Publications

Publications

Italics indicate a graduate or *undergraduate student author from the Ringelman lab. 

Masto, N.M., K.D. Dunham, M.G. Brasher, K.M. Ringelman, J.M. Osborn, B. Avers, T. Bidrowski, M. Ervin, O.E. Jones, B.W. Loges, D. McClain, W.A. Phelps, R. Vanausdall, J.D. Lancaster, and O.J. Robinson. 2025. Citizen science generates reliable migration chronologies to supplement professional surveys for waterfowl habitat management. Ornithological Applications duaf030.

Bakner, D.L., Ringelman, K.M., Olszak, J., and L.A. Reynolds. 2025. Survival and harvest rates remain consistent for wood ducks following an increased bag limit. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. 

Rhodes, G.A., D.L. Bakner, H.C. Sabatier, B.S. Sedinger, C.A. Nicolai, and K.M. Ringelman. 2025. Drone-based radiotelemetry and imagery systems provide an advantage over traditional techniques for estimating survival of dependent juveniles. Wildlife Society Bulletin, e1576.

Bonczek, E.S., K.M. Ringelman, S.A. Collins, and J.R. Marty. 2025. Nesting Mottled Duck (Anas fulvigula) selection of ungrazed grasslands in southwestern Louisiana is associated with increased nest survival. Avian Conservation and Ecology 20(1):1.

*Miranda, K.M., K.M. Ringelman, and D.L. Bakner. Nest box-mounted PIT tag readers reveal cryptic recruits of cavity-nesting waterfowl in south Louisiana. Scientific Reports, 14:24380.

Sullivan, M.C., M.D. Kaller, L.P. Laborde, K.M. Ringelman, L.A. Reynolds. 2024. Exceeding expectations increases satisfaction among Louisiana waterfowl hunters. Wildlife Society Bulletin, e1551.

Bakner D.L., K.M. Ringelman, and L.A. Reynolds. 2024. Wood duck nest survival is minimally affected by interspecific brood parasitism from hooded mergansers and black-bellied whistling-ducks. PLOS ONE 19(7): e0305899.

Bakner D.L., K.M. Ringelman, L.A. Reynolds, R.M. Kaminski, S.E. Stephens, and J.B Davis. 2024. Wood ducks and hooded mergansers as interspecific brood parasites: an evaluation of parasitic egg survival. Ecology and Evolution 14(7): e11721.

Weller, F.G., E.B. Webb, S. Fogenburg, W.S. Beatty, D. Kesler, R.H. Blenk, K.M. Ringelman, M.L. Miller, C. Arzel, and J.M. Eadie. 2023. An agent-based model to quantify energetics, movement and habitat selection of mid-continent mallards in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Ecological Modelling, 485.

Bakner, D.L., and K.M. Ringelman. 2023. A simple trail camera modification reveals red-bellied woodpeckers as important egg predators of box-nesting wood ducks. Food Webs 35:e00283.

Sullivan, M.C., M.D. Kaller, L.P. Laborde, K.M. Ringelman, and L.A. Reynolds. 2023. Differences in hunter harvest metrics by survey mode. Journal of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 10:92–99.

Mitchell, B.J., C.V. Terry, K.M. Ringelman, K.M. Kemink, M.J. Anteau, and A.K. Janke. 2022. Wetland occupancy by duck broods in  agricultural landscapes of the United States prairie pothole region. Journal of Wildlife Management 2022:e22347.

Bakner, D.L., *Miranda, K.E.*, and K.M. Ringelman. 2022. Louisiana Black-bellied Whistling-Duck clutch characteristics in the presence of  conspecific and interspecific brood parasitism. Journal of Field Ornithology 94(4):8.

Davis, J.B., D.C. Outlaw, R.M. Kaminski, K.M. Ringelman, and P. Lavretsky. 2022. Low levels of hybridization between domestic and wild Mallards wintering in the lower Mississippi flyway. Ornithology(139(4):ukac034.

Ringelman, K.M., M.G. Brasher, J.R. Marty, D. Butler, S. McDowell, R. Temple, and J.A. Moon. 2022. Evaluation of light-logging geolocators    to study mottled duck nesting ecology. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 13(2):1-9.

E.S. Bonczek, K.M. Ringelman, J. Marty, and S. Collins. 2022. Temporal variation and landcover influence survival in adult female mottled  ducks. Journal of WIldlife Management:e22247.

Stuber, E.F., O. Robinson, E. Bjerre, M. Otto, B. Millsap, G. Zimmerman, M.G. Brasher, K.M. Ringelman, A.M.V. Fournier, A. Yetter, J.E. Isola and  V. Ruiz-Gutierrez. 2022. The potential of semi-structured citizen science data as a supplement for conservation decision-making:          validating the performance of eBird against targeted avian monitoring efforts. Biological Conservation 270:109556.

Ringelman, K.M., E.S. Bonczek, J.R. Marty, A.R. Booth, and A.L. Dopkin. 2021. Survival of western Gulf Coast Mottled Ducks (Anas fulvigula) in the path of a category 4 hurricane. Ecology and Evolution 00:1-7. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8276.

Bonczek, E.S. and K.M. Ringelman. 2021. Breeding ecology of Mottled Ducks: A review. Journal of Wildlife Management 85(5):825-837.

Bushaw, J.D., C.V. Terry, K.M. Ringelman, M.K. Johnson, K.M. Kemink, and F.C. Rohwer. 2021. Application of unmanned aerial vehicles and thermal imaging cameras to conduct duck brood surveys. Wildlife Society Bulletin DOI: 10.1002/wsb.1196.

Ringelman, J.K., K.M. Ringelman, and J.M. Eadie. 2021. “Future Directions of Migrating and Wintering Waterfowl” in Migrating and Wintering Waterfowl, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, USA in press.

Bushaw, J.D., K.M. Ringelman, M.K. Johnson, T.Rohrer, and F.C. Rohwer. 2020. Applications of an unmanned aerial vehicle and thermal-imaging camera to study ducks nesting over water. Journal of Field Ornithology 91(4):409–420.

Ringelman, K.M., B.A. Collier, L.P. Laborde, F.C. Rohwer, L.A. Reynolds, J. Messerli, M.R. McLandress, G. Oberstadt and J.M. Eadie. 2020. Successes and challenges of university first hunt programs. Journal of Wildlife Management 84(6):1032–1037.

Skaggs, C.G., K.M. Ringelman, C.R. Loesch, M.L. Szymanski, F.C. Rohwer, and K.M. Kemink. 2020. Proximity to oil wells in North Dakota does not impact nest success of ducks but lowers nest densities. Condor 122(2):duaa012.

Stroud, C.M., C.E. Caputo, M.A. Poirrier, and K.M. Ringelman. 2019. Diet of Lesser Scaup wintering on Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 10(2):567–574.

Stroud, C.M., C.E. Caputo, M.A. Poirrier, L.A. Reynolds, and K.M. Ringelman. 2019. Bluebills and bayou bivalves: hurricane-driven trophic cascades affecting wintering abundance of Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) in Louisiana. Ecosphere 10(8):e02829. 10.1002/ecs2.2829.

Bonczek, E.S. and K.M. Ringelman. 2019. First documented case of overwater nesting by Mottled Ducks (Anas fulvigula). Wilson Journal of Ornithology 131(2):414–419.

Bushaw, J.D., K.M. Ringelman, and F.C. Rohwer. 2019. Applications of unmanned aerial vehicles to survey mesocarnivores. Drones 3(28):1–9. DOI: 10.3390/drones3010028.

K.M. Ringelman and C.G. Skaggs. 2019. Vegetation phenology and nest survival: diagnosing heterogeneous effects through time. Ecology and Evolution DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4906.

Whittaker, J.M., K.M. Ringelman, J.R. Marty, W.M. Selman, and J.T. Linscombe. 2019. Changes in waterfowl abundance and species composition on Louisiana coastal wildlife management areas and refuges 2004–2006. Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 6:136-145.

Ringelman, K.M., C.K. Williams, P.M. Castelli, M.L. Sieges, R.A. Longenecker, T.C. Nichols, and S.D. Earsom. 2018. Estimating waterfowl carrying capacity at local scales: a case study from Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 9(1):106–116.

Ringelman, K.M., J. Walker, J.K. Ringelman, and S.E. Stephens. 2018. Temporal and multi-spatial environmental drivers of duck nest survival. The Auk 135(3):486–494.

Ringelman, K.M. and C.K. Williams. 2018. The American black duck: three decades of science-based adaptive management. Case Studies in the Environment. DOI: 10.1525/cse.2017.000844.

Parrott, D., K.M. Ringelman, and M.S. Chaussee. 2017. Anti-microbial effects of copper conductive nanoparticle film. Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology 11(2):661–669.

Miller, M.L., K.M. Ringelman, J.M. Eadie, and J.C. Schank. 2017. Time to fly: A comparison of marginal value theorem approximations in an agent-based model of foraging waterfowl. Ecological Modelling 351:77–86.

Ringelman, K.M., J.M. Eadie, J.T. Ackerman, A. Sih, D.L. Loughman, G.S. Yarris, S.L. Oldenburger, and M.R. McLandress. 2017. .Spatiotemporal patterns of duck nest density and predation risk: a multi-scale analysis of 18 years and more than 10 000 nests Oikos 126(3):332–338.

Fino, S., C.K. Williams, M.C. Livolsi, K.M. Ringelman, J.M. Coluccy, P.K. Devers, and P.M. Castelli. 2016. The energetic value of mid-Atlantic forested wetlands to wintering American Black Ducks. Journal of Wildlife Management 81(5):943–950.

*Raquel, A.J.*, K.M. Ringelman, J.T. Ackerman, and J.M. Eadie. 2015. Habitat edges have weak effects on duck nest survival at local spatial scales. Ardea 103:155–162.

Ringelman, K.M., C.K. Williams, P.K. Devers, J.M. Coluccy, P.M. Castelli, K.A. Anderson, J.L. Bowman, G.R. Costanzo, D.M. Cramer, M.T. DiBona, M.W. Eichholz, M. Huang, B. Lewis, D. Plattner, and T. Yerkes. 2015. A meta-analysis of American Black Duck winter habitat use along the Atlantic Coast. Journal of Wildlife Management 79(8):1298–1307.

Livolsi, M.C., K.M. Ringelman, J.M. Coluccy, M.T. DiBona, and C.K. Williams. 2015. Implications of uncertainty in true metabolizable energy estimates for estimating wintering waterfowl carrying capacities. Wildlife Society Bulletin 39(4):827–833.

Ringelman, K.M., C.K. Williams, and J.M. Coluccy. 2015. Assessing uncertainty in coastal marsh core sampling for waterfowl foods. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 6(1):238–246.

Livolsi, M.C., K.M. Ringelman, and C.K. Williams. 2014. Subsampling reduces sorting effort for waterfowl foods in salt-marsh core samples. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 5(2):380–386.

Miller, M.L., K.M. Ringelman, J.C. Schank, and J.M. Eadie. 2014. SWAMP: An agent-based model as a conservation management tool. Simulation 90(1):52–68.

Winkler, D. W., K.M. Ringelman, P.O. Dunn, L. Whittingham, D.J.T. Hussell, R.G. Clark, R.D. Dawson, L.S. Johnson, A. Rose, S.H. Austin, W.D. Robinson, M.P. Lombardo, P.A. Thorpe, D. Shutler, R.J. Robertson, M. Stager, M. Leonard, A.G. Horn, J. Dickinson, V. Ferretti, V. Massoni, F. Bulit, J.C. Reboreda, M. Liljesthröm, M. Quiroga, E. Rakhimberdiev, and D.R. Ardia. 2014. Latitudinal variation in clutch size-lay date regressions in Tachycineta swallows: effects of food supply or demography? Ecography 37(7): 670–678.

Ringelman, K.M. 2014.  Predator foraging behavior and patterns of avian nest success: what can we learn from an agent-based model? Ecological Modelling 272:141–149.

Ringelman, K.M., J.M. Eadie, and J.T. Ackerman. 2014. Adaptive nest clustering and density-dependent nest survival in dabbling ducks. Oikos 123(2):239–247.

Ringelman, K.M. and *M.J. Stupaczuk*. 2013. Dabbling ducks increase nest defense after partial clutch loss. Condor 115(2):1–8.

Ringelman, K.M., J.M. Eadie, and J.T. Ackerman. 2012. Density-dependent nest predation in waterfowl: the relative importance of nest density versus nest dispersion. Oecologia 169(3):695–702.

Sih, A., A. Bibian, N. DiRienzo, X.X. Meng, P-O. Montiglio and K.M. Ringelman. 2012. “On the benefits of studying mechanisms underlying behavior” in Comparative Decision Making, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA.