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R. Scott Davidson (CV)

Contact Info:
Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center, USGS/BRD
PO Box 796
Turners Falls, MA 01376

email: davidson@nrc.umass.edu
office phone: (413) 863-3820
cell phone: (413) 475-2843

Research Interests:
I have worked on a variety of organisms Saddleback, a native New Zealand bird species for my Masters with Doug Armstrong, on house mice for my Phd with Hamish Spencer, baboons for a post doc with Susan Alberts and now on Atlantic salmon with Ben Letcher. My interests are in populations dynamics and how populations are affected by environmental variation and density dependence.

Publications:
D.P. Armstrong R.S. Davidson. 2006. Modelling the reintroduction of island-marooned birds to the New Zealand Mainland. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 30: 73-85.

D.P. Armstrong, R.S. Davidson, J.K. Perrot, J. Roygard, and L. Buchanan. 2005. Density Dependent population growth in a reintroduced population of North Island saddlebacks. Journal of Animal Ecology, 74: 160-170.

D.P. Armstrong, R.S. Davidson, W.J. Dimond, J.K. Perrot, I. Castro, J.G. Ewen, R. Griffiths, and J. Taylor. 2002 Population dynamics of reintroduced forest birds on New Zealand Islands. Journal of Biogeography, 29:609-621.

R.S. Davidson and D.P. Armstrong. 2002 Estimating impacts of poison operations on non-target species using mark-recapture analysis and simulation modelling: an example with saddlebacks. Biological Conservation, 105: 375-381.

M. Massaro, L.S. Davis, & R.S. Davidson. 2006. Plasticity of Brood patch development and its influence on incubation periods in the Yellow-eyed Penguin: an experimental approach. Journal of Avian Biology, 37: 497-506.

R.J. Barker, M.R. Schofield, D.P. Armstrong, R.S. Davidson. 2008. Bayesian hierarchical models for inference about population growth. Pages 3-17 in Modeling demographic processes in marked populations. Eds. D.L. Thompson, E.G. Cooch & M.J. Conroy.