Jamie S. Sanderlin, PhD

Research Wildlife Biologist (Quantitative Vertebrate Ecologist)

Rocky Mountain Research Station

jamie.l.sanderlin@usda.gov

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Erika Reiter, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Jennifer Helm, Diane Probasco, Sarah Sawyer, Donna Shorrock, Valerie Stein Foster. 2026. Selecting a focal species under the 2012 Planning Rule? A new focal species toolkit streamlines the process
Jamie S. Sanderlin, Gavin M. Jones, Brenda E. Strohmeyer, Connor M. Wood, Valerie Stein Foster, Rene Guaderrama, Andrea Chavez, Paige Handley, Stefan Kahl, Rebecca Kirby, Kari E. Norman, Jack Williams. 2025. Expanding biodiversity monitoring in the southwestern United States with passive acoustic monitoring
Ana Kuile, An Bui, Austen Apigo, Shelby Lamm, Megan Swan, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Kiona Ogle. 2025. If you’re rare, should I care? How imperfect detection changes relationships between biodiversity and global change drivers
Ana Kuile, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Jessalyn Ayars, Helen E. Chmura, Melissa Dressen, Jessie Golding, Gavin M. Jones, Rebecca Kirby, Kari Norman, Zachary Steel, Valerie Stein Foster. 2025. Functionalizing ecological integrity: Using functional ecology to monitor animal communities
Ho Yi Wan, Michael A. Lommler, Samuel A. Cushman, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Joseph L. Ganey, Andrew J. Sanchez Meador, Paul Beier. 2025. A multi-level, multi-scale comparison of LiDAR- and LANDSAT-based habitat selection models of Mexican spotted owls in a post-fire landscape
Jessie Golding, Kevin S. McKelvey, Michael K. Schwartz, Joshua J. Millspaugh, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Scott D. Jackson. 2025. Monitoring with multiple goals: Bayesian methods for changing objectives
Erin Taylor, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Jennifer Helm, Diane Probasco, Sarah Sawyer, Donna Shorrock, Valerie Stein Foster. 2025. A toolkit to assist Forest Service National Forests and Grasslands with selecting focal species under the 2012 Planning Rule
Quresh S. Latif, Jonathon J. Valente, Alison Johnston, Kayla L. Davis, Frank A. Fogarty, Adam W. Green, Gavin M. Jones, Matthias Leu, Nicole L. Michel, David C. Pavlacky, Elizabeth A. Rigby, Clark S. Rushing, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Morgan W. Tingley, Qing Zhao. 2024. Designing count‐based studies in a world of hierarchical models
Gavin M. Jones, Marion A. Clément, Christopher E. Latimer, Marilyn E. Wright, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Shaula J. Hedwall, Rebecca Kirby. 2024. Frequent burning and limited stand‑replacing fire supports Mexican spotted owl pair occupancy
Eric W. Sanderson, Dale G. Miquelle, Kim Fisher, Abishek Harihar, Chris Clark, Jesse Moy, Peter Potapov, Nathaniel Robinson, Lucinda Royte, Dustin Sampson, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Charles B. Yackulic, Michael Belecky, Urs Breitenmoser, Christine Breitenmoser-Wursten, Pranav Chanchani, Stuart Chapman, Arpit Deomurari, Somphot Duangchantrasiri, Elisa Facchini, Thomas N. E. Gray, John Goodrich, Luke Hunter, Matthew Linkie, Willy Marthy, Akchousanh Rasphone, Sugoto Roy, Detrit Sittibal, Tshering Tempa, Mayuree Umponjan, Karen Wood. 2023. Range-wide trends in tiger conservation landscapes, 2001 - 2020
Ana Kuile, Kiona Ogle, Cheran Cavanaugh, Jonathan G. Dudley, Amy Markus, Vicki A. Saab, Marilyn Wright, Jamie S. Sanderlin. 2023. Forest management, forest vegetation, and climate influence nesting ecology of a focal bird species in the western USA
Gavin M. Jones, Andrew J. Shirk, Zhiqiang Yang, Raymond J. Davis, Joseph L. Ganey, R. J. Gutierrez, Sean P. Healey, Shaula J. Hedwall, Serra J. Hoagland, Ron Maes, Karl Malcolm, Kevin S. McKelvey, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Michael K. Schwartz, Mark E. Seamans, Ho Yi Wan, Samuel A. Cushman. 2022. Spatial and temporal dynamics of Mexican spotted owl habitat in the southwestern US
Andrew J. Shirk, Gavin M. Jones, Zhiqiang Yang, Raymond J. Davis, Joseph L. Ganey, R. J. Gutierrez, Sean P. Healey, Shaula J. Hedwall, Serra J. Hoagland, Ron Maes, Karl Malcolm, Kevin S. McKelvey, Carly Vynne, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Michael K. Schwartz, Mark E. Seamans, Ho Yi Wan, Samuel A. Cushman. 2022. Automated habitat monitoring systems linked to adaptive management: A new paradigm for species conservation in an era of rapid environmental change
Jamie S. Sanderlin, Jose Iniguez, Joseph L. Ganey, Brenda E. Strohmeyer, William M. Block. 2022. Designing local citizen science projects to address scientific questions and contribute to collaborative conservation efforts
Sandra L. Haire, Miguel L. Villarreal, Citlali Cortes‑Montano, Aaron D. Flesch, Jose Iniguez, Jose Raul Romo‑Leon, Jamie S. Sanderlin. 2022. Climate refugia for Pinus spp. in topographic and bioclimatic environments of the Madrean sky islands of Mexico and the United States
Gavin M. Jones, J. Ayars, Sean A. Parks, Helen E. Chmura, Samuel A. Cushman, Jamie S. Sanderlin. 2022. Pyrodiversity in a warming world: Research challenges and opportunities
Christopher Witt, Raymond J. Davis, Zhiqiang Yang, Joseph L. Ganey, R. J. Gutierrez, Sean P. Healey, Shaula Hedwall, Serra J. Hoagland, Ron Maes, Karl Malcolm, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Mark Seamans, Gavin M. Jones. 2022. Linking robust spatiotemporal datasets to assess and monitor habitat attributes of a threatened species
Jamie S. Sanderlin, Jessie Golding, Taylor Wilcox, Daniel Mason, Kevin S. McKelvey, Dean E. Pearson, Michael K. Schwartz. 2021. Occupancy modeling and resampling overcomes low test sensitivity to produce accurate SARS-CoV-2 prevalence estimates
Miguel L. Villarreal, Jose Iniguez, Aaron D. Flesch, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Citlali Cortes Montano, Caroline R. Conrad, Sandra L. Haire. 2020. Contemporary fire regimes provide a critical perspective on restoration needs in the Mexico-United States borderlands
Gavin M. Jones, R. J. Gutierrez, William M. Block, Peter C. Carlson, Emily J. Comfort, Samuel A. Cushman, Raymond J. Davis, Stephanie A. Eyes, Alan B. Franklin, Joseph L. Ganey, Shaula Hedwall, John J. Keane, Rodd Kelsey, Damon B. Lesmeister, Malcolm P. North, Susan L. Roberts, Jeremy T. Rockweit, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Sarah C. Sawyer, Ben Solvesky, Douglas J. Tempel, Ho Yiwan, A. Leroy Westerling, Gary C. White, M. Zachariah Peery. 2020. Spotted owls and forest fire: Comment
Charles B. Yackulic, Michael Dodrill, Maria Dzul, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Janice A. Reid. 2020. A need for speed in Bayesian population models: a practical guide to marginalizing and recovering discrete latent states
Jamie S. Sanderlin, Michael L. Morrison, William M. Block. 2019. Analysis of population monitoring data [Chapter 8]
David A. W. Miller, Krishna Pacifici, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Brian J. Reich. 2019. The recent past and promising future for data integration methods to estimate species’ distributions
Jamie S. Sanderlin, William M. Block, Brenda E. Strohmeyer, Vicki A. Saab, Joseph L. Ganey. 2019. Precision gain versus effort with joint models using detection/non‐detection and banding data
Richard T. Reynolds, Jeffrey Lambert, Shannon L. Kay, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Benjamin Bird. 2019. Factors affecting lifetime reproduction, longterm territory-specific reproduction, and estimation of habitat quality in northern goshawks
Sue Miller, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Joseph L. Ganey. 2018. A feather in their cap: Using citizen monitoring to track post-wildfire bird communities in the Arizona Sky Islands
Joseph L. Ganey, Jose Iniguez, Jamie S. Sanderlin, William M. Block. 2017. Developing a monitoring program for bird populations in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, using citizen observers: Initial stages
Quresh Latif, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Vicki A. Saab, William M. Block, Jonathan G. Dudley. 2016. Avian relationships with wildfire at two dry forest locations with different historical fire regimes
Joseph L. Ganey, William M. Block, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Jose Iniguez. 2015. Comparative nest-site habitat of painted redstarts and red-faced warblers in the Madrean Sky Islands of southeastern Arizona
Michael K. Schwartz, Jamie S. Sanderlin, William M. Block. 2015. Manage habitat, monitor species [Chapter 10]
Jamie S. Sanderlin, William M. Block, Joseph L. Ganey. 2014. Optimizing study design for multi-species avian monitoring programmes
Amanda B. Stan, Peter Z. Fule, Kathryn B. Ireland, Jamie S. Sanderlin. 2014. Modern fire regime resembles historical fire regime in a ponderosa pine forest on Native American land
Jamie S. Sanderlin, William M. Block, Joseph L. Ganey, Jose Iniguez. 2013. Preliminary assessment of species richness and avian community dynamics in the Madrean Sky Islands, Arizona
Jamie S. Sanderlin, Nicole Lazar, Michael J. Conroy, Jaxk Reeves. 2012. Cost-efficient selection of a marker panel in genetic studies
Jamie S. Sanderlin, Peter M. Waser, James E. Hines, James D. Nichols. 2012. On valuing patches: estimating contributions to metapopulation growth with reverse-time capture-recapture modeling

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

Sanderlin, J. Skvarla. 2009. Integrated demographic modeling and estimation of the central Georgia, USA, black bear population. Ph.D. Dissertation. Wildlife Ecology and Management, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia. Sanderlin, J. Skvarla. 2009. Misidentification error in non-invasive genetic mark-recapture sampling: case study with the central Georgia black bear population. M.S. Thesis. Department of Statistics, University of Georgia. Sanderlin, J. Skvarla, B. Faircloth, B. Shamblin, and M. Conroy. 2009. Tetranucleotide microsatellite loci from the black bear (Ursus americanus). Molecular Ecology Resources 9:288-291.Jangid, K., M. Williams, A. Franzleubbers, J. Sanderlin, J. Reeves, M. Jenkins, D. Endale, D. Coleman, W. Whitman. 2008. Relative impacts of land-use, management intensity and fertilization upon soil microbial communities in agricultural systems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40:2843-2853.Skvarla, J., J. Nichols, J. Hines, and P. Waser. 2004. Modeling interpopulation dispersal by banner-tailed kangaroo rats. Ecology 85(10):2737-2746.Skvarla, J. 2002. Modeling patterns of dispersal in banner-tailed kangaroo rats, Dipodomys spectabilis, using capture-recapture data with the multi-strata, robust design. Honors Thesis. Ecology, Evolution, and Population Biology, Purdue University.