Quresh Latif, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Vicki A. Saab, Jonathan G. Dudley, Quresh Latif. 2022. Birds & burns: Can prescribed fires limit wildfire severity while maintaining fire’s ecological importance to bird species?
• Quresh Latif, Vicki A. Saab, Jonathan G. Dudley. 2021. Prescribed fire limits wildfire severity without altering ecological importance for birds
• Todd B. Cross, Quresh Latif, Jonathan G. Dudley, Vicki A. Saab. 2021. Lewis’s woodpecker nesting habitat suitability: Predictive models for application within burned forests
• Quresh Latif, Vicki A. Saab, Jonathan G. Dudley, Amy Markus, Kim Mellen-McLean. 2020. Development and evaluation of habitat suitability models for nesting white-headed woodpecker (Dryobates albolarvatus) in burned forest
• Quresh Latif, Vicki A. Saab, Jessica R. Haas, Jonathan G. Dudley. 2019. FIRE-BIRD: A GIS-based toolset for applying habitat suitability models to inform land management planning
• Vicki A. Saab, Quresh Latif, Matt A. Dresser, Jonathan G. Dudley. 2019. Woodpecker nest survival, density, and a pine beetle outbreak
• Julia J. Kelly, Quresh Latif, Vicki A. Saab, Thomas T. Veblen. 2018. Spruce beetle outbreaks guide American Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides dorsalis occupancy patterns in subalpine forests
• Quresh Latif, Martha Ellis, Vicki A. Saab, Kim Mellen-McLean. 2017. Simulations inform design of regional occupancy-based monitoring for a sparsely distributed, territorial species
• Quresh Latif, Vicki A. Saab, Jeff P. Hollenbeck, Jonathan G. Dudley. 2016. Transferability of habitat suitability models for nesting woodpeckers associated with wildfire
• 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
• Quresh Latif, Martha Ellis, Courtney L. Amundson. 2016. A broader definition of occupancy: Comment on Hayes and Monfils
• Quresh Latif, Vicki A. Saab, Kim Mellen-Mclean, Jonathan G. Dudley. 2015. Evaluating habitat suitability models for nesting white-headed woodpeckers in unburned forest
• Vicki A. Saab, Quresh Latif, Mary M. Rowland, Tracey N. Johnson, Anna D. Chalfoun, Steven W. Buskirk, Joslin E. Heyward, Matt A. Dresser. 2014. Ecological consequences of mountain pine beetle outbreaks for wildlife in western North American forests
• Heather L. Hulton VanTassel, Anne M. Hansen, Cameron W. Barrows, Quresh Latif, Margaret W. Simon, Kurt E. Anderson. 2014. Declines in a ground-dwelling arthropod community during an invasion by Sahara mustard (Brassica tournefortii) in aeolian sand habitats
• Quresh Latif, Vicki A. Saab, Jonathan G. Dudley, Jeff P. Hollenbeck. 2013. Ensemble modeling to predict habitat suitability for a large-scale disturbance specialist
• Quresh Latif, Sacha K. Heath, John T. Rotenberry. 2012. How avian nest site selection responds to predation risk: Testing an 'adaptive peak hypothesis'
• Quresh Latif, Kathleen D. Fleming, Cameron Barrows, John T. Rotenberry. 2012. Modeling seasonal detection patterns for burrowing owl surveys
• Quresh Latif, Sacha K. Heath, Grant Ballard. 2012. The nest predator assemblage for songbirds in Mono Lake basin riparian habitats
• Quresh Latif, Sacha K. Heath, John T. Rotenberry. 2012. Effects of parents and Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater) on nest predation risk for a songbird
• Quresh Latif, Sacha K. Heath, John T. Rotenberry. 2011. An 'ecological trap' for yellow warbler nest microhabitat selection
• Quresh Latif, J. Letitia Grenier, Sacha K. Heath, Grant Ballard, Mark E. Hauber. 2006. First evidence of conspecific brood parasitism in song sparrows with comments on methods sufficient to document this behavior

Data and Tools

• Tool
  

  FIRE-BIRD: Habitat suitability model application tools for disturbance-associated woodpeckers

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/dataandtools/fire-bird-habitat-suitability-model-application-tools-disturbance

• University of California, Riverside, Ph.D., Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology. Dissertation topic: Nest-site selection and predation dynamics for an open-cup nesting songbird, the Yellow Warbler., 2009
• University of California, Davis, B.S., Wildlife ecology and conservation, 1998