Chris Elphick

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Assistant Professor

Office: BioPharmacy 300A
Voice: (860) 486-4547
Fax: (860) 486-6364
E-mail: chris.elphick@uconn.edu

Home page:
http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/birdlab/

Mailing address:
75 N. Eagleville Road, Unit 3043
Storrs, CT 06269-3043, U.S.A.

[edit] Research interests:

Avian conservation biology and ecology. In particular, conservation in agricultural settings, large-scale conservation planning, and the behavior of dispersal.

[edit] Selected publications:

• Ellis, M.M., and Elphick, C.S. 2007. Using a stochastic model to examine the ecological, economic and ethical consequences of population control in a charismatic invasive species: mute swans in North America. Journal of Applied Ecology 44: 312-322.
  

• Elphick, C.S., Reed, J.M., Delehanty, D.J. 2007. Applications of reproductive biology to bird conservation and population management. Pages 367-399 in B.G.M. Jamieson, ed Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Birds. Science Publishers, Enfield, New Hampshire, USA.

• Elphick, C.S., Zuur, A.F., and Ieno, E.N. 2007. Investigating the effects of rice farming on aquatic birds with mixed modelling. Pages 417-434 in A.F. Zuur, E.N. Ieno, and G.M. Smith, eds. Analysing Ecological Data. Springer

• Floyd, T., Elphick, C.S., Chisholm, G., Mack, K., Elston, R.D., Ammon, E.M. and Boone, J. 2007. Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Nevada. University of Nevada Press, Reno. 608 pages.

• Humphries, S., Elphick, C.S., Gjerdrum, C. and Rubega, M. 2007. Testing the function of nest domes in Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrows. Journal of Field Ornithology 78: 152-158.

• Reed, J.M., Elphick, C.S., Zuur, A.F., and Ieno, E.N. 2007. Time series analysis of Hawaiian waterbirds. Pages 615-632 in A.F. Zuur, E.N. Ieno, and G.M. Smith, eds Analysing Ecological Data. Springer

• Sibley, D.A., Bevier, L.R., Patten, M.A. , and Elphick, C.S. 2007. Ivory-billed or pileated woodpecker?. Science 315: 1495-1496.

• Sibley, D.A., Bevier, L.R., Patten, M.A., and Elphick, C.S. 2007. Comment on "Ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) persists in continental North America". Science 311: 1555.

• Elphick, C.S. 2006. Measuring Connecticut’s bird populations and trends.: 8-14.

• Greenberg, R., Elphick, C,. Nordby, J.C,. Gjerdrum, C., Spautz, H., Shriver, G., Schmeling, B., Olsen, B., Marra, P., Nur, N., and Winter, M. 2006. Flooding and predation: trade-offs in the nesting ecology of tidal-marsh sparrows. Pages 96-109 in R. Greenberg, S. Droege, J. Maldonado, and M. V. McDonald, eds. Vertebrates of Tidal Marshes: Ecology, Evolution and Conservation. Studies in Avian Biology

• Gjerdrum, C., Elphick, C.S., and Rubega, M, 2005. What determines nest site selection and nesting success in saltmarsh breeding sparrows?. Condor 107: 849-862.

• Elphick, C. S. 2004. Assessing conservation trade-offs: Identifying the effects of flooding rice fields for waterbirds on non-target bird species. Biological Conservation 117: 105-110.