Publications & Awards

Bats

Rodhouse, T.J., Rose, S., Hawkins, T., & Rodriguez, R. M. 2021. Audible bats provide opportunities for citizen scientists. Conservation Science and Practice, 3:e435.

Wright, W.J., Irvine, K.M., Rodhouse, T.J., & Litt, A.R. 2021. Spatial gaussian processes improve multi‐species occupancy models when range boundaries are uncertain and nonoverlapping. Ecology and Evolution, 11(13), 8516–8527.

Reichert, B.E., Bayless, M., Cheng, T.L., Coleman, J.T., Francis, C.M., Frick, W.F., Gotthold, B.S., Irvine, K.M., Lausen, C., Li, H., Loeb, S.C., Reichard, J.D., Rodhouse, T.J., Segers, J.L., Siemers, J.L., Thogmartin, W.E., & Weller, T.J. 2021. NABat: A top-down, bottom-up solution to collaborative continental-scale monitoring. Ambio, 50(4), 901–913. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01411-y 

Banner, K.M., Irvine, K.M., Rodhouse, T.J., Donner, D., Litt, A.R. 2019. Statistical power of dynamic occupancy models to identify temporal change: informing the North American Bat Monitoring Program. Ecological Indicators 105:166-176.

Rodhouse, T.J., Rodriguez, R.M., Irvine, K.M., Banner, K.M., Ormsbee P.C., Barnett, J. 2019. Evidence of region-wide bat population decline from long-term monitoring and Bayesian occupancy models with empirically-informed priors. Ecology and Evolution 9:11078-11088.

Rodriguez, R.M., Rodhouse, T.J., Barnett, J., Irvine, K.M., Banner, K.M., Lonneker, J., and Ormsbee, P.C. 2019. North American Bat Monitoring Program regional protocol for surveying with stationary deployments of echolocation recording devices: Version 1.0, Pacific Northwestern US. Natural Resource Report NPS/UCBN/NRR—2019/1975. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. 

Banner, K., Irvine, K.M., Rodhouse, T.J., Wright, W.J., Rodriguez, R.M., and Litt, A.R. 2018. Improving geographically-extensive acoustic survey designs for modeling species occurrence with imperfect detection and misidentification. Ecology and Evolution 8:6144-6156.

Weller T.J., Rodhouse T.J., Neubaum D.J., Ormsbee P.C., Dixon R.D., Popp D.L., et al. 2018. A review of bat hibernacula across the western United States: Implications for white-nose syndrome surveillance and management. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0205647.

Pika

Goldman, M.R., Shinderman, M., Jeffress, M.R., Rodhouse, T.J., & Shoemaker, K.T. 2023. Integrating multiple sign types to improve occupancy estimation for inconspicuous species. Ecology and Evolution, 13(5).

Shinderman, M., & Popp, D. 2020. Monitoring American pika in protected lava landscapes: 2019 project background and results. OSU-Cascades Human and Ecosystem Resilience and Sustainability Lab, ϳԹվ-Cascades & National Parks Service.

Smith, A.B., Beever, E.A., Kessler A.E., … ,Rodhouse, T.J, … et al. 2019. Alternatives to genetic affinity as a context for within-species response to climate. Nat. Clim. Chang. 9, 787–794 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0584-8

Rodhouse, T.J., Jeffress, M.R., Sherrill, K.R., Mohren, S.R., Nordensten N.J., Magnuson, M.L., Schwalm, D.*, Castillo, J.A.,  Shinderman, M.J., and Epps, C.W. 2018. Geographic variation in the influence of habitat and climate on site occupancy turnover in American Pika (Ochotona princeps). Diversity and Distributions 24:1506-1520.

Shinderman, M.J., Rodhouse, T.J., Popp D.L. 2018. Monitoring American Pika in Protected Lava Landscapes 2018 Project Background and Results. Humans & Ecosystems Resilience & Sustainability Lab, ϳԹվ-Cascades & National Parks Service.

Shinderman, M.J., Rodhouse, T.J., Popp D.L. 2017. Monitoring American Pika in Protected Lava Landscapes 2017 Project Background and Results. Humans & Ecosystems Resilience & Sustainability Lab, ϳԹվ-Cascades & National Parks Service.

Rodhouse, T.J., Beever, E.A., Garrett, L.K., Irvine, K.M., Jeffress, M.R., Munts, M., Ray, C. 2010. Distribution of American pikas in a low-elevation lava landscape: conservation implications from the range periphery, Journal of Mammalogy, Volume 91, Issue 5, Pages 1287–1299,

Shinderman, M. (2015). American pika in a low‐elevation lava landscape: Expanding the known distribution of a temperature‐sensitive species. Ecology and Evolution, 5, 3666– 3676.

Sage Steppe

Sagatelova, M., Rodriguez-Pena, R.A., Rodhouse, T.J., Lonneker, J., Sherrill, K.R., &; Wolfe, A.D. 2023. Conservation genomics and species distribution models motivate proactive and collaborative conservation in an era of rapid change. Journal of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology.  

Stucki, D.S., Rodhouse, T.J., & Reuter, R.J. 2021. Effects of traditional harvest and burning on common camas (Camassia quamash) abundance in northern Idaho: The potential for traditional resource management in a protected area wetland. Ecology and Evolution, 11(23), 16473–16486.  

Rodhouse, T.J., Lonneker, J., Bowersock, L., Popp, D., Thompson, J. C., Dicus, G.H., & Irvine, K.M. 2021. Resilience to fire and resistance to annual grass invasion in sagebrush ecosystems of US national parks. Global Ecology and Conservation, 28.

Rodhouse, T.J., Irvine, K.M., & Bowersock, L. 2020. Post-Fire Vegetation Response in a Repeatedly Burned Low-Elevation Sagebrush Steppe Protected Area Provides Insights About Resilience and Invasion Resistance. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8.

Shinderman M., Hovland M., Oedekerk C., Lamet A.J., Rodhouse T.J. 2020. Managing for resilience to fire and resistance to annual grass invasion in upland sagebrush steppe: John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. Natural Resources Report. NPS/UCBN/NRR—2020/2144. National Park Service. Ft. Collins, CO

Nicolli, M., Rodhouse, T.J., Stucki, D.S., and Shinderman, M.J. 2020. Rapid invasion by the annual grass Ventenata dubia into protected-area low-elevation sagebrush steppe. Western North American Naturalist, 80(2), 243–252. .

Esposito, D., Rodhouse T.J., Mata-Gonzalez R., and Hovland, M. 2019. Differential species responses to aspects of resistance to invasion in two Columbia Plateau protected areas. Rangeland Ecology and Management 72:773-782.

Hovland, M., Mata-González, R., Schreiner R.P., Rodhouse, T.J. 2019. Fungal Facilitation in Rangelands: Do Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Mediate Resilience and Resistance in Sagebrush Steppe? Rangeland Ecology & Management 72(4), 678-691.

Irvine, K.M., W.J. Wright, E.K. Shanahan, and Rodhouse, T.J. 2019. Cohesive framework for modeling plant cover class data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10:1749-1760.

Nicolli M.M. 2019. Sagebrush steppe vegetation monitoring in the Blue Basin Area of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument: 2018 annual report. Natural Resource Data Series. NPS/UCBN/NRR—2019/1868. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado.

Wildlife Connectivity

In review: Dombrowski, C.O., Shinderman, M., and Popp, D.. 2025. Oregon Deer and Elk Crossing Prioritization Project (ODECPP). Report FHWA-OR-RD2311, Oregon Department of Transportation Research Station, Salem, Oregon.

Oedekerk, C., M. Shinderman. 2024. U.S. South Highway 97 wildlife crossing structure effectiveness monitoring. Final Report – April 2024. ϳԹվ-Cascades, ϳԹվ, USA.  

Oedekerk, C. 2024. When worlds collide: Determining influences on mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) carcass presence on U.S. South Highway 97 in central Oregon. Thesis, ϳԹվ, Corvallis, USA.  

Dombrowski, C., M. Shinderman. 2024. U.S. South Highway 97 wildlife crossing structure effectiveness monitoring report. January 2024-June 2025. ϳԹվ - Cascades, ϳԹվ, USA.  

Awards

ϳԹվ, Division of Extension and Engagement. 2025. OSU–Community Partnership Engagement Award presented to the East Cascades Native Plant Hub.