Published Articles

Read a summary and link to a published paper that describes prey selection changes as sea otter populations increase: Leach, C. B., B. P. Weitzman, J. L. Bodkin, D. Esler, G. G. Esslinger, K. A. Kloecker, D. H. Monson, J. N. Womble, and M. B. Hooten. 2024. The dynamics of sea otter prey selection under population growth and expansion. Ecosphere 15(12): e70084.

Read the abstract and get the link to a paper that looks at the dynamics of tidewater glaciers and iceberg habitat: Kaluzienski, L., J. Amundson, J. Womble, A. K. Bliss, and L. Pearson. 2023. Impacts of tidewater glacier advance on iceberg habitat. Annals of Glaciology pp. 1-11.

Read the abstract and get the link to a published article on the expansion of sea otters in Glacier Bay: Williams, P. J., M. B. Hooten, G. G. Esslinger, J. N. Womble, J. L. Bodkin, and M. R. Bower. 2019. The rise of an apex predator following deglaciation. Diversity and Distributions 00: 1– 14. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12908

Read the abstract and link to a journal article that describes the links between ice habitat created by tidewater glaciers and harbor seal population distribution and abundance: Womble, J. N., P. J. Williams, R. W. McNabb, A. Prakash, R. Gens, B. S. Sedinger, and C. R. Acevedo. 2021. Harbor seals as sentinels of ice dynamics in tidewater glacier fjords. Frontiers in Marine Science.

Read the abstract and find the link to the following paper: Williams, P. J., M. B. Hooten, J. N. Womble, and M. R. Bower. 2017. Estimating occupancy and abundance using aerial images with imperfect detection. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2017;00:1-11.

Read the abstract and get the link to the article published in Ecology: Williams, P. J., M. B. Hooten, J. N. Womble, G. G. Esslinger, M. R. Bower, and T. J. Hefley. 2017. An integrated data model to estimate spatio-temporal occupancy, abundance, and colonization dynamics. Ecology 98 (2): 328-336.

Read the abstract and get the link to a peer-reviewed journal article in Ecology: Williams, P. J., M. B. Hooten, J. N. Womble, G. G. Esslinger, and M. R. Bower. 2018. Monitoring dynamic spatio-temporal ecological processes optimally. Ecology 99(3):524-435.

Read the abstract and get the link to an article published in Environmetrics on sea otter colonization dynamics: Lu, X., P. J. Williams, M. B. Hooten, J. A. Powell, J. N. Womble, and M. R. Bower. 2019. Nonlinear reaction–diffusion process models improve inference for population dynamics. Environmetrics e2604.

Read the abstract and link to a newly published article on estimating sea lion abundance: Whitlock, S. L., J. N. Womble, J. N. and J. T. Peterson. 2020. Modelling pinniped abundance and distribution by combining counts at terrestrial sites and in-water sightings. Ecological Modelling 420:108965.

Read the abstract and get the link to a peer-reviewed article on a method used to combine datasets for harbor seal abundance counts: Womble, J. N., J. M. Ver Hoef, S. M. Gende, and E. A. Mathews. 2020. Calibrating and adjusting counts of harbor seals in a tidewater glacier fjord to estimate abundance and trends from 1992-2017. Ecosphere 11(4): e03111.