| Effects of subsidized predators, resource variability, and human population density on desert tortoise populations in the Mojave Desert, USA TC Esque, KE Nussear, KK Drake, AD Walde, KH Berry, ... Endangered Species Research 12 (2), 167-177, 2010 | 119 | 2010 |
| The importance of physiological ecology in conservation biology CR Tracy, KE Nussear, TC Esque, K Dean-Bradley, CR Tracy, ... Integrative and Comparative Biology 46 (6), 1191-1205, 2006 | 107 | 2006 |
| Range and habitats of the desert tortoise DJ Germano, RB Bury, TC Esque, TH Fritts, PA Medica Biology of North American Tortoises 13, 73-84, 1994 | 95 | 1994 |
| Effects of desert wildfires on desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) and other small vertebrates TC Esque, CR Schwalbe, LA Defalco, RB Duncan, TJ Hughes The Southwestern Naturalist 48 (1), 103-111, 2003 | 94 | 2003 |
| Seed banks in a degraded desert shrubland: influence of soil surface condition and harvester ant activity on seed abundance LA DeFalco, TC Esque, JM Kane, MB Nicklas Journal of Arid Environments 73 (10), 885-893, 2009 | 90 | 2009 |
| Multiscale connectivity and graph theory highlight critical areas for conservation under climate change TE Dilts, PJ Weisberg, P Leitner, MD Matocq, RD Inman, KE Nussear, ... Ecological Applications 26 (4), 1223-1237, 2016 | 87 | 2016 |
| Alien plants and fire in desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) habitat of the Mojave and Colorado deserts ML Brooks, TC Esque Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4, 330-340, 2002 | 85 | 2002 |
| Comparative phylogeography reveals deep lineages and regional evolutionary hotspots in the M ojave and S onoran Deserts DA Wood, AG Vandergast, KR Barr, RD Inman, TC Esque, KE Nussear, ... Diversity and Distributions 19 (7), 722-737, 2013 | 76 | 2013 |
| Comparative phylogeography of a coevolved community: concerted population expansions in Joshua trees and four yucca moths CI Smith, S Tank, W Godsoe, J Levenick, E Strand, T Esque, O Pellmyr PLoS One 6 (10), e25628, 2011 | 73 | 2011 |
| Making molehills out of mountains: landscape genetics of the Mojave desert tortoise BE Hagerty, KE Nussear, TC Esque, CR Tracy Landscape Ecology 26, 267-280, 2011 | 67 | 2011 |
| Modeling habitat of the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) in the Mojave and parts of the Sonoran Deserts of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona KE Nussear, TC Esque, RD Inman, L Gass, KA Thomas, CSA Wallace, ... Open-File Report, 2009 | 65 | 2009 |
| Short-term soil inorganic N pulse after experimental fire alters invasive and native annual plant production in a Mojave Desert shrubland TC Esque, JP Kaye, SE Eckert, LA DeFalco, CR Tracy Oecologia 164, 253-263, 2010 | 63 | 2010 |
| Are wildlife detector dogs or people better at finding desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii)? KE Nussear, TC Esque, JS Heaton, ME Cablk, KK Drake, C Valentin, ... DESERT RESEARCH INST RENO NV, 2008 | 63 | 2008 |
| Disease dynamics during wildlife translocations: disruptions to the host population and potential consequences for transmission in desert tortoise contact networks CM Aiello, KE Nussear, AD Walde, TC Esque, PG Emblidge, P Sah, ... Animal Conservation 17, 27-39, 2014 | 62 | 2014 |
| Desert wildfire and severe drought diminish survivorship of the long‐lived Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia; Agavaceae) LA DeFalco, TC Esque, SJ Scoles‐Sciulla, J Rodgers American Journal of Botany 97 (2), 243-250, 2010 | 55 | 2010 |
| Host contact and shedding patterns clarify variation in pathogen exposure and transmission in threatened tortoise Gopherus agassizii: implications for disease … CM Aiello, KE Nussear, TC Esque, PG Emblidge, P Sah, S Bansal, ... Journal of Animal Ecology 85 (3), 829-842, 2016 | 54 | 2016 |
| Does translocation influence physiological stress in the desert tortoise? KK Drake, KE Nussear, TC Esque, AM Barber, KM Vittum, PA Medica, ... Animal Conservation 15 (6), 560-570, 2012 | 53 | 2012 |
| Ingestion of bones, stones and soil by desert tortoises TC Esque, EL Peters Research, 105-112, 1994 | 53 | 1994 |
| Divergence in an obligate mutualism is not explained by divergent climatic factors W Godsoe, E Strand, CI Smith, JB Yoder, TC Esque, O Pellmyr New Phytologist 183 (3), 589-599, 2009 | 52 | 2009 |
| Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) seeds are dispersed by seed-caching rodents SB Vander Wall, T Esque, D Haines, M Garnett, BA Waitman Ecoscience 13 (4), 539-543, 2006 | 52 | 2006 |
