Now at... the University of Wyoming, Laramie
Previously at... the University of California, Santa Cruz
   
People Research
 
 
 
Publications by Dan Doak
 
 

Springer, A.M., J.A. Estes, G.B. van Vliet, T.M. Williams, D.F. Doak, E.M. Danner, and B. Pfister. 2008. Mammal-eating killer whales, industrial whaling, and the sequential megafaunal collapse in the North Pacific: a reply to critics of Springer et al. 2003. Marine Mammal Science in press.

Doak, D. F., J. A. Estes, B. S. Halpern, Ute Jacob, D. R. Lindberg, J. Lovvorn, D. H. Monson, M. T. Tinker, T. M. Williams, J. T. Wootton, I. Carroll, M. Emmerson, F. Micheli, and M. Novak. 2008. Understanding and predicting ecological dynamics: are major surprises inevitable? Ecology (Concepts and Synthesis section) In press.

Morris, W. F., C. A. Pfister, S. D. Tuljapurkar,  C.V. Haridas, C. L. Boggs, M. S. Boyce,E.M. Bruna, D. R. Church, T. Coulson, D. F. Doak, S. Forsyth, J. Gaillard, C.C. Horvitz,  S. Kalisz, B.E. Kendall, T. M. Knight,  C.T. Lee, E.S. Menges. In press. Longevity can buffer plant and animal populations against changing climatic variability. Ecology in press.

Bolger, D.T., W.D. Newmark, T.A. Morrison, and D.F. Doak. 2008. The need for integrative approaches to understand and conserve migratory ungulates. Ecology Letters 11:63-77.

Loso, M.G., R. S. Anderson,  D. F. Doak, and S. P. Anderson. 2007. A Disappearing Lake Reveals the Little Ice Age History of Climate and Glacier Response in the Icefields of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Alaska Park Science 6:30-35.

Doak, D. F., V. Bakker, M. Finkelstein, B. Sullivan, R. Lewison, B. Keitt, J.Arnold, J. Croxall, Fiorenza Micheli, M. Sanjayan. 2007. Compensatory mitigation for marine bycatch will do harm, not good. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5: 350–351.

Linares, C., and D.F. Doak. 2007. Demography and viability of a long-lived marine invertebrate: the octocoral Paramuricea clavata. Ecology 88:918-928.

Agrawal, A. A., D. D. Ackerly, F. Adler, B. Arnold, C. Caceres, D. F. Doak, E. Post, P. Hudson, J. Maron, K. A. Mooney, M. Power, D. Schemske, J. Stachowicz, S. Strauss, M. G. Turner, E. Werner. 2007. Filling key gaps in population and community ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5:145–152

Estes, J.A., D.P. DeMaster, D.F. Doak, T. Williams, and R.L. Brownell Jr. (editors). 2006. Whales, Whaling and Ocean Ecosystems. Univ. California Press.

Doak, D.F., J.A. Estes, and T. Williams.  2006. Great Whales as Prey. In: Estes, J.A., D.P. DeMaster, D.F. Doak, T. Williams, and R.L. Brownell Jr. (editors): Whales, Whaling and Ocean Ecosystems. Univ. California Press.

Estes, J.A., D.P. DeMaster, R.L. Brownell Jr., D.F. Doak, and T. Williams. 2006. Retrospection and Review. In: Estes, J.A., D.P. DeMaster, D.F. Doak, T. Williams, and R.L. Brownell Jr. (editors): Whales, Whaling and Ocean Ecosystems. Univ. California Press.

Tinker, M.T., D.F. Doak, J.A. Estes, B.B. Hatfield, M.M. Staedler, and J.L. Bodkin 2006.  Incorporating diverse data and realistic complexity into demographic estimation procedures for sea otters. Ecological Applications 16(6):2293-2312.

Inouye, B.D., Underwood, N., D.F. Doak, and P. Kareiva. 2006. Interviewing for Academic Jobs. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 87:155-158.

Boyce,M.S., C.V. Haridas, C.T. Lee, C.L. Boggs, E.M. Bruna, T. Coulson, D.F. Doak, J.M. Drake, J. Gaillard, C.C. Horvitz, S. Kalisz, B.E. Kendall, T. Knight, E.S. Menges, W.F. Morris, C.A. Pfister, and  S.D. Tuljapurkar. 2006. Demography in an increasingly variable world. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21:141-148

Elderd, B.,and D,F. Doak. 2006. Comparing the direct and community-mediated effects of disturbance on plant population dynamics: Flooding, herbivory, and Mimulus guttatus. Journal of Ecology 94: 656–669

Gross, K., W. F. Morris, M. S. Wolosin, and D. F. Doak. 2006. Modeling vital rates improves estimation of population projection matrices. Population Ecology 48:79-89.

Loso, M.G. and D. F. Doak. 2006. The biology behind lichenometric dating curves. Oecologia. 147:223-229.

Donlan, C.J., J. Knowlton, D. F. Doak, and N. Biavaschi. 2005. Nested communities, invasive species and Holocene extinctions: evaluating the power of a potential conservation tool. Oecologia 145:475-485.

Doak, D.F., W.F. Morris, C. Pfister, B. Kendall, and E. Bruna. 2005. Correctly estimating how environmental stochasticity influences fitness and population growth. American Naturalist 166:E14-E21.

Doak, D.F., K. Gross, and W.F. Morris. 2005. Understanding and predicting the effects of sparse data on demographic analyses. Ecology 86:1154-1163.

Morris, W. F., and D. F. Doak. 2005. How general are the determinants of the stochastic population growth rate across nearby sites? Ecological Monographs 75:119-137.

Williams,T.M., J.A. Estes, D.F. Doak, and A.M. Springer. 2004. Killer appetites: assessing the role of predators in ecological communities. Ecology 85:3373-3384.

Morris, W. F., and D. F. Doak. 2004. Buffering of life histories against environmental stochasticity: accounting for a spurious correlation between the variabilities of vital rates. American Naturalist 163:579-590.

Estes, J.A., E.M. Danner, D.F. Doak, B. Konar, A.M. Springer, P.T. Steinberg,  M.T. Tinker, and T.M. Williams. 2004. Complex trophic interactions in kelp forest ecosystems.  Bulletin of Marine Science 74:621-638.

Forbis, T.A., and D.F. Doak. 2004.Seedling establishment and life history tradeoffs in alpine plants. American Journal of Botany 91:1147-1153.

Forde, S.E., and D.F. Doak. 2004. Multitrophic interactions mediate recruitment variability in a rocky intertidal community. Marine Ecology Progress Series 275:33-45.

Gerber, L.R., M.T. Tinker, D.F. Doak, J.A. Estes, and D.A. Jessup. 2004. Mortality sensitivity in life-stage simulation analysis: A case study of Southern sea otters. Ecological Applications 14:1554-1565.

Doak, D.F. and M. G. Loso. 2003. Effects of grizzly bear digging on alpine plant community structure. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 35:421-428.

Springer, A.M., J.A. Estes, G.B. van Vliet, T.M. Williams, D.F. Doak, E.M. Danner, K.A. Forney, and B. Pfister. 2003. Sequential megafaunal collapse in the North Pacific ocean: an ongoing legacy of industrial whaling? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100:12223-12228.

Elderd, B., P. Shahani,and D,F. Doak. 2003. The problems and potential of count-based PVA. pp. 173-202 in C.A. Brigham and M.W. Schwartz (eds.), Population Viability in Plants. Spring-Verlag, Berlin.362 pp.

Doak, D. F. and M. A. Marvier. 2003. Idiosyncratic effects of species loss in models of community stability. In: P. Karevia and S. Levin (eds.): Expendable Species? Princeton Press.

Morris, W. F., and D. F. Doak. 2002. “Quantitative Conservation Biology: the Theory and Practice of Population Viability Analysis”  480 pp. Sinauer Associates. Sunderland, MA.

Doak, D. F., D. M. Thomson, and E. S. Jules. 2002. PVA for Plants: Understanding the Demographic Consequences of Seed Banks for Population Health. Pages 312-337 in: S. R. Beissinger and D. R. McCullough (Eds.), Population Viability Analysis. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA.

Crone, E. E., D. F. Doak, and J. Pokki. 2001. Ecological influences on the dynamics of a field vole metapopulation.  Ecology 82:831-843.

Harding, E. K., D. F. Doak, and J. D. Albertson. 2001. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Predator Control  For the Non-native Red Fox. Conservation Biology 15:1114-1122.

Mulder, C. P. H., D. D. Uliassi, and D. F. Doak. 2001. Physical stress and diversity-productivity relationships: The role of positive interactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  98: 6704-6708.

Mills, L. S., D. F. Doak, and M. Wisdom. 2001. Elasticity analysis for conservation decision making: reply to Ehrlen et al. Conservation Biology 15:281-283.

Monson, D.H., Doak, D.H., Ballachey, B.E., Johnson, A. and Bodkin, J.L.  2000.  Long term impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on sea otters, assessed through age-dependent mortality patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  USA.   97:6562-6567.

Wisdom, M. J., L. S. Mills, and D. F. Doak. 2000. Life stage simulation analysis: estimating vital rate effects on population growth for species conservation. Ecology (Special Feature) 81:628-641.

Mills, L. S., D. F. Doak, and M. Wisdom. 1999. The reliability of conservation actions based upon elasticities of matrix models. Conservation Biology 13: 815-829.

Kluse, J. and D. F. Doak. 1999. Habitat restriction and demographic performance of a rare California endemic, Chorizanthe pungens var. hartwegiana (Polygonaceae). American Midland Naturalist, 142:244-256.

Dobson, A., K. Ralls, M. Foster, M. Soule, D. Simberloff, D. F. Doak, J. Estes, L. S. Mills, D. Mattson, R. Dirzo, H. Arita, Ryan, E. Norse, R. Noss, and D. Johns. 1999. Landscape Viability equals landscape connectivity: reconnecting fragmented landscapes. In: M. E. Soulé and  J. Terborgh (eds.), Continental Conservation; Scientific Foundations of Regional Reserve Networks. Island Press.

Simberloff, D.,  D. F. Doak, M. Groom, S. Trombulak, A. Dobson, S. Gatewood, M. Soulé, M. Gilpin, C. Del Rio, and L. Mills. 1999. Regional and continental restoration. In: M. E. Soulé and  J. Terborgh (eds.), Continental Conservation; Scientific Foundations of Regional Reserve Networks. Island Press.

Morris, W.F., D.F. Doak, M. Groom, P. Kareiva, J. Fieberg, L. Gerber, P. Murphy, and D. Thomson. 1999. A Practical Handbook for Population Viability Analysis. 80 pp. The Nature Conservancy, New York.

Doak, D. F. and W. F. Morris. 1999. Detecting population-level consequences of ongoing environmental change without long-term monitoring. Ecology 80:1537-1551.

Estes, J. A. , M. T. Tinker, T. M. Williams, and D. F. Doak. 1998. Killer whale predation on sea otters linking oceanic and nearshore ecosystems. Science 282 (N5388):473-476.

Morris, W.F., and D.F. Doak. 1998. Life history of a long-lived gynodioecious plant, Silene acaulis (Caryophyllaceae), inferred from size-based population projection matrices. American Journal of Botany 85:784-793.

Crooks, K. R., M. A. Sanjayan, and D. F. Doak. 1998. New insights on cheetah conservation through demographic modeling. Conservation Biology 12: 889-895.

Doak, D. F., D. Bigger, E. Harding-Smith, M. A. Marvier, R. O’Malley, and D. Thomson. 1998. The statistical inevitability of stability-diversity relationships in community ecology. American Naturalist 151:264-276.

Estes, J. A., D. F. Doak, J. B. Botkin, R. J. Jameson, D. Monson, J. Watt, M. T. Tinker. 1996. Comparative demography of sea otter populations. Endangered Species Update 13:11-13.

Press, D., D. F. Doak, and P. Steinberg. 1996. The role of local governments in rare species protection. Conservation Biology 10:1538-1548.

Press, D, D. F. Doak. 1996. Introduction to a Festschrift for Michael Soulé. Conservation Biology10:1489-1490.

Doak, D. F. 1995. Source-sink models and the problem of habitat degradation: general models and applications to the Yellowstone grizzly bear.  Conservation Biology  9:1370-1379.

Doak, D. F., P. Kareiva, and B. Klepetka. 1994.  Modeling population viability for the desert tortoise in the Mojave desert. Ecological Applications 4:446-460.

Doak, D. F. and L. S. Mills. 1994.  A useful role for theory in conservation.  Ecology 75:615-626.

Mills, L. S., M. Soulé, and D. F. Doak. 1993. The keystone species concept in ecology and conservation. Bioscience 43:219-224.

Harrison, S., A. Stahl, and D. F. Doak. 1993. Spatial models and spotted owls: exploring some biological issues behind recent events. Conservation Biology 7:950-953.

Wingfield, J.C., T. P. Hahn, and D. F. Doak. 1993. Integration of environmental factors regulating transitions of physiological state, morphology, and behavior. Pp. 111-122 in Sharp, P. J. (ed.), “Avian Endocrinology.” Society for Endocrinology, Journal of Endocrinology Limited, Bristol, England.

Doak, D. F.,  P. Marino, and P. M. Kareiva. 1992. Spatial scale mediates the influence of habitat fragmentation on dispersal success: implications for conservation. Theoretical Population Biology 41:315-336.

Doak, D.F. 1992. Lifetime impacts of herbivory for a perennial plant.  Ecology 73:2086-2099.

Doak, D. F. 1991. The consequences of herbivory for dwarf fireweed: different time scales, different morphological scales. Ecology 72:1397-1407.

Doak, D.F. 1989. Spotted owls and old growth logging. Conservation Biology 3:389-396.