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2024
• Boone, W. W., B. A. Bankovich, B. E. Reichert, M. B. Watson, and R. A. McCleery. 2024. Frequent prescribed burns reduce mammalian species richness and occurrence in longleaf pine sandhills. Forest Ecology and Management 553:121596 | PDF
2023
• Boone IV, W. W., and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Climate change likely to increase co-occurrence of island endemic and invasive wildlife. Climate Change Ecology 4:100061 | PDF
• Fletcher, R. J., A. O’Brien, T. F. Hall, M. Jones, A. D. Potash, L. Kruger, P. Simelane, K. Roques, A. Monadjem, and R. A.
McCleery. 2023. Frightened of giants: fear responses to elephants approach that of predators. Biology Letters 19:20230202 | PDF
• Guzy, J. C., B. G. Falk, B. J. Smith, J. D. Willson, R. N. Reed, N. G. Aumen, M. L. Avery, I. A. Bartoszek, E. Campbell, and M. S.
Cherkiss. 2023. Burmese pythons in Florida: A synthesis of biology, impacts, and management tools. NeoBiota 80:1–119 | PDF
• Hardeman Jr, D. W., H. B. Vander Zanden, J. W. McCown, B. K. Scheick, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Black Bear Behavior and Movements Are Not Definitive Measures of Anthropogenic Food Use. Animals 13:950 | PDF
• Hooker, K. R., L. M. Conner, S. B. Jack, G. Morris, W. E. Palmer, B. T. Rutledge, D. C. Sisson, T. M. Terhune, S. D. Wellendorf, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Trophic interactions between primary consumers appear to weaken during periods of synchrony. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11:1159464 | PDF
• McCampbell, M. E., M. E. Hunter, J. V. Stechly, K. N. Leist, K. Hart, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Compensatory mortality explains rodent resilience to an invasive predator. Journal of Mammalogy 967–978 | PDF
• McCleery, R., R. Guralnick, M. Beatty, M. Belitz, C. J. Campbell, J. Idec, M. Jones, Y. Kang, A. Potash, and R. J. Fletcher. 2023. Uniting Experiments and Big Data to advance ecology and conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 38:970–979 | PDF
• McDonald, B. W., C. Baruzzi, R. A. McCleery, M. V. Cove, and M. A. Lashley. 2023. Simulated extreme climate event alters a plant-frugivore mutualism. Forest Ecology and Management 545:121294 | PDF
• Mtsetfwa, F. P., L. Kruger, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Climate change decouples dominant tree species in African savannas. Scientific Reports 13:7619 | PDF
• Parsons, E. I., R. A. Gitzen, J. T. Pynne, L. M. Conner, S. B. Castleberry, S. I. Duncan, J. D. Austin, and R. A. McCleery. 2022. Determining habitat requirements for the southeastern pocket gopher (Geomys pinetis) at multiple scales. Journal of Mammalogy 103:672–679 | PDF
• Potash, A. D., L. M. Conner, M. Clinchy, L. Y. Zanette, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Prey species increase activity in refugia free of terrestrial predators. Oecologia 201:661–671 | PDF
• Puhlick, J. J., T. L. O’Halloran, G. Starr, R. B. Abney, L. S. Pile Knapp, R. A. McCleery, K. D. Klepzig, S. T. Brantley, R. K. McIntyre, and B. Song. 2023. Opportunities for Research on Carbon Management in Longleaf Pine Ecosystems. Forests 14:874 | PDF
• Pynne, J. T., L. M. Conner, S. B. Castleberry, E. I. Parsons, R. A. Gitzen, S. I. Duncan, J. D. Austin, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Experimental translocation for restoration of an ecosystem engineer. Restoration Ecology 31:e13888 | PDF
• Sovie, A. R., L. M. Conner, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. At a fine scale, hardwood patches support wildlife diversity in longleaf pine woodlands. Wildlife Letters 1:71–78 | PDF
• Taillie, P. J., J. Hartfelder, A. Potash, D. Pienaar, C. Greaver, P. Viljoen, R. J. Fletcher, S. Ferreira, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Hippos alter their aggregations to mitigate density‐dependent drought effects. Austral Ecology 48:969–982 | PDF
• Taillie, P. J., S. Sneckenberger, N. Perry, C. Anderson, K. Kalasz, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Sea level rise adaptation pushes an insular endemic rodent closer to extinction. Biodiversity and Conservation 32:3939–3952 | PDF
2022
• Bailey, K. M., K. R. Hooker, A. A. Loggins, A. D. Potash, D. W. Hardeman, and R. A. McCleery. 2022. It pays to get paid: Factors influencing wildlife‐related employment success. Wildlife Society Bulletin 46:e1252 | PDF
• Boone IV, W. W., A. A. Albrecht, J. R. Conrad, C. J. Lechowicz, E. C. Hellgren, and R. A. McCleery. 2022. Shrub encroachment threatens persistence of an endemic insular wetland rodent. Journal of Mammalogy 103:1182–1193 | PDF
• Darracq, A. K., S. J. Hromada, L. Neighbors, L. L. Smith, L. M. Conner, and R. A. McCleery. 2022. Reducing Populations of an Invasive Ant Influences Survival, Growth, and Diet of Southern Toads (Anaxyrus terrestris). Journal of Herpetology 56:84–91 | PDF
• Jones, M. M., R. Fletcher Jr, L. Kruger, A. Monadjem, P. Simelane, and R. McCleery. 2022. Drought limits large trees in African savannas with or without elephants. Austral Ecology 47:1668–1684 | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., Z. N. Nhleko, R. M. Arhens, and S. M. Ferreira. 2022. The white rhino can again be a conservation success. Animal Conservation 25:168–169 | PDF
• McKee, R. K., K. A. Buhlmann, C. T. Moore, M. C. Allender, N. I. Stacy, and T. D. Tuberville. 2022. Island of misfit tortoises: waif gopher tortoise health assessment following translocation. Conservation Physiology 10:coac051 | PDF
• Nhleko, Z. N., R. Ahrens, S. M. Ferreira, and R. A. McCleery. 2022. Poaching is directly and indirectly driving the decline of South Africa’s large population of white rhinos. Animal Conservation 25:151–163 | PDF
• Nhleko, Z. N., A. Ganswindt, S. M. Ferreira, and R. A. McCleery. 2022. Spatial constraints and seasonal conditions but not poaching pressure are linked with elevated faecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations in white rhino. Wildlife Research 50:292–300 | PDF
• Nhleko, Z. N., A. M. Shrader, S. M. Ferreira, and R. A. McCleery. 2022. White rhinos and other herbivores decrease visitations and increase vigilance in response to human vocalizations. Journal of Mammalogy 103:1364–1372 | PDF
2021
• Burkett-Cadena, N. D., E. M. Blosser, A. A. Loggins, M. C. Valente, M. T. Long, L. P. Campbell, L. E. Reeves, I. Bargielowski, and R. A. McCleery. 2021. Invasive Burmese pythons alter host use and virus infection in the vector of a zoonotic virus. Communications Biology 4:1–11. | PDF
• Epperly, H. K., M. Clinchy, L. Y. Zanette, and R. A. McCeery. 2021. Fear of large carnivores is tied to ungulate habitat use: evidence from a bifactorial experiment. Scientific Reports 11:12979. | PDF
• Lukhele, S. M., J. T. Shapiro, T. A. M. Mahlaba, M. D. Sibiya, R. A. McCleery, R.J. Fletcher, and A. Monadjem. 2021. Influence of Sugarcane Growth Stages on Bird Diversity and Community Structure in an Agricultural-Savanna Environment. Heliyon 7:e06563 | PDF
• McKee, R. K., K. A. Buhlmann, C. T. Moore, J. Hepinstall‐Cymerman, and T. D. Tuberville. Waif gopher tortoise survival and site fidelity following translocation. The Journal of Wildlife Management, jwmg.21998 | PDF
• Nhleko, Z. N., R. Ahrens, S. M. Ferreira, and R. A. McCleery. 2021. Poaching is directly and indirectly driving the decline of South Africa’s large population of white rhinos. Animal Conservation acv.12720. | PDF
• Pynne, J. T., E. I. Parsons, L. M. Conner, A. Whelan, S. B. Castleberry, R. A. Gitzen, S. I. Duncan, J. D. Austin, and R. A. McCleery. 2021. Southeastern Pocket Gopher (Geomys pinetis) Tunnels Provide Stable Thermal Refugia. The American Midland Naturalist 185:218–228. | PDF
• Simelane, P., J. T. Shapiro, T. A. M. Mahlaba, R. A. McCleery, D. MacFadyen, and A. Monadjem. 2021. The Foraging Ecology of Nguni and Brahman Cattle under Different Management Systems in High-Altitude Grasslands of South Africa. Journal of Rangeland Science | PDF Unavailable
• Smart, L. S., J. Vukomanovic, P. J. Taillie, K. K. Singh, and J. W. Smith. 2021. Quantifying Drivers of Coastal Forest Carbon Decline Highlights Opportunities for Targeted Human Interventions. Land 10:752. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. | PDF
• Sovie, A. R., L. M. Conner, J. S. Brown, and R. A. McCleery. 2021. Increasing woody cover facilitates competitive exclusion of a savanna specialist. Biological Conservation 255:108971. | PDF
• Taillie, P. J., E. C. Braun de Torrez, A. D. Potash, W. W. Boone IV, M. Jones, M. A. Wallrichs, F. Schellenberg, K. Hooker, H. K. Ober, and R. A. McCleery. 2021. Bat activity response to fire regime depends on species, vegetation conditions, and behavior. Forest Ecology and Management 502:119722. | PDF
• Taillie, P. J., K. M. Hart, A. R. Sovie, and R. A. McCleery. 2021. Native mammals lack resilience to invasive generalist predator. Biological Conservation 261:109290. | PDF
• Taillie, P. J., and R. A. McCleery. 2021. Climate relict vulnerable to extinction from multiple climate‐driven threats. Diversity and Distributions ddi.13380 | PDF
• Teman, S. J., N. Stevens, A. Monadjem, R. J. J. Fletcher, J. D. Austin, and R. McCleery. 2021. Savanna Rodents’ Selective Removal of an Encroaching Plant’s Seeds Increased With Grass Biomass. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9 | PDF
• Tuberville, T. D., R. K. McKee, H. E. Gaya, and T. M. Norton. 2020. Survival of Immature Gopher Tortoises Recruited into a Translocated Population. The Journal of Wildlife Management jwmg.21933 | PDF
2020
• Braun de Torrez, E. C., C. F. Frock, W. W. Boone, A. R. Sovie, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Seasick: Why Value Ecosystems Severely Threatened by Sea-Level Rise? Estuaries and Coasts. Estuaries and Coasts. | PDF
• Duncan, S. I., J. T. Pynne, E. I. Parsons, R. J. Fletcher Jr, J. D. Austin, S. B. Castleberry, L. M. Conner, R. A. Gitzen, M. Barbour, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Land use and cover effects on an ecosystem engineer. Forest Ecology and Management 456:117642. | PDF
• Ganser, C., A. Monadjem, R. A. McCleery, T. Ndlela, and S. M. Wisely. 2020. Is it best on the nest? Effects of avian life-history on haemosporidian parasitism. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 13:62–71. | PDF
• Greene, D. U., and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Incubation of a foreign object by a Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) in Florida. The Wilson Journal of Onithology 132. | PDF
• Hartfelder, J., C. Reynolds, R. A. Stanton, M. Sibiya, A. Monadjem, R. A. McCleery, and R. J. Fletcher. 2020. The allometry of movement predicts the connectivity of communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 202001614. | PDF
• Lashley, M., and R. McCleery. 2020. Intensive Laboratory experiences to safely retain experiential learning in the transition to online learning. Ecology and Evolution 10:12613–12619. | PDF
• Lueschow, S. R., L. J. A. N. Johnson, T. F. Williams, R. McCleery, and A. Porras-Alfaro. 2020. Opportunistic Pseudogymnoascus and Geomyces species isolated from humans and bats. SYDOWIA 71:25–33. | PDF not available
• McCleery, R. A., R. J. Fletcher, L. M. Kruger, D. Govender, and S. M. Ferreira. 2020. Conservation needs a COVID-19 bailout. Science 369:515.2-516. | PDF
• Potash, A. D., D. U. Greene, G. A. Foursa, V. L. Mathis, L. M. Conner, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. A comparison of animal color measurements using a commercially available digital color sensor and photograph analysis. Current Zoology. | PDF
• Potash, A. D., D. U. Greene, V. L. Mathis, B. Baiser, L. M. Conner, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Ecological Drivers of Eastern Fox Squirrel Pelage Polymorphism. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:1–9. | PDF
• Potash, A. D., C. M. Murphy, J. T. T. Pynne, R. A. McCleery, L. M. Conner, S. B. Castleberry, and L. L. Smith. 2020. Eastern Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) Observed Using a Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) Burrow. Southeastern Naturalist 19:N14–N19. | PDF
• Shapiro, J. T., A. Monadjem, T. Röder, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Response of bat activity to land cover and land use in savannas is scale-, season-, and guild-specific. Biological Conservation 241:108245. | PDF
• Shapiro, J. T., A. R. Sovie, C. R. Faller, A. Monadjem, R. J. Fletcher, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Ebola spillover correlates with bat diversity. European Journal of Wildlife Research 66:1–12. | PDF
• Smart, L. S., P. J. Taillie, B. Poulter, J. Vukomanovic, K. K. Singh, J. J. Swenson, H. Mitasova, J. W. Smith, and R. K. Meentemeyer. 2020. Aboveground carbon loss associated with the spread of ghost forests as sea levels rise. Environmental Research Letters 15:104028. | PDF
• Soto-Shoender, J. R., D. C. Gwinn, A. Sovie, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Life-history traits moderate the susceptibility of native mammals to an invasive predator. Biological Invasions 6. | PDF
• Sovie, A. R., D. U. Greene, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Woody Cover Mediates Fox and Gray Squirrel Interactions. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:1–10. | PDF
• Stanton, R. A., R. J. Fletcher, M. Sibiya, A. Monadjem, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. The effects of shrub encroachment on bird occupancy vary with land use in an African savanna. Animal Conservation acv.12620. | PDF
• Taillie, P. J., S. R. Jolly, L. R. Bobay, S. Sneckenberger, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Habitat use across multiple scales suggests resilience to rising seas for endangered island endemic compared to sympatric invasive species. Animal Conservation. | PDF
• Taillie, P. J., R. Roman-Cuesta, D. Lagomasino, M. Cifuentes-Jara, T. Fatoyinbo, L. E. Ott, and B. Poulter. 2020. Widespread mangrove damage resulting from the 2017 Atlantic mega hurricane season. Environmental Research Letters 15:064010. | PDF
2019
• Bailey, A. M., H. K. Ober, B. E. Reichert, and R. A. McCleery. 2019. Canopy cover shapes bat diversity across an urban and agricultural landscape mosaic. Environmental Conservation 46:193–200. | PDF
• Bailey, K. M., R. A. McCleery, G. Barnes, and S. L. McKune. 2019. Climate-Driven Adaptation, Household Capital, and Nutritional Outcomes among Farmers in Eswatini. International journal of environmental research and public health 16:4063. | PDF
• Bailey, K. M., R. A. McCleery, and G. Barnes. 2019. The role of capital in drought adaptation among rural communities in Eswatini. Ecology and Society 24. | PDF
• Bonzi, V. R., C. M. Carneiro, S. M. Wisely, A. Monadjem, R. A. McCleery, B. Gumbi, and J. D. Austin. 2019. Comparative spatial genetic structure of two rodent species in an agro-ecological landscape in southern Africa. Mammalian Biology 97:64–71. | PDF
• Bovendorp, R. S., F. T. Brum, R. A. McCleery, B. Baiser, R. Loyola, M. V Cianciaruso, and M. Galetti. 2019. Defaunation and fragmentation erode small mammal diversity dimensions in tropical forests. Ecography 42:23–35. | PDF
• Fletcher Jr, R. J., T. J. Hefley, E. P. Robertson, B. Zuckerberg, R. A. McCleery, and R. M. Dorazio. 2019. A practical guide for combining data to model species distributions. Ecology 100:e02710. | PDF
• Hallett, M. T., A. A. Kinahan, R. McGregor, T. Baggallay, T. Babb, H. Barnabus, A. Wilson, F. M. Li, W. W. Boone IV, and B. A. Bankovich. 2019. Impact of Low-Intensity Hunting on Game Species in and Around the Kanuku Mountains Protected Area, Guyana. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:1–17. | PDF
• Loggins, A. A., A. Monadjem, L. M. Kruger, B. E. Reichert, and R. A. McCleery. 2019. Vegetation structure shapes small mammal communities in African savannas. Journal of Mammalogy 100:1243–1252. | PDF
• Loggins, A. A., A. M. Shrader, A. Monadjem, and R. A. McCleery. 2019. Shrub cover homogenizes small mammals’ activity and perceived predation risk. Scientific Reports 9:1–11. | PDF
• Mamba, M., N. J. Fasel, A. M. Themb’alilahlwa, J. D. Austin, R. A. McCleery, and A. Monadjem. 2019. Influence of sugarcane plantations on the population dynamics and community structure of small mammals in a savanna-agricultural landscape. Global Ecology and Conservation 20:e00752. | PDF
• Moore, N. B., S. I. Duncan, E. I. Parsons, J. T. Pynne, J. D. Austin, L. M. Conner, S. B. Castleberry, R. A. Gitzen, and R. A. McCleery. 2019. A new live trap for pocket gophers. Wildlife Society Bulletin 43:178–181. | PDF
• Potash, A. D., L. M. Conner, and R. A. McCleery. 2019. Vertical and horizontal vegetation cover synergistically shape prey behaviour. Animal Behaviour 152:39–44. | PDF
• Pynne, J. T., S. B. Castleberry, L. M. Conner, E. I. Parsons, R. A. Gitzen, J. D. Austin, S. I. Duncan, and R. A. McCleery. 2019. Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) Predation on a Southeastern Pocket Gopher (Geomys pinetis). Southeastern Naturalist 18. | PDF
• Sovie, A. R., D. U. Greene, C. F. Frock, A. D. Potash, and R. A. McCleery. 2019. Ephemeral temporal partitioning may facilitate coexistence in competing species. Animal Behaviour 150:87–96. | PDF
2018
• Austin, J. D., D. U. Greene, R. L. Honeycutt, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. Genetic evidence indicates ecological divergence rather than geographic barriers structure Florida fox squirrels. Journal of Mammalogy 99:1–14. | PDF
• Austin, J. D., S. Moore, R. A. McCleery, J. Colton, T. Finberg, and A. Monadjem. 2018. Conservation genetics of an isolated giraffe population in Swaziland. African Journal of Ecology 56:140–145. | PDF
• Braun de Torrez, E. C., H. K. Ober, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. Critically imperiled forest fragment supports bat diversity and activity within a subtropical grassland. Journal of Mammalogy 99:273–282. | PDF
• Braun de Torrez, E. C., H. K. Ober, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. Activity of an endangered bat increases immediately following prescribed fire. Journal of Wildlife Management 82:1115–1123. | PDF
• Braun de Torrez, E. C., H. K. Ober, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. Restoring historical fire regimes increases activity of endangered bats. Fire Ecology 14:9. Fire Ecology. | PDF
• Gumbi, B. C., J. T. Shapiro, T. Mahlaba, R. McCleery, D. MacFadyen, and A. Monadjem. 2018. Assessing the impacts of domesticated versus wild ungulates on terrestrial small mammal assemblages at Telperion Nature Reserve, South Africa. African Zoology 53:23–29. | PDF
• Ke, A., M. D. Sibiya, C. Reynolds, R. A. McCleery, A. Monadjem, and R. J. Fletcher. 2018. Landscape heterogeneity shapes taxonomic diversity of non-breeding birds across fragmented savanna landscapes. Biodiversity and Conservation 27:2681–2698. | PDF
• LaScaleia, M. C., C. Reynolds, C. N. Magagula, F. Roets, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. Dung beetle richness decreases with increasing landscape structural heterogeneity in an African savanna‐agricultural mosaic. Insect Conservation and Diversity 11:396–406. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., A. Monadjem, B. Baiser, R. Fletcher, K. Vickers, L. Kruger, R. Fletcher Jr, K. Vickers, and L. Kruger. 2018. Animal diversity declines with broad-scale homogenization of canopy cover in African savannas. Biological Conservation 226:54–62. | PDF
• Monadjem, A., J. Decher, W.-Y. Crawley, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. The conservation status of a poorly known range-restricted mammal, the Nimba otter-shrew Micropotamogale lamottei. Mammalia 83:1–10. | PDF
• Mtsetfwa, F., R. A. McCleery, and A. Monadjem. 2018. Changes in bat community composition and activity patterns across a conservation-agriculture boundary. African Zoology 53:99–106. | PDF
• Peer, B. D., R. A. McCleery, and W. E. Jensen. 2018. Resistance is futile: prohibitive costs of egg ejection in an obligate avian brood parasite host. Animal Behaviour 144:45–51. | PDF
• Potash, A. D., L. M. Conner, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. Extreme Movements of an Individual Male Fox Squirrel. Southeastern Naturalist 17:N40–N43. | PDF
• Reynolds, C., R. J. Fletcher, C. M. Carneiro, N. Jennings, A. Ke, M. C. LaScaleia, M. B. Lukhele, M. L. Mamba, M. D. Sibiya, and J. D. Austin. 2018. Inconsistent effects of landscape heterogeneity and land-use on animal diversity in an agricultural mosaic: a multi-scale and multi-taxon investigation. Landscape Ecology 33:241–255. | PDF
• Roques, K. G., S. K. Jacobson, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. Assessing contributions of volunteer tourism to ecosystem research and conservation in southern Africa. Ecosystem Services 30:382–390. | PDF
• Soto-Shoender, J. R., R. A. McCleery, A. Monadjem, and D. C. Gwinn. 2018. The importance of grass cover for mammalian diversity and habitat associations in a bush encroached savanna. Biological Conservation 221:127–136. | PDF
• Stanton, R. A., W. W. Boone IV, J. Soto-Shoender, R. J. Fletcher, N. Blaum, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. Shrub encroachment and vertebrate diversity: A global meta-analysis. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27:368–379. | PDF
2017
• Bailey, A. M., R. A. McCleery, H. K. Ober, and W. E. Pine. 2017. First demographic estimates for endangered Florida bonneted bats suggest year-round recruitment and low apparent survival. Journal of Mammalogy 98:551–559. | PDF
• Bailey, A. M., H. K. Ober, A. R. Sovie, and R. A. McCleery. 2017. Impact of land use and climate on the distribution of the endangered Florida bonneted bat. Journal of Mammalogy 98:1586–1593. | PDF
• Boone IV, W. W., R. A. McCleery, and B. E. Reichert. 2017. Fox squirrel response to forest restoration treatments in longleaf pine. Journal of Mammalogy 98:1594–1603. | PDF
• Bovendorp, R. S., R. A. McCleery, and M. Galetti. 2017. Optimising sampling methods for small mammal communities in Neotropical rainforests. Mammal Review 47:148–158. | PDF
• Braun de Torrez, E. C., S. T. Samoray, K. A. Silas, M. A. Wallrichs, M. W. Gumbert, H. K. Ober, and R. A. Mccleery. 2017. Acoustic lure allows for capture of a high‐flying, endangered bat. Wildlife Society Bulletin 41:322–328. | PDF
• Braun de Torrez, E. C., M. A. Wallrichs, H. K. Ober, and R. A. McCleery. 2017. Mobile acoustic transects miss rare bat species: implications of survey method and spatio-temporal sampling for monitoring bats. PeerJ 5:e3940. | PDF
• Darracq, A. K., L. L. Smith, D. H. Oi, L. M. Conner, and R. A. McCleery. 2017. Invasive ants influence native lizard populations. Ecosphere 8:e01657. | PDF
• Faller, C. R., and R. A. McCleery. 2017. Urban land cover decreases the occurrence of a wetland endemic mammal and its associated vegetation. Urban Ecosystems 20:573–580. | PDF
• Greene, D. U., and R. A. McCleery. 2017. Reevaluating fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) population declines in the southeastern United States. Journal of Mammalogy 98:502–512. | PDF
• Greene, D. U., and R. A. McCleery. 2017. Multi-scale responses of fox squirrels to land-use changes in Florida: utilization mimics historic pine savannas. Forest Ecology and Management 391:42–51. Elsevier B.V. | PDF
• Mahlaba, T. A. M., A. Monadjem, R. A. McCleery, and S. R. Belmain. 2017. Domestic cats and dogs create a landscape of fear for pest rodents around rural homesteads. PLoS ONE 12:1–9. | PDF
• Monadjem, A., J. T. Shapiro, F. Mtsetfwa, A. E. Reside, and R. A. Mccleery. 2017. Acoustic call library and detection distances for bats of Swaziland. Acta Chiropterologica 19:175–187. | PDF
• Ober, H. K., E. C. Braun de Torrez, J. A. Gore, A. M. Bailey, J. K. Myers, K. N. Smith, and R. A. McCleery. 2017. Social organization of an endangered subtropical species, Eumops floridanus, the Florida bonneted bat. Mammalia 81:375–383. | PDF
• Ober, H. K., E. C. Braun de Torrez, R. A. McCleery, A. M. Bailey, and J. A. Gore. 2017. Sexual dimorphism in the endangered Florida bonneted bat, Eumops floridanus (Chiroptera: Molossidae). Florida Scientist 38–48. | PDF
• Reichert, B. E., A. R. Sovie, B. J. Udell, K. M. Hart, R. R. Borkhataria, M. Bonneau, R. Reed, and R. McCleery. 2017. Urbanization may limit impacts of an invasive predator on native mammal diversity. Diversity and Distributions 23:355–367. | PDF
• Smith, L. L., J. A. Cox, L. M. Conner, R. A. McCleery, and E. M. Schlimm. 2017. Management and Restoration for Wildlife. Pages 233–252 in. Ecological Restoration and Management of Longleaf Pine Forests. CRC Press. | PDF not available
• Stanton Jr, R. A., J. T. Shapiro, J. A. Laskowski, and R. M. A. McCleery. 2017. Dynamic figures should be a central feature of scientific articles. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 15:427–428. | PDF
• Tye, C. A., R. A. McCleery, R. J. Fletcher Jr, D. U. Greene, and R. S. Butryn. 2017. Evaluating citizen vs. professional data for modelling distributions of a rare squirrel. Journal of Applied Ecology 54:628–637. | PDF
2016
• Bailey, K. M., R. A. McCleery, M. W. Binford, and C. Zweig. 2016. Land-cover change within and around protected areas in a biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Land Use Science 11:154–176. | PDF
• Braun de Torrez, E. C., H. K. Ober, and R. A. McCleery. 2016. Use of a multi-tactic approach to locate an endangered Florida bonneted bat roost. Southeastern Naturalist 15:235–242. | PDF
• Darracq, A. K., W. W. Boone IV, and R. A. McCleery. 2016. Burn regime matters: a review of the effects of prescribed fire on vertebrates in the longleaf pine ecosystem. Forest Ecology and Management 378:214–221. | PDF
• Darracq, A. K., L. M. Conner, J. S. Brown, and R. A. McCleery. 2016. Cotton rats alter foraging in response to an invasive ant. PLoS ONE 11:1–10. | PDF
• Fletcher, R. J., R. A. McCleery, D. U. Greene, and C. A. Tye. 2016. Integrated models that unite local and regional data reveal larger-scale environmental relationships and improve predictions of species distributions. Landscape Ecology 31:1369–1382. Springer Netherlands. | PDF
• Greene, D. U., R. A. McCleery, L. M. Wagner, and E. P. Garrison. 2016. A comparison of four survey methods for detecting fox squirrels in the southeastern United States. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 7:99–106. | PDF
• Kuehn, M. J., B. D. Peer, R. A. McCleery, and S. I. Rothstein. 2016. Yellow warbler defenses are retained in the absence of brood parasitism but enhanced by experience with cowbirds. Behavioral ecology 27:279–286. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., and C. L. Zweig. 2016. Leveraging limited information to understand ecological relationships of endangered Florida salt marsh vole. Journal of Mammalogy 97:1249–1255. | PDF
• Sovie, A. R., R. A. McCleery, R. J. Fletcher, and K. M. Hart. 2016. Invasive pythons, not anthropogenic stressors, explain the distribution of a keystone species. Biological Invasions 18:3309–3318. | PDF
2015
• Bainum III, M., K. E. Sieving, R. McCleery, and D. Wald. 2015. Demonstrating camera trap techniques and their application for identifying feral cats across a college campus. J. Undergraduate Res. 16:1–5. | PDF
• Long, A. K., L. M. Conner, L. L. Smith, and R. A. McCleery. 2015. Effects of an invasive ant and native predators on cotton rat recruitment and survival. Journal of Mammalogy 96:1135–1141. | PDF
• Long, A. K., D. D. Knapp, L. Mccullough, L. L. Smith, L. M. Conner, and R. A. McCleery. 2015. Southern toads alter their behavior in response to red-imported fire ants. Biological invasions 17:2179–2186. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A. 2015. Teaching wildlife techniques to millennials with a flipped classroom. Wildlife Society Bulletin 39:822–826. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., A. R. Holdorf, L. L. Hubbard, and B. D. Peer. 2015. Maximizing the wildlife conservation value of road right-of-ways in an agriculturally dominated landscape. PloS one 10:1–19. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., A. Sovie, R. N. Reed, M. W. Cunningham, M. E. Hunter, and K. M. Hart. 2015. Marsh rabbit mortalities tie pythons to the precipitous decline of mammals in the Everglades. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282:20150120. | PDF
• Monadjem, A., R. A. McCleery, and B. Collier. 2015. Patterns of survival and roost switching in an African insectivorous bat. Journal of Zoology 296:15–22. | PDF
• Tye, C. A., D. U. Greene, W. M. Giuliano, and R. A. Mccleery. 2015. Using camera‐trap photographs to identify individual fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) in the Southeastern United States. Wildlife Society Bulletin 39:645–650. | PDF
2014
• Austin, J. D., E. V Saarinen, A. Arias-Pérez, R. A. McCleery, and R. H. Lyons. 2014. Twenty-one novel microsatellite loci for the endangered Florida salt marsh vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus dukecampbelli). Conservation Genetics Resources 6:637–639. | PDF
• Hurst, Z. M., R. A. McCleery, B. A. Collier, N. J. Silvy, P. J. Taylor, and A. Monadjem. 2014. Linking changes in small mammal communities to ecosystem functions in an agricultural landscape. Mammalian Biology 79:17–23. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., C. L. Zweig, M. A. Desa, R. Hunt, W. M. Kitchens, and H. F. Percival. 2014. A novel method for camera‐trapping small mammals. Wildlife Society Bulletin 38:887–891. | PDF
• McCleery, R., J. A. Hostetler, and M. K. Oli. 2014. Better off in the wild? Evaluating a captive breeding and release program for the recovery of an endangered rodent. Biological Conservation 169:198–205. | PDF
• Reed, J. E., R. A. McCleery, N. J. Silvy, F. E. Smeins, and D. J. Brightsmith. 2014. Monk parakeet nest-site selection of electric utility structures in Texas. Landscape and Urban Planning 129:65–72. | PDF
2013
• Hurst, Z. M., R. A. McCleery, B. A. Collier, R. J. Fletcher Jr, N. J. Silvy, P. J. Taylor, and A. Monadjem. 2013. Dynamic edge effects in small mammal communities across a conservation-agricultural interface in Swaziland. PLoS One 8. | PDF
• Johnson, L. J. A. N., A. N. Miller, R. A. McCleery, R. McClanahan, J. A. Kath, S. Lueschow, and A. Porras-Alfaro. 2013. Psychrophilic and psychrotolerant fungi on bats and the presence of Geomyces spp. on bat wings prior to the arrival of white nose syndrome. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 79:5465–5471. | PDF
• Long, A. K., K. M. Bailey, D. U. Greene, C. Tye, C. Parr, H. K. Lepage, K. H. Gielow, A. Monadjem, and R. A. McCleery. 2013. Multi‐scale habitat selection of Mus minutoides in the Lowveld of Swaziland. African Journal of Ecology 51:493–500. | PDF
• McCleery, R., M. K. Oli, J. A. Hostetler, B. Karmacharya, D. Greene, C. Winchester, J. Gore, S. Sneckenberger, S. B. Castleberry, and M. T. Mengak. 2013. Are declines of an endangered mammal predation‐driven, and can a captive‐breeding and release program aid their recovery? Journal of Zoology 291:59–68. | PDF
• Monadjem, A., R. A. McCleery, and B. A. Collier. 2013. Activity and movement patterns of the tortoise Stigmochelys pardalis in a subtropical savanna. Journal of Herpetology 47:237–242. | PDF
2012
• Morgan, T. C., R. A. McCleery, M. P. Moulton, and A. Monadjem. 2012. Are Southern Black Flycatchers Melaenornis pammelaina associated with Fork-tailed Drongos Dicrurus adsimilis? Ostrich 83:109–111. | PDF
• Schmidt, J. A., R. McCleery, J. R. Seavey, S. E. Cameron Devitt, and P. M. Schmidt. 2012. Impacts of a half century of sea‐level rise and development on an endangered mammal. Global Change Biology 18:3536–3542. | PDF
2011
• Collier, B. A., R. A. McCleery, K. W. Calhoun, K. G. Roques, and A. Monadjem. 2011. Detection probabilities of ungulates in the eastern Swaziland lowveld. African Journal of Wildlife Research 41:61–67. | PDF
• Licona, M., R. McCleery, B. Collier, D. J. Brightsmith, and R. Lopez. 2011. Using ungulate occurrence to evaluate community‐based conservation within a biosphere reserve model. Animal Conservation 14:206–214. | PDF
• Lyons, E. K., R. S. Jones, J. P. Leonard, B. E. Toole, R. A. McCleery, R. R. Lopez, M. J. Peterson, S. J. DeMaso, and N. J. Silvy. 2011. Regional variation in nesting success of Lesser Prairie-Chickens. Studies in Avian Biology 39:223–231. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., and I. D. Parker. 2011. Influence of the urban environment on fox squirrel range overlap. Journal of Zoology 285:239–246. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., C. E. Moorman, M. C. Wallace, and D. Drake. 2011. Managing Urban Environments for Wildlife. N. J. Silvy, editor. The Wildlife Techniques Manual: Management volume 2. Seventh edition. Johns Hopkins Press. | PDF not available
• Schmidt, J. A., R. A. McCleery, P. M. Schmidt, N. J. Silvy, and R. R. Lopez. 2011. Population estimation and monitoring of an endangered lagomorph. The Journal of Wildlife Management 75:151–158. | PDF
• Schmidt, P. M., R. A. McCleery, R. R. Lopez, N. J. Silvy, J. A. Schmidt, and N. D. Perry. 2011. Influence of patch, habitat, and landscape characteristics on patterns of Lower Keys marsh rabbit occurrence following Hurricane Wilma. Landscape ecology 26:1419–1431. | PDF
2010
• McCleery, R. 2010. Urban Mammals. Pages 87–102 in J. Aitkenhead-Peterson and A. Volder, editors. Urban Ecosystem Ecology. American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A. 2010. The Biology of Small Mammals. Journal of Wildlife Management 74:1934. | PDF
• Monadjem, A., T. Raabe, B. Dickerson, N. Silvy, and R. McCleery. 2010. Roost use by two sympatric species of Scotophilus in a natural environment. African Journal of Wildlife Research 40:73–76. | PDF
• Peer, B. D., S. I. Rothstein, and R. A. McCleery. 2010. Intraclutch variation in egg appearance constrains rejection of Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) eggs in Common Grackles (Quiscalus quiscula). The Auk 127:759–764. | PDF
• Schmidt, P. M., R. A. McCleery, R. R. Lopez, N. J. Silvy, and J. A. Schmidt. 2010. Habitat succession, hardwood encroachment and raccoons as limiting factors for Lower Keys marsh rabbits. Biological Conservation 143:2703–2710. | PDF
2009
• Crouse, A. L., R. L. Honeycutt, R. A. McCleery, C. A. Faulhaber, N. D. Perry, and R. R. Lopez. 2009. Population structure of the Lower Keys marsh rabbit as determined by mitochondrial DNA analysis. The Journal of Wildlife Management 73:362–367. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A. 2009. Changes in fox squirrel anti-predator behaviors across the urban–rural gradient. Landscape Ecology 24:483. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A. 2009. Improving attitudinal frameworks to predict behaviors in human–wildlife conflicts. Society and natural Resources 22:353–368. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A. 2009. Reproduction, juvenile survival and retention in an urban fox squirrel population. Urban ecosystems 12:177. | PDF
2008
• Dixon, T. P., R. R. Lopez, M. J. Peterson, R. A. McCleery, and N. J. Silvy. 2008. Field-level spatial factors, associated edges, and dickcissel nesting ecology on reclaimed lands in Texas. Landscape and urban planning 86:60–65. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., R. R. Lopez, N. J. Silvy, and D. L. Gallant. 2008. Fox Squirrel Survival in Urban and Rural Environments. The Journal of Wildlife Management 72:133–137. | PDF
• Muñoz, A. M., R. A. McCleery, R. R. Lopez, and N. J. Silvy. 2008. Nesting ecology of mourning doves in an urban landscape. Urban ecosystems 11:257–267. | PDF
• Parker, I. D., D. E. Watts, R. R. Lopez, N. J. Silvy, D. S. Davis, R. A. McCleery, and P. A. Frank. 2008. Evaluation of the efficacy of Florida Key deer translocations. The Journal of Wildlife Management 72:1069–1075. | PDF
• Parker, I. D., D. E. Watts, R. A. McCleery, R. R. Lopez, N. J. Silvy, and D. S. Davis. 2008. Digital versus film-based remote camera systems in the Florida Keys. Wildlife Biology in Practice 4:1–7. | PDF
2007
• McCleery, R. A., R. R. Lopez, and N. J. Silvy. 2007. Transferring research to endangered species management. The Journal of Wildlife Management 71:2134–2141. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., R. R. Lopez, N. J. Silvy, and S. N. Kahlick. 2007. Habitat Use of Fox Squirrels in an Urban Environment. The Journal of Wildlife Management 71:1149–1157. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., R. R. Lopez, and N. J. Silvy. 2007. An improved method for handling squirrels and similar-size mammals. Wildlife Biology in Practice 3:39–42. | PDF
• Lopez, R. R., K. B. Hays, M. W. Wagner, S. L. Locke, R. A. McCleery, and N. J. Silvy. 2006. From the field: integrating land conservation planning in the classroom. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34:223–228. | PDF
2006
• McCleery, R. A., R. R. Lopez, and N. J. Silvy. 2006. Movements and habitat use of the Key Largo woodrat. Southeastern Naturalist 5:725–736. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., R. B. Ditton, J. Sell, and R. R. Lopez. 2006. From the Field: Understanding and Improving Attitudinal Research in Wildlife Sciences. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34:537–541. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., R. R. Lopez, N. J. Silvy, P. A. Frank, and S. B. Klett. 2006. Population status and habitat selection of the endangered Key Largo woodrat. The American midland naturalist 155:197–209. | PDF
2005
• McCleery, R. A., G. W. Foster, R. R. Lopez, M. J. Peterson, D. J. Forrester, and N. J. Silvy. 2005. Survey of raccoons on Key Largo, Florida, USA, for Baylisascaris procyonis. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 41:250–252. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., R. R. Lopez, L. A. Harveson, N. J. Silvy, and R. D. Slack. 2005. Integrating on‐campus wildlife research projects into the wildlife curriculum. Wildlife Society Bulletin 33:802–809. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., R. R. Lopez, N. J. Silvy, and W. E. Grant. 2005. Effectiveness of supplemental stockings for the endangered Key Largo woodrat. Biological Conservation 124:27–33. | PDF
2004
• Foster, G. W., R. A. McCleery, and D. J. Forrester. 2004. Intestinal coccidia of raccoons (Procyon lotor) from Key Largo, Florida, USA. Comparative parasitology 71:175–177. | PDF
• Boone, W. W., B. A. Bankovich, B. E. Reichert, M. B. Watson, and R. A. McCleery. 2024. Frequent prescribed burns reduce mammalian species richness and occurrence in longleaf pine sandhills. Forest Ecology and Management 553:121596 | PDF
2023
• Boone IV, W. W., and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Climate change likely to increase co-occurrence of island endemic and invasive wildlife. Climate Change Ecology 4:100061 | PDF
• Fletcher, R. J., A. O’Brien, T. F. Hall, M. Jones, A. D. Potash, L. Kruger, P. Simelane, K. Roques, A. Monadjem, and R. A.
McCleery. 2023. Frightened of giants: fear responses to elephants approach that of predators. Biology Letters 19:20230202 | PDF
• Guzy, J. C., B. G. Falk, B. J. Smith, J. D. Willson, R. N. Reed, N. G. Aumen, M. L. Avery, I. A. Bartoszek, E. Campbell, and M. S.
Cherkiss. 2023. Burmese pythons in Florida: A synthesis of biology, impacts, and management tools. NeoBiota 80:1–119 | PDF
• Hardeman Jr, D. W., H. B. Vander Zanden, J. W. McCown, B. K. Scheick, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Black Bear Behavior and Movements Are Not Definitive Measures of Anthropogenic Food Use. Animals 13:950 | PDF
• Hooker, K. R., L. M. Conner, S. B. Jack, G. Morris, W. E. Palmer, B. T. Rutledge, D. C. Sisson, T. M. Terhune, S. D. Wellendorf, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Trophic interactions between primary consumers appear to weaken during periods of synchrony. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11:1159464 | PDF
• McCampbell, M. E., M. E. Hunter, J. V. Stechly, K. N. Leist, K. Hart, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Compensatory mortality explains rodent resilience to an invasive predator. Journal of Mammalogy 967–978 | PDF
• McCleery, R., R. Guralnick, M. Beatty, M. Belitz, C. J. Campbell, J. Idec, M. Jones, Y. Kang, A. Potash, and R. J. Fletcher. 2023. Uniting Experiments and Big Data to advance ecology and conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 38:970–979 | PDF
• McDonald, B. W., C. Baruzzi, R. A. McCleery, M. V. Cove, and M. A. Lashley. 2023. Simulated extreme climate event alters a plant-frugivore mutualism. Forest Ecology and Management 545:121294 | PDF
• Mtsetfwa, F. P., L. Kruger, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Climate change decouples dominant tree species in African savannas. Scientific Reports 13:7619 | PDF
• Parsons, E. I., R. A. Gitzen, J. T. Pynne, L. M. Conner, S. B. Castleberry, S. I. Duncan, J. D. Austin, and R. A. McCleery. 2022. Determining habitat requirements for the southeastern pocket gopher (Geomys pinetis) at multiple scales. Journal of Mammalogy 103:672–679 | PDF
• Potash, A. D., L. M. Conner, M. Clinchy, L. Y. Zanette, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Prey species increase activity in refugia free of terrestrial predators. Oecologia 201:661–671 | PDF
• Puhlick, J. J., T. L. O’Halloran, G. Starr, R. B. Abney, L. S. Pile Knapp, R. A. McCleery, K. D. Klepzig, S. T. Brantley, R. K. McIntyre, and B. Song. 2023. Opportunities for Research on Carbon Management in Longleaf Pine Ecosystems. Forests 14:874 | PDF
• Pynne, J. T., L. M. Conner, S. B. Castleberry, E. I. Parsons, R. A. Gitzen, S. I. Duncan, J. D. Austin, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Experimental translocation for restoration of an ecosystem engineer. Restoration Ecology 31:e13888 | PDF
• Sovie, A. R., L. M. Conner, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. At a fine scale, hardwood patches support wildlife diversity in longleaf pine woodlands. Wildlife Letters 1:71–78 | PDF
• Taillie, P. J., J. Hartfelder, A. Potash, D. Pienaar, C. Greaver, P. Viljoen, R. J. Fletcher, S. Ferreira, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Hippos alter their aggregations to mitigate density‐dependent drought effects. Austral Ecology 48:969–982 | PDF
• Taillie, P. J., S. Sneckenberger, N. Perry, C. Anderson, K. Kalasz, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Sea level rise adaptation pushes an insular endemic rodent closer to extinction. Biodiversity and Conservation 32:3939–3952 | PDF
2022
• Bailey, K. M., K. R. Hooker, A. A. Loggins, A. D. Potash, D. W. Hardeman, and R. A. McCleery. 2022. It pays to get paid: Factors influencing wildlife‐related employment success. Wildlife Society Bulletin 46:e1252 | PDF
• Boone IV, W. W., A. A. Albrecht, J. R. Conrad, C. J. Lechowicz, E. C. Hellgren, and R. A. McCleery. 2022. Shrub encroachment threatens persistence of an endemic insular wetland rodent. Journal of Mammalogy 103:1182–1193 | PDF
• Darracq, A. K., S. J. Hromada, L. Neighbors, L. L. Smith, L. M. Conner, and R. A. McCleery. 2022. Reducing Populations of an Invasive Ant Influences Survival, Growth, and Diet of Southern Toads (Anaxyrus terrestris). Journal of Herpetology 56:84–91 | PDF
• Jones, M. M., R. Fletcher Jr, L. Kruger, A. Monadjem, P. Simelane, and R. McCleery. 2022. Drought limits large trees in African savannas with or without elephants. Austral Ecology 47:1668–1684 | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., Z. N. Nhleko, R. M. Arhens, and S. M. Ferreira. 2022. The white rhino can again be a conservation success. Animal Conservation 25:168–169 | PDF
• McKee, R. K., K. A. Buhlmann, C. T. Moore, M. C. Allender, N. I. Stacy, and T. D. Tuberville. 2022. Island of misfit tortoises: waif gopher tortoise health assessment following translocation. Conservation Physiology 10:coac051 | PDF
• Nhleko, Z. N., R. Ahrens, S. M. Ferreira, and R. A. McCleery. 2022. Poaching is directly and indirectly driving the decline of South Africa’s large population of white rhinos. Animal Conservation 25:151–163 | PDF
• Nhleko, Z. N., A. Ganswindt, S. M. Ferreira, and R. A. McCleery. 2022. Spatial constraints and seasonal conditions but not poaching pressure are linked with elevated faecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations in white rhino. Wildlife Research 50:292–300 | PDF
• Nhleko, Z. N., A. M. Shrader, S. M. Ferreira, and R. A. McCleery. 2022. White rhinos and other herbivores decrease visitations and increase vigilance in response to human vocalizations. Journal of Mammalogy 103:1364–1372 | PDF
2021
• Burkett-Cadena, N. D., E. M. Blosser, A. A. Loggins, M. C. Valente, M. T. Long, L. P. Campbell, L. E. Reeves, I. Bargielowski, and R. A. McCleery. 2021. Invasive Burmese pythons alter host use and virus infection in the vector of a zoonotic virus. Communications Biology 4:1–11. | PDF
• Epperly, H. K., M. Clinchy, L. Y. Zanette, and R. A. McCeery. 2021. Fear of large carnivores is tied to ungulate habitat use: evidence from a bifactorial experiment. Scientific Reports 11:12979. | PDF
• Lukhele, S. M., J. T. Shapiro, T. A. M. Mahlaba, M. D. Sibiya, R. A. McCleery, R.J. Fletcher, and A. Monadjem. 2021. Influence of Sugarcane Growth Stages on Bird Diversity and Community Structure in an Agricultural-Savanna Environment. Heliyon 7:e06563 | PDF
• McKee, R. K., K. A. Buhlmann, C. T. Moore, J. Hepinstall‐Cymerman, and T. D. Tuberville. Waif gopher tortoise survival and site fidelity following translocation. The Journal of Wildlife Management, jwmg.21998 | PDF
• Nhleko, Z. N., R. Ahrens, S. M. Ferreira, and R. A. McCleery. 2021. Poaching is directly and indirectly driving the decline of South Africa’s large population of white rhinos. Animal Conservation acv.12720. | PDF
• Pynne, J. T., E. I. Parsons, L. M. Conner, A. Whelan, S. B. Castleberry, R. A. Gitzen, S. I. Duncan, J. D. Austin, and R. A. McCleery. 2021. Southeastern Pocket Gopher (Geomys pinetis) Tunnels Provide Stable Thermal Refugia. The American Midland Naturalist 185:218–228. | PDF
• Simelane, P., J. T. Shapiro, T. A. M. Mahlaba, R. A. McCleery, D. MacFadyen, and A. Monadjem. 2021. The Foraging Ecology of Nguni and Brahman Cattle under Different Management Systems in High-Altitude Grasslands of South Africa. Journal of Rangeland Science | PDF Unavailable
• Smart, L. S., J. Vukomanovic, P. J. Taillie, K. K. Singh, and J. W. Smith. 2021. Quantifying Drivers of Coastal Forest Carbon Decline Highlights Opportunities for Targeted Human Interventions. Land 10:752. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. | PDF
• Sovie, A. R., L. M. Conner, J. S. Brown, and R. A. McCleery. 2021. Increasing woody cover facilitates competitive exclusion of a savanna specialist. Biological Conservation 255:108971. | PDF
• Taillie, P. J., E. C. Braun de Torrez, A. D. Potash, W. W. Boone IV, M. Jones, M. A. Wallrichs, F. Schellenberg, K. Hooker, H. K. Ober, and R. A. McCleery. 2021. Bat activity response to fire regime depends on species, vegetation conditions, and behavior. Forest Ecology and Management 502:119722. | PDF
• Taillie, P. J., K. M. Hart, A. R. Sovie, and R. A. McCleery. 2021. Native mammals lack resilience to invasive generalist predator. Biological Conservation 261:109290. | PDF
• Taillie, P. J., and R. A. McCleery. 2021. Climate relict vulnerable to extinction from multiple climate‐driven threats. Diversity and Distributions ddi.13380 | PDF
• Teman, S. J., N. Stevens, A. Monadjem, R. J. J. Fletcher, J. D. Austin, and R. McCleery. 2021. Savanna Rodents’ Selective Removal of an Encroaching Plant’s Seeds Increased With Grass Biomass. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9 | PDF
• Tuberville, T. D., R. K. McKee, H. E. Gaya, and T. M. Norton. 2020. Survival of Immature Gopher Tortoises Recruited into a Translocated Population. The Journal of Wildlife Management jwmg.21933 | PDF
2020
• Braun de Torrez, E. C., C. F. Frock, W. W. Boone, A. R. Sovie, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Seasick: Why Value Ecosystems Severely Threatened by Sea-Level Rise? Estuaries and Coasts. Estuaries and Coasts. | PDF
• Duncan, S. I., J. T. Pynne, E. I. Parsons, R. J. Fletcher Jr, J. D. Austin, S. B. Castleberry, L. M. Conner, R. A. Gitzen, M. Barbour, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Land use and cover effects on an ecosystem engineer. Forest Ecology and Management 456:117642. | PDF
• Ganser, C., A. Monadjem, R. A. McCleery, T. Ndlela, and S. M. Wisely. 2020. Is it best on the nest? Effects of avian life-history on haemosporidian parasitism. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 13:62–71. | PDF
• Greene, D. U., and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Incubation of a foreign object by a Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) in Florida. The Wilson Journal of Onithology 132. | PDF
• Hartfelder, J., C. Reynolds, R. A. Stanton, M. Sibiya, A. Monadjem, R. A. McCleery, and R. J. Fletcher. 2020. The allometry of movement predicts the connectivity of communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 202001614. | PDF
• Lashley, M., and R. McCleery. 2020. Intensive Laboratory experiences to safely retain experiential learning in the transition to online learning. Ecology and Evolution 10:12613–12619. | PDF
• Lueschow, S. R., L. J. A. N. Johnson, T. F. Williams, R. McCleery, and A. Porras-Alfaro. 2020. Opportunistic Pseudogymnoascus and Geomyces species isolated from humans and bats. SYDOWIA 71:25–33. | PDF not available
• McCleery, R. A., R. J. Fletcher, L. M. Kruger, D. Govender, and S. M. Ferreira. 2020. Conservation needs a COVID-19 bailout. Science 369:515.2-516. | PDF
• Potash, A. D., D. U. Greene, G. A. Foursa, V. L. Mathis, L. M. Conner, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. A comparison of animal color measurements using a commercially available digital color sensor and photograph analysis. Current Zoology. | PDF
• Potash, A. D., D. U. Greene, V. L. Mathis, B. Baiser, L. M. Conner, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Ecological Drivers of Eastern Fox Squirrel Pelage Polymorphism. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:1–9. | PDF
• Potash, A. D., C. M. Murphy, J. T. T. Pynne, R. A. McCleery, L. M. Conner, S. B. Castleberry, and L. L. Smith. 2020. Eastern Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) Observed Using a Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) Burrow. Southeastern Naturalist 19:N14–N19. | PDF
• Shapiro, J. T., A. Monadjem, T. Röder, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Response of bat activity to land cover and land use in savannas is scale-, season-, and guild-specific. Biological Conservation 241:108245. | PDF
• Shapiro, J. T., A. R. Sovie, C. R. Faller, A. Monadjem, R. J. Fletcher, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Ebola spillover correlates with bat diversity. European Journal of Wildlife Research 66:1–12. | PDF
• Smart, L. S., P. J. Taillie, B. Poulter, J. Vukomanovic, K. K. Singh, J. J. Swenson, H. Mitasova, J. W. Smith, and R. K. Meentemeyer. 2020. Aboveground carbon loss associated with the spread of ghost forests as sea levels rise. Environmental Research Letters 15:104028. | PDF
• Soto-Shoender, J. R., D. C. Gwinn, A. Sovie, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Life-history traits moderate the susceptibility of native mammals to an invasive predator. Biological Invasions 6. | PDF
• Sovie, A. R., D. U. Greene, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Woody Cover Mediates Fox and Gray Squirrel Interactions. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:1–10. | PDF
• Stanton, R. A., R. J. Fletcher, M. Sibiya, A. Monadjem, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. The effects of shrub encroachment on bird occupancy vary with land use in an African savanna. Animal Conservation acv.12620. | PDF
• Taillie, P. J., S. R. Jolly, L. R. Bobay, S. Sneckenberger, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Habitat use across multiple scales suggests resilience to rising seas for endangered island endemic compared to sympatric invasive species. Animal Conservation. | PDF
• Taillie, P. J., R. Roman-Cuesta, D. Lagomasino, M. Cifuentes-Jara, T. Fatoyinbo, L. E. Ott, and B. Poulter. 2020. Widespread mangrove damage resulting from the 2017 Atlantic mega hurricane season. Environmental Research Letters 15:064010. | PDF
2019
• Bailey, A. M., H. K. Ober, B. E. Reichert, and R. A. McCleery. 2019. Canopy cover shapes bat diversity across an urban and agricultural landscape mosaic. Environmental Conservation 46:193–200. | PDF
• Bailey, K. M., R. A. McCleery, G. Barnes, and S. L. McKune. 2019. Climate-Driven Adaptation, Household Capital, and Nutritional Outcomes among Farmers in Eswatini. International journal of environmental research and public health 16:4063. | PDF
• Bailey, K. M., R. A. McCleery, and G. Barnes. 2019. The role of capital in drought adaptation among rural communities in Eswatini. Ecology and Society 24. | PDF
• Bonzi, V. R., C. M. Carneiro, S. M. Wisely, A. Monadjem, R. A. McCleery, B. Gumbi, and J. D. Austin. 2019. Comparative spatial genetic structure of two rodent species in an agro-ecological landscape in southern Africa. Mammalian Biology 97:64–71. | PDF
• Bovendorp, R. S., F. T. Brum, R. A. McCleery, B. Baiser, R. Loyola, M. V Cianciaruso, and M. Galetti. 2019. Defaunation and fragmentation erode small mammal diversity dimensions in tropical forests. Ecography 42:23–35. | PDF
• Fletcher Jr, R. J., T. J. Hefley, E. P. Robertson, B. Zuckerberg, R. A. McCleery, and R. M. Dorazio. 2019. A practical guide for combining data to model species distributions. Ecology 100:e02710. | PDF
• Hallett, M. T., A. A. Kinahan, R. McGregor, T. Baggallay, T. Babb, H. Barnabus, A. Wilson, F. M. Li, W. W. Boone IV, and B. A. Bankovich. 2019. Impact of Low-Intensity Hunting on Game Species in and Around the Kanuku Mountains Protected Area, Guyana. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:1–17. | PDF
• Loggins, A. A., A. Monadjem, L. M. Kruger, B. E. Reichert, and R. A. McCleery. 2019. Vegetation structure shapes small mammal communities in African savannas. Journal of Mammalogy 100:1243–1252. | PDF
• Loggins, A. A., A. M. Shrader, A. Monadjem, and R. A. McCleery. 2019. Shrub cover homogenizes small mammals’ activity and perceived predation risk. Scientific Reports 9:1–11. | PDF
• Mamba, M., N. J. Fasel, A. M. Themb’alilahlwa, J. D. Austin, R. A. McCleery, and A. Monadjem. 2019. Influence of sugarcane plantations on the population dynamics and community structure of small mammals in a savanna-agricultural landscape. Global Ecology and Conservation 20:e00752. | PDF
• Moore, N. B., S. I. Duncan, E. I. Parsons, J. T. Pynne, J. D. Austin, L. M. Conner, S. B. Castleberry, R. A. Gitzen, and R. A. McCleery. 2019. A new live trap for pocket gophers. Wildlife Society Bulletin 43:178–181. | PDF
• Potash, A. D., L. M. Conner, and R. A. McCleery. 2019. Vertical and horizontal vegetation cover synergistically shape prey behaviour. Animal Behaviour 152:39–44. | PDF
• Pynne, J. T., S. B. Castleberry, L. M. Conner, E. I. Parsons, R. A. Gitzen, J. D. Austin, S. I. Duncan, and R. A. McCleery. 2019. Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) Predation on a Southeastern Pocket Gopher (Geomys pinetis). Southeastern Naturalist 18. | PDF
• Sovie, A. R., D. U. Greene, C. F. Frock, A. D. Potash, and R. A. McCleery. 2019. Ephemeral temporal partitioning may facilitate coexistence in competing species. Animal Behaviour 150:87–96. | PDF
2018
• Austin, J. D., D. U. Greene, R. L. Honeycutt, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. Genetic evidence indicates ecological divergence rather than geographic barriers structure Florida fox squirrels. Journal of Mammalogy 99:1–14. | PDF
• Austin, J. D., S. Moore, R. A. McCleery, J. Colton, T. Finberg, and A. Monadjem. 2018. Conservation genetics of an isolated giraffe population in Swaziland. African Journal of Ecology 56:140–145. | PDF
• Braun de Torrez, E. C., H. K. Ober, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. Critically imperiled forest fragment supports bat diversity and activity within a subtropical grassland. Journal of Mammalogy 99:273–282. | PDF
• Braun de Torrez, E. C., H. K. Ober, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. Activity of an endangered bat increases immediately following prescribed fire. Journal of Wildlife Management 82:1115–1123. | PDF
• Braun de Torrez, E. C., H. K. Ober, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. Restoring historical fire regimes increases activity of endangered bats. Fire Ecology 14:9. Fire Ecology. | PDF
• Gumbi, B. C., J. T. Shapiro, T. Mahlaba, R. McCleery, D. MacFadyen, and A. Monadjem. 2018. Assessing the impacts of domesticated versus wild ungulates on terrestrial small mammal assemblages at Telperion Nature Reserve, South Africa. African Zoology 53:23–29. | PDF
• Ke, A., M. D. Sibiya, C. Reynolds, R. A. McCleery, A. Monadjem, and R. J. Fletcher. 2018. Landscape heterogeneity shapes taxonomic diversity of non-breeding birds across fragmented savanna landscapes. Biodiversity and Conservation 27:2681–2698. | PDF
• LaScaleia, M. C., C. Reynolds, C. N. Magagula, F. Roets, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. Dung beetle richness decreases with increasing landscape structural heterogeneity in an African savanna‐agricultural mosaic. Insect Conservation and Diversity 11:396–406. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., A. Monadjem, B. Baiser, R. Fletcher, K. Vickers, L. Kruger, R. Fletcher Jr, K. Vickers, and L. Kruger. 2018. Animal diversity declines with broad-scale homogenization of canopy cover in African savannas. Biological Conservation 226:54–62. | PDF
• Monadjem, A., J. Decher, W.-Y. Crawley, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. The conservation status of a poorly known range-restricted mammal, the Nimba otter-shrew Micropotamogale lamottei. Mammalia 83:1–10. | PDF
• Mtsetfwa, F., R. A. McCleery, and A. Monadjem. 2018. Changes in bat community composition and activity patterns across a conservation-agriculture boundary. African Zoology 53:99–106. | PDF
• Peer, B. D., R. A. McCleery, and W. E. Jensen. 2018. Resistance is futile: prohibitive costs of egg ejection in an obligate avian brood parasite host. Animal Behaviour 144:45–51. | PDF
• Potash, A. D., L. M. Conner, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. Extreme Movements of an Individual Male Fox Squirrel. Southeastern Naturalist 17:N40–N43. | PDF
• Reynolds, C., R. J. Fletcher, C. M. Carneiro, N. Jennings, A. Ke, M. C. LaScaleia, M. B. Lukhele, M. L. Mamba, M. D. Sibiya, and J. D. Austin. 2018. Inconsistent effects of landscape heterogeneity and land-use on animal diversity in an agricultural mosaic: a multi-scale and multi-taxon investigation. Landscape Ecology 33:241–255. | PDF
• Roques, K. G., S. K. Jacobson, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. Assessing contributions of volunteer tourism to ecosystem research and conservation in southern Africa. Ecosystem Services 30:382–390. | PDF
• Soto-Shoender, J. R., R. A. McCleery, A. Monadjem, and D. C. Gwinn. 2018. The importance of grass cover for mammalian diversity and habitat associations in a bush encroached savanna. Biological Conservation 221:127–136. | PDF
• Stanton, R. A., W. W. Boone IV, J. Soto-Shoender, R. J. Fletcher, N. Blaum, and R. A. McCleery. 2018. Shrub encroachment and vertebrate diversity: A global meta-analysis. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27:368–379. | PDF
2017
• Bailey, A. M., R. A. McCleery, H. K. Ober, and W. E. Pine. 2017. First demographic estimates for endangered Florida bonneted bats suggest year-round recruitment and low apparent survival. Journal of Mammalogy 98:551–559. | PDF
• Bailey, A. M., H. K. Ober, A. R. Sovie, and R. A. McCleery. 2017. Impact of land use and climate on the distribution of the endangered Florida bonneted bat. Journal of Mammalogy 98:1586–1593. | PDF
• Boone IV, W. W., R. A. McCleery, and B. E. Reichert. 2017. Fox squirrel response to forest restoration treatments in longleaf pine. Journal of Mammalogy 98:1594–1603. | PDF
• Bovendorp, R. S., R. A. McCleery, and M. Galetti. 2017. Optimising sampling methods for small mammal communities in Neotropical rainforests. Mammal Review 47:148–158. | PDF
• Braun de Torrez, E. C., S. T. Samoray, K. A. Silas, M. A. Wallrichs, M. W. Gumbert, H. K. Ober, and R. A. Mccleery. 2017. Acoustic lure allows for capture of a high‐flying, endangered bat. Wildlife Society Bulletin 41:322–328. | PDF
• Braun de Torrez, E. C., M. A. Wallrichs, H. K. Ober, and R. A. McCleery. 2017. Mobile acoustic transects miss rare bat species: implications of survey method and spatio-temporal sampling for monitoring bats. PeerJ 5:e3940. | PDF
• Darracq, A. K., L. L. Smith, D. H. Oi, L. M. Conner, and R. A. McCleery. 2017. Invasive ants influence native lizard populations. Ecosphere 8:e01657. | PDF
• Faller, C. R., and R. A. McCleery. 2017. Urban land cover decreases the occurrence of a wetland endemic mammal and its associated vegetation. Urban Ecosystems 20:573–580. | PDF
• Greene, D. U., and R. A. McCleery. 2017. Reevaluating fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) population declines in the southeastern United States. Journal of Mammalogy 98:502–512. | PDF
• Greene, D. U., and R. A. McCleery. 2017. Multi-scale responses of fox squirrels to land-use changes in Florida: utilization mimics historic pine savannas. Forest Ecology and Management 391:42–51. Elsevier B.V. | PDF
• Mahlaba, T. A. M., A. Monadjem, R. A. McCleery, and S. R. Belmain. 2017. Domestic cats and dogs create a landscape of fear for pest rodents around rural homesteads. PLoS ONE 12:1–9. | PDF
• Monadjem, A., J. T. Shapiro, F. Mtsetfwa, A. E. Reside, and R. A. Mccleery. 2017. Acoustic call library and detection distances for bats of Swaziland. Acta Chiropterologica 19:175–187. | PDF
• Ober, H. K., E. C. Braun de Torrez, J. A. Gore, A. M. Bailey, J. K. Myers, K. N. Smith, and R. A. McCleery. 2017. Social organization of an endangered subtropical species, Eumops floridanus, the Florida bonneted bat. Mammalia 81:375–383. | PDF
• Ober, H. K., E. C. Braun de Torrez, R. A. McCleery, A. M. Bailey, and J. A. Gore. 2017. Sexual dimorphism in the endangered Florida bonneted bat, Eumops floridanus (Chiroptera: Molossidae). Florida Scientist 38–48. | PDF
• Reichert, B. E., A. R. Sovie, B. J. Udell, K. M. Hart, R. R. Borkhataria, M. Bonneau, R. Reed, and R. McCleery. 2017. Urbanization may limit impacts of an invasive predator on native mammal diversity. Diversity and Distributions 23:355–367. | PDF
• Smith, L. L., J. A. Cox, L. M. Conner, R. A. McCleery, and E. M. Schlimm. 2017. Management and Restoration for Wildlife. Pages 233–252 in. Ecological Restoration and Management of Longleaf Pine Forests. CRC Press. | PDF not available
• Stanton Jr, R. A., J. T. Shapiro, J. A. Laskowski, and R. M. A. McCleery. 2017. Dynamic figures should be a central feature of scientific articles. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 15:427–428. | PDF
• Tye, C. A., R. A. McCleery, R. J. Fletcher Jr, D. U. Greene, and R. S. Butryn. 2017. Evaluating citizen vs. professional data for modelling distributions of a rare squirrel. Journal of Applied Ecology 54:628–637. | PDF
2016
• Bailey, K. M., R. A. McCleery, M. W. Binford, and C. Zweig. 2016. Land-cover change within and around protected areas in a biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Land Use Science 11:154–176. | PDF
• Braun de Torrez, E. C., H. K. Ober, and R. A. McCleery. 2016. Use of a multi-tactic approach to locate an endangered Florida bonneted bat roost. Southeastern Naturalist 15:235–242. | PDF
• Darracq, A. K., W. W. Boone IV, and R. A. McCleery. 2016. Burn regime matters: a review of the effects of prescribed fire on vertebrates in the longleaf pine ecosystem. Forest Ecology and Management 378:214–221. | PDF
• Darracq, A. K., L. M. Conner, J. S. Brown, and R. A. McCleery. 2016. Cotton rats alter foraging in response to an invasive ant. PLoS ONE 11:1–10. | PDF
• Fletcher, R. J., R. A. McCleery, D. U. Greene, and C. A. Tye. 2016. Integrated models that unite local and regional data reveal larger-scale environmental relationships and improve predictions of species distributions. Landscape Ecology 31:1369–1382. Springer Netherlands. | PDF
• Greene, D. U., R. A. McCleery, L. M. Wagner, and E. P. Garrison. 2016. A comparison of four survey methods for detecting fox squirrels in the southeastern United States. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 7:99–106. | PDF
• Kuehn, M. J., B. D. Peer, R. A. McCleery, and S. I. Rothstein. 2016. Yellow warbler defenses are retained in the absence of brood parasitism but enhanced by experience with cowbirds. Behavioral ecology 27:279–286. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., and C. L. Zweig. 2016. Leveraging limited information to understand ecological relationships of endangered Florida salt marsh vole. Journal of Mammalogy 97:1249–1255. | PDF
• Sovie, A. R., R. A. McCleery, R. J. Fletcher, and K. M. Hart. 2016. Invasive pythons, not anthropogenic stressors, explain the distribution of a keystone species. Biological Invasions 18:3309–3318. | PDF
2015
• Bainum III, M., K. E. Sieving, R. McCleery, and D. Wald. 2015. Demonstrating camera trap techniques and their application for identifying feral cats across a college campus. J. Undergraduate Res. 16:1–5. | PDF
• Long, A. K., L. M. Conner, L. L. Smith, and R. A. McCleery. 2015. Effects of an invasive ant and native predators on cotton rat recruitment and survival. Journal of Mammalogy 96:1135–1141. | PDF
• Long, A. K., D. D. Knapp, L. Mccullough, L. L. Smith, L. M. Conner, and R. A. McCleery. 2015. Southern toads alter their behavior in response to red-imported fire ants. Biological invasions 17:2179–2186. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A. 2015. Teaching wildlife techniques to millennials with a flipped classroom. Wildlife Society Bulletin 39:822–826. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., A. R. Holdorf, L. L. Hubbard, and B. D. Peer. 2015. Maximizing the wildlife conservation value of road right-of-ways in an agriculturally dominated landscape. PloS one 10:1–19. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., A. Sovie, R. N. Reed, M. W. Cunningham, M. E. Hunter, and K. M. Hart. 2015. Marsh rabbit mortalities tie pythons to the precipitous decline of mammals in the Everglades. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282:20150120. | PDF
• Monadjem, A., R. A. McCleery, and B. Collier. 2015. Patterns of survival and roost switching in an African insectivorous bat. Journal of Zoology 296:15–22. | PDF
• Tye, C. A., D. U. Greene, W. M. Giuliano, and R. A. Mccleery. 2015. Using camera‐trap photographs to identify individual fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) in the Southeastern United States. Wildlife Society Bulletin 39:645–650. | PDF
2014
• Austin, J. D., E. V Saarinen, A. Arias-Pérez, R. A. McCleery, and R. H. Lyons. 2014. Twenty-one novel microsatellite loci for the endangered Florida salt marsh vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus dukecampbelli). Conservation Genetics Resources 6:637–639. | PDF
• Hurst, Z. M., R. A. McCleery, B. A. Collier, N. J. Silvy, P. J. Taylor, and A. Monadjem. 2014. Linking changes in small mammal communities to ecosystem functions in an agricultural landscape. Mammalian Biology 79:17–23. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., C. L. Zweig, M. A. Desa, R. Hunt, W. M. Kitchens, and H. F. Percival. 2014. A novel method for camera‐trapping small mammals. Wildlife Society Bulletin 38:887–891. | PDF
• McCleery, R., J. A. Hostetler, and M. K. Oli. 2014. Better off in the wild? Evaluating a captive breeding and release program for the recovery of an endangered rodent. Biological Conservation 169:198–205. | PDF
• Reed, J. E., R. A. McCleery, N. J. Silvy, F. E. Smeins, and D. J. Brightsmith. 2014. Monk parakeet nest-site selection of electric utility structures in Texas. Landscape and Urban Planning 129:65–72. | PDF
2013
• Hurst, Z. M., R. A. McCleery, B. A. Collier, R. J. Fletcher Jr, N. J. Silvy, P. J. Taylor, and A. Monadjem. 2013. Dynamic edge effects in small mammal communities across a conservation-agricultural interface in Swaziland. PLoS One 8. | PDF
• Johnson, L. J. A. N., A. N. Miller, R. A. McCleery, R. McClanahan, J. A. Kath, S. Lueschow, and A. Porras-Alfaro. 2013. Psychrophilic and psychrotolerant fungi on bats and the presence of Geomyces spp. on bat wings prior to the arrival of white nose syndrome. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 79:5465–5471. | PDF
• Long, A. K., K. M. Bailey, D. U. Greene, C. Tye, C. Parr, H. K. Lepage, K. H. Gielow, A. Monadjem, and R. A. McCleery. 2013. Multi‐scale habitat selection of Mus minutoides in the Lowveld of Swaziland. African Journal of Ecology 51:493–500. | PDF
• McCleery, R., M. K. Oli, J. A. Hostetler, B. Karmacharya, D. Greene, C. Winchester, J. Gore, S. Sneckenberger, S. B. Castleberry, and M. T. Mengak. 2013. Are declines of an endangered mammal predation‐driven, and can a captive‐breeding and release program aid their recovery? Journal of Zoology 291:59–68. | PDF
• Monadjem, A., R. A. McCleery, and B. A. Collier. 2013. Activity and movement patterns of the tortoise Stigmochelys pardalis in a subtropical savanna. Journal of Herpetology 47:237–242. | PDF
2012
• Morgan, T. C., R. A. McCleery, M. P. Moulton, and A. Monadjem. 2012. Are Southern Black Flycatchers Melaenornis pammelaina associated with Fork-tailed Drongos Dicrurus adsimilis? Ostrich 83:109–111. | PDF
• Schmidt, J. A., R. McCleery, J. R. Seavey, S. E. Cameron Devitt, and P. M. Schmidt. 2012. Impacts of a half century of sea‐level rise and development on an endangered mammal. Global Change Biology 18:3536–3542. | PDF
2011
• Collier, B. A., R. A. McCleery, K. W. Calhoun, K. G. Roques, and A. Monadjem. 2011. Detection probabilities of ungulates in the eastern Swaziland lowveld. African Journal of Wildlife Research 41:61–67. | PDF
• Licona, M., R. McCleery, B. Collier, D. J. Brightsmith, and R. Lopez. 2011. Using ungulate occurrence to evaluate community‐based conservation within a biosphere reserve model. Animal Conservation 14:206–214. | PDF
• Lyons, E. K., R. S. Jones, J. P. Leonard, B. E. Toole, R. A. McCleery, R. R. Lopez, M. J. Peterson, S. J. DeMaso, and N. J. Silvy. 2011. Regional variation in nesting success of Lesser Prairie-Chickens. Studies in Avian Biology 39:223–231. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., and I. D. Parker. 2011. Influence of the urban environment on fox squirrel range overlap. Journal of Zoology 285:239–246. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., C. E. Moorman, M. C. Wallace, and D. Drake. 2011. Managing Urban Environments for Wildlife. N. J. Silvy, editor. The Wildlife Techniques Manual: Management volume 2. Seventh edition. Johns Hopkins Press. | PDF not available
• Schmidt, J. A., R. A. McCleery, P. M. Schmidt, N. J. Silvy, and R. R. Lopez. 2011. Population estimation and monitoring of an endangered lagomorph. The Journal of Wildlife Management 75:151–158. | PDF
• Schmidt, P. M., R. A. McCleery, R. R. Lopez, N. J. Silvy, J. A. Schmidt, and N. D. Perry. 2011. Influence of patch, habitat, and landscape characteristics on patterns of Lower Keys marsh rabbit occurrence following Hurricane Wilma. Landscape ecology 26:1419–1431. | PDF
2010
• McCleery, R. 2010. Urban Mammals. Pages 87–102 in J. Aitkenhead-Peterson and A. Volder, editors. Urban Ecosystem Ecology. American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A. 2010. The Biology of Small Mammals. Journal of Wildlife Management 74:1934. | PDF
• Monadjem, A., T. Raabe, B. Dickerson, N. Silvy, and R. McCleery. 2010. Roost use by two sympatric species of Scotophilus in a natural environment. African Journal of Wildlife Research 40:73–76. | PDF
• Peer, B. D., S. I. Rothstein, and R. A. McCleery. 2010. Intraclutch variation in egg appearance constrains rejection of Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) eggs in Common Grackles (Quiscalus quiscula). The Auk 127:759–764. | PDF
• Schmidt, P. M., R. A. McCleery, R. R. Lopez, N. J. Silvy, and J. A. Schmidt. 2010. Habitat succession, hardwood encroachment and raccoons as limiting factors for Lower Keys marsh rabbits. Biological Conservation 143:2703–2710. | PDF
2009
• Crouse, A. L., R. L. Honeycutt, R. A. McCleery, C. A. Faulhaber, N. D. Perry, and R. R. Lopez. 2009. Population structure of the Lower Keys marsh rabbit as determined by mitochondrial DNA analysis. The Journal of Wildlife Management 73:362–367. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A. 2009. Changes in fox squirrel anti-predator behaviors across the urban–rural gradient. Landscape Ecology 24:483. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A. 2009. Improving attitudinal frameworks to predict behaviors in human–wildlife conflicts. Society and natural Resources 22:353–368. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A. 2009. Reproduction, juvenile survival and retention in an urban fox squirrel population. Urban ecosystems 12:177. | PDF
2008
• Dixon, T. P., R. R. Lopez, M. J. Peterson, R. A. McCleery, and N. J. Silvy. 2008. Field-level spatial factors, associated edges, and dickcissel nesting ecology on reclaimed lands in Texas. Landscape and urban planning 86:60–65. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., R. R. Lopez, N. J. Silvy, and D. L. Gallant. 2008. Fox Squirrel Survival in Urban and Rural Environments. The Journal of Wildlife Management 72:133–137. | PDF
• Muñoz, A. M., R. A. McCleery, R. R. Lopez, and N. J. Silvy. 2008. Nesting ecology of mourning doves in an urban landscape. Urban ecosystems 11:257–267. | PDF
• Parker, I. D., D. E. Watts, R. R. Lopez, N. J. Silvy, D. S. Davis, R. A. McCleery, and P. A. Frank. 2008. Evaluation of the efficacy of Florida Key deer translocations. The Journal of Wildlife Management 72:1069–1075. | PDF
• Parker, I. D., D. E. Watts, R. A. McCleery, R. R. Lopez, N. J. Silvy, and D. S. Davis. 2008. Digital versus film-based remote camera systems in the Florida Keys. Wildlife Biology in Practice 4:1–7. | PDF
2007
• McCleery, R. A., R. R. Lopez, and N. J. Silvy. 2007. Transferring research to endangered species management. The Journal of Wildlife Management 71:2134–2141. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., R. R. Lopez, N. J. Silvy, and S. N. Kahlick. 2007. Habitat Use of Fox Squirrels in an Urban Environment. The Journal of Wildlife Management 71:1149–1157. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., R. R. Lopez, and N. J. Silvy. 2007. An improved method for handling squirrels and similar-size mammals. Wildlife Biology in Practice 3:39–42. | PDF
• Lopez, R. R., K. B. Hays, M. W. Wagner, S. L. Locke, R. A. McCleery, and N. J. Silvy. 2006. From the field: integrating land conservation planning in the classroom. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34:223–228. | PDF
2006
• McCleery, R. A., R. R. Lopez, and N. J. Silvy. 2006. Movements and habitat use of the Key Largo woodrat. Southeastern Naturalist 5:725–736. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., R. B. Ditton, J. Sell, and R. R. Lopez. 2006. From the Field: Understanding and Improving Attitudinal Research in Wildlife Sciences. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34:537–541. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., R. R. Lopez, N. J. Silvy, P. A. Frank, and S. B. Klett. 2006. Population status and habitat selection of the endangered Key Largo woodrat. The American midland naturalist 155:197–209. | PDF
2005
• McCleery, R. A., G. W. Foster, R. R. Lopez, M. J. Peterson, D. J. Forrester, and N. J. Silvy. 2005. Survey of raccoons on Key Largo, Florida, USA, for Baylisascaris procyonis. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 41:250–252. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., R. R. Lopez, L. A. Harveson, N. J. Silvy, and R. D. Slack. 2005. Integrating on‐campus wildlife research projects into the wildlife curriculum. Wildlife Society Bulletin 33:802–809. | PDF
• McCleery, R. A., R. R. Lopez, N. J. Silvy, and W. E. Grant. 2005. Effectiveness of supplemental stockings for the endangered Key Largo woodrat. Biological Conservation 124:27–33. | PDF
2004
• Foster, G. W., R. A. McCleery, and D. J. Forrester. 2004. Intestinal coccidia of raccoons (Procyon lotor) from Key Largo, Florida, USA. Comparative parasitology 71:175–177. | PDF
