James E. Hines                 

USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
12100 Beech Forest Rd #201
Laurel, MD 20708-4017

Telephone: 301-497-5661

Fax: 301-497-5545

Email: JHines@usgs.gov 

Computer Specialist

Primary Responsibilities: 
Generate and use computer code to analyze wildlife data

Education/Training: 
BS (Math) @ University of Md. 1979.

Scientific Achievement Award for paper entitled "Stochastic seasonality and nonlinear density-dependent factors regulate population size in an African rodent", 1998, USGS 

Scientific Achievement Award for paper entitled "Higher temporal variability of forest breeding bird communities in fragmented landscapes", 1998, USGS 

Scientific Achievement Award for co-authorship of the paper, "A Resource Conservative Procedure for Comparison of Dose-Response Relationships", 1997, USGS

Active Projects: 
Wildlife-related computer software web-page: http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/software .

Publications/Products: 

Bailey L.L., J. E. Hines J. D. Nichols and D. I. MacKenzie (2007). Sampling Design Trade-offs in Occupancy Studies with Imperfect Detection: Examples and Software. Ecological Applications 17, 281-290.

Buij, R. W. J. McShea P. Campbell M. E. Lee F. Dallmeier S. Guimondou L. Mackaga N. Guisseougou S. Mboumba J. E. Hines J. D. Nichols and A. Alonso. (2006). Patch-Occupancy Models Indicate Human Activity as Major Determinant of Forest Elephant Loxodonta Cyclotis Seasonal Distribution in an Industrial Corridor in Gabon. Biological Conservation 135, 189-201.

Church, D. R. L. L. Bailey H. M. Wilbur W. L. Kendall and J. E. Hines (2007). Iteroparity in the Variable Environment of the Salamander Ambystoma Tigrinum. Ecology 88, 891-903.

Ferraz, G. J. D. Nichols J. E. Hines P. C. Stouffer R. O. Bierregaard Jr. and T. E. Lovejoy (2007). A large-scale Deforestation Experiment: Effects of Patch Area and Isolation on Amazon Birds. Science 315, 238-241.

Mackenzie, D. I. J. D. Nichols J. A. Royle K. H. Pollock J. E. Hines and L. A. Bailey. Occupancy Estimation and Modeling - Inferring Patterns and Dynamics of Species Occurrence.  2006.  Elsevier.

Martin, J. J. D. Nichols W. M. Kitchens and J. E. Hines. (2006). Multiscale Patterns of Movement in Fragmented Landscapes and Consequences on Demography of the Snail Kite in Florida. Journal of Animal Ecology 72, 527-539.

Runge, J. P. J. E. Hines and J. D. Nichols (2007). Estimating species-specific survival and movement when species identification is uncertain. Ecology 88, 282-288.