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Jim Devries

Publications (organized by year)

Giovanni, M. D., S. K. Davis, J. H. Devries, and L. M. Armstrong. In Review. Passerine Density in Response to Management-Induced Succession of Native and Non-Native Planted Grasslands in a Northern Mixed-Grass Prairie System. Journal of Wildlife Management.

Mattsson, B.J., M.C. Runge, J.H. Devries, G.S. Boomer, J.M. Eadie, D.A. Haukos, J.P. Fleskes, D.N. Koons, W.E. Thogmartin, and R.G. Clark. 2012. A modeling framework for integrated harvest and habitat management of North American waterfowl: case-study of northern pintail metapopulation dynamics. Ecological Modelling 225(1): 146-158.

Devries, J. H., and L. M. Armstrong. 2011. Impact of management treatments on waterfowl use of dense nesting cover in the Canadian prairie parklands. Journal of Wildlife Management 75(6): 1340-1349.

Devries, J. H., S. O. Rimer, and E. M. Walsh.  2010.   Cropland nesting by long-billed curlews (Numenius americanus) in southern Alberta. Prairie Naturalist 42:123-129.

Arnold, T. W., J. H. Devries, and D. W. Howerter.  2010.  Factors that affect renesting in mallards (Anas platyrhynchos). The Auk 127(1): 212-221.

Prairie Habitat Joint Venture. 2008. Prairie Habitat Joint Venture Implementation Plan 2007 – 2012. Report of the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture. Environment Canada, Edmonton, AB. 34 pp. (Revised May 2009) http://www.phjv.ca/pdf/PHJV%20Implementation%20Plan%20090506-lowres.pdf

Arnold, T.W., A.M. Pagano, J.H. Devries, R.B. Emery, D.W. Howerter and B.L. Joynt.  2008.  Social indices of breeding productivity in parkland mallards. Journal of Wildlife Management 72(1): 224-230.

Devries, J. H., L. M. Armstrong, R. J. MacFarlane, L. Moats, and P. T. Thoroughgood.  2008.  Waterfowl nesting in fall-seeded and spring-seeded cropland in Saskatchewan.  Journal of Wildlife Management 72(8)1790-1797.

Devries, J.H., R.W. Brook, D.W. Howerter, and M.G. Anderson. 2008. Effects of Spring Body Condition and Age on Reproduction in Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos). The Auk 125(3):618–628.

Howerter, D. W., J. J. Rotella, M. G. Anderson, L. M. Armstrong, and J. H. Devries.  2008.  Mallard nest-site selection in an altered environment: predictions and patterns.  Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution 54:437–460

Arnold, T.W., L.M. Craig-Moore, L.M. Armstrong, D.W. Howerter, J.H. Devries, B.L. Joynt, R.B. Emery, and M.G. Anderson.  2007.  Waterfowl Use of Dense Nesting Cover in the Canadian Prairie Parklands.  Journal of Wildlife Management 71(8): 2542-2549.

Brasher, M.G., T.W. Arnold, J.H. Devries, and R. Kaminiski. 2006 Breeding season survival of male and female mallards in prairie-parkland Canada. Journal of Wildlife Management. 70: 805-811.

Thorn, T.D., R. B. Emery, D. W. Howerter, J. H. Devries, and B.L. Joynt. 2005. Use of radiotelemetry to test for investigator effects on nesting Mallards, Anas platyrhynchos. Canadian Field Naturalist 119:541-547.

Emery, R.B., D.W. Howerter, L.M. Armstrong, M.G. Anderson, J.H. Devries, and B.L. Joynt. 2005. Seasonal variation in waterfowl nest success and its relation to cover management in the Canadian Prairies Journal of Wildlife Management 69(3): 1181-1193.

Devries, J.H., M. Boyle, S. Davis, D. Dixon, K. Guyn, B. Bristol and T. Weins. 2005. Science guiding biodiversity conservation in prairie Canada: successes of the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture partnership. Pp. 99-101 in: Working Together for Biodiversity: Regional and International Initiatives Contributing to Achieving and Measuring Progress Towards the 2010 Target. Montreal: Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2005. CBD Technical Series no. 17.

McMaster, D.G., J.H. Devries and S.K. Davis. 2005. Grassland birds nesting in haylands of southern Saskatchewan: Landscape influences and conservation priorities. Journal of Wildlife Management 69(1):211-221. 

Guyn, K.L. and J.H. Devries.  2004.  Landscape conservation on the prairies: “The pintail experience”.  Proceedings of the Prairie Conservation and Endangered Species Conference 7: Calgary Alta. Canada.

Devries, J. H., J.J. Citta, M.S. Lindberg, D.W. Howerter, and M.G. Anderson. 2003. Breeding-season survival of mallard females in the prairie pothole region of Canada. Journal of Wildlife Management 67:551-563.

Arnold, T.W., D.W. Howerter, J. H. Devries, B.L. Joynt, R.B. Emery and M.G. Anderson. 2002. Continuous laying and clutch-size limitation in mallards. Auk 119:261-266.

Hoekman, S.T., L.S. Mills, D.W. Howerter and J. H. Devries, I.J. Ball. 2002. Sensitivity analyses of the life cycle of mid-continent mallards. Journal of Wildlife Management 66:883-900.

Podruzny, K.M., J. H. Devries, L.M. Armstrong and J.J. Rotella. 2002. Long-term response of northern pintails to changes in wetlands and agriculture in the Canadian prairie pothole region. Journal of Wildlife Management 66:993-1010.

Paquette, G.A., J. H. Devries, R.B. Emery, D.W. Howerter, B.L.Joynt, and T.P. Sankowski. 1997. Effects of transmitters on reproduction and survival of wild mallards. Journal of Wildlife Management 61:953-961.

Connery, D. R., E. A. Cloutis, T. P. Sankowski, J. H. Devries, D. W. Howerter, and F. J. Dover. 1996. Evaluation of airborne multispectral imagery for mapping wetland habitats and vegetation communities: Camp Lake assessment site, Alberta. Proceedings of the 18th Symposium of the Canadian Remote Sensing Society, Vancouver, BC. 632pp.

Rotella, J. J., J. H. Devries, and D. W. Howerter. 1995. Evaluation of methods for estimating the density of breeding female mallards. Journal of Field Ornithology 66:391-399.

Rotella, J. J., D. W. Howerter, T. P. Sankowski, and J. H. Devries. 1993. Nesting effort by wild mallards with 3 types of radio transmitters. Journal of Wildlife Management 57:690-695.

Hohman, W. L., D. W. Woolington, and J. H. Devries. 1990. Food habits of wintering canvasbacks in Louisiana. Canadian Journal of Zoology 68:2605-2609.

Devries, J. H. 1993. Habitat use, movements and behavior of post-breeding female canvasbacks in Manitoba. M.Sc. Thesis. Oregon State University. 96pp.