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2025

Robinson, O.J., et al. (accepted, Ornithological Applications) Same view through a different lens: comparing population trends for North American birds using eBird and the Breeding Bird Survey.

 

Farwell, L. et al. (in press, Ornithological Applications) Leveraging eBird data products to inform regional bird conservation priorities and objectives.

 

Dunham, K.D.; Harris, S.M.***, Robinson, O.J., Hingrat, Y, Ruiz-Gutierrez, V. (accepted, Global Ecology and  Conservation) Evaluating the efficacy of a large-scale population reinforcement program.

 

Howell, P.E., Lawson, A.J., Davis, K.P.***, Zimmerman, G.S., Robinson, O.J., Boggie, M.A., Eaton, M.J., Abadi, F. Brown, J.L., Heath, J.A., Smallwood, J.A., Steenhof, K. Swem, T., Rolek, B.W., McClure, C.J.W., Therrien, J.-F., Miller, K.E., Milsap, B.A. (accepted, Ecosphere) American kestrel population trend and vital rates at the continental scale.

 

Masto, N.M.***, Dunham, K.D., Brasher, M.G., Ringelman, K.M., Osborn, J.M., Avers, B.Bidrowski, T.Ervin, M., Jones, O.E., Loges, B.W., McClain, D., Phelps, W.A., Vanausdall, R. Lancaster, J.D., & Robinson, O.J. (accepted, Ornithological Applications) Citizen science generates reliable migration chronologies to supplement professional surveys for waterfowl habitat management.

 

Johnston, A., Rodewald, A.D., Strimas-Mackey, M., Auer, A.T., Hochachka, W.M., Stillman, A.N., Davis, C.L., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Dokter, A.M., Miller, E.T., Robinson, O.J., Ligocki, S., Oldham Jaromczyk, L., Crowley, C., Wood, C.L., Fink, D. (in press, Science) North American bird declines are greatest where species are most abundant.

 

A.D. Binley**, J.O. Hanson, O.J. Robinson, G.H. Golet, & J.R. Bennett. (2025) Quantifying the Value of Community Science Data for Conservation Decision-making. Journal of Applied Ecology 62:1024-1036.

 

2024

Socolar, J.***, Galtbalt, B.***, Johnston, A., LaSorte, F.A., Robinson, O.J., Rosenburg, K.V., Dokter, A.M. (2024) Seasonal macro-demography of North American bird populations revealed through participatory science. Ecography. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07349

 

Robertson, E.P.***, LaSorte, F.A., Mays, J.D., Tallie, P.J., Robinson, O.J., Ansley, R.J., O’Connell, T.J., Davis, C.A., & Loss, S.R. (2024) Bird migration is not tracking the changing phenology of spring green-up. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121: e2308433121

 

Martin, P.R., Robinson, O.J., Bonier, F. (2024) Widespread support for the Rare-edge, but not Abundant-centre, hypothesis in North American birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 291: 20231760

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2023

Donlan, C.J., Eusse-Gonzalez, D., Luque, G.M., Reiter, M.E., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Allen, M.C.***, Johnston-Gonzalez, R., Robinson, O.J., Fernandez, G., Palacios, & E., Valenzuela, J. (2023). An impact evaluation of conservation investments targeting long-distance migratory species. Conservation Biology. e14194

 

Stillman, A.***, Howell, P.; Zimmerman, G.; Bjerre, E.; Millsap, BA, Robinson, OJ.; Fink, D., Stuber, E, Ruiz-Gutierrez, V. (2023) Leveraging the strengths of citizen science and structured surveys to achieve scalable inference on population size. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60: 2389-2399

 

Davis, C.L.***, Chen, D., Bai, Y., Robinson, O.J., Gutierrez, V.R., Fink, D., & Gomes, C.P. (2023) A new frontier in community ecology: Deep-learning facilitates data-driven discovery of community structure at continental scales. Ecology. 12: e4175

 

Fink, D. Johnston, A.J., Rodewald, A.D., Strimas-Mackey, M., Auer, A.T., Ligocki, S., Hochachka, W.M., Sauer, J. Oldham, L., Robinson, O.J., Wood, C, Kelling, S.T. (2023) A Double Machine Learning Trend Model for Citizen Science Data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.14186

 

Harris, S.M.***, Robinson, O.J., Hingrat, Y., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V. (2023) Understanding the demography of a reinforced population: long-term survival of captive-bred and wild-born houbara bustards in Morocco. Biological Conservation. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110185

 

 Allen, M.C.***, Lockwood, J.L., Robinson, O.J. (2023) Integrating habitat models for threatened species with landownership information to inform coastal resiliency and conservation planning. Ecological Restoration. 50: 31-39. doi: 10.1017/S037689292200039X

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2022

 

Fanelli, R.**, Martin, P., Robinson, O.J., Bonier, F. (2022) Estimates of species-level tolerance of urban habitat in North American birds. Ecology. 103. e3821

 

Masto, N.M.**, Robinson, O.J., et al.(2nd of 11 authors; 2022).Citizen science reveals

waterfowl responses to recent extreme winter weather. Global Change Biology. 28: 5469-5479

 

Stuber, E.F., Robinson, O.J., Bjerre, E., Otto, M. Millsap, B., Zimmerman, G., Brasher, M.G.,

Ringelman, K.M., Fournier, A.M.V., Yetter, A., Isola, J.E., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V. (2022) The potential of semi-structured citizen science data as a supplement for conservation decision-making: Validating the performance of eBird against targeted avian monitoring efforts. Biological Conservation. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109556.

 

Robinson, O.J. et al. (first of 34 authors; 2022) Extreme uncertainty and unquantifiable bias do

not inform population sizes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119: e2113862119.

 

Howell, P.E.***, Devers, P.K., Robinson, O.J., Sauer, J.R., Royle, J.A. (2022) Leveraging

community-science data for population assessments during a pandemic. Ecological Applications. doi:10.1002/eap.2529.

 

2021

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Zúñiga-Vega, J.J., Ortega-Álvarez,R.**, Ruiz-Gutiérrez,V., Robinson, O.J., Benítez, E.B., Mena, I.M. (2021) Beyond incidence data: Assessing bird habitat use in indigenous working landscapes through the analysis of behavioral variation among land uses. Landscape and Urban Planning. 211: 104100

 

Johnston, A., Hochachka, W.M., Strimas-Mackey, M., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Robinson, O.J., Miller, E.I., Auer, T., Kelling, S.T., Fink, D., (2021). Analytical guidelines to increase the value of eBird data to estimate species occurrence. Diversity and Distributions DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13271

 

Ruiz-Gutierrez, V. Bjerre, E., Otto, M., Zimmerman, G., Milsap, B.A., Fink, D., Stuber, E., Strimas-

Mackey, M., Robinson, O.J. (2021) A pathway for citizen-science data to inform policy: a case study using eBird data for defining low-risk collision areas for wind energy development. Journal of Applied Ecology 58:1104–111. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13870

 

2020

Robinson, O.J., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Meese, R.J., Wyckoff, A.C., Merriell, B.D.*, Snyder, C.*, Cooch, E.G. (accepted, Ecosphere). Multi-scale demographic analysis reveals range contraction via pseudo-source and sink population structure.

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Robinson, O.J., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Reynolds, M.D., Golet, G.H., Strimas-Mackey, M., Fink, D. Using citizen science data to improve ecological inference: integrating expert surveys with eBird data improves the accuracy and extent of distribution models. Diversity and Distributions 26:976-986. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13068

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McNeil, D.J., Rodewald, A.D., Robinson, O.J., Fiss, C.J., Rosenberg, K.V., Ruiz-Gutiérrez, V., Aldinger, K., Dhondt, A.A., Pewtzinger, S., Larkin, J.L. Regional Abundance and Local Breeding Productivity Explain Occupancy of Restored Habitats in a Migratory Songbird. Biological Conservation 245: 108463. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.1008463 

 

McNeil, D.J., Rodewald, A.D., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Johnson K.E., Strimas-Mackey M., Petzinger S., Robinson, O.J., Soto, G.E., Dhondt, A.A., Larkin, J.L. (accepted, Restoration Ecology). Multi-scale drivers of restoration outcomes for an imperiled songbird.

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2019

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Johnston, A., Hochachka, W.M., Strimas-Mackey, M., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Robinson, O.J., Miller, E.I., M.T. Auer, Fink, D., Kelling, S.T. Best practices for using citizen science data in ecological studies: case study using eBird to estimate species distributions. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/574392v2

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2018

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Robinson, O.J., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Meese, R.J., Fink, D., Holyoak, M., Cooch, E.G. Using citizen science data in integrated population models to inform conservation decision-making. Biological Conservation 227: 361- 368.  DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2018.10.002

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Dokter, A.M., Farnsworth, A., Fink, D., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Hochachka, W.M., La Sorte, F.A., Robinson, O.J., Rosenberg, K.V., Kelling, S. (2018) Seasonal abundance and survival of North America's migratory avifauna. Nature Ecology and Evolution.​ 10.1038/s41559-018-0666-4.

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Price-Tack, J.L., McGowan, C.P., Ditchkoff, S.S., Morse, W.C., Robinson, O.J. (2018) Managing the endangered North American hunter: a novel framework and tool to address declines in hunters and hunter-generated conservation funds. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. DOI: 10.1080/10871209.2018.1499155

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Robinson, O.J., Fink, D., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V. (2018) Correcting for bias in distribution modeling for rare species using citizen science data. Diversity and Distributions. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12698.

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2017

Avery, J.A., Aagaard, K.J., Burkhalter, J.C., and Robinson, O.J. (2017) Comparative analysis indicates seabird bycatch reduction devices reduce avian bycatch and increase target species catch in longline fisheries. Journal for Nature Conservation. DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2017.05.004

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Steen, D.A. and Robinson, O.J. (2017) Ingestion of fish hooks by freshwater turtles: estimating mortality rates and associated population declines. Conservation Biology. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12926

 

Robinson, O.J., McGowan, C.P. and Devers, P.K. (2017) Deciphering density-dependent population dynamics using multiple system models and Bayesian model weight updating. Journal of Applied Ecology.  DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12761   

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Robinson, O.J., Jensen, O.P., Provost, M.M., Huang, S.*, Fefferman, N.H., Kebir, A. and Lockwood, J.L. (2017) Evaluating the impacts of fishing on sex-changing fish: A game-theoretic approach. ICES Journal of Marine Science. DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsw222 Selected as Editor's Choice

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2016

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Robinson, O.J., McGowan, C.P., Apodaca, J.J., (2016) Decision analysis for habitat conservation of an endangered, range limited salamander. Animal Conservation. 19: 561-569 DOI: 10.1111/acv.12275

 

Robinson, O.J., McGowan, C.P., and Devers, P.K. (2016) Updating movement estimates for American Black Duck migration. PeerJ. 4:e1787 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1787

 

Robinson, O.J., McGowan, C.P., Devers, P.K., Brook, R.W., Huang, M., Jones, M., McAuley, D.G., Zimmerman, G. (2016) A full annual cycle modeling framework for American black ducks. Natural Resource Modeling. 29: 159-174    DOI: 10.1111/nrm.12088

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2015

Stringham, O.C.* and Robinson, O.J. (2015) A modeling methodology to evaluate the efficacy of predator exclosures versus predator control. Animal Conservation 18: 451-460 DOI: 10.1111/acv.12197

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Robinson, O.J., Lockwood, J.L., Stringham, O.C.* and Fefferman, N.H. (2015) A novel tool for making policy recommendations from PVA: Helping theory become practice. Conservation Letters. 8:190-198 DOI: 10.1111/conl.12146

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2014

 Lockwood, J.L. and Robinson, O.J. (2014) The Impacts of Invasive Species on Coastal Marine Ecosystems, in Coastal Conservation (B. Maslo and J.L. Lockwood, editors). Cambridge University Press. 

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2013

Robinson, O.J., N.H. Fefferman, and J.L. Lockwood. (2013) How to effectively manage invasive predators to protect their native prey. Biological Conservation. 165: 142-156. DOI: 10.1016/biocon.2013.6.001

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2012

Robinson, O.J., Burkhalter, J.C., and Dindo, J.J. (2012) Conservation and management implications regarding local avian diversity following the Deep Water Horizon disaster. Southeastern Naturalist. 11(2): G29-G35. DOI: 10.1056/058.011.0218

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2011

Robinson, O.J. and Dindo, J.J., (2011) Egg success, hatching success, and nest-site selection in Brown Pelicans, Gaillard Island, Alabama, USA.  The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 123(2): 386-390. DOI: 10.1676/10-125.1

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2008

Robinson, O.J. and Dindo, J.J., (2008) Survey for colonial nesting birds on seven islands of coastal Alabama. Alabama Birdlife (Journal of the Alabama Ornithological Society).  54(2): 37-43. PDF

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* denotes undergraduate mentee