Selected Publications

Van Meter, R.J., J.R. Spotila, and H.W. Avery. In Press. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons affect survival and development of common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) embryos and hatchlings. Environmental Pollution.

Avery, H.W., J.D. Congdon, and J.R. Spotila. 2002. Life History and Demographic Analysis of the Desert Tortoise at Fort Irwin and Reference Sites: Study Design and Early Findings. 27 th Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council, March 22-24, 2002, Palm Springs, CA.

Spotila, J. R. and H. W. Avery. 2004. The army and the desert tortoise: Can science inform policy decisions? Chapter 15 (pp. 244-268) In: Gordon, M. S. and S. Bartol, eds. Experimental approaches to conservation biology. University of California Press. 358 pp.

Spotila, J.R. and H.W. Avery. 2003. Fort Huachuca decision raises the bar for Fort Irwin expansion. Federal Facilities Environmental Journal, Winter 2003:15-22.

Avery, H.W., J.D. Congdon, and J.R. Spotila. 2002. Life History and Demographic Analysis of the Desert Tortoise at Fort Irwin and Reference Sites: Study Design and Early Findings. 27 th Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council, March 22-24, 2002, Palm Springs, CA.

Congdon, J.D., H.W. Avery and J.R. Spotila. 2002. Feasible Demography Analyses: Consequences of Additional Adult and Juvenile Mortality on a Stable Population of Desert Tortoises. 27 th Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council, March 22-24, 2002, Palm Springs, CA.

Spotila, J.R. and H.W. Avery. 2002. Lessons from the expansion of the National Training Center at Fort Irwin. Federal Facilities Environmental Journal, Spring 2002:39-51.

Congdon, J.D., H.W. Avery and J.R. Spotila. 2002. Feasible Demography Analyses: Consequences of Additional Adult and Juvenile Mortality on a Stable Population of Desert Tortoises. 27 th Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council, March 22-24, 2002, Palm Springs, CA.

Congdon, J.D., R.D. Nagle, O.M. Kinney, M. Osentoski, H.W. Avery, R.C. van Loben Sels and D.W. Tinkle. 2000. Nesting ecology and embryo mortality: Implications for hatchling success and demography of Blanding’s turtles (Emydoidea blandingii). Chelonian Conservation and Biology 3:569-579.

Lovich, J., P. Medica, H. Avery, K. Meyer, G. Bowser and A. Brown. 1999. Studies of reproductive output of the desert tortoise at Joshua Tree National Park, the Mojave National Preserve, and comparative sites. Park Science 1 9 9(1):22-24.

Avery, H.W. 1998. Nutritional ecology of the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) in relation to cattle grazing in the Mojave Desert. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles. 158 pp.

Avery, H.W. and A.G. Neibergs. 1997. Effects of cattle grazing on the desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii: nutritional and behavioral interactions. Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles: An International Conference. Pp. 13-20.

Avery, H.W. 1997. Challenges to a changing plant community: food selectivity and digestive performance of desert tortoises fed native vs. Exotic forage plants. Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles: An International Conference. P. 474.

Avery, H.W. 1995. Diet selection and nutritional ecology of the desert tortoise fed native versus exotic vegetation: implications for habitat restoration and land management. Proceedings of the 47th Annual California Weed Science Society, Santa Barbara, California, January 16 - 18, 1995. Pp. 141-142.

Avery, H.W. 1995. Digestive physiology and nutritional ecology of the desert tortoise fed native versus non-native vegetation: implications for tortoise conservation and land management. Proceedings of the 1994 Desert Tortoise Council Symposium 1995:143.

Avery, H.W. 1994. Constraints of body size, environmental stochasticity, and livestock grazing on the nutritional ecology of North American tortoises. Proceedings of the International Conference on North American Tortoises, Mapimi Biosphere Preserve, Instituto de Ecologia, Laboratorio del Desierto, Durango, Mexico, October 8-12, 1994. Pp. 18-23.

Avery, H.W., J. R. Spotila, J.D. Congdon, R.U. Fisher Jr., and E.A. Standora. 1993. Roles of diet protein and temperature in the growth and nutritional energetics of the slider turtle, Trachemys scripta. Physiological Zoology 66:902-925.

Parmenter, R.R. and H.W. Avery. 1990. The feeding ecology of the slider turtle. Pp. 257-265 In J.W. Gibbons, editor. Life history and ecology of the slider turtle. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

Roosenburg, W.M., T.T. Tuel, H.W. Avery, E.A. Standora, J.R. Spotila, and J. Aho. 1990. Population response to stress: Population structure and movement of largemouth bass in a nuclear reactor cooling reservoir. pp. 567-582 in R.R. Sharitz and J.W. Gibbons (eds.) Freshwater wetlands and wildlife, CONF 8603101, DOE Symposium Series No. 61, USDOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Oak Ridge, TN Roosenburg, W.M., T. A. Tuel, J.R. Spotila, E.A. Standora, H.W. Avery and J. Aho. 1989. Population response to stress: Population Structure and movement of largemouth bass in a nuclear reactor cooling reservoir. In: Freshwater wetlands and wildlife, perspectives in natural, managed and degraded ecosystems. (R.R. Sharitz and J. W. Gibbons, eds.), National Technical Information Services DOE Symposium Series No. 61.

Cena, K., J.R. Spotila and H.W. Avery. 1986. Thermal comfort of the elderly is affected by clothing, activity and psychological adjustment. Transaction of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). 96(2a):329-342.

Avery, H.W. and L.J. Vitt. 1984. How to get blood from a turtle. Copeia 1984:209-210.