Scott Stoleson

Scott Stoleson
USDA Forest Service
Northern Research Station
PO Box 267
Irvine, PA 16329
Phone: 814-563-1040
email: sstoleson@fs.fed.us

Education:

• Dartmouth College, A.B. Biological Sciences, 1979
• Yale University, Ph.D. Wildlife Ecology, 1996.
  
  

Career Summary:

My current research focuses on evaluating the impacts of land management on the distribution, abundance, and demography of vertebrate populations, and assessing habitat requirements of wildlife communities and species of special concern (such as the Cerulean Warbler) on the Allegheny Plateau. Before joining NE-4152, I held a post-doctoral position with the Albuquerque lab of the Rocky Mountain Research Station, where I studied threatened and endangered birds of Southwestern riparian woodlands. Prior to joining the Forest Service, I studied avian demography and conservation in a variety of studies in the western United States, Central and South America.

Specific Experience:

• Research Wildlife Biologist, RWU NE-4152, Irvine, PA, 2002-present
• Research Wildlife Biologist, RWU RM-4351, Albuquerque, NM, 1997-2002
• Graduate Research Assistant, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1989-1997
  

Civic and Professional Affiliations:

• American Ornithologists' Union
• Association of Field Ornithologists
• Cooper Ornithological Society
• Ecological Society of America
• Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology
• The Wildlife Society
• Wilson Ornithological Society

Selected Publications

• Stoleson, S.H., R. Felger, C. Raish, G. Ceballos, and A. Búrquez.  2005.  Human history of natural resource use and population growth in northern Mexico.  Pp. 52-86 in Cartron, J.-L., G. Ceballos, and R. S. Felger, eds.  Biodiversity, ecosystems, and conservation in northern Mexico.  Oxford University Press, New York.

• Stoleson, S.H.  2004.  Cerulean Warbler habitat use in an oak-northern hardwoods transition zone: implications for management.  P. 535 in Yaussy, D. A.; Hix, D. M.; Long, R. P.; Goebel, P. C., eds. Proceedings. 14th Central Hardwood Forest Conference, 2004 March 16-19; Wooster, OH. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-316. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. Northeastern Research Station. 539 p. [CD-ROM].

• Stoleson, S.H., K. J. Kirschbaum, J. Frank, and C.J. Atwood.  2004.  Integrating GPS, GIS, and avian call-response surveys using Pocket PCs.  Wildlife Society Bulletin 32:1309-1312.

• Stoleson, S.H. and D.M. Finch.  2003.  Microhabitat use by breeding Southwestern Willow Flycatchers on the Gila River, New Mexico.  Studies in Avian Biology 26:91-95.

• Shook, R.S., S.H. Stoleson, and P.F. Boucher.  2003.  A field evaluation of the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Survey protocol.  Studies in Avian Biology 26:177-179.

• Boucher, P.F., S.H. Stoleson, R.S. Shook, J. Monzingo, and R.D. Pope.  2003.  Riparian restoration on the Gila River, New Mexico, creates breeding habitat for Southwestern Willow Flycatchers.  Studies in Avian Biology 26:135-142.

• Rosenbaum, H.C, Weinrich, M., Stoleson, S.H., Gibbs, J.P., Baker, C.S., and R. DeSalle.  2002. The effect of differential reproductive success on population genetic structure:  Correlations of life history with matrilines in humpback whales of the Gulf of Maine. Journal of Heredity 93:389-399.

• Stoleson, S.H., and D.M. Finch. 2002.  Breeding bird use of and nesting success in exotic Russian olive in New Mexico.  Wilson Bulletin 113:452-455.

• Stoleson, S.H. and S.R. Beissinger.  2001.  Does risk of nest failure or adult predation influence hatching patterns in a neotropical parrot? Condor 103:85-97.

• Wright, T.F, C.A. Toft, E. Enkerlin-Hoeflich, J. Gonzalez-Elizondo, M. Albornoz, A. Rodríguez-Ferraro, F. Rojas-Suárez, V. Sanz, A. Trujillo, S.R. Beissinger, V. Berovides A., X. Gálvez A., A.T. Brice, K. Joyner, J. Eberhard, J. Gilardi, S.E. Koenig, S.H. Stoleson, P. Martuscelli, and J.M. Meyers, K. Renton, A.M. Rodríguez, A.C. Sosa-Asanza, F.J. Vilella, and J.W. Wiley.  2001.  Nest poaching in Neotropical parrots.  Conservation Biology 15:710-720.

• Cartron, J.-L., S.H. Stoleson, P.L.L. Stoleson, and D. Shaw.  2000.  Riparian Areas.  Pp. 281-327 in Ecological and socioeconomic aspects of livestock management in the Southwest (R. Jemison and C. Raish, eds.).  Elsevier Press, Amsterdam. 

• Finch, D.M. and S.H. Stoleson (eds.).  2000.  Status, ecology, and conservation of the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher.  Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-60.  USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ogden, UT.

• Sandercock, B.K., S.R. Beissinger, S.H. Stoleson, R.R. Melland, and C.R. Hughes. 2000. Survival rates of a Neotropical parrot: implications for latitudinal comparisons of avian demography.  Ecology 81:1351-1370.

• Stoleson, S.H. and S.R. Beissinger.  1999.  Egg viability as a constraint on hatching asynchrony in a Neotropical parrot. Journal of Animal Ecology, 68:951-962

• Stoleson, S.H. and D.M. Finch. 1999.  Unusual nest sites for Southwestern Willow Flycatchers.  Wilson Bulletin, 111:574-575.

• Stoleson, S.H., and S.R. Beissinger.  1997.  Extreme hatching asynchrony, brood reduction, and food limitation in a Neotropical parrot: An experimental test. Ecological Monographs 67:131-154.