PUBLICATIONS

• Miller, DL, CR Bursey, MJ Gray, and LM Smith. 2004. Metacercariae of Clinostomum attenuatum in Ambystoma tigrinum mavortium, Bufo cognatus, and Spea multiplicata from west Texas. Journal of Helminthology 78:373-376.
• Gray, MJ and LM Smith. 2005. Influence of land use on postmetamorphic body size of playa lake amphibians. Journal of Wildlife Management 69(2): 515-524.
• Gray, MJ, LM Smith, and R Brenes. 2004. Effects of agricultural cultivation on demographics of Southern High Plains amphibians. Conservation Biology 18:1368-1377.
• Gray, MJ, LM Smith, and RI Leyva. 2004. Influence of agricultural landscape structure on a Southern High Plains amphibian assemblage. Landscape Ecology. 19: 719-729.
• Gray, MJ, DL Miller, and LM Smith. 2005. Coelomic response and signal range of implant transmitters in Bufo cognatus. Herpetological Review. 36: 285-288.
• Venne, L.S., G.P. Cobb, G. Coimbatore, L.M. Smith and S.T. McMurry. 2006. Influence of land use on metal concentrations in playa sediments and amphibians in the Southern High Plains. Environmental Pollution. 144: 112-118.
• Gray, MJ, LM Smith, DL Miller, and CR Bursey. 2007. Influences of agricultural land on Clinostomum attenuatum metacercariae prevalence in Southern Great Plains Amphibians, U.S.A. Herpetological Conservation and Biology. 2(1): 23-28.
• Cokendolpher, JC, SM Torrence, LM Smith, and N Duperre. 2007. New Linyphiidae spiders associated with playas in the Southern High Plains (Llano Estacado) of Texas (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 1529: 49-60.
• Torrence, SM, LM Smith, and ST McMurry. 2007. Larval Hennemania sp. infestations of Spea spp/ in the Southern High Plains, Texas, USA. J Wildlife Diseases. 43(4): 742-746.
• Allen, EJ 2004. Jump-diffusion model for the global spread of an amphibian disease. Int'l. J. Numerical Analysis and Modeling. 1: 173-187.
• Allen, LJS and EJ Allen. 2003. A comparison of three different stochastic population models with regard to persistence time. Theor. Pop. Biol. 64: 439-449.
• Arciniega, A and EJ Allen. 2004. Shooting methods for numerical solution of stochastic boundary-value problems. Stoch. Anal. and Appl. 22: 1-20.
• Ackleh, AS and LJS Allen. 2003.Competitive exclusion and coexistence for pathogens in an epidemic model with variable population size. J. Math. Biol. 47: 153-168.
• Allen, LJS 2003. Risk of population extinction due to demographic stochasticity in population models. Comments on Theor. Biol. 8: 433-454.
• Allen, LJS, N Kirupaharan, and SM Wilson. 2004. SIS epidemic models with multiple pathogen strains. J. Difference Equations and Appl. 10: 53-75.
• Roeger, LIW and LJS Allen. 2004. Discrete May-Leonard competition models, I. J. Difference Equations and Appl. 10: 77-98.
• Kirupaharan, N and LJS Allen. 2004. Coexistence of multiple pathogen strains in stochastic epidemic models with density-dependent mortality. Bull. Math. Biol. 66: 841-864.
• Emmert, KE and LJS Allen. 2004. Population persistence and extinction in a discrete-time, stage-structured epidemic model. J. Difference Equations and Appl. 10: 1177-1199.
• Ackleh, AS and LJS Allen. 2005. Competitive exclusion in SIS and SIR epidemic models with total cross immunity and density-dependent host mortality. Discrete and Cont. Dyn. Sys.-B 5(2):175-188.
• Allen, LJS and N Kirupaharan. 2005. Asymptotic dynamics of deterministic and stochastic epidemic models with multiple pathogens. Int'l. J. Numerical Analysis and Modeling. 2(3): 329-344.
• Allen, LJS, JF Fagan, G Hognas, and H Fagerholm. 2005. Population extinction in discrete-time stochastic population models with an Allee effect. J. Difference Equations and Appl. 11(4-5): 273-293.
• McCormack, RK and LJS Allen. 2005. Disease emergence in deterministic and stochastic models for host and pathogen. Applied Math. and Comp. 168(2): 1281-1305.
• Allen, EJ, LJS Allen, and H Schurz. 2005. A comparison of persistence-time estimation for discrete and continuous stochastic population models that include demographic and environmental variability. Math. Biosci. 196: 14-38.
• Emmert, KE and LJS Allen. 2006. Population extinction in deterministic and stochastic discrete-time epidemic models with periodic coefficients with applications to amphibians. Natural Resource Modeling. 19(2): 117-164.
• Drew, AJ, EJ Allen, and LJS Allen. 2006. An investigation of climatic and geographic factors on the presence of chytrid fungus on amphibian populations in Australia. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 68: 245-250.
• Allen, LJS and P van den Driessche. 2006. Stochastic epidemic models with a backward bifurcation. Mathematical Biosci. and Eng. 3(3): 445-458.
• Ackleh, AS, LJS Allen, and J Carter. 2007. Establishing a beachhead: A stochastic population model with an Allee effect applied to species invasion. Theoretical Population Biology. 71: 290-300.
• Allen, LJS, BM Bolker, Y Lou, and AL Nevai. 2007. Asymptotic profiles of the steady states for an SIS epidemic patch model. SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics. 67: 1283-1309.
• Xu, Y, LJS Allen, and AS Perelson. 2007. A Stochastic model of an influenza epidemic with drug resistance. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 248: 179-193.
• Allen, LJS, BM Bolker, Y Lou, and AL Nevai. 2008. Asymptotic profiles of the steady states for an SIS epidemic reaction-diffusion model. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. 21: 1-20.
• Allen, EJ, LJS Allen, A Arciniega, and P Greenwood. 2008. Construction of equivalent stochastic differential equation models. Stochastic Analysis and Applications. 26: 274-297.
• Moss, AS, NS Reddy, IM Dortaj, and MJ San Francisco. 2008. Chemotaxis of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and its response to a variety of attractants. Mycologia 100: 1-5.
• Allen, LJS, P van den Driessche. 2008. The basic reproduction number in some discrete-time epidemic models. Journal of Difference Equations and Applications. 14: 1127-1147. THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
  
  
  • Nadarajah Kirupaharan. Dissertation in Mathematics: Deterministic and stochastic epidemic models with multiple pathogens. PhD August 2003
  • Robert McCormack. Thesis in Mathematics: Deterministic and stochastic host-pathogen genetics models. MS August 2004
  • Keith Emmert. Dissertation in Mathematics: Deterministic and stochastic discrete-time epidemic models with applications to amphibians. PhD August 2004.
  • Robert McCormack. Dissertation in Mathematics : Multi-host and multi-patch mathematical epidemic models for disease emergence with applications to hantavirus in wild rodents. PhD August 2006.
  • Amy Drew. Thesis in Mathematics : An investigation of climatic and geographic factors on the growth and spread of amphibian populations in Australia. MS December 2004.
  • Shannon Torrence. Dissertation in Wildlife Management: Landuse and hydroperiod influences on amphibian community structure and the role of larval amphibians in the playa food web. PhD May 2007.
  
  
  

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