~ Publications

Peer-reviewed (*statistics lead)

Ng, J., M. D. Giovanni, M. J. Bechard, J. K. Schmutz, and P. Pyle. 2017. Ferruginous Hawk (Buteo regalis), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America Online (P. G. Rodewald, editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA. Link

Peterson, T.*, S. Pelletier, and M. Giovanni*. 2016. Long-term bat monitoring on islands, offshore structures, and coastal sites in the Gulf of Maine, mid-Atlantic, and Great Lakes - Final report. PDF

Sliwinski, M.*, L. A. Powell, N. Koper, M. D. Giovanni, and W. H. Schacht. 2016. Research design considerations to ensure absence of undetected species in bird communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7(4): 456-462. PDF

Rosenfield, R. N., W. E. Stout, N. H. Levine, J. A. Cava, T. G. Haynes, and M. D. Giovanni*. 2015. Does population trajectory and age of breeding females influence disparate sex ratios in two populations of Cooper’s Hawks? Ecology and Evolution 5(18): 4037-4048. PDF

Giovanni, M. D.*, L. A. Powell, and W. H. Schacht. 2015. Habitat preference and survival for Western Meadowlark fledglings in a contiguous prairie system. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 127(2): 200-211. PDF

Seegar, W. S., M. A. Yates, G. E. Doney, J. P. Jenny, T. Seegar*, C. Perkins, and M. D. Giovanni*. 2015. Migrating Tundra Peregrine Falcons accumulate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons along Gulf of Mexico following Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Ecotoxicology 24(5): 1102-1111. PDF

Chaudhry, M. J. I., D. L. Ogada, R. N. Malik, M. Z. Virani, and M. D. Giovanni*. 2012. First evidence that populations of the critically endangered Long-billed Vulture Gyps indicus in Pakistan have increased following the ban of the toxic veterinary drug diclofenac in south Asia. Bird Conservation International 22(4): 389-397. PDF

Powell, L. A., M. D. Giovanni*, S. Groepper, M. L. Reineke, and W. H. Schacht. 2012. Attendance patterns and survival of Western Meadowlark nests. Pp. 61-66 in C. A. Ribic, F. R. Thompson III, and P. J. Pietz (editors). Video surveillance of nesting birds. Studies in Avian Biology (no. 43). University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. PDF

Giovanni, M. D.*, M. Post van der Burg*, L. C. Anderson, L. A. Powell, W. H. Schacht, and A. J. Tyre. 2011. Estimating nest density when detectability is incomplete: variation in nest attendance and response to disturbance by Western Meadowlarks. The Condor 113(1): 223-232. PDF

Giovanni, M. D.*, C. W. Boal, and H. A. Whitlaw. 2007. Prey composition and provisioning by breeding Ferruginous Hawks and Swainson’s Hawks on the southern Great Plains, USA. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 119(4): 558-569. PDF

Boal, C. W., and M. D. Giovanni. 2007. Raptor predation on Ord’s Kangaroo Rats: evidence for diurnal activity by a nocturnal rodent? Southwestern Naturalist 52(2): 291-295. PDF

Boal, C. W., M. D. Giovanni, and B. Beall. 2007. Successful nesting by a Bald Eagle pair in prairie grasslands of the Texas Panhandle. Western North American Naturalist 66(2): 246-250. PDF

Giovanni, M. D., C. A. Taylor, and G. Perry. 2005. Scavenging by Crotalus viridis viridis (Prairie Rattlesnake). Herpetological Review 36(3).

Ph.D. Dissertation and M.Sc. Thesis

Giovanni, M. D. 2009. Demographics and habitat selection for the Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) in the Nebraska Sandhills. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. PDF

Giovanni, M. D. 2005. Prey partitioning between sympatric grassland raptors. M.Sc. Thesis, Texas Tech University. PDF