Associate Professor Natural Resource Sciences Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-6410   Phone: 509-335-9182 FAX: 509-335-7862 Email: shipley@wsu.edu   PhD - 1993, Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences Texas A&M University RESEARCH INTERESTS: Foraging ecology of mammals, interactions between plants and herbivores, and ecology and management of wild ungulates.   RESEARCH SUMMARY: Dr. Shipley's current work centers on the influence of animal size, digestive morphology, and feeding strategy on the diet and habitats selected by herbivores. Both free-ranging and captive herbivores, such as woodland caribou, blue duikers, porcupines, and pygmy rabbits, are used in these studies REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS: Johnstone-Yellin, T. L., L. A. Shipley, and W. L. Myers. 2006. Evaluating the performance of vaginalimplant transmitters for capturing neonatal mule deer fawns. Wildlife Society Bulletin (34 (2) Searle, K., T. Vandervelde, N. T. Hobbs, L. A. Shipley, and B. A. Wunder. 2006. Spatial Context influences patch residence time in foraging hierarchies. Oecologia 148 (1): Searle, K., N. T. Hobbs, B. A. Wunder, and L. A. Shipley. 2006. Are lemmings risky foragers? The influence of scale-specific intake rates and variance in reward on patch preference. Behavioral Ecology 17:315-323.. Searle, K. R., N. T. Hobbs, and L. A. Shipley. 2005. When to leave, when to stay? Patch departure decisions by herbivores at multiple scales. Oikos 111:417-424. Searle, K. R., T. Vandervelde, N. T. Hobbs, and L. A. Shipley. 2005. Gain functions for large herbivores in patches: tests of alternative models. Journal of Animal Ecology 74:181-189. Thines N. J., L. A. Shipley, and R. D. Sayler. 2004. Effects of cattle grazing on ecology and habitat of Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits (Brachylagus idahoensis). Biological Conservation 119:525-534. Felicetti LA, Robbins CT, Shipley LA. (2003) Dietary protein content alters energy expenditure and composition of the mass gain in grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis). Physiol Biochem Zool. 76(2):256-61. Shipley, L.A., and L.A. Felicetti. (2002) Nitrogen and fiber digestibility of natural forages by blue duikers. Zoo Biology 21:123-134. Nolte, D., L.A. Shipley, and J. Schafer. (2001) Evaluating Wolfin as a repellent to deer on roads in Washington. Western Journal of Applied Forestry. 16:182-186. Fletcher, J.D., L.A. Shipley, W.J. McShea, and D.L. Shumway. (2001) Wildlife herbivory and rare plants: The effects of white-tailed deer, rodents and insects on growth and survival of Turk's cap lily. Biological Consrvation 101:229-238. Rode, K.D., C.T. Robbins, L.A. Shipley, and T.A. Hanley. (2001) The constraints on herbivory by grizzly bears. Oecologia 128:62-71. Fletcher, J.D., W.J. McShea, L.A. Shipley. and D. Shumway. (2001) The utility of using common forest forbs to measure browsing pressure by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Natural Areas Journal 54:413-419. Felicetti LA, Shipley LA, Witmer GW, Robbins CT. (2000) Digestibility, nitrogen excretion, and mean retention time by North American porcupines (Erethizon dorsatum) consuming natural forages. Physiol Biochem Zool. 73(6):772-80.