IMBCR Applications

See below for IMBCR-related applications and resources, such as publications and factsheets. Contact Jen Timmer if you have an IMBCR data application you would like to share or complete this form if you would like to request the raw data. For IMBCR-related information and resources in the Playa Lakes Joint Venture region (e.g., annual reports), visit IMBCR for PLJV. For general information on the IMBCR program, visit this page. For a dynamic look at the program, view the IMBCR StoryMap.

Visit the Rocky Mountain Avian Data Center to access population estimates, species counts, and sampling effort for the various IMBCR strata or areas of inference.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

2024:

Walker BL, AA Yappert, CL Brennan, CM Bossu, AW Jones. 2024. Field research guided by citizen science and monitoring data reveal a novel alpine breeding distribution and vegetation associations of a declining, habitat-specialist songbird in Colorado, USA. Avian Conservation and Ecology 19:10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ACE-02595-190110

2023:

Van Lanen NJ, AP Monroe, CL Aldridge. 2023. Living on the edge: Predicting songbird response to management and environmental changes across an ecotone. Ecology and Evolution 13. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10648

Van Lanen NJ, JE Shyvers, CJ Duchardt, CL Aldridge. 2023. A multi‑ecosystem prioritization framework to balance competing habitat conservation needs of multiple species in decline. Landscape Ecology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01712-z

Latif QS, NJ Van Lanen, EJ Chabot, DC Pavlacky Jr. 2023. Causal mechanisms for negative impacts of energy development inform management triggers for sagebrush birds. Ecosphere vol 14. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4479

Van Lanen NJ, AP Monroe, CL Aldridge. 2023. A hidden cost of single species management: habitat-relationships reveal potential negative effects of conifer removal on a non-target species. Biological Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.109959

Edwards BPM, AC Smith, TDS Docherty, MA Gahbauer, CR Gillespie, AR Grinde, T Harmer, DT Iles, SM Matsuoka, NL Michel, A Murray, GJ Niemi, J Pasher, DC Pavlacky Jr, BG Robinson, TB Ryder, P Sólymos, D Stralberg, EJ Zlonis. 2023. Point count offsets for estimating population sizes of North American landbirds. Ibis 165: 482-503. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13169

2022:

Latif QS, JB Cannon, EJ Chabot, RA Sparks. 2022. Simulated treatment effects on bird communities inform landscape-scale dry conifer forest management. Ecological Applications https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2555.

Pavlacky Jr. DC, AW Green, TL George, R Iovanna, AM Bartuszevige, MD Correll, AO Panjabi, TB Ryder. 2022. Landscape-scale conservation mitigates the biodiversity loss of grassland birds. Ecological Applications https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2548

2021:

Pavlacky Jr. DC, CA Hagen, AM Bartuszevige, R Iovanna, TL George, DE Naugle. 2021. Scaling up private land conservation to meet recovery goals for grassland birds. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13731

Zeller KA, SA Cushman, NJ Van Lanen, JD Boone, E Ammon. 2021. Targeting conifer removal to create an even playing field for birds in the Great Basin. Biological Conservation, Volume 257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109130

Monroe AP, DR Edmunds, CL Aldridge, MJ Holloran, TJ Assal, AG Holloran. 2021 Prioritizing landscapes for grassland bird conservation with hierarchical community models. Landscape Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01211-z

2020:

Baltensperger AP, MD Dixon, DL Swanson. 2020. Implications of future climate- and land-change scenarios on grassland bird abundance and biodiversity in the Upper Missouri River Basin. Landscape Ecology 35: 1757–1773. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-020-01050-4

Michel NL, C Burkhalter, CB Wilsey, M Holloran, A Holloran, GM Langham. 2020. Metrics for conservation success: Using the “Bird‐Friendliness Index” to evaluate grassland and aridland bird community resilience across the Northern Great Plains ecosystem. Diversity and Distributions https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13163

Janousek WM, VJ Dreitz. 2020. Testing Huston’s dynamic equilibrium model along fire and forest productivity gradients using avian monitoring data. Diversity and Distributions https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13164.

Latif QS, RL Truex, RA Sparks, DC Pavlacky Jr. 2020. Dry conifer forest restoration benefits Colorado Front Range avian communities. Ecological Applications doi:10.1002/eap.2142. Erratum

Latif QS, JS Ivan, AE Seglund, DL Pavlacky, RL Truex. 2020. Avian relationships with bark beetle outbreaks and underlying mechanisms in lodgepole pine and spruce-fir forests of Colorado. Forest Ecology and Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118043

Green AW, HR Sofaer, DL Otis, NJ Van Lanen. 2020. Co‐occurrence and occupancy of mourning doves and Eurasian collared‐doves. Journal of Wildlife Management doi:10.1002/jwmg.21835.

2019:

Green AW, DC Pavlacky Jr, and TL George. 2019. A Dynamic Multi-Scale Occupancy Model to Estimate Temporal Dynamics and Hierarchical Habitat Use for Nomadic Species. Ecology and Evolution 9:793-803.

Janousek WM, BA Hahn, VJ Dreitz. 2019. Disentangling monitoring programs: design, analysis, and application considerations. Ecological Applications 00(00):e01922. 10.1002/eap.1922

Janousek WM, JA Hicke, AJH Meddens, VJ Dreitz. 2019. The effects of mountain pine beetle outbreaks on avian communities in lodgepole pine forests across the greater Rocky Mountain region. Forest Ecology and Management 444:374-381.

2018:

Green AW, MD Correll, TL George, I Davidson, S Gallagher, C West, A Lopata, D Casey, K Ellison, DC Pavlacky Jr., L Quattrini, AE Shaw, EH Strasser, T VerCauteren, and AO Panjabi. 2018. Using Structured Decision Making to prioritize species assemblages for conservation. Journal for Nature Conservation 45:48-57.

Peña-Peniche A, I Ruvalcaba-Ortega, O Rojas-Soto. 2018. Climate complexity in the migratory cycle of Ammodramus bairdii. PLoS ONE 13(8): e0202678. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202678

2017:

Pavlacky DC Jr., PM Lukacs, JA Blakesley, RC Skorkowsky, DS Klute, BA Hahn, VJ Dreitz, TL George, and DJ Hanni. 2017. A statistically rigorous sampling design to integrate avian monitoring and management within Bird Conservation Regions. PLoS ONE 12(10): e0185924.

Lipsey MK, DE Naugle, J Nowak, PM Lukacs. 2017. Extending utility of hierarchical models to multi-scale habitat selection. Diversity and Distributions 23:783-793.

Dreitz VJ, LT Stinson, BA Hahn, JD Tack, PM Lukacs. 2017. A large-scale perspective for managing prairie avifauna assemblages across the western US: influences of habitat, land ownership and latitude. PeerJ 5:e2879 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2879

2016:

Swanson DL, MD Dixon, JS Palmer. 2016. A reassessment of the distribution of Virginia’s warbler in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Western Birds 47:214-226.

2015:

Mutter M, DC Pavlacky Jr., NJ Van Lanen, and R Grenyer. 2015. Evaluating the impact of gas extraction infrastructure on the occupancy of sagebrush-obligate songbirds. Ecological Applications 25:1175-1186.

Lipsey MK, KE Doherty, DE Naugle, S Fields, JS Evans, SK Davis, N Koper. 2015. One step ahead of the plow: using cropland conversion risk to guide Sprague’s Pipit conservation in the northern Great Plains. Biological Conservation 191:739-749

2012:

Pavlacky DC Jr., JA Blakesley, GC White, DJ Hanni, and PM Lukacs. 2012. Hierarchical multi-scale occupancy estimation for monitoring wildlife populations. Journal of Wildlife Management 76:154-162.