Publications

  • Verdolin, J.L. 2009. Male territoriality leads to increased access to resources rather than securing paternity in a social sciurid, Cynomys gunnisoni. In Revision, Behaviour


  • Slobodchikoff, C.N., Paseka, A., Verdolin, J.L. 2009. Information content of alarm calls: Prairie dog alarm calls encode information about predator colors. Animal Cognition 12, 435-439.


  • Verdolin, J.L. 2009. Gunnisons prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni): Testing the resource dispersion hypothesis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63:789-799.


  • Verdolin, J.L. and Slobodchikoff, C.N. 2009. Resources, not kinship, determine social patterning in the territorial Gunnisons prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni). Ethology 115:59-69.[pdf]


  • Verdolin, J.L., Lewis, K., and Slobodchikoff, C.N. 2008. Morphology of prairie dog burrows: A comparison among Gunnisons, black-tailed, white-tailed, and Utah prairie dogs. Southwestern Naturalist 53:201-207.[pdf]


  • Verdolin, J.L. 2007. Resources, not male mating strategies, determine social structure in Gunnisons prairie dogs. Behaviour 144:1361-1382.[pdf]


  • Verdolin, J.L. 2006. Meta-Analysis of foraging and predation risk trade-offs in terrestrial systems. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60:457-464. [pdf]


  • Verdolin, J.L. and Slobodchikoff, C.N. 2002. Vigilance and predation risk in Gunnisons prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni). Canadian Journal of Zoology 80: 1197-1203. [pdf]


    • Manuscripts in Review

  • Verdolin, J.L. and Davalos, L.M. 2009. Extinction in the Age of Disease. EcoHealth

    • Manuscripts in Preparation

  • Jensen, C.J. and Verdolin, J.L. Simulating social group formation: An individual-based model testing the effect of resource abundance and distribution American Naturalist
  • Verdolin, J.L. Once a risk-taker always a risk-taker? Behavioral syndromes in Gunnisons prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni). Animal Behaviour

    • Book Chapters

  • Slobodchikoff, C.N. and Verdolin, J.L. 2007. Prairie dogs and people. In: Encyclopedia of human-animal relationships: A global exploration of our connections with animals. Bekoff, M., ed. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT.
  • Janson, C. and Verdolin, J.L. 2005. Seasonality of primate births in relation to climate. In: Primate Seasonality: Implications for Human Evolution, D.K. Brockman & C.P. van Schaik, ed., Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology series