PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES
Hartter,
J.*, Ryan, S.J.*, Southworth,
J., and Chapman, C.A. 2011.
Landscapes as continuous
entities: forest
disturbance
and recovery in the Albertine Rift Landscape. Landscape Ecology 26(6):877-890 [PDF]
Ryan, S.J., 2011. Invited Book Review. "Governing Africa's Forests in a Globalized World Laura A German, Alain Karsenty and Anne-Marie Tiani (Editors)". Natural Resources Forum 35(2): 146-147. [PDF]
Stampone, M.,
Hartter, J.,
Chapman, C.A. , Ryan, S.J. 2011. Localized
precipitation trends in and around a forest park in east equatorial
Africa. Research Journal of
Environmental and Earth Sciences 3(1):14-23 [PDF]
Petorelli,
N., Ryan, S.J., Mueller, T.,
Bunnefeld,
N., Jedrzejewska, B., Lima, M., Kausrud, K. 2011. The Normalized
Difference
Vegetation Index (NDVI) in ecology: a decade of unforseen successes. Climate Research 46:15-27 [PDF]
Hartter,
J. and Ryan, S.J. 2010. Top-down or bottom-up?
Decentralization, natural resource
management and usufruct rights in the forests and wetlands of
Western Uganda. Land Use
Policy 27(3): 815-826. [PDF]
Ladau,
J. and Ryan, S.J. 2010. MPowering ecologists:
community assembly tools for community assembly rules. Oikos 119(7):
p.
1064-1069 [PDF]
Bar-David,
S, Bar-David, I, Cross, P.C. Ryan, S.J., Knechtel,
C.U.,
Getz,
W.M.
2009. Methods
for
assessing movement path recursion
with application to African buffalo in
Sánchez,
M.S.,
Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Williams, B.G., Porco,
T.C., Ryan,
S.J., Borgdorff, M.W., Mansoer,
J., Dye, C. and Getz, W.M. 2009. Incongruent HIV
and
tuberculosis co-dynamics in
Ryan,
S.J.,
Starks,
P.T., Milton, K. and Getz, W.M. 2008. Intersexual
conflict and
group size in Alouatta palliata:
a 23-year evaluation. Int. J. Primatology.
29:405-420 [PDF]
Gusset,
M.*& Ryan, S.J.*, Hofmeyr, M.,
Van Dyk, G., Davies-Mostert,
H.T.,
Graf,
J.A.,
Owen,
C., Szykman, M.,
Macdonald, D.W., Monfort, S.L., Wildt, D.E., Maddock,
A.H.,
Mills,
M.G.L., Slotow,
R., Somers, M.J. 2008. Efforts going to the dogs? Evaluating
attempts
to
re-introduce
endangered
wild
dogs
in
Ryan,
S.J., Knechtel,
C.U.
and
Getz,
W.M.
2007.
Ecological cues,
gestation
length and birth timing in African Buffalo (Syncerus
caffer). Behavioral Ecology
18:635-644 [PDF]
Getz,
W.M., Fortmann-Roe, S, Cross, P.C., Lyons,
A.J. Ryan, S.J.,
et al. 2007. LoCoH: Nonparametric kernel methods for
constructing
home ranges and utilization distributions. PLoS
ONE
2(2) [PDF]
Ryan, S.J. 2006. The
role of culture in conservation of small or endangered populations.
Journal
of Conservation Biology 20(4):1321-1324 [PDF]
Ryan, S.J., Knechtel,
C.U. and Getz, W.M.2006. Range and habitat
selection of
African buffalo in
Redfern,
J.V.,
Ryan, S.J. and Getz, W.M. 2006. Defining Herbivore
Assemblages in
the
Ryan,
S.J.,
and
Getz, W.M. 2005.
A spatial location allocation GIS framework for managing water sources
in a
savanna nature reserve. South African Journal of Wildlife Research
35(2):153-178 [PDF]
Ryan,
S.J.
and Jordaan, W. 2005. Activity Patterns
of African
Faust,
L.J.,
Ryan, S., Roth, A.M.,
Ryan,
S.J.
and
Ryan,
S.J., Cross, P.C.,
Winnie, J, Jr, Hay, C., Bowers, J., Getz, W.M. in revision. The
utility of NDVI as
a proxy for forage quality in a savanna landscape.
O'Leary,
J. and Ryan, S.J. in review. Managing for trophic
integrity in terrestrial and marine protected areas: case studies from
Africa.
Wolf,
A.,
Anderegg, W., Ryan, S.J.,
Christensen, J. in review.
Robust detection of plant species range shifts under biased sampling
regimes.
Rudnick,
D., Preziosi, D., Epps, C.,
Deiffenbach, F.,
Kintsch, J., Beier, P., Jenness, J., Perkl., R., Trombulak, S., Ryan, S.J., Hartter, J., Gerber, L.,
Merenlender, A., Austen, D., Cushman, S. in review. Emerging principles
in understanding landscape connectivity: practical tools for
conservation decision-making. Issues
in Ecology.
Hartter,
J.,
Stampone, M.D., Ryan, S.J.,
Kirner, K., Chapman, C.A., Goldman, A., in reivew. Patterns and perceptions
of climate change around a biodiversity hotspot
Ryan,
S.J., Brashares, J.S.,
Chapman, C.A., Milbers, K., Walsh, C., Kilroy, C. in review. Gastrointestinal
parasites
of olive baboons (Papio anubis)
in
human-use
areas
of
Mole
National
Park, Ghana.
Tildesley, M.J.
and Ryan, S.J. in prep. The utility of land
cover maps to inform
spatial epidemic models of disease transmission in the UK livestock
industry.
Ryan, S.J., Dobson, A.P. and Jones, J.H. in prep. The effects of contact structure, demography and movement on disease transmission within a structured primate metapopulation.
Hartter, J., Ryan, S.J., Southworth, J., and Chapman, C.A. 2010. "Fortresses and Fragments: Impacts of Fragmentation in a Forest Park Landscape". in Proceedings of IUFRO Landscape Ecology International Conference. Braganca, Portugal [PDF]
Chapman, C.A., Huffman,M.A., Ryan,S.J., Sengupta, R., Goldberg, T. 2009. “Ways forward in the study of primate parasite ecology”. in Primate parasite ecology: the dynamics and study of host-parasite relationships. Huffman, M.A. and Chapman, C.A., eds. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology. Cambridge University Press. [PDF]
Ryan, S., Roth, A.M., Thompson, S.D. and Gold, K.C. 2001. "Effects of hand rearing on the reproductive success of Western Lowland Gorillas in North America". in The Apes: Challenges for the 21st Century. Chicago, Chicago Zoological Society, p.99. [PDF]
Dobson, A., Ralls. K., Foster, M., Soule, M.,Simberloff, D., Doak, D., Estes, J., Mills, S., Mattson, D., Dirzo, R., Arita, H., Ryan, S., Norse, E., Noss, R., Johns, D. 1999. "Corridors: Maintaining Flows in Fragmented Landscapes". In Continental Conservation, Michael E. Soule and John Terborgh, eds. The Wildlands Project,Island Press.
Ryan, S.J. 2006. Spatial Ecology of African Buffalo and their Resources in a Savanna Ecosystem. PhD Dissertation, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley. [PDF]
Ryan, S.J. 1998. Primate Concerns: Development of a Rapid Censusing Technique, Social Effects on Pathogen Transmission and an Examination of Primate Conservation. BA Thesis, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University [PDF] *incomplete document*NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL
Ryan, S.J., (ed.).
1999. North American Regional
Studbook for Pygmy Hippos (Hexaprotodon
liberiensis). AZA/LPZ
Ryan, S.J., (ed.).
2000. North American Regional
Studbook for Snow Leopards (Pantera
uncia). AZA /LPZ
Ryan, S.J., (ed.).
2000. AZA Research Coordinators
Directory. AZA/LPZ