Faculty Profiles

Weaver, S., Hale, A., Nelson, D., Fritts, S. R., Katzner, T., Chipps, A., … Williams, D. (2025). Spatiotemporal patterns in sex ratios of bat fatalities at wind energy facilities in the United States. Biological Conservation, 61(e03672). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2025.e03672

Guest, E., Fritts, S. R., Hale, A., & Williams, D. (2025). Record of western red bats (Lasiurus blossevillii) in central Texas, USA. Southwestern Naturalist.

Rooney, B., Kays, R., Cove, M., Fritts, S. R., & McShea, W. (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). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13941

Rylander, R. J., Aspbury, A., Simpson, T. R., Weckerly, F., Patten, M., & Fritts, S. R. (2024). Black-crested Titmice (Baeolophus atricristatus) initiate nesting earlier in urbanized landscapes but have variable nesting success depending on the level of urbanization. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1676/23-00007

Kays, R., Hanson, C., & Fritts, S. R. (2024). Climate, food, and humans predict mammal communities of the United States. Diversity and Distributions. https://doi.org/http://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13900

Kays, R., Rooney, B., Cove, M., Fritts, S. R., & McShea, W. (2024). SNAPSHOT USA 2021: A third coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4318.

Green, D., Grisham, B., Boal, C., Haukos, D., Cox, R., Fritts, S. R., & Heck, W. (2024). Lesser Prairie-Chicken brood ecology on the Southern High Plains of Texas. Journal of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.

Burton, C., Beirne, C., Fritts, S. R., & Kays, R. (2024). Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape. Diversity and Distributions. https://doi.org/http://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13900.

Kays, R., Cove, M., Fritts, S. R., & McShae, W. (2024). SNAPSHOT USA 2021: A third coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States – initial trends. Ecology. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4318

Fritts, S. R., Stamps, B., Guest, E., Weaver, S., Hale, A., Morton, B., & Hein, C. (2024). Experimental trials of species-specific bat flight responses to an ultrasonic deterrent. PeerJ. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16718

Lopez, S. G., Aspbury, A., Fritts, S. R., Tidwell, T. L. R., & Bonner, T. H. (2023). Long-term patterns in inland fish kills associated with cold-shock and winter stress: a regional case study from Texas. Journal of Fish Biology, 103(3), 472–480. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15435

Villatoro Castaneda, M., Forsburg, Z. R., Ortiz, W., Fritts, S. R., Gabor, C., & Carlos-Shanley, C. (2023). Exposure to Roundup and antibiotics alters gut microbial communities, growth, and behavior in Rana berlandieri tadpoles. Biology.

Rogers, J. A., Parker, M. C., & Fritts, S. R. (2023). Evening bats captured in a managed wildlife refuge used trees in a human-dominated landscape as maternity roosts. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management.

LiCari, S., Nelson, D., Katzner, T., Fritts, S. R., Weaver, S., & Hale, A. (2023). Understanding fatality patterns and sex ratios of Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) at wind energy facilities in western California and Texas. PeerJ. https://doi.org/https://peerj.com/articles/16580

Allen, M., Rega-Brodsky, C., Weiss, K., Green, A., Iannarilli, F., Tleimat, J. M., … Lafferty, D. (2023). Mammalian functional diversity and trait responses to anthropogenic and environmental factors across the contiguous USA. Urban Ecosystems.

Bohlender, E., Haulu, T., Childers, S., Leatherwood, C., Evans, L., Townsley, D., … Stevens, R. (2022). A pigeon’s eyeview of a university campus. Southwestern Naturalist, 66, 13–24. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1894/0038-4909-66.1.13

Haney, J., Veech, J. A., Castro-Arellano, I., & Fritts, S. R. (2022). Museum and citizen-science data indicate contraction in the range of the Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum). Herpetologica, 72, 102–109. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1655/Herpetologica-D-21-00022

Bohannon, A. M. A., Bassett, L. G., Sirsi, S., MacLaren, A. R., Foley III, D., Fritts, S. R., … Forstner, M. R. (2022). Reproductive characteristics of Rio Grande cooters (Pseudemys gorzugi) in western Texas. Chelonian Conservation Biology, 21(2), 246–255.

Tleimat, J. M., Fritts, S. R., Brunner, R., McCracken, S. F., Lynch, R., & Rodriguez, D. (2022). Economic pressures of Covid-19 lockdowns result in increased timber extraction within a critically endangered region: a case study from the Pacific Forest of Ecuador. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9550

Kays, R., Cove, M. V., Fritts, S. R., & McShae, W. (2022). SNAPSHOT USA 2020: A second coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Ecology. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3775

Gula, J. J., Fritts, S. R., Dean, W. Ri., Sundar, K. G., & Green, M. C. (2022). Assessments of range-wide distribution of six African storks and their relationships with protected areas. Ostrich.

Guest, E., Stamps, B., Weaver, S., Hein, C., Hale, A., & Fritts, S. R. (2022). Hypotheses regarding the attraction of bats to wind turbines. Animals. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12030343

Vasquez, M., Rylander, R. J., Tleimat, J. M., & Fritts, S. R. (2022). Nest materials used by black-crested titmice along an urban gradient. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management, 13, 236–242.

Cove, M., Kays, R., Fritts, S. R., Tleimat, J. M., & Gay, A. L. (2021). SNAPSHOT USA 2019: the first coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States. Ecology. Retrieved from 1828 PEARCE CT

Miyazono, S., Pease, A., Fritts, S. R., & Grabowski, T. (2020). Ontogenetic shifts in mesohabitat use of young-of-year Rio Grande blue sucker in the big bend region of the Rio Grande. Environmental Biology of Fishes, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-020-01038-8.

Rylander, R., Fritts, S. R., & Aspbury, A. (2020). Limited dispersal by large juvenile males leads to kin-structured neighborhoods in the black-crested titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 74.

Grodksy, S., Hernandez, R., Campbell, J., Hinson, K., Fritts, S. R., Homyack, J., & Moorman, C. (2019). Ground beetle (Carabidae: Coleoptera) response to harvest residue removal: Implications for sustainable forest bioenergy production. Forests, 11(1), 48.

Grodsky, S., Fritts, S. R., & Hernandez, R. (2019). Future directions of renewable energy and wildlife conservation. In Renewable Energy and Wildlife. Baltimore, Maryland: John Hopkins University Press.

Dittmer, D., Fritts, S. R., & Hibbits, T. (2019). New locality records for Cemophora coccinea copei in Texas. Herpetological Review, 50, 104–105.

Fritts, S. R., Grisham, B., Cox, R., Haukos, D., & McDaniel, P. (2018). Interactive effects of severe drought and grazing on the life history cycle of a bioindicator species. Ecology and Evolution, 8(18), 9550–9562.

Grodsky, S., Campbell, J., Fritts, S. R., Wigley, T. B., & Moorman, C. (2018). Variable responses of non-native and native ants to manipulated coarse woody debris following forest bioenergy harvests in young forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 427(2018), 414–422.

Fritts, S. R., Moorman, C., Hazel, D., Homyack, J., Castleberry, S., Pollock, K., … Evans, E. (2017). Rodent response to harvesting woody biomass for bioenergy production. Journal of Wildlife Management, 81, 1170–1178.

Grodsky, S., Moorman, C., Fritts, S. R., Campbell, J., Sorenson, C., Bertone, M., … Wigley, T. (2017). Invertebrate community response to coarse woody debris removal for bioenergy production from intensively managed forests. Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1634

Jo, Y., Won, C., Fritts, S. R., Wallace, M., & Baccus, J. (2017). Modeling distribution and habitat features of the Eurasian otter, Lutra lutra, in Korea. Journal of Mammalogy, 98(4), 1105–1117.

Grodsky, S., Moorman, C., Fritts, S. R., Castleberry, S., & Wigley, T. (2016). Winter bird use of downed wood and implications of forest bioenergy harvest. Forest Ecology and Management, 91–101.

Schlichting, P., Fritts, S. R., Mayer, J., Gipson, P., & Dabbert, C. (2016). Determinants of variation in wild pig (Sus scrofa) home range and its management implications. Wildlife Society Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.662

Fritts, S. R., Grisham, B., Haukos, D., Boal, C., Patten, M., Wolfe, D., … Heck, W. (2016). Long-term evaluation of lesser prairie-chicken nest ecology in response to grassland restoration at two spatial scales. Journal of Wildlife Management, 80, 527–539.

Fritts, S. R., Moorman, C., Hazel, D., Homyack, J., Castleberry, S., Pollock, K., … Grodsky, S. (2016). Do biomass harvesting guidelines sustain herpetofauna following harvests of logging residues for renewable energy? Ecological Applications, 24, 926–939.

Grodsky, S., Moorman, C., Fritts, S. R., Castleberry, S., & Wigley, T. (2016). Breeding, early-successional bird response to forest harvests for renewable energy. PLOS ONE, (11).

Fritts, S. R., Lane, T., Zavaleta, J., Grisham, B., Haukos, D., & Boal, C. (2016). Conserving lesser prairie-chicken in sand shinnery oak prairies while maintaining economic viability of grazing.

Fritts, S. R., Grodsky, S., Moorman, C., Hazel, D., Homyack, J., & Castleberry, S. (2015). Shrew response to varying woody debris retention: Implications for sustainable forest bioenergy. Forest Ecology and Management, 336, 35–43.

Fritts, S. R., Grodsky, S., Moorman, C., Hazel, D., Homyack, J., & Castleberry, S. (2015). Quantifying multi-scale habitat use of woody biomass by southern toads using two approaches. Forest Ecology and Management, 346, 81–88.

Raybuck, A., Moorman, C., Fritts, S. R., Greenberg, C., DePerno, C., Simon, D., & Warburton, G. (2015). Response of Plethodon salamanders to oak regeneration treatments in the southern Appalachians. Wildlife Biology, 20, 186–194.

Fritts, S. R., Moorman, C., Hazel, D., & Jackson, B. (2014). Biomass harvesting guidelines affect downed woody debris retention. Biomass and Bioenergy, 70, 382–391.

Fritts, S. R. (2014). Implementing Woody Biomass Harvesting Guidelines that Sustain Reptile, Amphibian, and Shrew Populations. North Carolina State University.

Fritts, S. R., & Grodsky, S. (2013). Downed wood and wildlife.

Fritts, S. R. (2008). Effects of Channel Maintenance on Fish Community Composition in an Illinois Stream. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Fritts, S. R. (2003). An Inventory and Assessment of Medicinal Flora and Fauna Used By Traditional Healers in South Africa. University of Georgia.