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A convolutional neural network for detecting sea turtles in drone imagery.
Gray, P. C., Fleishman, A. B., Klein, D. J., McKown, M. W., Bézy, V. S., Lohmann, K. J., & Johnston, D. W. (2019). Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(3), 345–355.
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Comparing imaging, acoustics, and radar to monitor Leach’s storm-petrel colonies.
Orben, R. A., Fleishman, A. B., Borker, A. L., Bridgeland, W., Gladics, A. J., Porquez, J., Sanzenbacher, P., Stephensen, S. W., Swift, R., McKown, M.W., & Suryan, R. M. (2019). PeerJ, 7, e6721.
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Evidence of Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels on Oahu, Hawaii.
Young, L. C., Vanderwerf, E. A., McKown, M. W., Roberts, P., Schlueter, J., Vorsino, A., & Sischo, D. (2019). The Condor, 121(1), 1–7.
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Persistent annual migration patterns of a specialist seabird.
Orben, R. A., Kokubun, N., Fleishman, A. B., Will, A. P., Yamamoto, T., Shaffer, S. A., Paredes, R., Takahasi, A., & Kitaysky, A. S. (2018). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 593, 231–245.
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Invasive rat eradication strongly impacts plant recruitment on a tropical atoll.
Wolf, C. A., Young, H. S., Zilliacus, K. M., Wegmann, A. S., McKown, M. W., Holmes, N. D., Tershy, B. R., Dirzo, R., Kropidlowski, S., & Croll, D. A. (2018). PLOS One, 13(7), 1–17.
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Passive recovery of an island bird community after rodent eradication.
Croll, D. A., Newton, K. M., McKown, M. W., Holmes, N., Williams, J. C., Young, H. S., Buckelew, S., Wolf, C. A., Howald, G., Bock, M. F., Curl, J. A., & Tershy, B. R. (2016). Biological Invasions, 18(3), 703–715.
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Changing breeding status of the Ashy Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma homochroa on Anacapa Island, California.
Harvey, A. L., Mazurkiewicz, D. M., McKown, M. W., Barnes, K. W., & Parker, M. W. (2016). Marine Ornithology, 44(1), 93–97.
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Response of Native Species 10 Years After Rat Eradication on Anacapa Island, California.
Newton, K. M., McKown, M. W., Wolf, C., Gellerman, H., Coonan, T., Richards, D., Harvey, A. L., Holmes, N., Howald, G., Faulkner, K., Tershy, B. R., & Croll, D. A. (2016). Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management, 7(1), 72–85.
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A comparison of automated and traditional monitoring techniques for marbled murrelets using passive acoustic sensors.
Borker, A. L., Halbert, P., McKown, M. W., Tershy, B. R., & Croll, D. A. (2015). Wildlife Society Bulletin, 39(4), 813–818.
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Vocal activity as a low cost and scalable index of seabird colony size.
Borker, A. L., Mckown, M. W., Ackerman, J. T., Eagles-Smith, C. A., Tershy, B. R., & Croll, D. A. (2014). Conservation Biology, 28(4), 1100–1108.
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Estimating population size of a nocturnal burrow-nesting seabird using acoustic monitoring and habitat mapping.
Oppel, S., Hervías, S., Oliveira, N., Pipa, T., Silva, C., Geraldes, P., Goh, M., Immler E., & McKown, M. W. (2014). Nature Conservation, 7, 1–13.
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Second record of Bryan’s shearwater Puffinus bryani from Midway Atoll, with notes on habitat selection, vocalizations and at-sea distribution.
Pyle, P., David, R., Eilerts, B. D., Binion Amerson, A., Borker, A., & McKown, M. W. (2014). Marine Ornithology (Vol. 42).