Publications & Technical Writing

GeoCosmos offers a diverse team that has field-based ecological research experience throughout North and Central America. Our staff has experience preparing various sections for NEPA documents including Wildlife, T & E and Special Status Species, Migratory Birds and Vegetation among others. In addition, our biologists have published manuscripts in peer- reviewed scientific journals, proceedings, and books.

Selected Publications

Dzialak, M.R., D.A. Clark, R.C. Taylor, S.M. Harju, J. Sutter, L.D. Hayden-Wing, and J.B. Winstead. (in review). Monitoring lekking grouse:         site-occupancy, greater sage-grouse populations, and energy development. Wildlife Biology.

Sutter, J. (in press). The Black Crane Hawk in Raptors of the Maya Forest (Ed., D.F. Whitacre). Cornell University Press.

Serpe, M.D., S.J. Zimmerman, L. Deines (Sutter) and R. Rosentreter. 2008. Seed water status and root tip characteristics of two annual             grasses on lichen-dominated biological soil crusts. Plant Soil 303:191-205.

Deines (Sutter), L. , R. Rosentreter, D. Eldridge and M.D. Serpe. 2007. Germination and seedling establishment of two annual grasses on             lichen-dominated biological soil crusts. Plant Soil 295:23-35.

Lukins, H.J., K.G. Thompson, and W.J. Lukins. 2005. TAM filtration: A comparison of methods. in 2005 Proceedings of the National                     Whirling Disease Symposium. The Whirling Disease Foundation, Inc., Bozeman, MT.

Deines (Sutter), L. 2006. Germination, initial seedling establishment and water status of Bromus tectorum and Vulpia microstachys on             lichen-dominated biological soil crusts of the northern Great Basin. M.S. thesis. Boise State University, Boise, Idaho.

Lukins, W.J., S. Creel, B. Erbes, and G. Spong. 2004. An assessment of the Tobacco Root Mountain Range in southwestern Montana as a         linkage zone for grizzly bears. Northwest Science 78:168-172.

Ouren, D., R. Garrot, R. Watts, and W. Lukins. 2003. The impacts of intensity of human use on grizzly bear habitat selection. in 2003                 Proceedings of the International Conference on Ecology and Transporation, edited by C.L. Irwin, P. Garret, and K.P. McDermott.             Raleigh, NC: Center for Transportation and the Environment, North Carolina State University, 2003.

Sutter, J., W.E. Martínez A., F. Oliva T., N.O. Jurado, and D.F. Whitacre. 2001. Diet and hunting behavior of the crane hawk in Tikal                 National Park, Guatemala. Condor 103:70-77.

Sutter, J.A. 2000. Breeding ecology of the crane hawk in Tikal National Park, Guatemala. M.S. thesis. Boise State University, Boise, Idaho.

Sutter, J., J.C. Munger, and D. A. Hengel. 1999. Sorex monticolus in shrub steppe habitat in the northern Great Basin. Great Basin                     Naturalist 58:102–104.

Whitacre, D.F., J. Madrid M., C. Marroquin V., T. Dubon O., N.O. Jurado, W.R. Tobar, B. Gonzalez C., A. Arevalo O., G. Garcia C., M.                 Schulze, L. Jones Sutter, J. Sutter, and A.J. Baker. 1995. Slash-and-burn farming and bird conservation in northern Petén,                         Guatemala. in Conservation of Neotropical Migratory Birds in Mexico. (Eds. Wilson, M.H. and S.A. Sader). Maine Agricultural and                 Forest Experiment Station Miscellaneous Publication 727.

Whitacre, D.F., J. Madrid, C. Marroquin, M. Schulze, L. Jones, J. Sutter, and A.J. Baker. 1993. Migrant songbirds, habitat change, and             conservation prospects in northern Petén, Guatemala-Some initial results. in Status and Management of Neotropical Migratory Birds.         (Eds. Finch, D.M., and P.W. Stangel). USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM- 229.

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