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Jay B. Hestbeck, Ph.D.
Center Director
USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
8711 37th Street Southeast
Jamestown, North Dakota 58401

Phone: (701) 253-5515
Fax: (701) 253-5553
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Short, H.L., J.B. Hestbeck, and R.M. DeGraaf. 2001. New England Wildlife: A Model for Ecosystem Management - ECOSEARCH (Version 1). Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-283. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. CD-ROM.

DeGraaf, R.M., J.B. Hestbeck, and M. Yamasaki. 1998. Associations between breeding bird abundance and stand structure in the White Mountains, New Hampshire and Maine, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 103:217-233.

Hestbeck, J.B. 1996. Northern pintails: have the paradigms changed? Pages 45-49 in Ratti, J.T. (ed.). 7th International Waterfowl Symposium, Memphis, Tenn. 270pp.

Hestbeck, J.B. 1995. Bias in transition-specific survival and movement probabilities estimated using capture-recapture data. Journal of Applied Statistics 22(5&6):737-750.

Hestbeck, J.B. 1995. Population study and management of Atlantic Flyway Canada geese. Journal of Applied Statistics 22(5&6):877-890.

Hestbeck, J.B. 1995. Response of northern pintail breeding populations to drought, 1962-1992. Journal of Wildlife Management 59(1):9-15.

Brownie, C., J.E. Hines, J.D. Nichols, K.H. Pollock, J.B. Hestbeck. 1993. Capture-recapture studies for multiple strata including non-Markovian transitions. Biometrics 49:1173-1187.

Hestbeck, J.B., J.D. Nichols, and J.E. Hines. 1992. The relationship between annual survival rate and migration distance in mallards: an examination of the time allocation hypothesis for the evolution of migration. Canadian Journal of Zoology 70:2021-2027.

Hestbeck, J. B., J. D. Nichols, and R. A. Malecki. 1991. Estimates of movement and site fidelity using mark-resight data of wintering Canada geese. Ecology 72:523-533.

Hestbeck, J. B., D. H. Rusch, and R. A. Malecki. 1990. Estimating population parameters for geese from band-recovery and mark-recapture data. Transactions, North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 55:350-373.

Hestbeck, J. B., A. Dzubin, J. B. Gollop and J. D. Nichols. 1989. Mallard survival from local to immature stage in southwestern Saskatchewan. Journal of Wildlife Management 53:428-431.

Hestbeck, J. B. 1988. Population regulation of cyclic mammals: a mathematical model of the social fence hypothesis. Oikos 52:156-168.

Hestbeck, J.B. 1987. Population regulation of small mammals: A state transition model. American Naturalist 129:520-532.

Hestbeck, J.B. 1986. Multiple regulation states in populations of the California vole, Microtus californicus. Ecological Monographs. 56:161-181.

Hestbeck, J.B. 1982. Population regulation of cyclic mammals: the social fence hypothesis. Oikos 39:157-163.