Peer-reviewed publications 

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Garrigan, E.E.*, T.A. Young, and B.E. Hagerty. 2021. The cost of the outdoor cat and dog: wildlife rehabilitation in south central Pennsylvania. Wildlife Rehabilitation Bulletin 34: 1-11.

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Weitzman, C.L., B.E. Hagerty, F.C. Sandmeier, and C.R. Tracy. 2021. Desert tortoises in Zion National Park represent a natural extension of their range. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 20: 91-96.

 

Shaffer, HB, McCartney-Melstad, E, Ralph PL, Bradburd G, Lundgren E, Vu J, Hagerty BE, Sandmeier F, Weitzman C, Tracy CR. 2017. Desert Tortoises in the Genomic Age: Population Genetics and the Landscape. bioRxiv 195743; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/195743

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Hanson, K.M.* and B.E. Hagerty. 2016. The influence of shifted spectral sensitivities on predator detection ability of Lake Malawi African cichlids. Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences 90: 37- 43.

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Averill-Murray, R.C. and B.E. Hagerty. 2014. Translocation relative to spatial genetic structure of the Mojave desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 13: 35-41. DOI:    http://dx.doi.org/10.2744/CCB-1050.1 

 

Sandmeier, F.C., C.R. Tracy, B.E. Hagerty, S. DuPré, H. Mohammadpour, and K. Hunter. 2013.                          Mycoplasmal upper respiratory tract disease across the range of the threatened Mojave desert 

tortoise: associations with thermal regime and natural antibodies. Ecohealth 10: 63-71. DOI: 

10.1007/s10393-013-0835-5

 

Hagerty B.E., K. Nussear, T. Esque, C.R. Tracy. 2011. Making molehills out of mountains: a landscape genetic approach to connectivity for desert tortoises. Landscape Ecology 26: 267-280.

 

Hagerty, B.E. and C.R. Tracy. 2011. A history of desert tortoise movement: a view through the window of population genetics. Mojave National Preserve Science Newsletter March 2011 (1): 1-7.

 

Hagerty, B.E. and C. R. Tracy. 2010. Defining populations for the Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). Conservation Genetics 11: 1795 - 1807. DOI 10.1007/s10592-010-0073-0

 

Hagerty, B.E., M.M. Peacock, V.S. Kirchoff, and C.R. Tracy. 2008. Polymorphic microsatellite markers for the Mojave desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii. Molecular Ecology Resources 8: 1149-1151.

 

 

Reports to agencies

Tracy, C.R., R.C. Averill-Murray, W.I. Boarman, D. Delehanty, J. S. Heaton, E.D. McCoy, D. J. Morafka, K.E. Nussear, B.E. Hagerty, P.A. Medica. 2005. Desert Tortoise Recovery Plan Assessment. Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Reno, NV. (Download report here)