Bibliography

• Publications from 2000 onwards
• Books and Volumes
• Publications from 1995 to 1999
• Pre 95 publications in Resource Management
• Pre 95 publications in Honey Bee Biology
• Pre 95 publications in Applied Entomology and Biological Control
• Pre 95 pulications on Insect Olfaction and Systems Biology
• Pre 95 publications in Theoretical Ecology and Population Genetics
• Pre 95 publications in Applied Mathematics
• Pre 2000 Reviews and Comments

PUBLICATIONS FROM 2000 ONWARDS

Bar-David, S., I. Bar-David, P. C. Cross, S. J. Ryan, W. M. Getz, 2009. Methods for assessing movement path recursion with application to African buffalo in South Africa.  Ecology (to appear).

Polansky, L., P. de Valpine, J. O. Lloyd-Smith and W. M. Getz, 2009. Likelihood ridges and multimodality in population growth rate models. Ecology (to appear)

Hahn J. A., D. Wylie, J. Dill, M. Sanchez, K. Page-Shafer, W. M. Getz, 2009. Potential impact of vaccination on the hepatitis C virus epidemic in injection drug users.  Epidemics (to appear).

Norrström, N., N. M. A.  Holmgren, and W. M. Getz, 2009. Artificial neural networks in models of specialization, guild evolution and sympatric speciation. In C. R. Tosh and G. D. Ruxton (eds.) Modelling Perception using Artificial Neural Networks, Cambridge University Press (to appear).

Sánchez M. S., J. O. Lloyd-Smith, B. G. Williams, T. C. Porco, S. J. Ryan, M. W. Borgdorff,  J. Mansoer, C, Dye, W. M. Getz, 2009.  Incongruent HIV and Tuberculosis Co-dynamics in Kenya: Interacting Epidemics Monitor Each Other.  Epidemics (to appear). (Download preprint)

Wylie, D. C. and W. M. Getz, 2009.  Sick and edgy: Walk-counting as a metric of epidemic spreading on networks.  J Royal Soc Interface. (DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2008.0423) (Download pdf)

Cross P. C., D.M. Heisey, J.A. Bowers, C. T. Hay, J. Wolhuter, M. Hofmeyr, A.L. Michel, T. L. F. Bird, J. T. Du Toit & W. M. Getz, 2009.  Monitoring known individuals to study a chronic disease: bovine tuberculosis in African buffalo of the Kruger National Park. J. Applied Ecology 46: (to appear) (Download pdf)

Wittemyer, G., L. Polansky, F. I. Douglas-Hamilton, and W. M. Getz, 2008. Nonstationary influences of season, location and sociality on properties of movement among African elephants (Loxodonta africana) PNAS 105(49): 19108-19113 (Download pdf)

Getz, W. M. and D. Saltz, 2008. A framework for generating and analyzing movement paths on ecological landscapes. PNAS 105(49): 19066-19071 (Download pdf)

Nathan, R, W. M. Getz, E. Revilla, M. Holyoak, R. Kadmon, D. Saltz and P. E. Smouse, 2008. Moving forward with movement ecology. PNAS 105(49):19052-19059 (Download pdf)

Winnie, J, A., P. C. Cross and W, M. Getz, 2008. Habitat quality and heterogeneity influences distribution, individual and herd behavior in African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer). Ecology 89:1457-1468. (Download pdf)

Sánchez M. S.,  J. O. Lloyd-Smith, T. Porco, B. G. Williams, M. Borgdorff,  J. Mansoer, J. A. Salomon, W. M. Getz, 2008.  Impact of HIV on novel therapies for tuberculosis control. AIDS  22:963-972. (Download pdf)

Ryan S. J., P. T. Starks, K. Milton and W. M. Getz, 2008. Intersexual conflict and group size in mantled howler monkeys: a 23-year evaluation. International J. Primatology 29:405-420. (Download pdf)

Greyling, B. J., P. Kryger, S. du Plessis, W. F. van Hooft, P. van Helden, W. M. Getz & A. D. S. Bastos, 2008. Development of a high-throughput microsatellite typing approach for forensic and population genetic analysis of wild and domestic African Bovini. African J Biotechnology 7:655-660 (Download pdf)

Getz, W. M., 2008.  HIV dynamics and immuno-senescence. AIDS 22:307-309 (Download pdf)

Weinbaum, K., D J. Sonwa, S. F. Weise, J. Brashares and W. M. Getz. 2007. Wildlife diversity in cocao/agricultural mosaics at the Congo Basin forest margin, 2007 Sustainable Tree Crop Program Working Paper Series 3 (Version December 2007), International Institute for Tropical Agriculture. (Download pdf)

van Hooft, W. F., B. J. Greyling, , H. H. T. Prins, W. M. Getz, A. E. Jolles & A. D. S. Bastos, 2007. Balancing selection at the Y chromosome is driven by variation in rainfall in the African Buffalo.  PLoS ONE  2(10): e1086. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001086 (Download pdf)

Porco, T. and W. M. Getz.  2007. Comment:  Controlling extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.  Lancet  370:1464-5. (Download pdf)

Eppley, J. M., G. W. Tyson, W. M. Getz and J. F. Banfield, 2007.   Strainer:  Software for analysis of population variation in community genomic datasets. BMC Bioinformatics 8:398. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-398 (Download pdf)

Eppley, J. M., G. W. Tyson, W. M. Getz, and J. F. Banfield, 2007. Genetic exchange across a species boundary in the archaeal genus Ferroplasma. Genetics 177: 407-416. doi:10.1534/genetics.107.072892 (Download pdf)

Wittemyer, G., W. M. Getz, F. Vollrath and I. Douglas-Hamilton, 2007. Social dominance, seasonal movements, and spatial segregation in African elephants: a contribution to conservation behavior. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 12:1919-1931. (Download pdf)

Baxter, P. W. J. and W. M. Getz, 2007. Development and parameterization of a rain and fire-driven model for exploring elephant effects in African savannas. Environmental Modeling and Assessment 13:221-242. (Download pdf)

Ryan, S. J., C. Knechtel, W. M. Getz, 2007. Ecological cues, gestation length, and birth timing in African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer). Behavioral Ecology 29:405-420. (Download pdf)

Getz, W.M, S. Fortmann-Roe, P. C. Cross, A. J. Lyons, S. J. Ryan, C.C. Wilmers, 2007. LoCoH: nonparametric kernel methods for constructing home ranges and utilization distributions. PLoS ONE 2(2): e207. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000207

Wittemyer, G. and W. M. Getz, 2007. Hierarchical dominance structure and social organization in African elephants (Loxodonta africana). Animal Behaviour 73:671-681. (Download pdf)

Bidlack, A. L., S. E. Reed, P. J. Palsbøll, W. M. Getz, 2007. Characterization of a western North American carnivore community using PCR-RFLP of cytochrome b obtained from fecal samples.  Conservation Genetics (in press).

Holmgren N. M.A., N. Norrström, and W. M. Getz, 2007. Artificial neural networks as models of specialization and sympatric speciation. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. B.  (Lond.) 362:431-440. (Download pdf)

Bar-David S, Lloyd-Smith J. O, and Getz W. M. 2007. Dynamics and management of infectious disease in a reintroduced population. Pp. 340-362 In: McNeely, J.A., T. M. McCarthy, A. Smith, L. Olsvig-Whittaker, and E.D. Wikramanayake (editors) Conservation Biology in Asia. Society for Conservation Biology (Asia Section) and Resources Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, 455 pp.

Lloyd-Smith, J. O., Schreiber, S. J., and Getz, W. M. 2006. Moving beyond averages: Individual-level variation in disease transmission. In: Gumel, A.B. Castillo-Chavez, C., Mickens R. E. and Clemence, D.P., (eds.) Mathematical Studies on Human Diseases Dynamics: Emerging Paradigms and Challenges, AMS Contemporary Mathematics Series 410:235-258

Bar-David S, Lloyd-Smith J. O, and Getz W. M. 2006. Non-lethal disease in colonizing populations. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution

Cross, P.C., J. O. Lloyd-Smith, P. L. Johnson, W. M. Getz, 2007. Utility of R₀ as a predictor of disease invasion in wildlife populations.   J. Royal Soc. Interface. 4:315-324. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2006.0185. (Download pdf)

Wittemyer, G. and W. M. Getz, 2006. A Likely Ranking Interpolation for Resolving Dominance Orders in Systems with Unknown Relationships. Behaviour 206:143:909-130. (Download pdf)

Salomon, J.A., J. O. Lloyd-Smith, W. M. Getz, S. Resch, M. S. Sanchez, T. Porco, M. Borgdorff, 2006.  Prospects for advancing tuberculosis control efforts through novel therapies. PLoS Medicine 3(8):e273.

Williams, B.G., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Gouws, E., Hankins, C., Getz, W.M., Dye, C.,1, Hargrove, J., de Zoysa, I., Auvert, B, 2006. The potential impact of male circumcision on HIV incidence, HIV prevalence and AIDS deaths in Africa.  PLoS Medicine 3(7):e262

Getz, W. M. and J. O. Lloyd-Smith. 2006. Comment on: “On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects.” Science 311:1100. (Download pdf)

Cross, P. C. and W. M. Getz, 2006. Assessing vaccination as a control strategy in an ongoing epidemic: Bovine Tuberculosis in African buffalo. Ecological Modeling 196:494-504. (Download pdf)

Getz. W. M., 2006. The Theory of Evolution is a misnomer. Bioscience 56-96-97. (Download pdf)

Bar-David, S., J. O. Lloyd-Smith, W. M. Getz, 2006. Dynamics and management of infectious disease in colonizing populations. Ecology 87:1215-1224. (Download pdf)

Norrstrom, N, W. M. Getz. and N. M.A. Holmgren, 2006. Coevolution of consumer specialization and host mimicry can be cyclic and saltational. Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online, 2:1-9. (Download pdf)

Chrastil, E. R., H. Euler, W. M. Getz, P. T. Starks, 2006. Paternity Uncertainty Overrides Sex Chromosome Selection for Preferential Grandparenting. Evolution and Human Behavior 27:206-233. (Download pdf)

Karin M. Kettenring, Barbara T. Martinez, Anthony M. Starfield, and Wayne M. Getz, 2006. The appropriate sharing of ecological models. Bioscience 56:59-64. (Download pdf)

Ryan S. J. and W. M. Getz, 2006. Comparing spatial models for water source distribution management using a case study of a lowveld nature reserve in South Africa. South African Journal of Wildlife Management 35:163-178. (Download pdf)

Lloyd-Smith, J. O., S, J. Schreiber, P. E. Kopp, and W. M. Getz, 2005. Superpreading and the impact of individual variation on disease emergence. Nature 438:355-359 (Download pdf) (Download Supplementary Online Material)

Sanchez, M. S., Grant, R. M., Porco, and Getz, W. M., 2006. Tracking epidemics: time trends may not be what they seem. Emerging Infectious Disease 12:191-197. (Download pdf)

Lane, S. D., C. M. St. Mary, and W. M. Getz, 2006. Competitive exclusion and resource partitioning in multiparasitoid-host systems. Annales Zoologici Fennici 43:17-34. (Download pdf)

Ryan, S. J., C. Knechtel, W. M. Getz, 2006. Seasonal and interannual variation in the home range and habitat selection of African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer): a long-term study in the Klaserie Private Nature Reserve, South Africa. J. Wildlife Management 70:764-776 (Download pdf)

Redfern J. V., S. J. Ryan and W. M. Getz, 2006. Defining herbivore assemblages in Kruger National Park: A correlative coherence approach. Oecologia 146:632-640. (Download pdf)

Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Cross, P.C., Briggs, C.J., Daugherty, M., Getz, W.M., Latto, J., Sanchez, M., Smith, A., Swei, A, 2005. Population thresholds for disease invasion and persistence in natural populations. Trends Ecol. Evol. 20:511-519. ( Download pdf)

Getz, W. M. 2005. The genetics of groups is for group reading (Review of F. Rousset, Genetic Structure and Selection in Subdivided Populations). BioScience 55:803-804.

Getz, W. M., J. O. Lloyd-Smith, P. C. Cross, S. Bar-David, P. L. Johnson, T. C. Porco, M. S. Sanchez, 2006. Modeling the invasion and spread of contagious disease in heterogeneous populations. In Feng, Z., Dieckmann, U., Levin, S.A. (eds.) Disease Evolution: Models, Concepts, and Data Analysis, AMS/DIMACS Vol 71:113-144 (Download pdf)

Getz, W. M., and J. O. Lloyd-Smith, 2006. Basic methods for modeling the invasion and spread of contagious disease. In Feng, Z., Dieckmann, U., Levin, S.A. (eds.) Disease Evolution: Models, Concepts, and Data Analysis, AMS/DIMACS Vol 71:87-109 (Download pdf)

Getz, W. M. 2005. Whom are parks for? (Review of: Child, B., (editor), 2005. Parks in Transition: Biodiversity, Rural Development and the Bottom Line. Earthscan, London. 278 pp.) Conservation Biology, 19:1333-1334.

Cross, P.C., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Johnson, P.L., Getz, W.M., 2005. Dueling time scales of host mixing and disease recovery determine invasion of disease in structured populations. Ecology Letters 8:587-595. (Download pdf)

Sanchez, M. S., Grant, R. M., Porco, T. C., Gross, K. L. and Getz, W. M., 2005. Could a decrease in drug resistance levels of HIV be bad news? Bulletin Math. Biol. 67:761-782. (Download pdf)

Wilmers, C. C., and W. M. Getz, 2005. Gray wolves as climate change buffers in Yellowstone. PLoS Biology 3(4):571-576. (Download pdf)

Wittemyer, G., I. Douglas-Hamilton and W. M. Getz, 2005. The socio-ecology of elephants: analysis of the processes creating multi-tiered social structures. Animal Behavior, 69:1357-137. (Download pdf)

Cross, P. C. J. O Lloyd-Smith, and W. M. Getz, 2005. Disentangling association patters in fission-fusion societies using African buffalo as an example. Animal Behavior, 69:499-506 (Download pdf)

Baxter, P. W. J. and W. M. Getz, 2005. A model of tree and fire dynamics and elephant effects in African savannas. Ecological Applications 15:1331-1341 (Download pdf)

Cross, P. C. J. O Lloyd-Smith, J. Bowers, C. T. Hay, M. Hofmeyr and W. M. Getz, 2004. Integrating association and disease dynamics: an illustration using African buffalo data. Annals Zoologici Fennici 41:879-892 (Download pdf: read only)

Getz, W. M. 2004. Review of E. S. Altman and J. A. Rhodes, Mathematical Models in Biology: An Introduction. Quarterly Review of Biology 79:201-202.

Getz W. M. and C. C. Wilmers, 2004. A local nearest-neighbor convex-hull construction of home ranges and utilization distributions. Ecography 27:489-505. (Download pdf)

Wilmers, C. C., and W. M. Getz, 2004. Simulating the effects of wolf-elk population dynamics on resource flow to scavengers. Ecological Modeling 177:193-208. (Download pdf)

Lloyd-Smith, J., Westerhoff, H. V. and Getz, W. M., 2004. Frequency-dependent incidence in sexually-transmitted disease models: Portrayal of pair-based transmission and effects of illness on contact behaviour. Proc Royal Soc. Lond. B 271:625-634. (Download pdf)

Getz, Wayne M., E. Gouws, F. Hahne, P. E. Kopp, P. Mostert, C. Muller, C. Seioghe, B. Williams, G. Witten, 2003. Mathematical models and fight against disease in Africa. South African Journal of Science 99 (9/10):305-306. (Download pdf)

Wilmers, C. C., D. S. Stahler, R. L. Crabtree, D. W. Smith, K. M. Murphy, J. D. Varley, and W. M. Getz, 2003. Resource dispersion and consumer dominance: scavenging at wolf- and hunter-killed carcasses in Greater Yellowstone.  Ecology Letters 6:996-1103. (Download pdf)

Wilmers, C. C., R. L. Crabtree, D. W. Smith, K. M. Murphy, J. D. Varley, and W. M. Getz, 2003. Trophic facilitation by introduced top predators: gray wolf subsidies to scavengers in Yellowstone National Park. Journal Animal Ecology 72.909-916. (Download pdf)

Karmon, E., W. M. Getz, and M. Potts, 2003. Microbicides and HIV: help or hinderance. JAIDS 34(1):71-75. (Download pdf)

Getz, W. M., H. V. Westerhoff, J.-H. S. Hofmeyr, and J. L. Snoep, 2003. Control analysis of trophic chains, Ecological Modelling 168:153-171. (Download pdf)

Getz, W. M. 2003. Is population ecology a mature science? (Review of P. Turchin, Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical Synthesis). BioScience 253:885-888. (Download pdf)

Redfern J. V., C. C. Grant, H. C. Biggs and W. M. Getz, 2003. Surface water constraints on herbivore foraging in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Ecology 84:2092-2107. (Download pdf)

Lloyd-Smith, J., A., Galvani, W. M. Getz, 2003. Curtailing SARS transmission within a community and its hospital. Proc. Royal Soc. B. (Lond). 270:1979-1989. (Download pdf)

Getz, W. M. 2003. Correlative coherence analysis: variation from intrinsic and extrinsic sources in competing populations.  Theoretical Pop Biol,  64:89-99. (Download pdf)

Getz, W. M. 2003. "Evo-Devo" and the conundrum of sympatric speciation. BioScience 53:313-314. (Download pdf)

Redfern J. V., P. C. Viljoen, J. M. Kruger, and W. M. Getz, 2002. Biases in estimating population size from an aerial census: A case study in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 98:455-461. (Download pdf)

Westphal, M. I., M. Pickett, W. M. Getz, and H. P. Possingham  2003. Optimal landscape reconstruction for an endangered Australian bird: an application of stochastic dynamic programming to a spatially-realistic metapopulation. Ecological Applications 13:543-555. (Download pdf)

Greyling, B.J. P. Kryger, A. D. S. Bastos, P. C. Cross, W. M. Getz, 2002. A preliminary assessment of dispersal of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in the Kruger National Park using microsatellite markers. Proceedings, 2^nd South African Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Conference.

Suarez, A. V., M. Benard, N. D. Tsutsui, T. A. Blackledge ,K. Copren, E. M. Sarnat, A. L. Wild, W. M. Getz, P. T. Starks, K. Will, P. J. Palsboll, M. E. Hauber , C. Moritz, A. D. Richman, 2002. Conflicts around a study of Mexican crops. Nature 417:897. (Download pdf)

Westerhoff H.V., W.M. Getz, H.W. van Verseveld, J.-H. S. Hofmeyr & J.L. Snoep, 2002. Bioinformatics, cellular flows, and calculation. Eds. H.-W. Mewes, H. Seidel, B. Weiss, Bioinformatics and Gene Flows (Ernst Schering Res Found Workshop. 38, 221-243), Springer, Berlin. (Download pdf)

Schreiber, S. L. R. Fox and W. M. Getz, 2002. Parasitoid sex allocation and influences coevolution of patch selection and stability in host-parasitoid systems. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 5:701-717. (Download pdf)

Getz, W. M. 2002. Book review: Mathematics in the Medicine and the Social Sciences (F. C. Hoppensteadt and C. S. Peskin, Q. Rev. Biol. 77:244-245.

Lansky P. and W. M. Getz, 2001. Receptor heterogeneity and its effect on coding sensitivity and range in olfactory sensory neuron. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 63:885-908. (Download pdf)

Getz, W. M., R. E. Page, Jr., P. T. Starks, 2001. A Tribute to William Donald Hamilton (1936-2000). Annales Zoologici Fennici. 38:187-188. (Download pdf)

Getz, W. M. 2001. Competition, extinction, and sexuality of species. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 38:315-330. (Download pdf)

Getz, W. M. and P. Lansky. 2001. Receptor disassociation constants and the information entropy of membranes coding ligand concentrations. Chemical Senses 26:95-104. (Download pdf)

Lemon, W. C. and W. M. Getz 2000. Rate code input produces temporal code output from cockroach antennal lobes. Biosystems 58:151-158. (Download pdf)

Ryan, J. M. and W. M. Getz, 2000. Signal decoding and receiver evolution: an analysis using neural networks. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution 56:45-62.

Schreiber, S. L. R. Fox and W. M. Getz, 2000. Coevolution of contrary choices in host-parasitoid systems. Am. Nat. 155:637-648 (Download pdf)

Getz W. M. and W. C. Lemon, 2000.  Discriminating Gourmets, Lovers, and Enophiles? Neural Nets Tell All About Locusts, Toads, and Roaches.  In H. Malmgren, M. Borga, & L. Niklasson (eds.) Artificial Neural Networks in Medicine and Biology, Springer-Verlag, London, pp. 37-44. (Download pdf)

Abstract:  Stark, P., C Blackie, and W. M. Getz, 2000 (Abstract).  The effect of HIV infections on human sexual behavior,  Proceedings, XIII International AIDS Conference, 9-14 July 2000, Abstracts Volume 2, Durban, South Africa, p. 209

Holmgren, M. A. and W. M. Getz, 2000.  Evolution of host plant selection in insects under ecological and perceptual constraints: a simulation study.  Evolutionary Ecology Research. 2:81-106. (Download pdf)

BOOKS & VOLUMES

• Schreiber, Sebastian J., Karl J. Smith and Wayne M. Getz. Calculus for the Life Sciences. In production with Prentice Hall. (Download pdf 13.3 MB)
• Getz, W. M., and Haight, R. G. 1989. Population Harvesting: Demographic Models of Fish, Forests and Animal Resources. Princeton Monographs in Population Biology, Princeton University Press (391 pp.).
• Getz, W. M. l980. (Editor) Mathematical Modelling in Biology and Ecology, Springer-Verlag, New York. 335 pp.
• Getz, W. M. 1995. Kin recognition and chemosensory communication in the honey bee Apis mellifera. Compilation of papers for the D.Sc. degree, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa, 375 pp.

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PUBLICATIONS FROM 1995 to 1999

• Getz, W. M. and Akers, R. P. 1995. Partitioning nonlinearities in the response of honey bee olfactory receptor neurons to binary odors. BioSystems 34:27-40. (Download pdf)
• Kaitala, V. and Getz, W. M. 1995. Population dynamics and harvesting of semelparous species with phenotypic and genotypic variability in reproductive age. J. Math. Biol. 33:521-556.
• Getz, W. M. and N. J. Mills, 1996. Host-parasitoid coexistence and egg-limited encounter rates. Am Nat. 148(2):301-315. (Download pdf)
• Mills, N. J. and W. M. Getz, 1996. Modelling the biological control of insect pests: a review of host parasitoid models. Ecological Modeling 92:121-143.(Download pdf)
• Getz, W. M., 1996. A hypothesis regarding the abruptness of density dependence and the growth rate of populations. Ecology 77:2014-2026. (Download pdf)
• Getz, W. M. and R. P. Akers, in 1997. Coding Properties of Peak and Average Response Rates in American Cockroach Olfactory Cells. BioSystems 40:55-63. (Download pdf)
• Malaka, R. , S. Schmitz, W. M. Getz, 1996. A Self-organizing Model of the Antennal Lobes: In: From Animals to Animats: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
• Getz, W. M., 1999. Population and Evolutionary Dynamics of Consumer-Resource Systems. In: J. McGlade (ed.), Theoretical Ecology: Advances in Principles and Applications, Blackwell Science Limited, Oxford, England. pp 194-231. (Download pdf)
• Getz, W. M. and R. P. Akers, 1997. Response of American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) olfactory receptors to selected alcohol odorants and their binary combinations. J. Comparative Physiology 180:701-709. (Download pdf)
• Kaitala V., M. Heino and W. M. Getz, 1997. Host-parasite dynamics and the evolution of host immunity and parasite fecundity strategies. Bull. Math. Biology 59:427-450.
• Getz, W. M., 1997. Save Elephants ? Support CAMPFIRE. OPINION PAGE San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, May 7.
• Lemon, W.C, and W.M. Getz, 1997. Temporal resolution of general odor pulses by olfactory sensory neurons in American cockroaches. J. Experimental Biology 200:1809-1819. (Download pdf)
• Schoombie, S. W., and W. M. Getz, 1998. Evolutionary stable density-dependent strategies in a generalized Beverton and Holt model.  Theoretical Population Biology 53:216-235. (Download pdf)
• Lemon, W. C, and W. M. Getz, 1998. Responses of cockroach antennal projection neurons to pulsatile olfactory stimuli. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 855:517-520.
• Quinn, T., W. Anderson, W. M. Getz, R. Hilborn, C. Jones, J.-J. Mcquire, A Parma, T., Schweder, and G. Stefansson. 1998.  Review of North East Fisheries Stock Assessment, National Academy Press, Washington DC., 171 p.
• Getz, W. M., 1998.  An introspection on the art of modeling in population ecology,  Bioscience. 48:540-552. (Download pdf)
• Getz, W. M. and S. J. Schreiber, 1999.  Multiple time scales in consumer-resource interactions. Ann. Zool. Fennici 36:11-20. (Download pdf)
• Getz, W. M. and N. Owen-Smith, 1999.  A metaphysiological population model of storage in variable environments.  Natural Resource Modeling, 12:197-230.
• Lane, S. D., N. Mills, and W. M. Getz, 1999.  The effects of parasitoid fecundity and taxon on the biological control of insect pests: the relationship between theory and data.  Ecological Entomology, 24:181-190. (Download pdf)
• Getz, W. M. and A. Lutz, 1999. A neural network model of general olfactory coding in the insect antennal lobe, Chem Senses 24:351-372. (Download pdf)
• Getz W. M., L. Fortmann, D. Cumming, J. du Toit, J. Hilty, R. Martin, M. Murphree, N. Owen-Smith, A. M. Starfield, M. I. Westphal, 1999.  Sustaining natural and human capital: villagers and scientists.  Science 283:1855-6. (Download pdf)
• Getz W. M., L. Fortmann, D. Cumming, J. Du Toit, and R. Martin, 2000. CAMPFIRE Experiences in Zimbabwe.  Science 287:42-43.
• Getz, W. M., 1999. A Kinetic Model of the Transient Phase in the Response of Olfactory Receptor Neurons.  Chemical Senses 24:497-508. (Download pdf)
• Lemon, W. C. and W. M. Getz 1999.  Olfactory coding in insects.  Annals Ent. Soc. Am. 92:861-872.

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PRE 95 PUBLICATIONS IN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

• Getz, W. M. 1975. Mathematical models -- a vital tool for the utilization and preservation of the renewable resources of Southern Africa. National Res. Inst. for Math. Sci. Report WISK 164, CSIR, Pretoria, 17 pp.
• Getz, W. M. l979. On harvesting two competing populations. J. Optimization Theory Appl. 20:585-602.
• Getz, W. M. l979. Optimal harvesting of structured populations. Math. Biosci. 44:269-291. (Download pdf)
• Getz, W. M. and Price, R. P. l979. Sustainable yield strategies from an age structured two-season Beverton-Holt type model. In: S. E. Jorgensen (ed.), State-of-the-Art in Ecological Modelling. Pergamon 7:693-711.
• Getz, W. M. l980. Harvesting models and stock recruitment curves in fisheries management. In: W. M. Getz (ed.), Mathematical Modelling in Biology and Ecology, Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 284-304.
• Getz, W. M. l980. The ultimate sustainable yield problem in nonlinear age-structured populations. Math. Biosci. 48:279-292. (Download pdf)
• Getz, W. M. and Swartzman, G. L. l981. A probability transition matrix model for yield estimation in fisheries with highly variable recruitment. Canadian J. Fisheries and Aquatic Sci. 38:847-855.
• Getz, W. M. and McGrail, L. 1981. Computer AIDS for CP/IPM in Almond. AGCOMP BULLETIN 2:53-69.
• Francis, R. C., Swartzman, G. L., Getz, W. M., Haar, R., and Rose, K. 1982. A management analysis of the Pacific Whiting Fishery, NWAFC Processed Report 82-06, Natl. Marine Fish. Ser., U.S. Dept. of Commerce. 48 pp.
• Swartzman, G. L., Getz, W. M., Francis, R. C., Haar, R., and Rose, K. 1983. A management analysis of the Pacific whiting fishery using an age-structured stochastic recruitment model. Can. J. Fish. Aq. Sci. 40:524-529.
• Getz, W. M. 1984. Optimal control and principles in population management. In: S. A. Levin (ed.), Population Biology, Lecture Notes on Mathematics in the Life Sciences, Vol. 20, American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, pp. 63-82.
• Getz, W. M. 1984. Production models for nonlinear stochastic age-structured fisheries. Math Biosci. 69:11-30. (Download pdf)
• Francis, R. C., MacFarlane, G. A., Hallowed, A. B., Swartzman, G. L., and Getz, W. M. 1984. Status and management of the pacific hake (Merluccius productus) resource and fishery of the west coast of the United States and Canada. NWFAC Processed Report 84-118, Natl. Marine Fish. Ser., U. S. Dept. of Commerce, 73 p.
• Getz, W. M. 1985. Optimal and feedback strategies for managing multicohort populations. J. Optimization Theory and Appl. 46:505-514.
• Getz, W. M., Swartzman, G. L., and Francis, R. C. 1985. A conceptual model for multispecies, multifleet fisheries. In: M. Mangel (ed.), Proceedings of the R. Yorque Workshop on Resource Management, Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 49-63.
• Swartzman, G. L., Getz, W. M., and Francis, R. C. 1987. Bi-national management of Pacific hake: a stochastic modeling approach. Canad. J. Fish. Aq. Sci. 44:1053-1063.
• Getz, W. M. 1987. Modeling for biological resource management. In: T. Vincent, Y. Cohen, W. J. Grantham, G. P. Kirkwood, and J. M. Skowronski (eds.), Modeling and Management of Resources under Uncertainty, pp 22-42, Springer--Verlag, New York.
• Getz, W. M., Francis, R. C., and Swartzman, G. L. 1987. On managing variable marine fisheries. Canad. J. Fish. Aq. Sci. 44:1370-1375.
• Haight, R. G. and Getz, W. M. 1987. A comparison of stage-structured and single-tree models for stand management. Natural Resource Modelling 2:279--298.
• Haight, R. G. and Getz, W. M. 1987. Fixed and equilibrium endpoint problems in uneven-aged stand management. Forest Sci. 33:908-931.
• Getz, W. M. 1988. Harvesting discrete nonlinear age and stage structured populations. J. Optim. Th. Applic., 57(1):69--83.
• Getz, W. M.and Bergh, M. O. 1988. Catch quotas in stochastic fisheries. In: W. S. Wooster (ed.), Biological Objectives and Fishery Management, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 259-274.
• Getz, W. M., and Haight, R. G. 1988. Discrete nonlinear harvesting models and their application to forest stand management. In: T. G. Hallam, L. J. Gross and S. A. Levin (eds.), 1986 Proceedings of Trieste Research Conference on Mathematical Ecology, World Scientific Publishing, pp.420-435.
• Getz, W. M. 1988. An introduction to age and stage structured harvesting models. In: D. Rasch, F. Pirchner, and J. Adams (eds.), Probleme Der Angewandenten Statistik, Heft 24, VEB Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag, Berlin, pp. 29-54.
• Bergh, M. O. and Getz, W. M. 1988. Stability of discrete age structured and aggregated delay-difference population models. J. Math. Biol. 26:551-581. (Download pdf)
• Bergh, M. O. and Getz, W. M. 1989. Stability and harvesting of competing population with genetic variation in life history strategies. Theoret. Pop. Biol. 36:34-58. (Download pdf)
• Kaitala, V. and Getz, W. M. 1992. Harvesting semelparous populations and variability in the life history of salmon. Beijer Discussion Paper Series, No. 7, Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Bustamante, R. H., Getz, W. M., and Branch, G. M. 1994. Analysis of a limpet fishery using a metaphysiological stand-growth model. Natural Resource Modeling 8:139-161.  

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PRE 95 PUBLICATIONS IN HONEY BEE BIOLOGY

• Getz, W. M., Bruckner, D., and Parisian, T. R. 1982. Kin structure and the swarming behavior of the honey bee Apis mellifera. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 10:265-270.
• Getz, W. M. and Smith, K. B. 1983. Genetic kin recognition: honey bees discriminate between full and half-sisters. Nature 302:147-148. (Download pdf)
• Getz, W. M., Bruckner, D., and Smith, K. B. 1986. Conditioning honeybees to discriminate between heritable odors from full and half sisters. J. Comp. Physiol. A. 159:251-256.
• Getz, W. M. and Smith, K. B. 1987. Honeybee kin recognition: learning self and nestmate phenotypes. Anim. Behav. 34:1617-1626.
• Getz, W. M. and Smith, K. B. 1987. Olfactory sensitivity and discrimination of mixtures in honeybees. J. Comp. Physiol. A. 160:239-245. (Download pdf)
• Getz, W. M., Bruckner, D., and Smith, K. B. 1988. Variability of chemosensory stimuli with honeybee (Apis mellifera) colonies: a differential conditioning assay for discrimination cues. J. Chem. Ecol. 14:253--263. (Download pdf)
• Getz, W. M. 1988. A comparison of dialects provides insight into the evolution of the honeybee dance language. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 3:32-33.
• Getz, W. M. 1988. Kin recognition in the honeybee: a communications perspective. In: R. Page, G. Needham and M. Delfindo-Baker (eds.), Africanized Honey Bees And Bee Mites, pp. 159--166.
• Getz, W. M., Bruckner, D. and Smith, K. B. 1989. On the ontogeny of cuticular chemosensory cues in the worker honeybee Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidea). Apidology 20:105-113.
• Getz, W. M. and Smith, K. B. 1990. Odorant moiety and odor mixture perception in free flying honey bees (Apis mellifera). Chemical Senses 15:111-128.
• Getz, W. M. 1991. The honey bee as a model kin recognition system. In: P. Hepper (ed.), Kin Recognition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Page, R. E., Breed, M. D., and Getz, W. M. 1990. Nepotism in honey bees (Scientific correspondence item). Nature 346, 707. (Download pdf)
• Getz, W. M. and Page, R. 1991. Chemosensory kin communication systems and kin recognition in honey bees. Ethology 87:298-315.
• Bruckner, D. and Getz, W. M. 1991. Odour perception as related to kin recognition. In: L. J. Goodman and R. C. Fisher (eds.), The Behavior and Physiology of Bees, CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, pp 60-68.
• Getz, W. M. and Smith, K. B. 1991. Olfactory perception in honey bees: concatenated and mixed odorant stimuli, concentration, and exposure effects. J. Comp. Physiol. 169: 215-230.
• Akers, R. P. and Getz, W. M. 1992. A test of identified response classes among olfactory receptors in the honeybee worker. Chemical Senses 17:191-209.
• Getz, W. M. 1993. Odour detection in bees (Scientific correspondence item). Nature 362:119-120. (Download pdf)
• Getz, W. M. and Akers, R. P. 1993. Olfactory response characteristics and tuning structure of placodes in the honey bee Apis mellifera L. Apidologie 24:195-217.
• Akers, R. P. and Getz, W. M. 1993. Response of olfactory receptor neurons in honey bees to odorants and their binary mixtures. J. Comp. Physiol. 173:169-185.
• Getz, W. M. and Akers, R. P. 1994. Honey bee olfactory sensilla behave as integrated processing units. Behavioral and Neural Biology 61:191-195.   

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PRE 95 PUBLICATIONS IN APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

• Getz, W. M. and Gutierrez, A. P. l982. A perspective on system analysis as applied to crop production and insect pest management in agriculture. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 27:477-66.
• Getz, W. M., Sylvester, E. S., and Richardson, J. 1982. Pea enation mosaic virus transmission by the pea aphid: A multiphase model of virus transmission. Phytopathology 72(9):1145-1148.
• Getz, W. M. 1982. Feedback control for a class of pest management problems modeled by non-interactively distributed systems. J. Optimization Theory Appl. 38:513-523.
• Getz, W. M., Sylvester, E. S., and Richardson, J. 1982. Estimates of the incubation period of strawberry crinkle virus in the aphid Chaetosiphon jacobi as a function of the experimental design. Phytopathology 72:1441-1444.
• Caltagirone, L., Getz, W. M., and Meals, D. 1983. Width of head capsule as an index of age in larvae of navel orangeworm, Amyelois transitella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidea). Env. Ent. 12:219-221.
• Lichtenberg, E. R. and W. M. Getz. 1984. Who should pay for ricefield mosquito control? Cal. Agric. 38:4-6.
• Lichtenberg, E. R. and Getz, W. M. 1985. The economics of ricefield mosquito control in California. BioScience 35:292-297.
• Hochberg, M. E., Pickering, J., and Getz, W. M. 1986. Evaluation of phenology models using field data: Case study for the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum and the blue alfalfa aphid Acyrthosiphon kondoi (Homoptera: Aphididea). Environ. Ent. l5:227-231.
• Getz, W. M. 1986. Interfacing biology and systems analysis in pest management. In: M. Mangel, J. R. Carey and R. E, Plant (eds.), Pest Control: Operations and Systems Analysis in Fruit Fly Management, NATO ASI Series G, Vol. 11, pp. 301-314, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
• Getz, W. M., Lichtenberg, E. R., and Hochberg, M. E. 1987. A decision model for scheduling ricefield mosquito control. J. Environ. Manage. 23:361-371.
• Stone, N. D., Gutierrez, A. P., Getz, W. M., and Norgaard, R. 1987. Strategies for pink bollworm control: an economic simulation study. Hilgardia 54(9):42-56.
• Chi, H. and Getz, W. M. 1988. Mass rearing and harvesting based on an age-stage two-sex life table. Environ. Entomol. 17:18-25.
• Pitcairn, M. J., Getz, W. M., and Williams, D. W. 1990. Resource availability and parasitoid abundance in the analysis of host-parasite data. Ecology 71:2372-2374. (Download pdf)
• Kaitala, V. and Getz, W. M. 1992. Sex ratio genetics and the competitiveness of parasitic wasps. Bull. Math. Biol. 54: 295-311.

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PRE 95 PUBLICATIONS ON INSECT OLFACTION AND SYSTEM BIOLOGY& SYSTEMS BIOLOGY

• Getz, W. M. and Chapman, R. F. 1987. An odor perception model with application to kin discrimination in social insects. Int. J. Neuroscience 32:963-978..
• Kaitala, V., Kaitala, A., and Getz, W. M. 1989. Evolutionary stable dispersal of a waterstrider in a temporally and spatially heterogeneous environment. Evolutionary Ecology 3:283-298.
• Kaitala, V., Smith, B. H., and Getz, W. M. 1990. The nesting strategies of primitively eusocial bees: a model of nest usurpation during the solitary stage of the nesting cycle. J. Theoretical Biology 144:445-471.
• Getz, W. M. 1991. Peptide polymerization and chain-length distribution under prebiotic conditions. Biosystems 24:177-182.
• Getz, W. M. 1991. A neural network for processing olfactory-like stimuli. Bull. Math. Biol. 53:805-823.
• Smith, B. H. and Getz, W. M. 1994. Nonpheromonal olfactory processing in insects. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 39:351-375.
• Getz, W. M. 1994. Odor processing in the insect olfactory system. In: World Congress on Neural Networks--San Diego, pp. 661-668.
• Osorio D., Getz, W. M., and Rybak, J. 1994. Insect vision and olfaction: different neural architectures for different kinds of sensory signals? In: From Animals to Animats: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, eds. Cliff D., P Husbands, Meyer J-A., & S. W. Wilson, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 74-80.

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PRE 95 PUBLICATIONS IN THEORETICAL ECOLOGY & POPULATION GENETICS

• Getz, W. M. l974. Introduction to modelling ecological systems. In: E. M. v. Zinderen Bakker Sr. (ed), The Orange River, Progress Report, Inst. for Environmental Sciences, University of O. F.S., Bloemfontein, S. Africa. pp. 222-244.
• Getz, W. M. and Starfield, A M. 1975. Sensitivity analysis of a simple linear model of a savanna ecosystem at Nylsvley. South African National Science Programs Report No. 2, NSPU, CSIR, Pretoria, 18 pp.
• Getz, W. M. 1976. Stochastic equivalents of the linear and LotkaVolterra system of equations-a general birth-and-death process. Math. Bioscience 29:235-257.
• Getz, W. M. l977. A generalized logistic growth paradigm in biological population dynamics. Regional Anal. and Manage. of Environ. Sys. Tech. Rept. No. 28, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, 28 pp.
• Getz, W. M. l978. On modelling temporal patterns in stressed ecosystems - recreation in a coniferous forest. Ecological Modeling 5:237-257.
• Getz, W. M. l981. Genetically based kin recognition systems. J. Theoretical Biol. 92:204-226.
• Getz, W. M. 1982. An analysis of learned kin recognition in Hymenoptera. J. Theoretical Biol. 99:565-597.
• Getz, W. M. and Pickering, J. 1983. Epidemiological models: thresholds and population regulation. Am. Nat. 121:892-898. (Download pdf)
• Getz, W. M. 1984. Population dynamics: a resource per capita approach. J. Theor. Biol. 108:623-644.
• Getz, W. M. and Kaitala, V. 1989. Ecogenetic models, competition, and heteropatry. Theoret. Pop. Biol. 36:34-58. (Download pdf)
• Getz, W. M. 1991. A unified approach to multispecies modeling. Natural Resource Modeling 5:393-421.
• Getz, W. M., Kaitala, V., and Ratnieks, F. L. W. 1992. Invasion dynamics and the evolutionary stability of sibmating genes in diploid and haplodiploid populations. Evol. Ecol. 6:312-330.
• Turchin, P., Getz, W. M., and Taneyhill, D. E. 1993. The logistic equation revisited: final installment (3 individually authored scientificcorrespondence items). Trends in Ecology & Evolution 8(2):69.
• Getz, W. M. 1993. Metaphysiological and evolutionary dynamics of populations exploiting constant and interactive resources: r-K selection revisited. Evol. Ecol. 7:287-305.
• Getz, W. M. and Kaitala, V. 1993. Ecogenetic analysis and evolutionary stable strategies in harvested populations. In: Stokes, T. K., J. M. MacGlade, and R. Law (eds.), The Exploitation of Evolving Resources (Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, Vol. 99), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp.187-203.
• Getz, W. M. 1993. Invasion and maintenance of alleles that influence mating and parental success. J. Theoretical Biol. 162:515-537. Taylor, P. D. and Getz, W. M. 1994. An inclusive fitness model for the evolutionary advantage of sibmating. Evolutionary Ecology 8:61-69.
• Getz, W. M. 1994. A metaphysiological approach to modeling ecological populations and communities. In: S. A. Levin (ed), Frontiers in Mathematical Biology (Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, Vol. 100), Springer-Verlag, New York, pp 411-442.  
• Kaitala, V., Kaitala, A., and Getz, W. M.  1989.  Evolutionary stable dispersal of a waterstrider in a temporally and spatially heterogeneous environment.  Evolutionary Ecology 3:283-298. (Download pdf)
• Kaitala, V., Smith, B. H., and Getz, W. M.  1990.  The nesting strategies of primitively eusocial bees:  a model of nest usurpation during the solitary stage of the nesting cycle.  J. Theoretical Biology 144:445-471.

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PRE 95 PUBLICATIONS IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS

• Getz., W. M. l975. Optimal control of a birth-and-death process. Math. Bioscience 23:87-lll. (Download pdf)
• Getz, W. M. 1975. Mapping a class of m-tuples onto the positive integers. National Res. Inst. for Math. Sci. Report WISK l8, CSIR, Pretoria, 15 pp.
• Getz, W. M. 1975. A non-linear multiple migration process. National Res. Inst. for Math. Sci. Report WISK 182, CSIR, Pretoria, 19 pp.
• Getz, W. M. 1975. Some stability results for a system of quadratic differential equations in population dynamics. In: N. Sauer (ed.), Proceedings of a Symposium on Differential Equations, 2-4 April, Pretoria, published by CSIR.
• Getz, W. M. and Jacobson, D. H. l976. Remarks on a paper by V. B. Haas and partially singular extremals. National Res. Inst. for Math. Sci. Report WISK 208, CSIR, Pretoria, 4 pp.
• Getz, W. M. and Jacobson, D. H. l977. Sufficiency conditions for finite escape times in systems of quadratic differential equations. J. Inst. Maths. Applics. 19:377-383. (Download pdf)
• Getz, W. M. l977. Control of a structured population modelled by a multivariate birth-and-death process. In: E. O. Roxin, et al. (eds.), Differential Games and Control Theory II, Marcel Dekker, pp. 179-200.
• Getz, W. M. l979. Invariant structures in a system of competitive logistic ordinary differential equations. SIAM J. Applied Math. 36:321-333.
• Getz, W. M. and Leitmann, G. l979. Qualitative differential games with two targets. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 68:421-430.
• Pachter, M. and Getz, W. M. l980. A dogfight in the plane -- the two target 'Homicidal Chauffeur' differential game model. Proc. 22nd Israel Ann. Conf. on Aviation and Astronautics.
• Getz, W. M. and Martin, D. H. 1980. Optimal control systems with state variable jump discontinuities. J. Optimization Theory Appl. 31:195-205.
• Pachter, M. and Getz, W. M. l980. The geometry of the barrier in the game of the two cars. Optimal Control: Applications and Methods l:103-118.
• Getz, W. M. and Pachter, M. 1981. Two target pursuit-evasion differential games in the plane. J. Optimization Theory Appl. 34, July.
• Getz, W. M. and Pachter, M. l981. Capturability in a two-target game of two cars. AIAA J. Guidance and Control 4:15-21.

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PRE 2000 REVIEWS AND COMMENTS

• Getz, W. M. 1979. Book Review: An Introduction to Systems Analysis with Ecological Applications (J. N. R. Jeffers; Edward Arnold, London). South African J. Sci. 75:190.
• Getz, W. M. 1987. Book review: Honeybee Ecology: A Study of Adaptation of Social Life (T. D. Seeley, Princeton University Press). Anim. Behav. 34:1594-1595.
• Getz, W. M., 1988. Book review: The Biology of the Honey Bee (M. Winston, Harvard University Press), Nature 331:668.
• Getz, W. M. 1988. Book review: The Honey Bee (J. L. and C. G. Gould, W. H. Freeman), Nature 336:275.
• Getz, W. M. 1990. Book review: Applied Systems Ecology: Approach and case studies in aquatic ecology (F. Recknagel, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin), Syst. Anal. Model Simul. 7(10):766.
• Getz, W. M. 1992. Book review: Beyond Natural Selection (R. Wesson, MIT Press), Trends in Ecology and Evolution 7(6): 206.
• Getz, W. M. 1992. Software review Review of STELLA II: A systems simulation software package for Macintosh computers. Natural resource Modelling 6:221-224.
• Getz, W. M., 1997. Save Elephants √≥ Support CAMPFIRE.  OPINION PAGE  San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, May 7.
• Getz, W. M.  1998. Book review: Nonlinear Dynamics, Mathematical Biology, and Social Science (J Epstein, Addison Wesley Publ. Co.).  Quart. Rev. Biol.  (to appear)

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