The WCS Working Paper Series is designed to share with the conservation and development communities in a timely fashion information from the various settings where WCS works. These Papers address issues that are of immediate importance to helping conserve wildlife and wild lands either through offering new data or analyses relevant to specific conservation settings, or through offering new methods, approaches, or perspectives on rapidly evolving conservation issues. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in the Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Publications
WCS Working Paper No. 1
Bleisch, William V. (1993). Management recommendations for conservation of the Guizhou golden monkey and the biodiversity of Fanjing Mountain Reserve.
WCS Working Paper No. 2
Hart, John A. and Claude Sikubwabo. (1994). Exploration of the Maiko National Park of Zaire, 1989-1994: History, environment and the distribution and status of large mammals.
WCS Working Paper No. 3
Rumiz, Damian and Andrew Taber. (1994). Un relevamiento de mamíferos y algunas aves grandes de la Reserva de Vida Silvestre Ríos Blanco y Negro, Bolívia: Situación actual y recomendaciones.
WCS Working Paper No. 4
Komar, Oliver and Nestor Herrera. (1995). Avian diversity at El Imposible National Park and San Marcelino Wildlife Refuge, El Salvador.
WCS Working Paper No. 5
Jenkins, Jerry. (1995). Notes on the Adirondack Blowdown of July 15th, 1995: Scientific background, observations, and policy issues.
WCS Working Paper No. 6
Ferraro, Paul, Richard Tshombe, Robert Mwinyihali, and John Hart. (1996). Projets integres de conservation et de developpement: Un cadre pour promouvoir la conservation et la gestion des ressources naturalles.
WCS Working Paper No. 7
Harrison, Daniel J. and Theodore G. Chapin. (1997). An assessment of potential habitat for eastern timber wolves in the northeastern United States and connectivity with occupied habitat on southeastern Canada.
WCS Working Paper No. 8
Hodgson, Angie. (1997). Wolf restoration in the Adirondacks? The question of local residents.
WCS Working Paper No. 9
Jenkins, Jerry. (1997). Hardwood regeneration failure in the Adirondacks: Preliminary studies of incidence and severity.
WCS Working Paper No. 10
García Víques, Randall. (1996) Propuesta técnica de ordenamiento territorial con fines de conservación de biodiversidad en Costa Rica: Proyecto GRUAS.
WCS Working Paper No. 11
Thorbjarnarson, John and Alvaro Velasco. (1998). Venezuela’s caiman harvest program: An historical perspective and analysis of its conservation benefits.
WCS Working Paper No. 12
Bolze, Dorene, Cheryl Chetkiewicz, Qui Mingjiang, and Douglas Krakower. (1998). The availability of tiger-based traditional Chinese medicine products and public awareness about the threats to the tiger in New York City’s Chinese communities: A pilot study.
WCS Working Paper No. 13
O’Brien, Timothy, Margaret F. Kinnaird, Sunarto, Asri A. Dwiyahreni, William M. Rombang, and Kiki Anggraini. (1998). Effects of the 1997 fires on the forest and wildlife of the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, Sumatra.
WCS Working Paper No. 14
McNeilage, Alistair, Andrew J. Plumtre, Andy Brock-Doyle, and Amy Vedder. (1998). Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, gorilla and large mammal census, 1997.
WCS Working Paper No. 15
Ray, Justina C. (2000). Mesocarnivores of northeastern North America: Status and conservation issues.
WCS Working Paper No. 16
Kretser, Heidi. (2001). Adirondack communities and conservation program: Linking communities and conservation inside the blue line.
WCS Working Paper No. 17
Gompper, Matthew E. (2002). The ecology of northeast coyotes: Current knowledge and priorities for future research.
WCS Working Paper No. 18
Weaver, John L. (2001). The transboundary Flathead: A critical landscape for carnivores in the Rocky Mountains.
WCS Working Paper No. 19
Plumptre, Andrew J., Michel Masozera, Peter J. Fashing, Alastair McNeilage, Corneille Ewango, Beth A. Kaplin, and Innocent Liengola. (2002). Biodiversity surveys of the Nyungwe Forest Reserve in southwest Rwanda.
WCS Working Paper No. 20
Schoch, N. (2003). The common loon in the Adirondack Park: An overview of loon natural history and current research.
WCS Working Paper No. 21
Karasin, Leslie N. (2003). All-terrain vehicles in the Adirondacks: Issues and options.
WCS Working Paper No. 22
Clarke, Shelley. (2002). Trade in dried Asian seafood: Characterization, estimation, and implications for conservation.
WCS Working Paper No. 23
Mockrin, Miranda H., E. L. Bennett, and D. T. LaBruna. (2005). Wildlife farming: A viable alternative to hunting in tropical forests?
WCS Working Paper No. 24
Ray, Justina C., Luke Hunter, and Joanna Zigouris. (2005). Setting conservation and research priorities for larger African carnivores.
WCS Working Paper No. 25
Redford, Kent H. and Michael Painter. (2006). Natural alliances between conservationists and indigenous peoples.
WCS Working Paper No. 26
Agrawal, Arun and Kent Redford. (2006). Poverty, development, and biodiversity conservation: Shooting in the dark?
WCS Working Paper No. 27
Sickler, Jessica, John Fraser, Sarah Gruber, Paul Boyle, Tom Webler, and Diana Reiss. (2006). Thinking about dolphins thinking.
WCS Working Paper No. 28
Castillo, Oscar, Connie Clark, Peter Coppolillo, Heidi Kretser, Roan McNab, Andrew Noss, Helder Quieroz, Yemeserach Tessema, Amy Vedder, Robert Wallace, Joseph Walston, and David Wilkie. (2006). Casting for conservation actors: People, partnerships, and wildlife.
WCS Working Paper No. 29
Redford, Kent H., and Eva Fearn, eds. (2007). Protected areas and human displacement: A conservation perspective.
WCS Working Paper No. 30
Redford, Kent H., and Eva Fearn, eds. (2007). Ecological future of bison in North America: A report from a multi-stakeholder, transboundary meeting.
WCS Working Paper No. 31
Smith, Brian D., Robert G. Shore, and Alvin Lopez. (2007). Status and conservation of freshwater populations of Irrawaddy dolphins.
WCS Working Paper No. 32
Redford, Kent H., and Eva Fearn, eds. (2007). Protected areas and human livelihoods.
WCS Working Paper No. 33
Beckmann, J. P., L. Karasin, C. Costello, S. Matthews, and Z. Smith. (2008). Coexisting with black bears: Perspectives from four case studies across North America.
WCS Working Paper No. 34
Painter, Michael, Ana Rita Alves, Carolina Bertsch, Richard Bodmer, Oscar Castillo, Avecita Chicchón, Félix Daza, Fernanda Marques, Andrew Noss, Lilian Painter, Claudia Pereira de Deus, Pablo Puertas, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Esteban Suárez, Mariana Varese, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, and Robert Wallace. (2008). Landscape conservation in the Amazon: Progress and lessons.
WCS Working Paper No. 35
Brodie, Jedediah F. (2008). A Review of American bison (Bos bison) demography and population dynamics.
WCS Working Paper No. 36
Redford, Kent H., and Catherine Grippo, eds. (2008). Protected areas, governance, and scale.
WCS Working Paper No. 37
Estes, Richard D., and Rod East. (2009). Status of the wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) in the wild, 1967-2005.
WCS Working Paper No. 38
Olupot, William, Alaistair J. McNeilage, and Andrew J. Plumptre. (2009). An analysis of socioeconomics of bushmeat hunting at major hunting sites in Uganda.
WCS Working Paper No. 39
O'Brien, Tim. (2010). Wildlife picture index: Implementation manual version 1.0.
WCS Working Paper No. 40
Weaver, John L. (2011). Conservation value of roadless areas for vulnerable fish and wildlife species in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem, Montana.
WCS Working Paper No. 41
Strindberg, Samantha and Tim O'Brien. (2012). A decision tree for monitoring wildlife to assess the effectiveness of conservation interventions.
WCS Working Paper No. 42
Johnson, Arlyne, Chanthavy Vongkhamheng, Santi Saypanya, Troy Hansel, and Samantha Strindberg. (2013). Using systematic monitoring to evaluate and adapt management of a tiger reserve in northern LAO PDR.
WCS Working Paper No. 43
Weaver, John L. (2014). Conservation legacy on a flagship forest: Wildlife and wildlands on the Flathead National Forest, Montana.
WCS Working Paper No. 44
Weaver, John. L. (2015). Vital lands, sacred lands: Innovative conservation of wildlife and cultural values Badger-Two Medicine area, Montana.
WCS Working Paper No. 45
O'Brien, Timothy. (2015). An annotated bibliography of camera trap literature, 1991-2013.
WCS Working Paper No. 46
O' Brien, Timothy, Samantha Strindberg, Robert Wallace. (2015). Occupancy-related metrics for wildlife status assessment.
WCS Working Paper No. 47
Wilkie, David S., and Michelle Wieland. (2015). Conserving and eating wildlife in Africa.