Publications

Andrea Darracq, Ph.D. — Certified Wildlife Biologist®

* denotes undergraduate or graduate student mentee co-author. Publications prior to 2016 were published under the surname Long.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2026

Hudson, S. B., E. A. Tillman, M. L. Wahl, P. A. Zollner, C. D. Ross, T. L. DeVault, …P. W. Kavouriaris*, A. K. Darracq, M. T. Springer, & B. M. Kluever. 2026. Survival of a long-lived avian scavenger: Implications of age, season, and landscape composition for mortality risk. Ecology and Evolution 16(3): e73226.

2025

Darracq, A. K., C. Bliznick*, R. Yeager, J. Turner, P. Prathiba, J. Pease*, H. Whiteman, T. Smith, & A. Bhatnagar. 2025. Air pollution and greenness independently and interactively influence bird communities in an urban neighborhood. Conservation Science and Practice 7: e70147.

Fogelman, K. J., A. K. Darracq, M. A. McGregor, J. A. Stoeckel, & W. R. Haag. 2025. Utility of the cellular energy allocation model for assessing food limitation stress in freshwater mussels. Conservation Physiology 13: coaf086.

Darracq, E. G., J. J. Brooks, & A. K. Darracq. 2025. A National Vision for Land Use Planning in the United States. Land 14: 1121.

Rooney, B., R. Kays, M. V. Cove, A. Jensen, B. R. Goldstein, C. Pate, … A. K. Darracq, & D. B. Lesmeister. 2025. SNAPSHOT USA 2019–2023: The first five years of data from a coordinated camera trap survey of the United States. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34: e13941.

2024

Slankard, K. G., A. K. Darracq, & J. O. Barnard. 2024. Barn Owl (Tyto alba) habitat suitability, nest box occupancy, and management implications based on Kentucky surveys 2010–2022. Journal of Raptor Research 58: 464–479.

Kays, R., M. H. Snider, G. Hess, M. V. Cove, A. Jensen, H. Shamon, … A. K. Darracq. 2024. Climate, food, and humans predict communities of larger mammals in the United States. Diversity and Distributions 30: e13900.

Shamon, H., R. Maor, M. V. Cove, R. Kays, J. Adley, P. D. Alexander, D. N. Allen, M. L. Allen, C. L. Appel, … E. Barr*, A. K. Darracq. 2024. SNAPSHOT USA 2021: A third coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States. Ecology 105: e4318.

Burton, A. C., C. Beirne, K. M. Gaynor, … E. Barr*, A. K. Darracq. 2024. Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8: 924–935.

2023

Kavouriaris, P. W.*, A. K. Darracq, & M. T. Springer. 2023. Unsuccessful post-hatch egg-laying documented in American Black Vultures (Coragyps atratus). Journal of Raptor Research 57(4): 680–682.

Barnes, G.*, K. Slankard, J. Hewlett, & A. K. Darracq. 2023. Tradeoffs may counteract effects of telecommunication towers on osprey nesting. Human-Wildlife Interactions.

2022

Kays, R., M. Cove, J. Diaz, … A. K. Darracq. 2022. SNAPSHOT USA 2020: A second coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ecology e3775.

Darracq, A. K., S. Hromada, L. Neighbors*, L. L. Smith, L. M. Conner, & R. M. McCleery. 2022. Reducing populations of an invasive ant influences survival, growth, and diet of southern toads (Anaxyrus terrestris). Journal of Herpetology 56: 84–91.

2021

Cove, M., R. Kays, H. Bontrager, … A. K. Darracq. 2021. SNAPSHOT USA 2019: The first coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States. Ecology 102: e03353.

2020

Hewlett, J. B.* & A. K. Darracq. 2020. Natural history note: Crotalus horridus (Timber rattlesnake) arboreal behavior. Herpetological Review 51: 612–613.

2019

Darracq, A. K. & J. Tandy*. 2019. Misuse of habitat terminology by wildlife educators, scientists, and organizations. Journal of Wildlife Management 83: 782–789.

2017

Darracq, A. K., L. L. Smith, L. M. Conner, & R. A. McCleery. 2017. Invasive ants influence native lizard populations. Ecosphere 8(1): e01657.

2016

Darracq, A. K., L. M. Conner, J. S. Brown, & R. A. McCleery. 2016. Cotton rats alter foraging in response to an invasive ant. PLoS ONE 11: e0163220.

Darracq, A. K., W. W. Boone, & R. A. McCleery. 2016. Burn regime matters: A review of the effects of prescribed fire on vertebrates in the longleaf pine ecosystem. Forest Ecology and Management 378: 214–221.

Haase, K., A. K. Long, & J. Gillooly. 2016. Linking stress hormone levels to metabolic rate in mammals. Biology Letters 12(1).

Dziadzio, M., A. K. Long, L. L. Smith, & S. Castleberry. 2016. Presence of the red-imported fire ant at gopher tortoise nests. Wildlife Society Bulletin 40: 202–206.

2015

Long, A. K., L. L. Smith, L. M. Conner, & R. A. McCleery. 2015. Effects of an invasive ant and native predators on cotton rat survival and recruitment. Journal of Mammalogy 96: 1135–1141.

Long, A. K., D. Knapp, L. McCullough, L. L. Smith, L. M. Conner, & R. A. McCleery. 2015. Southern toads alter their behavior in response to red-imported fire ants. Biological Invasions 17: 2179–2186.

2013

Long, A. K. 2013. Sceloporus undulatus (Eastern Fence Lizard). Feeding behavior. Herpetological Review 44: 513–514.

Long, A. K. & A. Locher. 2013. American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) habitat use on pine plantations during spring in central Arkansas. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 125: 322–328.

2012

Long, A. K., K. Bailey, D. U. Greene, C. Tye, C. Parr, H. K. Lepage, K. H. Gielow, A. Monadjem, & R. A. McCleery. 2012. Multi-scale habitat selection of Mus minutoides in the Lowveld of Swaziland. African Journal of Ecology 51: 493–500.

2011

Long, A. K. & A. Locher. 2011. The efficacy of thermal imaging for documenting American woodcock. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 65: 173–175.

Long, A. K., W. Ashe, K. Ravana, & K. Simon. 2011. The effects of water velocity and sediment size on Acroneuria abnormis (Plecoptera: Perlidae) entrainment. Aquatic Insects 33: 105–112.

Book Publications

2023

Whiteman, H. & A. K. Darracq. 2023. Introduction to Wildlife and Conservation Biology. TopHat.

2018

Huang, C., J. Crook-Hill, A. K. Darracq, H. Collantes, J. Wilkinson, E. Aganovic, & T. Bell. 2018. Introduction to Ecology (Open Course). Biological Sciences Ancillary Materials 7. Available at oer.galileo.usg.edu/biology-ancillary/7/