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 (2008). Dispersal, demography and spatial population models for conservation and control management. Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics 9: 153–170.
39. Bogich, T. and Shea, K. (2008) A state-dependent model for the optimal management of an invasive metapopulation. Ecological Applications 18(3): 748–761.
40. Jongejans, E., K. Shea, O. Skarpaas, D. Kelly, A.W. Sheppard and T.L. Woodburn (2008) Dispersal and demography contributions to population spread of Carduus nutans in its native and invaded ranges. Journal of Ecology 96:687-697.
41. Bogich, T., Liebhold, A.M. and Shea, K. (2008) To sample or eradicate? A cost minimization model for monitoring and managing an invasive species. Journal of Applied Ecology 45(4): 1134-1142.
42. Marchetto, K.M. Jongejans, E., Jennis, M.L., Haner, E.M., Sullivan, C.T., Kelly, D. and Shea, K. (2009) Shipment and storage effects on the terminal velocity of seeds. Ecological Research, DOI 10.1007/s11284-009-0634-1
43. Shea, K., Jongejans, E., Skarpaas, O., Kelly, D., Sheppard, A. (accepted) Optimal management strategies to control local population growth or population spread may not be the same. 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.
2. Shea, K., Metaxas, A., Young, C.R., and Fisher, C.R. (2008) Processes and Interactions in Macrofaunal Assemblages at Hydrothermal Vents: A Modeling Perspective. American Geophysical Union Monograph, Modeling Hydrothermal Processes at Oceanic Spreading Centers: Magma to Microbe.
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.