Refereed Publications
1. Shea, K., Rees, M. & Wood, S.N. (1994). Trade-offs, Elasticities and the Comparative Method. Journal of Ecology 82: 951-957.
2. Shea, K., Murdoch, W.W., Nisbet, R.M. & Yoo, H-J. (1996). The Effect of Egg Limitation in Host-Parasitoid Population Models. Journal of Animal Ecology 65: 743-755.
3. Shea, K. (1996). Estimating the Impact of Control Efforts: Models of Population Dynamics. Plant Protection Quarterly 11 (Supplement 2): 263-265.
4. Parma, A.M., Amarasekare, P. Mangel, M., Moore, J., Murdoch, W.W., Noonburg, E., Pascual, M.A., Possingham, H.P., Shea, K., Wilcox, W. and Yu, D. (1998). What can adaptive management do for our fish, forests, food and biodiversity? Integrative Biology, Issues, News, and Reviews 1:16-26.
5. Shea, K. & Kelly, D. (1998). Estimating biocontrol agent impact with matrix models: Carduus nutans in New Zealand. Ecological Applications 8(3):824-832.
6. Shea, K., Amarasekare, P., Kareiva, P., Mangel, M., Moore, J., Murdoch, W.W., Noonburg, E., Parma, A., Pascual, M.A., Possingham, H.P., Wilcox, W. and Yu, D. (1998). Management of Populations in Conservation, Harvesting and Control. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13(9): 371-375.
7. Possingham, H. and Shea, K. (1999) The business of biodiversity. Australian Zoologist 31(1): 3-5.
8. Possingham, H. and Shea, K. (1999) Decision theory as a framework for conservation ecology. Australian Zoologist 31(1): 9-10 .
10. Shea, K., Thrall, P.H. and Burdon, J.J. (2000) An integrated approach to management in epidemiology and pest control. Ecology Letters 3: 150-158.
11. Shea, K., Smyth, M., Sheppard, A., Morton, R. and Chalimbaud, J. (2000) Effect of patch size and plant density of a Paterson’s curse (Echium plantagineum) on the oviposition of a specialist weevil, Mogulones larvatus. Oecologia 124(4): 615-621.
12. Shea, K. and Mangel, M. (2001) Detection of population trends in threatened coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58(2): 375-385.
13. Milner-Gulland, E.J., Shea, K., Possingham, H., Coulson, T. and Wilcox, C. (2001) Competing harvesting strategies in a simulated population under uncertainty. Animal Conservation 4: 157-167.
14. Travers, S.E. and Shea, K. (2001) Individual variation, gametophytic competition and style length: does size affect paternity? Evolutionary Ecology Researches 3: 729-745.
15. Shea, K., Possingham, H., Murdoch, W.W. and Roush, R. (2002) Active adaptive management in insect pest and weed control: Intervention with a plan for learning. Ecological Applications, 12(3): 927-936.
16. Shea, K. and Chesson, P. (2002) Community ecology theory as a framework for biological invasions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17(4): 170-176.
17. Cordes, E.E., Bergquist, D.C., Shea, K., and Fisher, C.R. (2003) Hydrogen sulphide demand of long-lived vestimentiferan tube worm aggregations modifies the chemical environment at deep-sea hydrocarbon seeps. Ecology Letters 6: 1-9.
18. Roxburgh, S.H., Shea, K. and J. Bastow Wilson. (2004) The intermediate disturbance hypothesis: patch dynamics and mechanisms of species coexistence. Ecology 85: 359-371.
19. Shea, K., Roxburgh, S.H. and Rauschert, E.S.J. (2004) Moving from pattern to process: coexistence mechanisms under intermediate disturbance regimes. Ecology Letters 7: 491-508.
20. Tenhumberg, B. Tyre, A.J., Shea, K. and Possingham, H.P. (2004) Linking wild and captive populations to maximize species persistence: optimal translocation strategies. Conservation Biology, 18(5): 1304-1314.
21. Shea, K. and D. Kelly. (2004) Modeling for Management of Invasive Species: musk thistle (Carduus nutans) in New Zealand. Weed Technology 18: 1338-1341.
22. Shea, K. (2004) Models for improving the targeting and implementation of biological control of weeds. Weed Technology 18: 1578-1581.
23. Louda, S.M., Rand, T.A., Arnett, A.E., McClay, A.S., Shea, K., and McEachern, A.K. (2005). Evaluation of ecological risk to populations of a threatened plant from an invasive biocontrol insect. Ecological Applications 15(1): 234-249.
24. Cordes, E. E., Arthur, M. A., Shea, K., Arvidson R. S. and Fisher, C. R. (2005) Modeling the mutualistic interactions between tubeworms and microbial consortia. Public Library of Science (PloS) Biology 3(3): e77.
25. Skarpaas, O., Shea, K. and Bullock, J. (2005) Optimising dispersal study design by Monte Carlo simulation. Journal of Applied Ecology 42: 731-739.
26. Shea, K., Kelly, D., Sheppard, A. W. and Woodburn, T. L. (2005) Context-dependent biological control of an invasive thistle. Ecology 86: 3174-3181.
27. Skarpaas, O., Auhl, R. and Shea, K. (2006) Environmental variability and the initiation of dispersal: turbulence strongly increases seed release. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 273 (1587): 751-756.
28. Pauchard, A. and Shea, K. (2006) Integrating the Study of Non-native Plant Invasions across Spatial Scales. Biological Invasions 8: 399-413.
29. Allen, M.R. and Shea, K. (2006) Spatial segregation of congeneric invaders in central Pennsylvania, USA. Biological Invasions 8: 509-521.
30. Rubbo, M.J. Shea, K., and Joseph M. Kiesecker, J.M. (2006) Multi-stage predation as a determinant of amphibian breeding distribution. (Mike Rubbo was my Ph.D. student). Canadian Journal of Zoology 84: 449-458.
31. Shea, K. Sheppard, A.W. and Woodburn, T.L. (2006) Seasonal life history models for the integrated management of the invasive weed nodding thistle (Carduus nutans) in Australia. Journal of Applied Ecology 43: 517-526.
32. Shea, K., Wolf, N. and Mangel, M. (2006) Effects of density dependence on the detection of adult population trends from juvenile surveys in threatened coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). Journal of Zoology 269: 442-450.
33. Bullock, J.M., Shea, K., and Skarpaas, O. (2006) Measuring plant dispersal: an introduction to field methods and experimental design. Plant Ecology 186: 217-234.
34. Jongejans, E., Sheppard, A.W., and Shea, K. (2006) What controls the population dynamics of the invasive thistle Carduus nutans in its native range? Journal of Applied Ecology 43: 877-886.
35. Jongejans, E., Skarpaas, O. Tipping, P.W. and Shea, K. (2007) Establishment and spread of founding populations of an invasive thistle: the role of competition and seed limitation. Biological Invasions 9: 317-325.
36. Skarpaas, O. and Shea, K. (2007) Dispersal patterns, dispersal mechanisms and invasion wave speeds for Carduus thistles. American Naturalist 170(3): 421-430.
37. Jongejans, E., Pedatella, N.M., Shea, K. Skarpaas, O and Auhl, R. (2007) Seed release by invasive thistles: the impact of plant and environmental factors. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 274: 2457-2464.
38. Jongejans, E., O. Skarpaas and K. Shea (accepted). Dispersal and spread models for conservation and control management. Perspectives in Plant Ecology Eevolution and Systematics.
39. Bogich, T. and Shea, K. (accepted) A state-dependent model for the optimal management of an invasive metapopulation. Ecological Applications.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
1. Lewis, M.A., Neubert, M.G., Caswell, H., Clark, J.S. and Shea, K. (2006) A guide to calculating discrete-time invasion rates from data. Pages 169-192 In: Conceptual ecology and invasion biology: reciprocal approaches to nature. Editors: Marc W. Cadotte, Sean M. McMahon and Tadashi Fukami. Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology Volume 1. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
Non-peer-reviewed Publications
1. Kiesecker, J.M., Belden, L.K., Shea, K. and Rubbo, M. (2004) Amphibian decline and Emerging Disease. American Scientist 92(2): 138-147.
2. Shea, K. (2007) How the Wood Moves. Science 315: 1231-1232.