Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Reports

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Mayor, Stephen J., Robert P. Guralnick, Morgan W. Tingley, Javier Otegui, John C. Withey, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Margaret E. Andrew, Stefan Leyk, Ian S. Pearse & David C. Schneider. 2017. Increasing phenological asynchrony between spring green-up and arrival of migratory birds. Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 1902 (2017).


Hager, Stephen B., Cosentino, B. J. and 61 others. Continent-wide analysis of how urbanization affects bird-window collision mortality in North America. Biological Conservation 212, part A: 209-215. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.06.014 

Nelson, Erik J., J. C. Withey, D. Pennington, and J. L. Lawler. 2017. Identifying the impacts of critical habitat designation on land cover change. Resources and Energy Economics 47:89-125. DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2016.12.002

Martinuzzi, S., J. C. Withey, A. M. Pidgeon, A. J. Plantinga,  A. J. McKerrow, S. G. Williams, D. P. Helmers, and V. C. Radeloff. 2015. Future land-use scenarios and the loss of wildlife habitats in the southeastern United States. Ecological Applications 25: 160-171. DOI: 10.1890/13-2078.1.

Lawler, J. J., D. J. Lewis, E. Nelson, A. J. Plantinga, S. Polasky, J. C. Withey, D. P. Helmers, S. Martinuzzi, D. Pennington, and V. C. Radeloff. 2014. Projected land-use change impacts on ecosystem services in the  United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111(20): 7492-7497 DOI:10.1073/pnas.1405557111 

Withey, John C., J. L. Michalak, J. J. Lawler, and M. J. Case. 2014. Pioneer Mountains - Craters of the Moon (ID) Climate Change Adaptation Workshop Report. Prepared for the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative. Published in Seattle, WA. DOI: 10.13140/2.1.3755.8720

Michalak, Julia L., John C. Withey, J. J. Lawler, S. Hall and T. Nogeire. 2014. Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation in the Columbia Plateau, WA. Prepared for the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative. Published in Seattle, WA. DOI: 10.13140/2.1.1920.8647

Withey, John C. 2013. Within-territory use of different land cover types by tropical forest birds in a fragmented landscape. Biological Conservation 167: 405-413. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2013.08.022

Withey, John C.,  J. J. Lawler, S. Polasky, A.J.  Plantinga, E. J. Nelson, P. Kareiva, C. B. Wilsey, C. A. Schloss, T. Nogeire, A. Ruesch, J. Ramos, and W. Reid. 2012. Return on conservation investment for the conterminous United States. Ecology Letters 15(11): 1249-1256. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01847.x
NOTE: Write-ups of this paper appeared as an Editor's Choice in Science and in Conservation Magazine.

Withey, J. C. and C. Kennedy.  2012.  Does the Matrix Matter? Testing the influence of matrix type on bird responses to forest fragmentation.  A Case Study.  Published online by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science.

Polasky, S., K. Johnson, B. Keeler, K. Kovacs,  E. Nelson, D. Pennington, A. J. Plantinga, and J. Withey.  2012. Are investments to promote biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services aligned?  Oxford Review of Economic Policy 28(1):139-163.

Radeloff, V., E. Nelson, A. J. Plantinga, D. J. Lewis, D. Helmers, J. J. Lawler, J. C. Withey, F. Beaudry, S. Martinuzzi, V. Butsic, E. Lonsdorf, D. White, and S. Polasky.  2012.  Economic-based projections of future land use under alternative economic policy scenarios in the conterminous U.S.  Ecological Applications 22(3): 1036-1049.

Marzluff, J.M., J. Walls, H. N. Cornell, J. C. Withey, and D. P. Craig.  2010.  Lasting recognition of threatening people by wild American crows.  Animal Behaviour 79(3): 699-707.  doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.12.022

Withey, J. C., and J. M. Marzluff.  2009.  Multi-scale use of lands providing anthropogenic resources by American Crows in an urbanizing landscape.  Landscape Ecology 24:281-293.  doi:10.1007/s10980-008-9305-9

Oleyar, D., A. Greve, J. C. Withey, and A. Bjorn.  2008.  An integrated approach to evaluating urban forest functionality.  Urban Ecosystems 11:289-308.  doi:10.1007/s11252-008-0068-5

Marzluff, John M., J. C. Withey, K. Whittaker, J. DeLap, D. Oleyar, T. Unfried, and S. Rullman.  2007.  Consequences of habitat utilization by nest predators and breeding songbirds across multiple scales in an urbanizing landscape.  Condor 109: 516-534. doi:10.1650/8349.1

Pecoraro, H., H. Bost, R. Reineke, N. Stevens, J. C. Withey, J. M. Marzluff, and J. S. Meschke.  2007.  Climatic and ecological correlates of West Nile virus vectors in the Seattle region.  Journal of Vector Ecology 32: 22-28. doi:10.3376/1081-1710(2007)32 [22:CALCFP]2.0.CO;2

Graybill, J. K., S. Dooling, V. Shandas, J. Withey, A. Greve, and G. Simon.  2006.  A rough guide to interdisciplinarity: graduate student perspectives. BioScience 56(9): 757-764.

Withey, J.C., and J. M. Marzluff.  2005.  Dispersal by juvenile American Crows affects population dynamics across a gradient of urbanization.  The Auk 122 (1): 205-221.  doi: 10.1642/0004-8038(2005)122[0205:DBJACC]2.0.CO;2

Marzluff, J.M., J.J. Millspaugh, K.R. Ceder, C.D. Oliver, J. Withey, J.B. McCarter, C.L. Mason, and J. Comnick.  2002.  Modeling changes in wildlife habitat and timber revenues in response to forest management.  Forest Science 48: 191-202.

Withey, J.C., T. Bloxton, and J. M. Marzluff.  2001.  Effects of tagging and location error in wildlife radiotelemetry studies.  Chapter in Millspaugh, J.J., and J.M. Marzluff, eds.  Radio Tracking and Animal Populations.  Academic Press, San Diego.

(and one from my undergraduate days...)
Narayanan, A.S., Withey, J., Souza, A., and Raghu, G.  1992.  Effect of gamma-interferon on collagen synthesis by normal and fibrotic human lung fibroblasts.  Chest 101:1326-31.

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Other Publications

Withey, John and K. Whittaker.  2006.  Beginner’s guide to using the “resource utilization function” (RUF) software in R.

Withey, John C. and J.M. Marzluff.  2001.  Seattle’s Urban Crows.  Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin 63(3): 6-11.

Withey, John C.  1998.  Avian inventory of the Moses Coulee, Washington.  Report prepared for The Nature Conservancy of Washington, Seattle, WA.  14 pp.

Evans, Kirsten E. and J. C. Withey.  1996.  Guía a las Tortugas Marinas de la Isla de Cañas, Panamá. (Guide to the Sea Turtles of the Isla de Cañas, Panama – in Spanish).  Peace Corps, Panama.