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Here are most of my recent papers and some older ones.  Click on a highlighted author's name for a pdf.

Stouffer, P.C. and R. O. Bierregaard, Jr.  Recovery potential of understory bird communities in Amazonian rainforest fragments.  Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 15: 203-213.

DiMiceli, J.K., P.C. Stouffer, E.I. Johnson, C. Leonardi, and E.B. Moser.  2007.  Seed preferences of wintering Henslow’s Sparrows.  Condor 109: 595-604.

Ferraz, G., J.D. Nichols, J.E. Hines, P.C. Stouffer, R.O. Bierregaard, Jr., and T.E. Lovejoy.  2007.  A large-scale deforestation experiment: Effects of patch area and isolation on Amazon birds.  Science 315: 238-241.  (Read a press release about this paper)

Stouffer, P.C.  2007.  Density, territory size, and long-term spatial dynamics of a guild of terrestrial insectivorous birds near Manaus, Brazil.  Auk 124: 292-306. 

Stouffer, P.C., R.O. Bierregaard, Jr., C. Strong, and T.E. Lovejoy.  2006.  Long-term landscape change and bird abundance in Amazonian rainforest fragments.  Conservation Biology 20: 1212-1223.

Bassett-Touchell, C.A. and P.C. Stouffer.  2006.  Habitat selection by Swainson’s Warblers breeding in loblolly pine plantations in southeastern Louisiana, USA.  Journal of Wildlife Management 70:1013-1019.

Barlow, J., C.A. Peres, L.M.P. Henriques, P.C. Stouffer, and J.M. Wunderle.  2006.  Responses of understorey birds to forest fragmentation, logging and wildfires: an Amazonian synthesis.  Biological Conservation 128: 182-192. 

Strong, C.M., D.R. Brown, and P.C. Stouffer.  2005.  Frugivory by wintering Hermit Thrushes in Louisiana.  Southeastern Naturalist 4: 627-638.

Bechtoldt, C.L and P.C. Stouffer.  2005.  Home-range size, response to fire, and habitat preferences of wintering Henslow's Sparrows.  Wilson Bulletin 117: 211-225.  (with frontispiece!)

Laurance, S.G., P.C. Stouffer, and W.F. Laurance.  2004.  Road crossing by Amazonian understory birds.  Conservation Biology 18: 1099-1109.

Ferraz, G., G. J. Russell, P.C. Stouffer, R. O. Bierregaard, Jr, S. Pimm, and T.E. Lovejoy.  2003.  Rates of species loss from Amazonian forest fragments.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100: 14069-14073. 
 

Stouffer, P.C. and G. M. Dwyer.  2003.  Migration and winter distribution of Hermit Thrushes in eastern North America.  Auk 120: 836-847.

Long, J.A. and P.C. Stouffer.  2003.  Diet and preparation for spring migration in captive Hermit Thrushes.  Auk 120: 120-323-330.

Brown, D.R., C.M. Strong and P.C. Stouffer.  2002.  Demographic effects of habitat selection by Hermit Thrushes wintering in a pine plantation landscape.  Journal of Wildlife Management 66: 407-416.  

Laurance, W.F., T.E. Lovejoy, H.L. Vasconcelos, E. M. Bruna, R. K. Didham, P.C. Stouffer, C. Gascon, R.O. Bierregaard, Jr., S. G. Laurance, and E. Sampaio.  2002.  Ecosystem decay of Amazonian forest fragments:  A 20 year investigation.  Conservation Biology 16: 605-618.

Develey, P. and P.C. Stouffer.  2001.  Effects of roads on movements by understory birds in mixed-species flocks in central Amazonian Brazil.  Conservation Biology 15: 1416-1422.

Stouffer, P.C.  2001.  Do we know what we think we know about the ranges of migrants to South America?  The case of the Veery (Catharus fuscescens).  Auk 118:  832-837.

Stouffer, P.C. and S. H. Borges.  2001.  Conservation recommendations for understory birds in Amazonian forest fragments and secondary areas.  Pages 248-261 in R. O. Bierregaard, Jr., C. Gascon, T. E. Lovejoy, and R. Mesquita, eds.  Lessons from Amazonia: the ecology and conservation of a fragmented forest.  Yale University Press.

Stratford, J.A. and P.C. Stouffer.  2001.  Reduced feather growth of two common birds inhabiting central Amazonian forest fragments.  Conservation Biology 15: 721-728.

Brown, D. R., P. C. Stouffer, and C. M. Strong.  2000.  Movement and territoriality of wintering Hermit Thrushes in southeastern Louisiana.  Wilson Bulletin 112: 347-353.

Gascon, C., T. E. Lovejoy, R. O. Bierregaard, Jr., J. R. Malcolm, P. C. Stouffer, H. L. Vasconcelos, W. F. Laurance, B. Zimmerman, M. Tocher, and S. Borges.  1999.  Matrix habitat and species richness in tropical forest remnants.  Biological Conservation 91: 223-229.

Stratford, J.A. and P.C. Stouffer.  1999.  Local extinctions of terrestrial insectivorous birds in Amazonian forest fragments.  Conservation Biology 13: 1416-1423.

Borges, S. H. and P. C. Stouffer.  1999.  Bird communities in two types of anthropogenic successional vegetation in central Amazonia.  Condor 101: 529-536.

Stouffer, P.C. and R.T. Chesser.  1998.  Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus).  Pages 1-20 in:  A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.  The Birds of North America, 358.  The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. 

Bierregaard, R.O., Jr. and P.C. Stouffer.  1997.  Understory birds and dynamic habitat mosaics in Amazonian rainforests.  Pages 138-155 in:  W. F. Laurance and R. O. Bierregaard, Jr., eds., Tropical forest remnants: the ecology, conservation, and management of fragmented communities.  University of Chicago Press. 

Caccamise, D.F., L. M. Reed, J. Romanowski, and P. C. Stouffer.  1997.  Roosting behavior and group territoriality in American Crows.  Auk 114: 628-637.

Cohn-Haft, M., A. Whittaker, and P.C. Stouffer.  1997.  A second look at the “species-poor” central Amazon: the avifauna north of Manaus, Brazil.  Pages 205-235 in: J. V. Remsen, ed.  Studies in Neotropical ornithology honoring Ted Parker.  Ornithological  Monograph 48.

Stouffer, P. C.  1997.  Interspecific aggression in Formicarius antthrushes?  The view from central Amazonian Brazil.  Auk 114: 780-785.

Stouffer, P. C. and R. O. Bierregaard, Jr.  1996.  Seasonal variation in hummingbird abundance in a fragmented Amazonian landscape.   Ararajuba (Journal of the Brazilian Ornithological Society) 4:9-14.
 

Stouffer, P.C. and R.O. Bierregaard, Jr.  1995.  Use of Amazonian forest fragments by understory insectivorous birds.  Ecology 76: 2429-2445.

Stouffer, P.C. and R.O. Bierregaard, Jr.  1995.  Effects of forest fragmentation on understory hummingbirds in Amazonian Brazil.  Conservation Biology 9: 1086-1095.

Stouffer, P.C. and R.O. Bierregaard, Jr.  1993.  Spatial and temporal abundance patterns of Ruddy Quail-Doves near Manaus, Brazil.  Condor 95: 896-903.

Gilbert, K.A. and P.C. Stouffer.  1992.  Variation in substrate use by white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus) in a Costa Rican dry forest.  Journal of Human Evolution 5: 5-9.

Stouffer, P.C.  1991.  Intraseasonal costs of reproduction in starlings.  Condor 93: 683-693.

Stouffer, P.C., and D.F. Caccamise.  1991.  Roosting and diurnal movements of radio-tagged American Crows.  Wilson Bulletin 103: 387-400.

Stouffer, P.C and H.W. Power.  1991.  An experimental test of the brood reduction hypothesis in starlings.  Auk 108: 519-531.

Stouffer, P.C. and H.W. Power.  1991.  Brood parasitism by starlings experimentally forced to desert their nests.  Animal Behaviour 41: 537-539.

White, D.W., E.D. Kennedy and P.C. Stouffer.  1991.  Feather regrowth in female European Starlings rearing broods of different sizes.  Auk 108: 889-895.

Stouffer, P.C. and H.W. Power.  1990.  Density effects on asynchronous hatching and brood reduction in starlings.  Auk 107: 359-366.

Lombardo, M.P., H.W. Power, P.C. Stouffer, L.C. Romagnano and A.S. Hoffenberg.  1989.  Egg removal and intraspecific brood parasitism in the European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris).  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 24: 217-223.

Stouffer, P.C., E.D. Kennedy and H.W. Power.  1987.  Recognition and removal of intraspecific brood parasite eggs by European Starlings.  Animal Behaviour 35: 1583-1584.

Disclaimer: The statements included on this webpage are those of Phil Stouffer only. Any statement or opinions included in these pages are not those of the LSU Agricultural Center, Louisiana State University, the LSU Board of Supervisors or the School of Renewable Natural Resources.  I guess they don't believe everything in these papers.