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Aubry, K. B. and D. B. Houston. 1992. Distribution and status of the fisher in Washington. Northwestern Naturalist 73: 69-79.

Best, T. L. and S. W. Gay. (in press). Morphometric assessment of the taxonomic status of the Yuma puma (Puma concolor browni). Arizona Game and Fish Department, Special Report.

Best, P. B. and D. M. Schell 1996. Stable isotopes in southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) baleen as indicators of seasonal movements, feeding and growth. Marine Biology 124: 483-494.

Bininda-Edmonds, O. R. P. and A. P. Russell. 1996. A morphological perspective on the phylogenetic relationships of the extant Phocid seals (Mammalia: Carnivora: Phocidae). Bonner Zoologische Monographien 41: 1-256.

Broughton, J. K. 1994. Declines in mammalian foraging efficiency during the late holocene, San Francisco Bay, California. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 13: 371-401.

Carraway, L. N. and B. J. Verts. 1994. Relationship of mandibular morphology to relative bite force in some Sorex from western North America. In, Advances in the Biology of Shrews, edited by J. F. Merritt, G. L. Kirkland Jr., and R. K. Rose. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Special Publication 18: 201-210.

Carraway, L. N. and B. J. Verts. 2002.Geographic variation in pelage color of pinon mice (Peromyscus truei) in the northern Great Basin and environs. Western North American Naturalist. 62: 458-465.

Dewire, P. and P. A. Simkin. 1996. Subchondral plate thickness reflects tensile stress in the primate acetabulum. Journal of Orthopedic Research 14: 838-841.

Dokuchaev, N. E. 1997. A new species of shrew (Soricidae, Insectivora) from Alaska. Journal of Mammalogy. 78: 811-817.

Gay, S. W. and T. L. Best. 1995. Geographical variation in sexual dimorphism of the puma (Puma concolor) in North and South America. The Southwestern Naturalist. 40: in press.

Gay, S. W. and T. L. Best. 1996. Age-Related variation in skulls of the puma (Puma concolor). Journal of Mammalogy 77: 191-198.

Gay, S. W. and T. L. Best. 1996. Relationships between abiotic variables and geographic variation in skulls of pumas (Puma concolor: Mammalia, Felidae) in North and South America. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (London) 117: 259-282.

Grayson, D. K., C. Maser, and Z. Maser. 1990.Enamel thickness of rooted and rootless microtine molars. Canadian Journal of Zoology 68: 1315-1317.

Grayson, D. K. 1991. Alpine faunas for the White Mountains, California: Adaptive change in the late prehistoric Great Basin? Journal of Archaeological Science 18: 483-506.

Grayson, D. K. 1991. The small mammals of Gatecliff Shelter: Did people make a difference? In, Beamers, bobwhites, and blue-points: Tributes to the career of Paul W. Parmalee, edited by R. Purdue, W. Klippel, and B. W. Styles. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers 23: 99-109.

Grayson, D. K. 1991. The James Creek shelter mammals. In, The archaeology of James Creek Shelter, edited by R. G. Elston and E. E. Budy. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 115: 87-98.

Grayson, D. K. 1993. The Desert's Past: A Natural Prehistory of the Great Basin. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C.

Grayson, D. K. and S. D. Livingston. 1993. Missing mammals on Great Basin mountains: Holocene extinctions and inadequate knowledge. Conservation Biology 7: 527- 532.

Grayson, D. K. and J. M. Broughton. 1993. Diet breadth, adaptive change, and the White Mountains faunas. Journal of Archaeological Science 20: 331-336.

Grayson, D. K. , S. D. Livingston, E. Rickart, and M. W. Shaver III. 1996. Biogeographic significance of low-elevation records for Neotoma cinerea from the northern Bonneville Basin, Utah. Great Basin Naturalist. 56: 191-196.

Grayson, D. K. (in press) The Alta Toquima vertebrate fauna. In, The archaeology of Monitor Valley: 4. Alta Toquima and the Mt. Jefferson complex. American Museum of Natural History Anthropological Papers.

Grayson, D. K. (in press) Vertebrate remains from the Murphy's Cabin site. In, Donner Party Archaeology, by D. L. Hardesty, Univ. of Nevada Press, Reno.

Hafner, D. J. 1993. North American pika (Ochotona princeps) as a late Quaternary biogeographic indicator species. Quaternary Research 39: 373-380.

Hafner, D. J. 1994. Pikas and permafrost: post-Wisconsinan historical zoogeography of Ochotona in the southern Rocky Mountains, U. S. A. Arctic and Alpine Research 26:375-382.

Hafner, D. J. and R. M. Sullivan. 1995. Historical and ecological biogeography of Nearctic pikas (Lagomorpha: Ochotonidae). Jour. of Mamm. 76: 302-321

Haygood, J. and D. N. Walker. 1991. Pleistocene and Holocene marmots from Bell Cave, Wyoming: Another indicator of a resource seasonality environment. 49th Plains Anthropological Conference. Lawrence, KS.

Johnson, M. L. and S. B. George. 1991. Species limits within the Arborimus longicaudus species-complex (Mammalia: Rodentia) with a description of a new species from California. Contributions in Science 429:1-16.

Kruckenhauser, L.,W. Pinsker, E. Haring, and W. Arnold. 1999. Marmot phylogeny revisited: molecular evidence from a diphyletic origin of sociality. J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Research 37: 49-56.

Livingston, S. D. 1992. Mammals of Serendipity Cave and the Roberts Mountains. 23rd Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Boise, ID.

Livingston, S. D. 1996. Faunal Analysis and habitat management. Plenary Session, 25th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Kings Beach, CA.

Manning, R. W. 1993. Systematics and evolutionary relationships of the long-eared myotis, Myotis evotis(Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Special Publication, The Museum, Texas Tech University 37:1-58.

Marmontel, M., T. J. O'Shea, and S. R. Humphrey. 1990. An evaluation of bone growth-layer counts as an age-determination technique in Florida manatees. U. S. Marine Mammal Commission, Washington, D. C.

Reig, S. 1995. Analysis of size and shape variation in the skull of Mustela nivalis from North America. Paper for the Fourth Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology. Edinburgh, Scotland.

Rensberger, J. M. and A. D. Barnosky. 1993. Short-term fluctuations in small mammals of the late Pleistocene from eastern Washington. In, Morphological Change in Quaternary Mammals of North America, by R. A. Martin and A. D. Barnosky, eds. Cambridge University Press. pp. 299-342.

Rensberger, J. M. 1995. Determination of stresses in mammalian dental enamel and their relevance to the interpretation of feeding behaviors in extinct taxa. In, Functional Morphology in Vertebrate Paleontology. J. Thomason, ed. Cambridge University Press. pp. 151-172.

Rensberger, J. M. 1995. Tooth. In, 1996 Yearbook of Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill, Inc. pp. 159-160.

Rensberger, J. M. 1997. Mechanical adaptation in enamel. In, Koeningswald, W. v. and Sander, P. M. (eds.) Tooth Enamel Microstructure. Rotterdam: Balkema. pp. 237-257.

Rensberger, J. M. (in press). Functional differentiation of the enamel microstructure in the canine of the spotted hyena, Crocuta crocuta. Scanning Microscopy.

Rice, D. W. and A. A. Wolman. 1990. The stomach ofKogia breviceps. Journal of Mammalogy 71: 237-242.

Ritke, M. E. and M. L. Kennedy. 1988. Intraspecific morphologic variation in the raccoon (Procyon lotor) and its relationship to selected environmental variables. The Southwestern Naturalist 33: 295-314.

Robertson, K. M. and S. J. Chivers. 2001. Estimating age for sperm whales yields bone material for genetic studies. Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. Vancouver Canada. p. 180.

Schlitter, D. A. and M. B. Qumsiyeh. (in press). The Status of the Pipistrellus nanus group in East Africa. Annals of the Carnegie Museum.

Sharp, N. D. 1990. Resource selection in developing agricultural economies: and analysis of faunal assemblage variability in the northern Southwest. The Kiva 56: 45-65.

Tumilson, R. and M. E. Douglas. 1992. Parsimony analysis and the phylogeny of the plecotine bats. Journal of Mammalogy 73: 276-285.

van Zyll de Jong, C. G. and D. W. Nagorsen. 1994. A review of the distribution and taxonomy of Myotis keenii and Myotis evotis in British Columbia and the adjacent United States. Canadian Journal of Zoology 72: 1069-1078.

Vignieri, S.N. 2003. Isolation and characterization of eight highly variable microsatellite markers in the Pacific jumping mouse (Zapus trinotatus) Molecular Ecology Notes 3: 638-640.

Whorley, J.R., S. T. Alvarez-Castañeda, and G. J. Kenagy. 2004. Genetic structure of desert ground squirrels over a 20-degree-latitude transect from Oregon through the Baja California peninsula. Molecular Ecology 13:2709-2720.

Zheng, X., B.S. Arbogast, and G.J. Kenagy. 2003.Historical demography and genetic structure of sister species: deer mice (Peromyscus) in the North American temperate rainforest. Molecular Ecology 12:711-724.

Dissertations and Theses

Albert, S. W. 1981. Morphological variation in bobcats of Northwest America. M. S. Thesis. University of Montana. Missoula, MT.

Antell, S. R. 1987. Systematics and zoogeography of mammals in southeast Alaska. Ph.D. Dissertation. Washington State University. Pullman, WA.

Arbogast, B. S. 1996. Intraspecific phylogeny of the New World flying squirrels: (Glaucomys). M. S. Thesis. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, LA.

Aubry, K. B. 1983. The Cascade red fox: Distribution, morphology, zoogeography and ecology. Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Washington. Seattle, WA.

Bradley, W. P. 1982. History, ecology, and management of an introduced wapiti population in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington. Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Washington. Seattle, WA.

Broughton, J. K. 1995. Resource depression and intensification in the late prehistoric coastal California: evidence from the Emeryville shellmound vertebrate fauna. Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Christy, R. 1993. Radio tracking Myotis bats on Long Island, Washington. M.S. Thesis. University of Washington. Seattle, WA.

Dragavon, J. A. 1978. Distribution of small mammals in Mount Rainier National Park. M. S. Thesis. University of Washington. Seattle, WA.

Dublin, H. T. 1980. Relating deer diets to forage quality and quantity: the Columbian white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus leucurus). M. S. Thesis. University of Washington. Seattle, WA.

Etnier, M. A. 2002. The effects of human hunting on northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) migration and breeding distributions in the late Holocene. Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Washington. Seattle, WA.

Gahr, M. L. 1993. Natural history, burrow habit and use, and home range of the pygmy rabbit (Brachlylagus idahoensis) at Sagebrush Flat, Washington. M.S. Thesis. University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Gay, S. W. 1994. Morphologic variation in pumas (Puma concolor). and its relationship to selected climatic and biotic variables. M.S. Thesis. Auburn University. Alabama.

Hegstrom, L. J. 1986. Heavy metal accumulation and toxicity in small mammals as a result of sewage sludge application to Douglas-fir forests. M. S. Thesis. University of Washington. Seattle, WA.

Leung, M. C.-Y. 1991. Status, range, and habitat of the Cascade mantled ground squirrel, Spermophilus saturatus, in British Columbia. M.S. Thesis. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC

Livingston, S. D. 1988. The avian and mammalian faunas from Lovelock Cave and the Humboldt Lakebed Site. Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Miller, S. 1970. Small mammal populations in a Douglas-fir forest: Cedar River, Washington. M. S. Thesis. University of Washington. Seattle, WA.

Quade, C. A. 1993. Abundance of arvicoline rodents in post-fire forest communities of the Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge. M.S. Thesis. University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Quinn, T. 1992. The distribution, movements, and diets of coyotes in urban areas of western Washington. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Reichel, J. D. 1984. Ecology of Pacific Northwest alpine mammals. Ph.D. Dissertation. Washington State University. Pullman, WA.

Ritke, M. E. 1987. A systematic study of the raccoon (Procyon lotor): I. Intraspecific morphologic variation in the racoon (Procyon lotor) and its relationship to selected environmental variables: II. Sexual dimorphism in the raccoon (Procyon lotor). Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Memphis. Memphis, TN.

Rowbotham-Vita, C. E. 1982. The river otter (Lutra canadensis) in Western Washington: Morphology, reproduction and harvest. M. S. Thesis. University of Washington. Seattle, WA.

Sharp, N. D. 1992. Fremont farmers and hunters: faunal resource exploitation at Nawthis Village, central Utah. Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Smith, C. C. 1965. Interspecific competition in the genus of tree squirrels Tamiasciurus. Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Washington. Seattle, WA.

Sweeney, S. J. 1978. Diet, reproduction and population structure of the bobcat (Lynx rufus fasciatus) in Western Washington. M.S. Thesis. University of Washington. Seattle, WA.

Temte, J. L. 1993. Photoperiod control of reproductive timing in the pacific harbor seal and the California sea lion. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Wisconsin. Madison, WI.

Trombulak, S. C. 1983. The ecology of montane sciurids: Pattern and process in population and community structure. Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Washington. Seattle, WA.

Tumilson, C.R. 1990. Studies of taxonomy and geographic variation in plecotine bats of North America. Ph.D. Dissertation. Oklahoma State University. Stillwater, OK.

Wigginton, J. 1994. Geographic variation of the bobcat (Felis rufus) in relation to environmental variables. M.S. Thesis. Auburn University, Alabama.