publications

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Wolf, C.  J. and B. O. Wolf. (in press) The Prairie Falcon, In The Raptors of New Mexico. The University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque.

Mckechnie, A. E. and B. O. Wolf. (in press) Climate change increases the likelihood of catastrophic avian mortality events during extreme heat waves. Biology Letters:  published online 30 September 2009.  see abstract or request reprint

Warne, R., A. D. Pershall and B. O. Wolf. (in press) Linking climate dynamics and primary production to the pathways of carbon flow in higher trophic level consumers in a desert grassland-shrubland. Ecology.

Engel, S., H. M. Lease, N. G. McDowell, Alyssa H. Corbett and B. O. Wolf. (2009) The use of tunable diode laser spectroscopy to measure δ13C of animal breath for studies of animal physiology and ecology. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectroscopy 23:1281-1286.

Gilman, C. A., E. C. Toolson and B. O. Wolf. (2008) Effects of temperature on the behavior of Trimerotropis pallidipennis (Orthoptera, Arcrididae). The Southwestern Naturalist 53:162-168.

Gilman, C. A. and B. O. Wolf. (2007) Using portable ultrasonography as a non-destructive method for estimating reproductive effort in lizards. The Journal of Experimental Biology 210:1859-1867.

Lease, H. M., B. O. Wolf and J. F. Harrison (2006) Intraspecific variation in tracheal volume in the American locust (Schistocerca americana) measured by a new inert gas method. The Journal of Experimental Biology 209:3476-3481.

Meehan, T., H. lease, and B. O. Wolf. (2005) Negative indirect effects of an avian insectivore on the fruit set of an insect-pollinated herb. Okios 109:297-304.

Martínez del Río, C. and B. O. Wolf. (2005) Mass-balance models for animal isotopic ecology. M. Stark (ed.) In  Physiological and Ecological Adaptations to Feeding in Vertebrates. Science Publishers, INC. Enfield, NH, USA. pages 141-174.

Carlton , S. A., B. O. Wolf and C. Martínez del Río. (2004) Keeling plots for hummingbirds: a field method to estimate carbon stable isotope ratios of respired CO2 in small vertebrates. Oecologia 141:1-6.

Mckechnie, A. E., B. O. Wolf and C. Martínez del Río. (2004) Deuterium stable isotope ratios as tracers of water resource use: an experimental test with rock doves. Oecologia 140:191-200.

Mckechnie, A. E. and B. O. Wolf. (2004a) Partitioning of evaporative water loss in White-winged Doves: plasticity in response to short-term thermal acclimation. The Journal of Experimental Biology 207:203-210.

Mckechnie, A. E. and B. O. Wolf. (2004b) Solar radiation and the energetic cost of rewarming from torpor. In Barnes, B. M. and Carey, H. V. (eds.) Life in the cold: Evolution, Mechanisms, and Application. 12th International Hibernation Symposium. Biological papers of the University of Alaska, No. 27. pages 63-70.

Mckechnie, A. E. and B. O. Wolf. (2004c) The energetics of the rewarming phase of avian torpor. In Barnes, B. M. and Carey, HV (eds.) Life in the cold: Evolution, Mechanisms, and Application. 12th International Hibernation Symposium. Biological papers of the University of Alaska, No. 27. pages 265-273.

Mckechnie, A. E. and B. O. Wolf. (2004d) The allometry of avian basal metabolic rate: good predictions need good data. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 77:502-521.

Smith, R. B., E. C. Greiner, and B. O. Wolf. (2004) Migratory movements of Sharp-shinned Hawks in relation to prevalence, intensity and biogeography of avian hematozoan parasites.  The Auk 121:837-846.

Martínez del Río, C., B. O. Wolf and R. Haughey. (2004) Saguaros and White-winged Doves: the natural history of an uneasy partnership. Chapter 7. G. Nabhan (ed.) In Conserving migratory pollinators and nectar corridors in Western North America. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Studies in Natural History. The University of Arizona Press. Tucson. pages 122-143.

Smith, R. B., T. Meehan, and B. O. Wolf.  (2003) Assessing migration patterns of sharp-shinned hawks (Accipter striatus) using stable-isotope and band encounter analysis. The Journal of Avian Biology 34:387-392.

Cryan, P. and B. O. Wolf.  (2003) Metabolism and evaporative water loss in hoary bats (Lasiurus cinereus): affects of temperature and sex. The Journal of Experimental Biology 206:3381-3390.

Wolf, B. O. and C. Martínez del Río. (2003) How important are columnar cacti as sources of water and nutrients for desert consumers? A review. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies 39:53-67.

Wolf, B. O., C. Martínez del Río and J. Babson. (2002) Stable isotopes reveal that saguaro fruit provides different resources to two desert dove species. Ecology 83:1286-1293. 

Wolf, B. O. and C. Martínez del Río. (2002) Saguaro feeding by desert birds: an ABA-supported project. Birding Magazine, August, pages 324-325.

Wolf, B. O. and G. E. Walsberg. (2000) The role of the plumage in heat transfer processes in birds.  American Zoologist 40:575-584.

Wolf, B. O. and C. Martínez del Río. (2000) Use of saguaro fruit by White-winged Doves: isotopic evidence of a tight ecological association.  Oecologia 124:536-543.

Wolf, B. O. (2000) Global warming and avian occupancy of hot deserts; a physiological and behavioral perspective.  Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 73:395-400. 

Wolf, B. O., K. M. Wooden and G. E. Walsberg. (2000) Effects of complex radiative and convective environments on the thermal biology of the White-crowned Sparrow (Zonatrichia leucophyrs gambelii). The Journal of Experimental Biology 203:803-811.

Wolf, B. O. and S. L. Jones. (2000) Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus). In  The Birds of North America. No. 484 (A. Pool and F. Gill, Eds.). Philadelphia:  The Academy of Natural Sciences; Washington, D. C., The American Ornithologists' Union. 

Shukman, J. and B. O. Wolf. (1998) Say's Phoebe (Sayornis saya). In The Birds of North America. No. 374 (A. Pool and F. Gill, Eds.). Philadelphia:  The Academy of Natural Sciences; Washington, D. C., The American Ornithologists' Union.

Wolf, B. O., G. E. Walsberg and M. Stanisick. (1997) Quantifying the behavior of free-living animals:  integration of binoculars and palmtop computer. The Journal of Field Ornithology 68:173-177.

Walsberg G. E., T. Weaver and B. O. Wolf. (1997) Seasonal adjustment of solar heat gain independent of coat coloration in a desert mammal.  Physiological Zoology 70:150-157.

Wolf, B. O. (1997) Black Phoebe (Sayornis nigricans). In The Birds of North America.  No. 268 (A. Pool and F. Gill, Eds.). Philadelphia, The Academy of Natural Sciences; Washington, D. C.,  The American Ornithologists' Union. 

Wolf, B. O. and G. E. Walsberg. (1996) Thermal effects of radiation and wind on a small bird and implications for microsite selection.  Ecology 77:2228-2236.

Wolf, B. O. and G. E. Walsberg. (1996) Respiratory and cutaneous evaporative water loss at high environmental temperatures in a small bird.  The Journal of Experimental Biology 199:451-457.

Wolf, B. O., K. M. Wooden, and G. E. Walsberg. (1996) The use of thermal refugia by two small desert birds.  The Condor 98:424-428.

Walsberg G. E. and B. O. Wolf. (1996) An appraisal of operative temperature mounts as tools for studies of ecological energetics.  Physiological Zoology 69:658-681.

Walsberg G. E. and B. O. Wolf. (1996) A test of the accuracy of operative temperature thermometers for studies of small ectotherms.  The Journal of Thermal Biology 21:275-281.

Walsberg G. E. and B. O. Wolf. (1995) Variation in the respiratory quotient of birds and implications for indirect calorimetry using measurements of carbon dioxide production.  The Journal of Experimental Biology 198:213-219.

Walsberg G. E. and B. O. Wolf. (1995) Solar heat gain in a desert rodent:  unexpected increases with wind speed and implications for estimating the heat balance of free-living animals.  Journal of Comparative Physiology B 165:306-314.

Walsberg G. E. and B. O. Wolf. (1995) Effects of solar radiation and wind speed on metabolic power consumption by two mammals with contrasting coat colors.  The Journal of Experimental Biology 198:1499-1507.

Wolf, B. O. and S. L. Jones. (1989) Great Blue Heron deaths caused by predation on pacific lamprey.  The Condor 91:482-484.

Rigney, M., L. R. Mewaldt, B. O. Wolf. and R. Duke. (1989) Wildlife monitoring of a riparian mitigation site.  Proceeding of the California Riparian Systems Conference, 22-24 September 1989, USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-110, pages 319-324.