Brian Cade - USGS

Trust Species & Habitats

Research Statistician (Biology)

Duty Station:
Fort Collins Science Center
2150 Centre Ave
Bldg C
Fort Collins, CO 80526

Phone: 970-226-9326
Fax: 970.226.9230
Email: cadeb@usgs.gov

Current Research

• Estimating Effects of Limiting Habitat Relationships with Regression Quantiles
• Wild Horse and Burro Research
• Quantitative and Statistical Research Collaboration
• Forecasting the Effects of Agricultural Practices on Prairie Wetlands: Implications for the Conservation of Migratory Shorebirds

Products

Presentation

Total Records:1

• Effects of Emergency Haying on Vegetative Characteristics Within Selected Conservation Reserve Program Fields in the Northern Great Plains

Publications

Total Records:47

• Spectral distance decay: Assessing species beta-diversity by quantile regression
• Quantifying equid behavior--A research ethogram for free-roaming feral horses
• Application of the Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process for Missouri Streams
• Influences of immunocontraception on intraband social behavior in free-ranging feral horses, Equus caballus
• Quantile regression applied to spectral distance decay
• Fundamental limits to the accuracy of deuterium isotopes for identifying the spatial origin of migratory animals
• Macrophyte decomposition in a surface-flow ammonia-dominated constructed wetland: Rates associated with environmental and biotic variables
• A quantile count model of water depth constraints on Cape Sable seaside sparrows
• Estimating fish body condition with quantile regression
• "HIP" new software: the Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process
• Evaluating redband trout habitat in sagebrush desert basins in southwestern Idaho
• A permutation test for quantile regression
• The effect of multiple stressors on salt marsh end-of-season biomass
• Rank score and permutation testing alternatives for regression quantile estimates
• “HIP” new software: The Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process
• Quantile regression reveals hidden bias and uncertainty in habitat models
• User manual for Blossom statistical software
• Evaluation of models and data for assessing Whooping Crane habitat in the central Platte River, Nebraska
• Vegetation changes over 12 years in ungrazed and grazed Conservation Reserve Program grasslands in the Central and Southern Plains
• Determinants of woody cover in African savannas
• Linear models: permutation methods
• Isolation of Snake River islands and mammalian predation of waterfowl nests
• A gentle introduction to quantile regression for ecologists
• Quantile regression models of animal habitat relationships
• Influences of spatial and temporal variation on fish-habitat relationships defined by regression quantiles
• Selection of nesting habitat by sharp-tailed grouse in the Nebraska sandhills
• Evaluation of a habitat suitability index model
• Finding meaning in numbers: A statistical resource for land managers
• Effects of emergency haying on vegetative characteristics within selected Conservation Reserve Program fields in the Northern Great Plains
• User manual for BLOSSOM Statistical Software
• Establishment, growth, and early survival of woody riparian species at a Colorado gravel pit
• Estimating effects of constraints on plant performance with regression quantiles
• The role of landscape and habitat characteristics in limiting abundance of grassland nesting songbirds in an urban open space
• No consistent effect of plant diversity on productivity
• Paradigm shifts in theory and methods: regression quantile analysis enables new insights for ecology
• Estimating effects of limiting factors with regression quantiles
• Movement patterns and the conservation of amphibians breeding in small, temporary wetlands
• Comparison of tree basal area and canopy cover in habitat models: subalpine forest
• Comment: Cautions on forcing regression equations through the origin
• Permutation tests for least absolute deviation regression
• Modeling stream fish habitat limitations from wedge-shaped patterns of variation in standing stock
• Randomization tests for multiple regression
• Predicting biomass of beaver food from willow stem diameters
• Spatial analysis of sandhill crane nesting habitat
• Differential migration of Blue Grouse in Colorado
• Estimation of Lipids and Lean Mass of Migrating Sandpipers
• Use of wildlife models for habitat management

Software

Total Records:1

• Blossom Statistical Software