education and training
- B.A., University of Arizona
- M.S., Louisiana State University
- Ph.D., Dartmouth College
- Websites
Sillett, T. Scott
Research Wildlife Biologist
Avian ecology, population biology, animal behavior, conservation biology, life history of migratory birds, ecological impacts of climate change.
Geographic Focus
- Americas Transnational Region
- United States of America Country
Background And Education
awards and honors
- Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2019
- Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2018
Research And Grants
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- Scaling the Bird Friendly Impact awarded by Knobloch Family Foundation 2020 -
- Assessing anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in a wild population of American kestrels (Falco sparverius) in the western US awarded by Liphatech, Inc 2019 -
- Task Order 13: Ecology and Conservation of Land Birds on the California Channel Islands awarded by The Nature Conservancy 2019 -
- Task Order 14: Ecology and Conservation of Land Birds on the California Channel Islands awarded by The Nature Conservancy 2019 -
- A population viability analysis for Island Scrub-Jay awarded by The Nature Conservancy
- Breeding Ecology and Habitat Associations of Island Scrub-Jays (Task Agreement 3) awarded by The Nature Conservancy
- Coffee Shade Tree Catalogue: Indonesian Edition awarded by Conservation International
- Collaborative Research LTREB: Behavioral and Demographic Response of Migratory Birds to Climate Change awarded by National Science Foundation
- Conservation Partnerships for Painted Buntings awarded by Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund
- Development of a Monitoring Framework for the Island Scrub-Jay awarded by U.S. Geological Survey
- Does winter habitat quality affect the phenology of seasonal events for a migratory songbird wintering in the Caribbean? awarded by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards
- Ecology and Conservation of Landbirds on the California Channel Islands awarded by The Nature Conservancy
- Ecology, Habitat Associations, and West Nile Virus Prevalence in Island Scrub-Jays awarded by The Nature Conservancy
- Framework for a vulnerability assessment of forest birds in the National Capital Region awarded by National Park Service
- LTREB Renewal: Collaborative Research: RUI: Behavioral and Demographic Responses of Migratory Birds to Climate Change awarded by National Science Foundation
- Task Order 15: Ecology and Conservation of Land Birds on the California Channel Islands awarded by The Nature Conservancy
Publications
selected publications
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- Buechley, Evan R., Oppel, Steffen, Efrat, Ron, Phipps, W. Louis, Carbonell Alanis, Isidoro, Alvarez, Ernesto, Andreotti, Alessandro, Arkumarev, Volen, Berger-Tal, Oded, Bermejo Bermejo, Ana, Bounas, Anastasios, Ceccolini, Guido, Cenerini, Anna, Dobrev, Vladimir, Duriez, Olivier, Garcia, Javier, Garcia-Ripolles, Clara, Galan, Manuel, Gil, Alberto, Giraud, Lea, Hatzofe, Ohad, Iglesias-Lebrija, Juan Jose, Karyakin, Igor, Kobierzycki, Erik, Kret, Elzbieta et al. 2021. "Differential survival throughout the full annual cycle of a migratory bird presents a life-history trade-off." Journal of Animal Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13449 2021
- Rushing, Clark S., Ryder, Thomas Brandt, Valente, Jonathon J., Sillett, T. Scott, and Marra, Peter P. 2021. "Empirical tests of habitat selection theory reveal that conspecific density and patch quality, but not habitat amount, drive long-distance immigration in a wild bird." Ecology Letters https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13729 2021
- Rowley, Michael G., Stanley, Richard C., Antalffy, Janine M., Christhilf, Jennifer L., Stonko, Daniel C., Johnson, Scott B., Cant-Woodside, Shelley, Sillett, T. Scott, Fagan, Matthew E., Studds, Colin E., and Omland, Kevin E. 2021. "Hierarchical distance sampling reveals increased population size and broader habitat use in the endangered Bahama Oriole." Avian Conservation and Ecology 16 (1):https://doi.org/10.5751/ACE-01775-160105 2021
- Bennett, Ruth E., Sillett, T. Scott, Rice, Robert A., and Marra, Peter P. 2021. "Impact of cocoa agricultural intensification on bird diversity and community composition." Conservation Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13779 2021
- Buechley, Evan R., Girardello, Marco, Santangeli, Andrea, Ruffo, Alazar Daka, Ayalew, Girma, Abebe, Yilma D., Barber, David R., Buij, Ralph, Bildstein, Keith, Mahamued, Bruktawit Abdu, Neate-Clegg, Montague, Ogada, Darcy, Marra, Peter P., Sillett, T. Scott, Thiollay, Jean-Marc, Wikelski, Martin, Yaworsky, Peter, and Şekercioğlu, Çağan H. 2021. "Priority areas for vulture conservation in the Horn of Africa largely fall outside the protected area network." Bird Conservation International 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270921000228 2021
- Sillett, T. Scott, Hochachka, Wesley M., and Taylor, Sabrina S. 2021. "The inaugural issue of Ornithology." Ornithology 138 (1):https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukaa083 2021
- Germain, Ryan R., Hallworth, Michael T., Kaiser, Sara A., Sillett, T. Scott, and Webster, Michael S. 2021. "Variance in within-pair reproductive success influences the opportunity for selection annually and over the lifetimes of males in a multibrooded songbird." Evolution https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14166 2021
- Satterfield, Dara A., Sillett, T. Scott, Chapman, Jason W., Altizer, Sonia, and Marra, Peter P. 2020. "Seasonal insect migrations: massive, influential, and overlooked." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 18 (6):335-344. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2217 2020
- Hostettere, Nathan J., Gardner, Beth, Sillett, T. Scott, Pollock, Kenneth H., and Simons, Theodore R. 2019. "An integrated model decomposing the components of detection probability and abundance in unmarked populations." Ecosphere 10 (3):Article e02586. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2586 2019
- Van Tatenhove, Aimee, Filiberti, Emily, Sillett, T. Scott, Rodenhouse, Nicholas, and Hallworth, Michael T. 2019. "Climate-Related Distribution Shifts of Migratory Songbirds and Sciurids in the White Mountain National Forest." Forests 10 (2):Article 84. https://doi.org/10.3390/f10020084 2019
- Johnson, Amy E. M., Sillett, T. Scott, Luther, David, Herrmann, Valentine, Akre, Thomas A., and McShea, William J. 2019. "Effects of grassland management on overwintering bird communities." Journal of Wildlife Management 83 (7):1515-1526. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21730 2019
- Morrison, Scott, Sillett, T. Scott, Funk, W. Chris, Ghalambor, Cameron, and Rick, Torben C. 2018. "California Island Rediscovery: building an archive to improve conservation today and equip the historical ecologist of tomorrow." Western North American Naturalist 78 (4):https://doi.org/10.3398/064.078.0423 2018
- Vernasco, Ben J., Sillett, T. Scott, Marra, Peter P., and Ryder, Thomas B. 2018. "Environmental predictors of nestling condition, postfledging movement, and postfledging survival in a migratory songbird, the Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina)." The Auk 135 (1):15-24. https://doi.org/10.1642/AUK-17-105.1 2018
- Boser, Christina, Sillett, T. Scott, Collins, Paul W., Faulkner, Kathryn R., Funk, W. Chris, Ghalambor, Cameron K., Laughrin, Lyndal, Pauly, Gregory B., Robertson, Jeanne M., Shea, Robyn, and Vickers, Winston. 2018. "Equipping tomorrow's historical ecologist: priorities for documenting conditions of the terrestrial fauna of Santa Cruz Island, California." Western North American Naturalist 78 (4):879-887. https://doi.org/10.3398/064.078.0426 2018
- Pesendorfer, Mario B., Baker, Christopher M., Stringer, Martin, McDonald-Madden, Eve, Bode, Michael, McEachern, A. Kathryn, Morrison, Scott A., and Sillett, T. Scott. 2018. "Oak habitat recovery on California's largest islands: Scenarios for the role of corvid seed dispersal." Journal of Applied Ecology 55 (3):1185-1194. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13041 2018
- Sofaer, Helen R., Sillett, T. Scott, Yoon, Jongmin, Power, Michael L., Morrison, Scott A., and Ghalambor, Cameron K. 2018. "Offspring growth and mobility in response to variation in parental care: a comparison between populations." Journal of Avian Biology 49 (5):jav-01646. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.01646 2018
- Cohen, Emily B., Hostetler, Jeffrey A., Hallworth, Michael T., Rushing, Clark S., Sillett, T. Scott, and Marra, Peter P. 2018. "Quantifying the strength of migratory connectivity." Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9 (3):513-524. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12916 2018
- Satterfield, Dara A., Marra, Peter P., Sillett, T. Scott, and Altizer, Sonia. 2018. "Responses of migratory species and their pathogens to supplemental feeding." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 373 (1745):https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0094 2018
- Smith, Maria G., Kaiser, Sara A., Sillett, T. Scott, and Webster, Michael S. 2018. "Variation in nest characteristics and brooding patterns of female Black-throated Blue Warblers is associated with thermal cues." The Auk 135 (3):733-747. https://doi.org/10.1642/AUK-17-195.1 2018
- Kaiser, Sara A., Taylor, Scott A., Chen, Nancy, Sillett, T. Scott, Bondra, Eliana R., and Webster, Michael S. 2017. "A comparative assessment of SNP and microsatellite markers for assigning parentage in a socially monogamous bird." Molecular Ecology Resources 17 (2):183-193. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12589 2017
- Langin, Kathryn M., Sillett, T. Scott, Morrison, Scott A., and Ghalambor, Cameron K. 2017. "Bill morphology and neutral genetic structure both predict variation in acoustic signals within a bird population." Behavioral Ecology 28 (3):866-873. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx051 2017
- Cramer, E. R. A., Kaiser, S. A., Webster, M. S., Sillett, T. Scott, and Ryder, Thomas B. 2017. "Characterizing selection in black-throated blue warblers using a sexual network approach." Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30 (12):2177-2188. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13183 2017
- Kaiser, Sara A., Risk, Benjamin B., Sillett, T. Scott, and Webster, Michael S. 2017. "Ecological and Social Factors Constrain Spatial and Temporal Opportunities for Mating in a Migratory Songbird." American Naturalist 189 (3):283-296. https://doi.org/10.1086/690203 2017
- Morrison, Scott A., Sillett, T. Scott, Funk, W. Chris, Ghalambor, Cameron K., and Rick, Torben C. 2017. "Equipping the 22nd-Century Historical Ecologist." Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32 (8):578-588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.05.006 2017
- Langin, K. M., Sillett, T. Scott, Funk, W. C., Morrison, S. A., and Ghalambor, C. K. 2017. "Partial support for the central-marginal hypothesis within a population: reduced genetic diversity but not increased differentiation at the range edge of an island endemic bird." Heredity 119:8-15. https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2017.10 2017
- Rockwell, Sarah M., Wunderle, Joseph M., Sillett, T. Scott, Bocetti, Carol I., Ewert, David N., Currie, Dave, White, Jennifer D., and Marra, Peter P. 2017. "Seasonal survival estimation for a long-distance migratory bird and the influence of winter precipitation." Oecologia 183 (3):715-726. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-016-3788-x 2017
- Rushing, Clark S., Hostetler, Jeffrey A., Sillett, T. Scott, Marra, Peter P., Rotenberg, James A., and Ryder, Thomas B. 2017. "Spatial and temporal drivers of avian population dynamics across the annual cycle." Ecology 98 (11):2837-2850. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1967 2017
- Pesendorfer, Mario B., Sillett, T. Scott, and Morrison, Scott A. 2017. "Spatially biased dispersal of acorns by a scatter-hoarding corvid may accelerate passive restoration of oak habitat on California's largest island." Current Zoology 63 (4):363-367. https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zow075 2017
- Yoon, Jongmin, Sofaer, Helen R., Sillett, T. Scott, Morrison, Scott A., and Ghalambor, Cameron K. 2017. "The relationship between female brooding and male nestling provisioning: does climate underlie geographic variation in sex roles?." Journal of Avian Biology 48 (2):220-228. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.00890 2017
- Funk, W. Chris, Lovich, Robert E., Hohenlohe, Paul A., Hofman, Courtney A., Morrison, Scott A., Sillett, T. Scott, Ghalambor, Cameron K., Maldonado, Jesús E., Rick, Torben C., Day, Mitch D., Polato, Nicholas R., Fitzpatrick, Sarah W., Coonan, Timothy J., Crooks, Kevin R., Dillon, Adam, Garcelon, David K., King, Julie L., Boser, Christina L., Gould, Nicholas, and Andelt, William F. 2016. "Adaptive divergence despite strong genetic drift: genomic analysis of the evolutionary mechanisms causing genetic differentiation in the island fox (Urocyon littoralis)." Molecular ecology 25 (10):2176-2194. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13605 2016
- Lany, Nina K., Ayres, M. P., Stange, Erik E., Sillett, T. Scott, Rodenhouse, Nicholas L., and Holmes, Richard T. 2016. "Breeding timed to maximize reproductive success for a migratory songbird: the importance of phenological asynchrony." Oikos 125 (5):656-666. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.02412 2016
- Ryder, Thomas B. and Sillett, T. Scott. 2016. "Climate, demography and lek stability in an Amazonian bird." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283 (1823):https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2314 2016
- Pesendorfer, Mario B., Sillett, T. Scott, Morrison, Scott A., and Kamil, Alan C. 2016. "Context-dependent seed dispersal by a scatter-hoarding corvid." Journal of Animal Ecology 85 (3):798-805. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12501 2016
- Pesendorfer, Mario B., Sillett, T. Scott, Koenig, Walter D., and Morrison, Scott A. 2016. "Scatter-hoarding corvids as seed dispersers for oaks and pines: A review of a widely distributed mutualism and its utility to habitat restoration." The Condor 215-237. https://doi.org/10.1650/CONDOR-15-125.1 2016
- Townsend, Andrea K., Cooch, Evan G., Sillett, T. Scott, Rodenhouse, Nicholas L., Holmes, Richard T., and Webster, Michael S. 2016. "The interacting effects of food, spring temperature, and global climate cycles on population dynamics of a migratory songbird." Global Change Biology 22 (2):544-555. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13053 2016
- Hofman, Courtney A., Rick, Torben C., Maldonado, Jesús E., Collins, Paul W., Erlandson, Jon M., Fleischer, Robert C., Smith, Chelsea, Sillett, T. Scott, Ralls, Katherine, Teeter, Wendy, Vellanoweth, René L., and Newsome, Seth D. 2016. "Tracking the origins and diet of an endemic island canid (Urocyon littoralis) across 7300 years of human cultural and environmental change." Quaternary Science Reviews 146:147-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.06.010 2016
- Sollmann, Rahel, Gardner, Beth, Chandler, Richard B., Royle, J. A., and Sillett, T. Scott. 2015. "An open-population hierarchical distance sampling model." Ecology 96 (2):325-331. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-1625.1 2015
- Peele, Ashley M., Marra, Peter P., Sillett, T. Scott, and Sherry, Thomas W. 2015. "Combining survey methods to estimate abundance and transience of migratory birds among tropical nonbreeding habitats." The Auk 132 (4):926-937. https://doi.org/10.1642/AUK-14-282.1 2015
- Kaiser, Sara A., Sillett, T. Scott, Risk, Benjamin B., and Webster, Michael S. 2015. "Experimental food supplementation reveals habitat-dependent male reproductive investment in a migratory bird." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1803):https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2523 2015
- Hostetler, Jeffrey A., Sillett, T. Scott, and Marra, Peter P. 2015. "Full-annual-cycle population models for migratory birds." The Auk 132 (2):433-449. https://doi.org/10.1642/AUK-14-211.1 2015
- Langin, Kathryn M., Sillett, T. Scott, Funk, W. C., Morrison, Scott A., Desrosiers, Michelle A., and Ghalambor, Cameron K. 2015. "Islands within an island: Repeated adaptive divergence in a single population." Evolution 69 (3):653-665. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12610 2015
- Hallworth, Michael T., Sillett, T. Scott, Van ilgenburg, Steven L., Hobson, Keith A., and Marra, Peter P. 2015. "Migratory connectivity of a Neotropical migratory songbird revealed by archival light-level geolocators." Ecological Applications 25 (2):336-347. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-0195.1 2015
- Hofman, Courtney A., Rick, Torben C., Hawkins, Melissa T. R., Funk, W. C., Ralls, Katherine, Boser, Christina L., Collins, Paul W., Coonan, Tim, King, Julie L., Morrison, Scott A., Newsome, Seth D., Sillett, T. Scott, Fleischer, Robert C., and Maldonado, Jesús E. 2015. "Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest Rapid Evolution of Dwarf California Channel Islands Foxes (Urocyon littoralis)." PloS One 10 (2):1-15. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118240 2015
- Marra, Peter P., Studds, Colin E., Wilson, Scott, Sillett, T. Scott, Sherry, Thomas W., and Holmes, Richard T. 2015. "Non-breeding season habitat quality mediates the strength of density-dependence for a migratory bird." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1811):https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0624 2015
- Marra, Peter P., Studds, Colin E., Wilson, Scott, Sillett, T. Scott, Sherry, Thomas W., and Holmes, Richard T. 2015. "Non-breeding season habitat quality mediates the strength of density-dependence for a migratory bird." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1811):https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0624 2015
- Rick, Torben C., Sillett, T. Scott, Ghalambor, Cameron K., Hofman, Courtney A., Ralls, Katherine, Anderson, R. S., Boser, Christina L., Braje, Todd J., Cayan, Daniel R., Chesser, R. Terry, Collins, Paul W., Erlandson, Jon M., Faulkner, Kate R., Fleischer, Robert C., Funk, W. C., Galipeau, Russell, Huston, Ann, King, Julie, Laughrin, Lyndal, Maldonado, Jesús E., McEachern, Kathryn, Muhs, Daniel R., Newsome, Seth D., Reeder-Myers, Leslie, Still, Christopher et al. 2014. "Ecological Change on California's Channel Islands from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene." Bioscience 64 (8):680-692. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biu094 2014
- Robertson, Jeanne M., Langin, Kathryn M., Sillett, T. Scott, Morrison, Scott A., Ghalambor, Cameron K., and Funk, W. Chris. 2014. "Identifying Evolutionarily Significant Units and Prioritizing Populations for Management on Islands." Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist 7 (1):397-411. https://doi.org/10.3398/042.007.0130 2014
- Zipkin, Elise F., Sillett, T. Scott, Grant, Evan H. Campbell, Chandler, Richard B., and Royle, J. Andrew. 2014. "Inferences about population dynamics from count data using multistate models: a comparison to capture–recapture approaches." Ecology and Evolution 4 (4):417-426. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.942 2014
- Sofaer, Helen R., Sillett, T. Scott, Langin, Kathryn M., Morrison, Scott A., and Ghalambor, Cameron K. 2014. "Partitioning the sources of demographic variation reveals density-dependent nest predation in an island bird population." Ecology and Evolution 4 (13):2738-2748. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1127 2014
- Kaiser, Sara A., Sillett, T. Scott, and Webster, Michael S. 2014. "Phenotypic plasticity in hormonal and behavioural responses to changes in resource conditions in a migratory songbird." Animal Behaviour 96:19-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.07.004 2014
- Morrison, Scott A., Parker, Kevin A., Collins, Paul W., Funk, W. Chris, and Sillett, T. Scott. 2014. "Reintroduction of Historically Extirpated Taxa on the California Channel Islands." Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist 7 (1):531-542. https://doi.org/10.3398/042.007.0141 2014
- Pesendorfer, Mario B., Langin, Kathryn M., Cohen, Brian, Principe, Zachary, Morrison, Scott A., and Sillett, T. Scott. 2014. "Stand Structure and Acorn Production of the Island Scrub Oak ( Quercus pacifica )." Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist 7 (1):246-259. https://doi.org/10.3398/042.007.0119 2014
- Ims, Jessica J., Sofaer, Helen R., Sillett, T. Scott, and Ghalambor, Cameron K. 2014. "Temperature Does Not Affect the Timing of First Nest Departure in Orange-Crowned Warblers." Western North American Naturalist 74 (1):66-70. https://doi.org/10.3398/064.074.0106 2014
- Sofaer, Helen R., Chapman, Phillip L., Sillett, T. Scott, and Ghalambor, Cameron K. 2013. "Advantages of nonlinear mixed models for fitting avian growth curves." Journal of Avian Biology 44 (5):469-478. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-048X.2013.05719.x 2013
- Cline, Mason H., Strong, Allan M., Sillett, T. Scott, Rodenhouse, Nicholas L., and Holmes, Richard T. 2013. "Correlates and Consequences of Breeding Dispersal in a Migratory Songbird." The Auk 130 (4):742-752. https://doi.org/10.1525/auk.2013.12244 2013
- Sofaer, Helen R., Sillett, T. Scott, Peluc, Susana I., Morrison, Scott A., and Ghalambor, Cameron K. 2013. "Differential effects of food availability and nest predation risk on avian reproductive strategies." Behavioral Ecology 24 (3):698-707. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ars212 2013
- Hallworth, Michael T., Studds, Colin E., Sillett, T. Scott, and Marra, Peter P. 2013. "Do archival light-level geolocators and stable hydrogen isotopes provide comparable estimates of breeding-ground origin?." The Auk 130 (2):273-282. https://doi.org/10.1525/auk.2013.13037 2013
- Yoon, Jongmin, Sillett, T. Scott, Morrison, Scott A., and Ghalambor, Cameron K. 2013. "Male's return rate, rather than territory fidelity and breeding dispersal, explains geographic variation in song sharing in two populations of an oscine passerine (Oreothlypis celata)." Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67 (10):1691-1697. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-013-1579-5 2013
- Robertson, Bruce A., Landis, Douglas A., Sillett, T. Scott, Loomis, Elizabeth R., and Rice, Robert A. 2013. "Perennial Agroenergy Feedstocks as En Route Habitat for Spring Migratory Birds." BioEnergy Research 6 (1):311-320. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12155-012-9258-3 2013
- Caldwell, Luke, Bakker, Victoria J., Sillett, T. Scott, Desrosiers, Michelle A., Morrison, Scott A., and Angeloni, Lisa M. 2013. "Reproductive Ecology of the Island Scrub-Jay (Ecología Reproductiva de Aphelocoma insularis)." The Condor 115 (3):603-613. https://doi.org/10.1525/cond.2013.120028 2013
- Wilson, Scott, Marra, Peter P., and Sillett, T. Scott. 2013. "The Effects of Experimental Irrigation on Plant Productivity, Insect Abundance and the Non-Breeding Season Performance of a Migratory Songbird." PLoS ONE 8 (1):e55114. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055114 2013
- Townsend, Andrea K., Sillett, T. Scott, Lany, Nina K., Kaiser, Sara A., Rodenhouse, Nicholas L., Webster, Michael S., and Holmes, Richard T. 2013. "Warm Springs, Early Lay Dates, and Double Brooding in a North American Migratory Songbird, the Black-Throated Blue Warbler." PLoS ONE 8 (4):e59467. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059467 2013
- Robertson, Bruce A., Rice, Robert A., Sillett, T. Scott, Ribic, Christine A., Babcock, Bruce A., Landis, Douglas A., Herkert, James R., Fletcher, Robert J., Fontaine, Joseph J., Doran, Patrick J., and Schemske, Douglas W. 2012. "Are Agrofuels a Conservation Threat or Opportunity for Grassland Birds in the United States?." The Condor 114 (4):679-688. https://doi.org/10.1525/cond.2012.110136 2012
- Yoon, Jongmin, Sillett, T. Scott, Morrison, Scott A., and Ghalambor, Cameron K. 2012. "Breeding density, not life history, predicts interpopulation differences in territorial aggression in a passerine bird." Animal Behaviour 84 (3):515-521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.05.024 2012
- Rick, Torben C., Hofman, Courtney A., Braje, Todd J., Maldonado, Jesús E., Sillett, T. Scott, Danchisko, Kevin, and Erlandson, Jon M. 2012. "Flightless ducks, giant mice and pygmy mammoths: Late Quaternary extinctions on California's Channel Islands." World Archaeology 44 (1):3-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2012.646101 2012
- Sillett, T. Scott, Chandler, Richard B., Royle, J. Andrew, Kéry, Marc, and Morrison, Scott A. 2012. "Hierarchical distance-sampling models to estimate population size and habitat-specific abundance of an island endemic." Ecological Applications 22 (7):1997-2006. https://doi.org/10.1890/11-1400.1 2012
- Sofaer, H. R., Langin, K. M., Wilson, J., and Sillett, T. Scott. 2011. "Demography of songbird populations in a rapidly changing world: the importance of long-term studies." American Biology Teacher 73 (5):285-287. https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2011.73.5.8 2011
- Morrison, Scott A., Sillett, T. Scott, Ghalambor, Cameron K., Fitzpatrick, John W., Graber, David M., Bakker, Victoria J., Bowman, Reed, Collins, Charles T., Collins, Paul W., Delaney, Kathleen Semple, Doak, Daniel F., Koenig, Walter D., Laughrin, Lyndal, Lieberman, Alan A., Marzluff, John M., Reynolds, Mark D., Scott, J. Michael, Stallcup, Jerre Ann, Vickers, Winston, and Boyce, Walter M. 2011. "Proactive Conservation Management of an Island-endemic Bird Species in the Face of Global Change." Bioscience 61 (12):1013-1021. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2011.61.12.11 2011
- Boyce, Walter M., Vickers, Winston, Morrison, Scott A., Sillett, T. Scott, Caldwell, Luke, Wheeler, Sarah S., Barker, Christopher M., Cummings, Robert, and Reisen, William K. 2011. "Surveillance for West Nile Virus and Vaccination of Free-Ranging Island Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma insularis) on Santa Cruz Island, California." Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases 11 (8):1063-1068. https://doi.org/10.1089/vbz.2010.0171 2011
- Colbeck, Gabriel J., Sillett, T. Scott, and Webster, Michael S. 2010. "Asymmetric discrimination of geographical variation in song in a migratory passerine." Animal Behaviour 80 (2):311-318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.05.013 2010
- Faaborg, John, Holmes, Richard T., Anders, Angela D., Bildstein, Keith L., Dugger, Katie M., Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr., Heglund, Patricia, Hobson, Keith A., Jahn, Alex E., Johnson, Douglas H., Latta, Steve C., Levey, Douglas J., Marra, Peter P., Merkord, Christopher L., Nol, Erica, Rothstein, Stephen I., Sherry, Thomas W., Sillett, T. Scott, Thompson, Frank R., III, and Warnock, Nils. 2010. "Conserving migratory land birds in the New World: Do we know enough?." Ecological Applications 20 (2):398-418. https://doi.org/10.1890/09-0397.1 2010
- Schwenk, W. Scott, Strong, Allan M., and Sillett, T. Scott. 2010. "Effects of bird predation on arthropod abundance and tree growth across an elevational gradient." Journal of Avian Biology 41 (4):367-377. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-048X.2009.04963.x 2010
- Faaborg, John, Holmes, Richard T., Anders, Angela D., Bildstein, Keith L., Dugger, Katie M., Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr., Heglund, Patricia, Hobson, Keith A., Jahn, Alex E., Johnson, Douglas H., Latta, Steve C., Levey, Douglas J., Marra, Peter P., Merkord, Christopher L., Nol, Erica, Rothstein, Stephen I., Sherry, Thomas W., Sillett, T. Scott, Thompson, Frank R., III, and Warnock, Nils. 2010. "Recent advances in understanding migration systems of New World land birds." Ecological Monographs 80 (1):3-48. https://doi.org/10.1890/09-0395.1 2010
- Horton, Brent M., Yoon, Jongmin, Ghalambor, Cameron K., Moore, Ignacio T., and Sillett, T. Scott. 2010. "Seasonal and population variation in male testosterone levels in breeding orange-crowned warblers (Vermivora celata)." General and Comparative Endocrinology 168 (3):333-339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.04.019 2010
- Peluc, Susana I., Sillett, T. Scott, Rotenberry, John T., and Ghalambor, Cameron K. 2008. "Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in an island songbird exposed to a novel predation risk." Behavioral Ecology 19 (4):830-835. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arn033 2008
- Cruz-Angon, Andrea, Sillett, T. Scott, and Greenberg, Russell S. 2008. "An Experimental Study of Habitat Selection by Birds in a Coffee Plantation." Ecology 89 (4):921-927. https://doi.org/10.1890/07-0164.1 2008
- Salgado-Ortiz, Javier, Marra, Peter P., Sillett, T. Scott, and Robertson, Raleigh J. 2008. "Breeding Ecology of the Mangrove Warbler (Dendroica petechia Bryanti) and Comparative Life History of the Yellow Warbler Subspecies Complex." The Auk 125 (2):402-410. https://doi.org/10.1525/auk.2008.07012 2008
- Betts, Matthew G., Rodenhouse, Nicholas L., Sillett, T. Scott, Doran, Patrick J., and Holmes, Richard T. 2008. "Dynamic occupancy models reveal within-breeding season movement up a habitat quality gradient by a migratory songbird." Ecography 31 (5):592-600. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0906-7590.2008.05490.x 2008
- Rodenhouse, Nicholas L., Matthews, S. N., McFarland, K. P., Lambert, J. D., Iverson, L. R., Prasad, A., Sillett, T. Scott, and Holmes, Richard T. 2008. "Potential effects of climate change on birds of the Northeast." Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 13 (5-6):517-540. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-007-9126-1 2008
- Karubian, Jordan, Sillett, T. Scott, and Webster, Michael S. 2008. "The effects of delayed plumage maturation on aggression and survival in male red-backed fairy-wrens." Behavioral Ecology (3): 508-516. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arm159 2008
- Dobbs, Robert C., Sillett, T. Scott, Rodenhouse, Nicholas L., and Holmes, Richard T. 2007. "Population density affects foraging behavior of male Black-throated Blue Warblers during the breeding season." Journal of Field Ornithology 78 (2):133-139. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1557-9263.2007.00096.x 2007
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chapter
- Montag, Hannah, Nager, Ruedi, Ghalambor, Cameron K., and Sillett, T. Scott. 2009. "Nest Site Selection of the Endemic "Dusky" Orange-crowned Warbler (Vermivora celata sordida) on Santa Catalina Island." in Proceedings of the 7th California Islands Symposium., edited by Gardelon, D. K., 283-291. Institute for Wildlife Studies. 2009
- Langin, K. M., Sillett, T. Scott, Yoon, J., Sofaer, H. R., Morrison, S. A., and Ghalambor, C. K. 2009. "Reproductive consequences of an extreme drought for orange-crowned warblers on Santa Catalina and Santa Cruz Islands.." in Proceedings of the Seventh California Islands Symposium, edited by Garcelon, D. K., 293-300. Institute for Wildlife Studies. 2009
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dataset
- Rushing, Clark S., Hostetler, Jeffrey A., Sillett, T. Scott, Marra, Peter P., and Ryder, Thomas B. 2017. [Dataset] "Demographic data used in spatial and temporal drivers of avian population dynamic across the annual cycle. (CSV)." Distributed by Smithsonian Research Online. https://doi.org/10.5479/data_nzp/10088/32800 2017
Activities
professional service activities
- American Ornithological Society Editor-in-Chief, The Auk 2018 -
Affiliation
member of
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Location
- National Zoological Park Academic Department
