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Paul Cross' Publications
Note: Where possible we provide a reprint, but due to copyright rules we sometimes only provide the final draft of the paper.
Technical Publications by Topic
Submitted or In preparation
Almberg, ES, PC Cross, AP Dobson, DW Smith & PJ Hudson. Submitted. Disease invasion after reintroduction: A case study of sarcoptic mange in Yellowstone’s wolves. For Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Brennan, A, PC Cross, S Creel, JP Beckmann, M Higgs, RW Klaver & BM Scurlock. Submitted. Testing the consequences of modeling rather than measuring snow accumulation in studies of animal ecology. Ecology.
Bright, PR, HT Buxton, LS Balistrieri, LB Barber, FH Chapelle, PC Cross, DP Krabbenhoft, GS Plumlee, JM Sleeman, DE Tillitt, P Toccalino & JR Winton. 2012. USGS Environmental Health Science Strategy: Providing Environmental Health Science for a Changing World. Open-File Report 2012-XXXX.
Cross, PC, D Caillaud, D Heisey. Submitted. Underestimating the effects of spatial heterogeneity due to individual movement and spatial scale. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Powell, JH, ST Kalinowski, MD Higgs, MR Ebinger, NV Vu & PC Cross. In revision. Microsatellites indicate minimal barriers to mule deer movement across Montana. Wildlife Biology.
Ryan, SJ, PC Cross, J Winnie, CT Hay, JA Bowers & WM Getz. Submitted. Characterizing the relationship between NDVI and forage for African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Journal of Wildlife Management
In Review
None Available
In Press
Creech, T., P.C. Cross, S. Creel, E. Maichak, & B. Scurlock. Accepted. Altered feeding styles dramatically reduces elk contact rates. Journal of Wildlife Management.
Forristal, V.E., S. Creel, M.L. Taper, B. Scurlock & P.C. Cross. Accepted. Effects of supplemental feeding and aggregation on stress hormone concentrations in elk. Journal of Wildlife Management.
Plowright, R.K., P.C. Cross, G.M. Tabor, E. Almberg, L. Bienen, P. Hudson. In press. Climate-change adaptation and disease dynamics. Conservation Medicine II.
Technical Publications by Year Published
2012
Forristal, Victoria E., Scott Creel, Mark L. Taper, Brandon M. Scurlock, Paul C. Cross. 2012. Effects of Supplemental Feeding and Aggregation on Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolite Concentrations in Elk. The Journal of Wildlife Management 76(4):694–702; 2012; DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.312
2011
Almberg, E.S., D.L. Mech, P.C. Cross, D.W. Smith, J.W. Sheldon & R.L. Crabtree. 2011. Infectious disease in Yellowstone National Park’s canid community. Yellowstone Science. 19(2):16-24
Almberg, E.S., P.C. Cross, D. Heisey, C.J. Johnson & B.J. Richards. 2011. Modeling routes of chronic wasting disease transmission: Environmental prion persistence promotes deer population decline and extinction. PLoS ONE: e19896. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019896.
Bai, Y., P.C. Cross, L. Malania, M. Kosoy. 2011. Isolation of Bartonella capreoli from elk in the northern Rocky Mountains. Veterinary Microbiology. 148:329-332.
Ebinger, MR, PC Cross, R Wallen, PJ White & J Treanor. 2011. Modeling Brucellosis Management in Bison: A Heuristic Model of Management Actions on Disease Dynamics. Ecological Applications 21:2944-2959.
LaBeaud, A.D., P.C. Cross, W.M. Getz, A. Glinka & C.H. King. 2011. Rift Valley fever virus infection in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) herds in rural South Africa: Evidence of inter-epizootic transmission. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 84(4):641:646.
Serrano, E., P.C. Cross, M. Beneria, A. Ficapal, J. Curia, S. Marco, X. Lavín & I. Marco. 2011. Decreasing prevalence of brucellosis in red deer through efforts to control disease in livestock. Epidemiology and Infection (2011), 139, 1626-1630. doi:10.1017/S0950268811000951.
2010
Almberg, E.S., P.C. Cross & D.W. Smith. Online. Persistence of canine distemper virus in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s carnivore community. Ecological Applications 20(7): 2058-2074.
Cross P.C., Heisey DM, Scurlock BM, Edwards WH, Ebinger MR, et al. 2010 Mapping Brucellosis Increases Relative to Elk Density Using Hierarchical Bayesian Models. PLoS ONE 5(4): e10322. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010322
Cross, P. C., E. K. Cole, A. P. Dobson, W. H. Edwards, K. L. Hamlin, G. Luikart, A. D. Middleton, B. M. Scurlock, and P. J. White. 2010. Probable causes of increasing elk brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Ecological Applications 20(1): 278-288.
Cross P.C., M.R. Ebinger, V. Patrek, & R. Wallen. 2010. Brucellosis in cattle, bison, and elk: Management conflicts in a society with diverse values. In: Johnson J, editor. Knowing Yellowstone: Science in America’s First National Park. Boulder, CO: Taylor Trade Publishing. pp. 81-94.
Heisey, D.M., E.E. Osnas, P.C. Cross, D.O. Joly, J.A. Langenberg & M.W. Miller. 2010. Linking process to pattern: estimating spatiotemporal dynamics of a wildlife epidemic from cross-sectional data. Ecological Monographs: Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 221-240. doi: 10.1890/09-0052.1
Heisey, DM, EE Osnas, PC Cross, DO Joly, JA Langenberg & MW Miller. 2010. Rejoinder - Shifting through model space. Ecology 91:3503-3514
Polansky, L., G. Wittemyer, P.C. Cross, C. Tambling & W.M. Getz. 2010. From moonlight to movement and synchronized randomness: Fourier and wavelet analyses of animal location time series data. Ecology: Vol. 91, No. 5, pp. 1506-1518. doi: 10.1890/08-2159.1
Wittekindt, N.E., A. Padhi, S.C. Schuster, J. Qi, F. Zhao, L. Tomsho, L. Kasson, M. Packard, P.C. Cross, M. Poss. 2010. Nodeomics: pathogen detection in vertebrate lymph nodes using meta-transcriptomics. PLoS One 5(10):e13432
2009
Bar-David, S., I. Bar-David, P. C. Cross, S. J. Ryan, C. U. Knechtel, and W. M. Getz. 2009. Methods for assessing movement path recursion with application ot African buffalo in South Africa. Ecology 90:2467-2479.
Cross PC, D Heisey, J Bowers, CT Hay, J Wolhuter, P Buss, M Hofmeyr, A Michel, TLF Bird, JT Du Toit & WM Getz. 2009. Disease, predation and demography: assessing the impacts of bovine tuberculosis on African buffalo by monitoring at individual and population levels. Journal of Applied Ecology 46: 467-475.
Cross PC, J Drewe, V Patrek, G Pearce MD Samuel & RJ Delahay. 2009. Host population structure and implications for disease management. Pages 9-30 In RJ Delahay, GC Smith, & MR Hutchings (eds.) Management of Disease in Wild Mammals. Springer-Verlag Tokyo, Inc. Tokyo.
Maichak, EJ, BM Scurlock, JD Rogerson, LL Meadows, AE Barbknecht, WH Edwards, and PC Cross. 2009. Effects of management, behavior, and scavenging on risk of brucellosis transmission in elk of western Wyoming. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 45:398-410.
Oosthuizen, C, PC Cross, JA Bowers, CT Hay, MR Ebinger, P Buss, M Hofmeyr, EZ Cameron. 2009. Chemical immobilization of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in Kruger National Park: Evaluating effects on movement, survival and reproduction. Journal of Wildlife Management.73(1): 149-153.
Wolhuter, J, RG Bengis, BK Reilly, & PC Cross. 2009. Clinical demodicosis in African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in the Kruger National Park. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 45:502-504.
2008
Conner, MM, JA Blanchong, MR Ebinger, & PC Cross. 2008. Infectious disease in cervids of North America: models, data, & management challenges. The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology. 1134: 146-172.
Hay, CT*, PC Cross*, & P Funston. 2008. Tradeoffs of predation and foraging explain sexual segregation in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer). Journal of Animal Ecology.77:850-858. * authors contributed equally.
Winnie, JA Jr., PC Cross, WM Getz. 2008. Habitat quality and heterogeneity influences distribution, individual and herd behavior in African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer). Ecology. 89:1457-1468.
2007
Conner, MM, JE Gross, PC Cross, MD. Samuel, DT McKinnon, MM Miller, & MR Ebinger. 2007. Scale-dependent approaches to modeling spatial epidemiology of chronic wasting disease. E-book publication. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. http://wildlife.utah.gov/diseases/cwd/e-book/
Cross, PC, WH Edwards, B Scurlock, E Machaik, & J Rogerson, 2007. Management and climate impacts on brucellosis in elk of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Ecological Applications.17(4):957-964. [Appendices]
Cross, PC, PLF Johnson, JO Lloyd-Smith, & WM Getz. 2007. Utility of R0 as a predictor of disease invasion in structured populations. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 4: 315-324.
Getz, WM, S Fortmann-Roe, PC Cross, AJ Lyons, SJ Ryan, CC Wilmers. 2007. LoCoH: Non-parameteric kernel methods for constructing home ranges and utilization distributions. PLoS One 2(2): e207.
Hines, AM, VO Ezenwa, PC Cross, & JR Rogerson. 2007. Effects of supplemental feeding on gastrointestinal parasite infection in Rocky Mountain Elk (Cervus elaphus). Veterinary Parasitology. 148(3-4): 350-355.
2006
Cross, PC & WM Getz. 2006. Combining data and models of bovine Tb in African buffalo to assess research directions and management options. Ecological Modelling 196:494-504.
Getz, WM, JO Lloyd-Smith, PC Cross, S Bar-David, PLF Johnson, TC Porco, & MS Sánchez. 2006. Modeling the invasion and spread of contagious disease in heterogeneous populations. In Feng, Z., Dieckmann, U., Levin, S.A. (eds.) Disease Evolution: Models, Concepts, and Data Analysis, AMS/DIMACS Vol. 71:113-144
Michel, AL, RG Bengis, DF Keet, M Hofmeyer, LM de Klerk, PC Cross, AE Jolles, D Cooper, IJ Whyte, & P Buss. 2006. Wildlife tuberculosis in South African game reserves: implications and challenges. Veterinary Microbiology 112:91-100.
2005
Lloyd-Smith, JO, PC Cross, CJ Briggs, M Daugherty, WM Getz, J Latto, M Sanchez, A Smith, A Swei. 2005. Population thresholds for disease invasion and persistence in natural populations. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 20(9):511-519.
Cross, PC, JO Lloyd-Smith, PLF Johnson, & WM Getz. 2005. Duelling timescales of host mixing and disease spread determine invasion of disease in structured populations. Ecology Letters. 8:587-595.
Cross, PC, JO Lloyd-Smith, & WM Getz. 2005. Disentangling individual associations in fission and fusion societies. Animal Behaviour 69(2):499-506.
2004 and earlier
Macandza, V, N Owen-Smith, PC Cross. 2004. Forage selection by African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) through the dry season in two landscapes of the Kruger National Park. South African Journal of Wildlife Research. 34(2):113-121.
Cross, PC, JO Lloyd-Smith, J Bowers, CT Hay, M Hofmeyr, & WM Getz. 2004. Integrating association data and disease dynamics: an illustration using African Buffalo in Kruger National Park. Annales Zoologici Fennici 41:879-892.
Caron, A, PC Cross, & JT du Toit. 2003. Ecological implications of bovine tuberculosis in African Buffalo herds. Ecological Applications 13(5):1338-1345.
Cross, PC & SR Beissinger. 2001. Using logistic regression to analyze the sensitivity of PVA models: a comparison of methods based on African Wild Dogs. Conservation Biology. 15(5):1335-1346.
Grey Literature Reports
Ebinger, MR & PC Cross. 2008 Surveillance for brucellosis in Yellowstone bison: The power of various strategies to detect vaccination effects. National Park Service, Mammoth, WY, YCR-2008-04. 69 pages.
Conner, MM, JE Gross, PC Cross, MD. Samuel, DT McKinnon, MM Miller, & MR Ebinger. 2007. Scale-dependent approaches to modeling spatial epidemiology of chronic wasting disease. E-book publication. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. http://wildlife.utah.gov/diseases/cwd/e-book/
Cross, PC, G Plumb. 2007. Disease ecology of the Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone Science. 15(2):4-7. http://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/yellsci-issues.htm (Also served as guest editor of this edition).
Cross, PC, S Creel, WH Edwards, V Ezenwa, E Maichak, B Scurlock, J. Rogerson. 2006. Ecology and epidemiology of elk brucellosis. In 2005 Greater Yellowstone Interagency Brucellosis Committee Annual Report. Pg 14-15. http://gyibc.com
Technial Publications by Topic
African buffalo
Caron, A, PC Cross, & JT du Toit. 2003. Ecological implications of bovine tuberculosis in African Buffalo herds. Ecological Applications 13(5):1338-1345.
Cross, PC, JO Lloyd-Smith, & WM Getz. 2005. Disentangling individual associations in fission and fusion societies. Animal Behaviour 69(2):499-506.
Cross, PC & WM Getz. 2006. Combining data and models of bovine Tb in African buffalo to assess research directions and management options. Ecological Modelling 196:494-504.
Cross, PC, D Heisey, J Bowers, CT Hay, J Wolhuter, P Buss, M Hofmeyr, A Michel, TLF Bird, JT Du Toit & WM Getz. 2009. Disease, predation and demography: assessing the impacts of bovine tuberculosis on African buffalo by monitoring at individual and population levels. Journal of Applied Ecology 46: 467-475.
Hay, CT*, PC Cross*, & P Funston. 2008. Tradeoffs of predation and foraging explain sexual segregation in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer). Journal of Animal Ecology.77:850-858. (* authors contributed equally.)
LaBeaud, AD, PC Cross, WM Getz, A Glinka & CH King. Submitted. Rift Valley fever virus infection in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) herds in rural South Africa: Evidence of inter-epizootic transmission. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Macandza, V, N Owen-Smith, PC Cross. 2004. Forage selection by African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) through the dry season in two landscapes of the Kruger National Park. South African Journal of Wildlife Research. 34(2):113-121.
Michel, AL, RG Bengis, DF Keet, M Hofmeyer, LM de Klerk, PC Cross, AE Jolles, D Cooper, IJ Whyte, & P Buss. 2006. Wildlife tuberculosis in South African game reserves: implications and challenges. Veterinary Microbiology 112:91-100.
Oosthuizen, C, PC Cross, JA Bowers, CT Hay, MR Ebinger, P Buss, M Hofmeyr, EZ Cameron. 2009. Chemical immobilization of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in Kruger National Park: Evaluating effects on movement, survival and reproduction. Journal of Wildlife Management.73(1): 149-153.
Winnie, JA Jr., PC Cross, WM Getz. 2008. Habitat quality and heterogeneity influences distribution, individual and herd behavior in African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer). Ecology. 89:1457-1468.
Wolhuter, J, RG Bengis, BK Reilly, & PC Cross. 2009. Clinical demodicosis in African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in the Kruger National Park. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 45:502-504.
Brucellosis and Elk
Cross PC, Heisey DM, Scurlock BM, Edwards WH, Ebinger MR, et al. 2010 Mapping Brucellosis Increases Relative to Elk Density Using Hierarchical Bayesian Models. PLoS ONE 5(4): e10322. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010322
Cross, PC, DM Heisey, BM Scurlock, WH Edwards, MR Ebinger, & A Brennan. In press. Mapping brucellosis increases relative to elk density using hierarchical Bayesian models. PLoS ONE
Cross, PC, EK Cole, AP Dobson, WH Edwards, KL Hamlin, G Luikart, AD Middleton, BM Scurlock & PJ White. 2010. Probable causes of increasing elk brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Ecological Applications. 20:278-288.
Cross PC, MR Ebinger, V Patrek, & R Wallen. 2010. Brucellosis in cattle, bison, and elk: Management conflicts in a society with diverse values. In: Johnson J, editor. Knowing Yellowstone: Science in America’s First National Park. Boulder, CO: Taylor Trade Publishing. pp. 81-94.
Cross, PC, WH Edwards, B Scurlock, E Machaik, & J Rogerson, 2007. Management and climate impacts on brucellosis in elk of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Ecological Applications.17(4):957-964.
Forristal, Victoria E., Scott Creel, Mark L. Taper, Brandon M. Scurlock, Paul C. Cross. 2012. Effects of Supplemental Feeding and Aggregation on Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolite Concentrations in Elk. The Journal of Wildlife Management 76(4):694–702; 2012; DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.312
Hines, AM, VO Ezenwa, PC Cross, & JR Rogerson. 2007. Effects of supplemental feeding on gastrointestinal parasite infection in Rocky Mountain Elk (Cervus elaphus). Veterinary Parasitology. 148(3-4): 350-355.
Maichak, EJ, BM Scurlock, JD Rogerson, LL Meadows, AE Barbknecht, WH Edwards, and PC Cross. 2009. Effects of management, behavior, and scavenging on risk of brucellosis transmission in elk of western Wyoming. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 45:398-410.
General Disease Ecology
Almberg, E.S., P.C. Cross & D.W. Smith. Online. Persistence of canine distemper virus in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s carnivore community. Ecological Applications 20(7): 2058-2074.
Conner, MM, JA Blanchong, MR Ebinger, & PC Cross. 2008. Infectious disease in cervids of North America: models, data, & management challenges. The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology. 1134: 146-172.
Cross, PC, JO Lloyd-Smith, J Bowers, CT Hay, M Hofmeyr, & WM Getz. 2004. Integrating association data and disease dynamics: an illustration using African Buffalo in Kruger National Park. Annales Zoologici Fennici 41:879-892.
Cross, PC, JO Lloyd-Smith, PLF Johnson, & WM Getz. 2005. Duelling timescales of host mixing and disease spread determine invasion of disease in structured populations. Ecology Letters. 8:587-595.
Cross, PC, PLF Johnson, JO Lloyd-Smith, & WM Getz. 2007. Utility of R0 as a predictor of disease invasion in structured populations. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 4: 315-324.
Cross, PC, G Plumb. 2007. Disease ecology of the Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone Science. 15(2):4-7. http://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/yellsci-issues.htm (Also served as guest editor of this edition).
Cross, PC, J Drewe, V Patrek, G Pearce MD Samuel & RJ Delahay. 2009. Host population structure and implications for disease management. Pages 9-30 In RJ Delahay, GC Smith, & MR Hutchings (eds.) Management of Disease in Wild Mammals. Springer-Verlag Tokyo, Inc. Tokyo.
Getz, WM, JO Lloyd-Smith, PC Cross, S Bar-David, PLF Johnson, TC Porco, & MS Sánchez.2006. Modeling the invasion and spread of contagious disease in heterogeneous populations. In Feng, Z., Dieckmann, U., Levin, S.A. (eds.) Disease Evolution: Models, Concepts, and Data Analysis, AMS/DIMACS Vol. 71:113-144
Lloyd-Smith, JO, PC Cross, CJ Briggs, M Daugherty, WM Getz, J Latto, M Sanchez, A Smith, A Swei. 2005. Population thresholds for disease invasion and persistence in natural populations. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 20(9):511-519.
Chronic Wasting Disease
Conner, MM, JE Gross, PC Cross, MD. Samuel, DT McKinnon, MM Miller, & MR Ebinger. 2007. Scale-dependent approaches to modeling spatial epidemiology of chronic wasting disease. E-book publication. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. http://wildlife.utah.gov/diseases/cwd/e-book/
Heisey, D.M., E.E. Osnas, P.C. Cross, D.O. Joly, J.A. Langenberg & M.W. Miller. 2010. Linking process to pattern: estimating spatiotemporal dynamics of a wildlife epidemic from cross-sectional data. Ecological Monographs: Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 221-240. doi: 10.1890/09-0052.1
Movement Ecology
Bar-David S, I Bar-David, PC Cross, SJ Ryan, CU Knechtel & WM Getz. 2009. Methods for assessing movement path recursion with application to African buffalo in South Africa. Ecology. 90(9) 2467-2479.
Getz, WM, S Fortmann-Roe, PC Cross, AJ Lyons, SJ Ryan, CC Wilmers. 2007. LoCoH: Non-parameteric kernel methods for constructing home ranges and utilization distributions. PLoS One 2(2): e207.
Polansky, L., G. Wittemyer, P.C. Cross, C. Tambling & W.M. Getz. 2010. From moonlight to movement and synchronized randomness: Fourier and wavelet analyses of animal location time series data. Ecology: Vol. 91, No. 5, pp. 1506-1518. doi: 10.1890/08-2159.1
Other
Almberg, ES, PC Cross & DW Smith. Online. Modeling the spatial scale and multi-host dynamics of canine distemper virus in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem carnivores. Ecological Applications.
Cross, PC & SR Beissinger. 2001. Using logistic regression to analyze the sensitivity of PVA models: a comparison of methods based on African Wild Dogs. Conservation Biology. 15(5):1335-1346.
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