Janet Ruth - USGS

Trust Species & Habitats

Research Ecologist

Duty Station:
Arid Lands Field Station
UNM Biology Department MSC03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

Phone: 505-346-2870 ext. 12
Fax: 505.277.0304
Email: janet_ruth@usgs.gov

Current Research

• Partners in Flight Coordinator for USGS
• Status and Breeding Ecology of the Arizona Grasshopper Sparrow
• Wintering Habitat Use by Priority Grassland Birds
• Grasshopper Sparrow Focal Species Conservation Action Plan

Publications

• Migrating birds’ use of stopover habitat in the southwestern United States
• Filling knowledge gaps to enhance full life-cycle bird conservation: Partners in Flight's tri-national vision
• Breeding ecology of the Arizona Grasshopper Sparrow
• Herding Sparrows for Science: They're Not Just "LBJs"
• Bird migration and stopover habitat use in the Southwest
• Information gaps on limiting factors and other critical research needs for landbird conservation
• Ten years of research on grassland birds in Arizona, including BLM's Las Cienegas National Conservation Area
• Saving our shared birds: partners in flight tri-national sision for landbird conservation
• Partners in Flight research needs assessment summary
• Management and research applications of long-range surveillance radar data for birds, bats, and flying insects
• Birds of the US-Mexico borderlands: distribution, ecology and conservation
• Literature Cited [Birds of the US-Mexico borderlands: Distribution, ecology, and conservation]
• Application of models to conservation planning for terrestrial birds in North America
• Distribution of breeding Arizona Grasshopper Sparrow (ammodramus savannarum ammolegus) in the southwestern United States: Past, present, and future
• Radar Technology - A Tool for Understanding Migratory “Aerofauna”
• Seasonal passerine migratory movements over the arid Southwest
• Molt and aging criteria for four North American grassland passerines
• Preface [Birds of the US-Mexico borderlands: distribution, ecology and conservation]
• Applying radar technology to migratory bird conservation and management: strengthening and expanding a collaborative
• Guide to the PIF Population Estimates Database, Version: North American Landbird Conservation Plan 2004
• Making connections for bird conservation: linking states, provinces & territories to important wintering and breeding grounds
• Applying radar technology to migratory bird conservationand management: Strengthening and expanding a collaborative effort. Workshop participant notebook for USGS-USFWS workshop held 24-25 October 2006
• Using radar to advance migratory bird management: an interagency collaboration
• Advancing migratory bird conservation and management by using radar: an interagency collaboration
• The five elements process: designing optimal landscapes to meet bird conservation objectives
• High priority needs for range-wide monitoring of North American landbirds
• BRD conservation the USGS way
• Herding sparrows for science
• Science for avian conservation: priorities for the new millennium
• Of grassland birds and fire
• Breeding habitat use by sympatric and allopatric populations of Wilson's Warblers and Yellow Warblers
• They Aren't Just "LBJs"
• Cassin's Sparrow (Aimophila cassinii) status assessment and conservation plan
• Grassland birds: an overview of threats and recommended management strategies
• Science for avian conservation: understanding, modeling, and applying ecological relationships