PUBLICATIONS
Journal Publications
Steen, V.A., Duarte, A., and Peterson, J.T. (2023) An Evaluation of Multistate Occupancy Models for Estimating Relative Abundance and Population Trends. Ecological Modelling. 478, 110303. [link]
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Assal, T.J., V.A. Steen, T. Caltrider, N. Manning, and P.J. Anderson. (2021). Monitoring Long-Term Riparian Vegetation Trends to Inform Local Habitat Management in a Riparian Environment. Ecological Indicators. 127: 107807. [link]
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Steen, V.A., M.T. Tingley, P.W.C. Paton, and C.S. Elphick. (2021). Spatial Thinning and Class Balancing: Key Choices Lead to Variation in the Performance of Species Distribution Models With Citizen Science Data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12(2): 216-226. [link]
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Steen, V.A., C.S. Elphick, and M.T. Tingley. (2019). An Evaluation of Stringent Filtering to Improve Species Distribution Models from Citizen Science Data. Diversity and Distributions 25(12): 1857-1869. [link]
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Sofaer, H.R., C.H. Flather, S.K. Skagen, V.A. Steen, B.R. Noon. (2019). Clustering and Ensembling Approaches for Surrogate-based Species Management. Diversity and Distributions 25: 1246– 1258. [link]
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Steen, V.A., S.K. Skagen, and B.R. Noon. (2018). Preparing for an Uncertain Future: Assessing Responses of Migrating Shorebirds to Historic Climatic Fluctuations in the Prairie Pothole Region. Ecosphere 9(2) [link]
Steen, V.A., H.R. Sofaer, S.K. Skagen, A.R. Ray, and B.R. Noon. (2017). Projecting Vulnerability to Climate Change: Which Uncertainty Sources Matter Most and Extrapolate Best. Ecology and Evolution 7(21): 8841-8851. [link]
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Steen, V.A., S.K. Skagen, and C. Melcher. (2016). Implications of Climate Change for Wetland-Dependent Birds in the Prairie Pothole Region. Wetlands 36(2): 445-459. [link]
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Steen, V.A., S.K. Skagen, and B.R. Noon. (2014). Vulnerability of Breeding Waterbirds to Climate Change in the Prairie Pothole Region, USA. Plos One 9(6): e96747. [link]
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Steen, V.A. and A.N. Powell. (2012). Potential Effects of Climate Change on the Distribution of Waterbirds in the Prairie Pothole Region, USA. Waterbirds 35(2): 217-229. [link]
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Steen, V.A. and A.N. Powell. (2012). Wetland Selection by Breeding and Foraging Black Terns in the Prairie Pothole Region of the United States. Condor 114(1): 155-165. [link]
Steen, V.A., Peterson, J.T., and Duarte, A. Integrated Modeling for Insights into Longfin Smelt Spatial Dynamics. Target Journal: San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science.
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Michel, N, A. Fournier, B. Bateman, S. Saunders, V. Steen, S. Albert, J. Priam, W. Shacklewitz, J. Alexander, T. Sanchez, G. Le Baron, Citizen Science for Conservation and Management.
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Ray, A.J., J. Barsugli, D. Ojima, A. Symstad, H. Sofaer, L. Perry, R. Sojda, M.P. van der Berg, V.A. Steen, and J.T. Morisette. Collaborations Between Climate Scientists and Ecologists Improve Ecological Response Modeling and Land Management Decisions. Target journal: Global Change Biology
In Preparation
Popular Press
Steen V.A. Bike the Frozen 'Banks. Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac. BA 43-400. [link]