Products by Tom O'Shea

Data

 USGS Bat Population Database for the United States and Trust Territories
 

Publications

 Environmental contaminants and bats: Investigating exposure and effects
 

 Broadening the focus of bat conservation and research in the USA for the 21st century
 

 Following Sirenia’s song: The meritorious journey of research zoologist Thomas J. O’Shea
 

 Large-scale marine ecosystem change and the conservation of marine mammals
 

 The urban whale: North Atlantic right whales at the crossroads, by S.D. Kraus and R.M. Rolland (eds.). [Book Review]
 

 Evaluation of morphological indices and total body electrical conductivity to assess body composition in big brown bats
 

 Climate change: The science of impacts
 

 Detection of group 1 coronaviruses in bats in North America
 

 Factors influencing movement probabilities of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) in buildings
 

 A comparison of conventional capture versus PIT reader techniques for estimating survival and capture probabilities of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus)
 

 Urban maternity-roost selection by big brown bats in Colorado
 

 Molecular ecology of the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus): Genetic and natural history variation in a hybrid zone
 

 Ectoparasites in an urban population of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) in Colorado
 

 Lack of association between ectoparasite intensities and rabies virus neutralizing antibody seroprevalence in wild big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus), Fort Collins, Colorado
 

 Sampling Blood from big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) in the field with and without anesthesia: Impacts on survival
 

 Nonlinear dynamics in manatee vocalizations
 

 Autumn migration and selection of rock crevices as hibernacula by big brown bats in Colorado
 

 Foreword
 

 History of the Fort Collins Science Center U.S. Geological Survey
 

 Aspects of underwater sound communication in Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris)
 

 Ecology of commensal bats in relation to rabies transmission: summary of the Fort Collins study, 2001-2005
 

 Survival and condition of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) after radiotagging
 

 Assessing impacts of environmental contaminants
 

 Marine mammals and environmental contaminants in the Pacific Ocean: current knowledge and frontiers for research
 

 Genetic divergence of rabies viruses from bat species of Colorado, USA
 

 Anesthesia and blood sampling of wild big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) with an assessment of impacts on survival
 

 Flying by night: USGS scientists put technology to work on bats
 

 Survival estimation in bats: historical overview, critical appraisal, and suggestions for new approaches
 

 Rabies in a captive colony of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus)
 

 Western crevice and cavity roosting bats
 

 Seasonal movements, migratory behavior, and site fidelity of West Indian manatees along the Atlantic coast of the United States
 

 Existing data on colonies of bats in the United States: summary and analysis of the U.S. Geological Survey's Bat Population Database
 

 Toxicology of sirenians
 

 Introduction
 

 Monitoring trends in bat populations of the United States and territories: problems and prospects
 

 Persistent ocean contaminants and marine mammals: a retrospective overview
 

 Conclusions and perspectives for the future
 

 Monitoring trends in bat populations of the United States and territories: status of the science and recommendations for the future
 

 Toxicology of marine mammals
 

 An overview of contaminants and bats, with special reference to insecticides and the Indiana bat
 

 Bat use of a high-plains urban wildlife refuge
 

 Toxicology
 

 Cetaceans and sirenians
 

 Cyclodiene insecticide, DDE, DDT, arsenic and mercury contamination of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) foraging at a Colorado Superfund site
 

 Marine Mammals: sirenians
 

 Florida manatees: perspectives on populations, pain and protection
 

 Procedures for the salvage and necropsy of the dugong (Dugong dugon)
 

 Cause of seal die-off in 1988 is still under debate
 

 PCBs not to blame
 

 Impacts of mine-related contaminants on bats
 

 Environmental contaminants and marine mammals
 

 West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus)
 

 Toxicology in marine mammals
 

 Population changes in bats from Central Arizona: 1972 and 1997
 

 Marine mammals and persistent ocean contaminants
 

 Continued studies of bat species of concern in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico
 

 Estimates of annual survival probabilities for adult Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris)
 

 California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) populations and EDDT contamination
 

 A study of bat populations at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Bandelier National Monument, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico
 

 Population viability analysis of the Florida manatee, 1976-1992
 

 Diversity and conservation of bats in North America
 

 Age determination in manatees using growth-layer-group counts in bone
 

 Integration of manatee life-history data and population modeling
 

 Florida Manatees
 

 Can dugongs survive in Palau?
 

 Waterborne recreation and the Florida manatee
 

 Estimation of survival of adult Florida manatees in the Crystal River, at Blue Spring, and on the Atlantic coast
 

 Reproduction and early age survival of manatees at Blue Spring, Upper St. Johns River, Florida
 

 Population biology of the Florida manatee: An overview
 

 Introduction
 

 Population biology of the Florida manatee
 

 Reproduction and mortality of radio-tagged and recognizable manatees on the Atlantic coast of Florida
 

 Organochlorine and metal contaminants in baleen whales: a review and evaluation of conservation implications
 

 Manatees
 

 Foreword
 

 El manati en la tradicion y folklore de Venezuela
 

 Florida manatee
 

 Regulation of PCBs [letter]
 

 Book review of The Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses
 

 Book Review of Conservation Biology and the Black-Footed Ferret
 

 Xerus rutilus
 

 Belize - a last stronghold for manatees in the Caribbean
 

 Nasitrema sp.-associated encephalitis in a striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) stranded in the Gulf of Mexico
 

 An epizootic of Florida manatees associated with a dinoflagellate bloom
 

 Myxomatous transformation of heart valves in Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris)
 

 Distribucion y abundancia del manati, Trichechus Manatus, en Venezuela
 

 Distribution and status of manatees (Trichechus manatus) in Panama
 

 Florida manatees: distribution, geographically referenced data sets, and ecological and behavioral aspects of habitat use
 

 Encephalization quotients and life-history traits in the Sirenia
 

 Regional brain morphometry and lissencephaly in the Sirenia
 

 Sowerby's beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens) in the Gulf of Mexico
 

 Distribution, status, and biogeography of the West Indian manatee
 

 Three years operational use of satellite transmitters on Florida manatees: tag improvements based on challenges from the field
 

 Genetic variability in the Florida manatee, (Trichechus manatus)
 

 Manatee research efforts underway on Florida's east coast
 

 Distribution, status, and traditional significance of the West Indian manatee Trichechus manatus in Venezuela
 

 The past, present, and future of manatees in the southeastern United States: Realities, misunderstandings and enigmas
 

 Distribution and mortality of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) in the southeastern United States: A compilation and review of recent information (2 volumes)
 

 Research on sirenians
 

 Mast foraging by West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus)
 

 Communication and behavior of whales [Review]
 

 An analysis of manatee mortality patterns in Florida, 1976-1981
 

 Tolerance of West Indian manatees to capture and handling
 

 Does the manatee have a pineal body?
 

 Pathologic findings in manatees in Florida
 

 Lead concentrations and reproduction in highway-nesting barn swallows
 

 Contaminant concentrations in manatees in Florida
 

 The manatee's simple social life
 

 Manual of procedures for the salvage and necropsy of carcasses of the West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus)
 

 Antrozous pallidus
 

 Auditory evoked potentials in the West Indian Manatee (Sirenia: Trichechus manatus)
 

 Effects of dietary nickel on mallards
 

 Polychlorinated biphenyls in a wild mink population
 

 Influence of a local source of DDT pollution on statewide DDT residues in waterfowl wings, Northern Alabama, 1978-79
 

 Organochlorine pollutants in small cetaceans from the Pacific and South Atlantic Oceans, November 1968-June 1976
 

 DDT contamination at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge
 

 Phthalate plasticizers: Accumulation and effects on weight and food consumption in captive starlings
 

 Roosting, social organization and the annual cycle in a Kenya population of the bat Pipistrellus nanus
 

 Ecological observations on an East African bat community
 

 Monitoring fish and wildlife for environmental pollutants
 

 Nocturnal and seasonal activities of the pallid bat, Antrozous pallidus
 

 Fat content in migratory central Arizona Brazilian free-tailed bats, Tadarida brasiliensis (Molossidae)
 

 Home range, social behavior, and dominance relationships in the African unstriped ground squirrel, Xerus rutilus
 

 Roosting ecology of the pallid bat, Antrozous pallidus
 

 Further comments on punch-marking bats
 

 Movements and behavior of bighorn sheep on summer ranges in Yellowstone National Park
 

 Two bighorn sheep-coyote encounters