with black-tailed prairie dog colonies

scientific article published in 2010

Species diversity and the scale of the landscape mosaic: do scales of movement and patch size affect diversity?

Spread of plague among black-tailed prairie dogs is associated with colony spatial characteristics

scientific article published in 2011

Temporal and spatial patterns of Bartonella infection in black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus).

scientific article published on 5 January 2008

Testing the Generality of a Trophic-cascade Model for Plague

The idiosyncrasies of place: geographic variation in the climate-distribution relationships of the American pika

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Transient patterns in the assembly of vernal pool plant communities

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When can we measure stress noninvasively? Postdeposition effects on a fecal stress metric confound a multiregional assessment

scientific article published on 9 January 2016