Publications — Felids without borders

2021

Serieys, L.E.K., Rogan, M.S., Matsushima, S., Wilmers, C.C. 2021. Road-crossings, vegetative cover, land use and poisons interact to influence corridor effectiveness. Biological Conservation, 253: 108930.

2020

Leighton, G.R.M., Bishop, J.M., O’Riain, M.J., Broadfield, J., Merondun, J., Avery, G., Avery, D.M., Serieys, L.E.K. 2020. An integrated dietary assessment increases feeding event detection in an urban carnivore. Urban Ecosystems, 23: 569-583.

Smith, J.G., Jennings, M.K., Boydston, E.E., Crooks, K.R., Ernest, H.B., Riley, S.P.D., Serieys, L.E.K., Sleater-Squires, S., Lewison, R.L. 2020. Carnivore population structure across an urbanization gradient: a regional genetic analysis of bobcats in southern California. Landscape Ecology, 35: 659-74.

Kozakiewicz, C.P., Burridge, C.P., Funk, W.C., Craft, M.E., Crooks, K.R., Fisher, R.N., Fountain-Jones, N.M., Jennings, M.K., Kraberger, S.J., Lee, J.S., Lyren, L.M., Riley, S.P.D., Serieys, L.E.K., VandeWoude, S., Carver, S. 2020. Does the virus cross the road? Viral phylogeographic patterns among bobcat populations reflects a story of urban development. Evolutionary Applications, in press

2019

Serieys, L.E.K., Bishop, J., Okes, N., Broadfield, J., Winterton, D.J., Poppenga, R.H., Viljoen, S., Wayne, R.K., O’Riain, M.J. 2019. Widespread anticoagulant poison exposure in predators in a rapidly growing South African city. Science of the Total Environment, 666: 581-590.

Serieys, L.E.K., Hammond-Ayree, K., Bishop, J., Broadfield, J., O’Riain, M.J., van Helden, P.D. 2019. High seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in an urban caracal (Caracal caracal) population. Journal of Wildlife Disease, 55 (4): 951-953.

Kraberger, S., Serieys, L.E.K., Fountain-Jones, N., Packer, C., Riley, S.P.D., Varsani, A. 2019. Novel smacoviruses identified in the faeces of two wild felids: North American bobcat and African lion. Archives of Virology, 164: 2395–2399.

Kozakiewicz, C.P., Burridge, C.P., Funk, W.C., Salerno, P.E., Trumbo, D.R., Gagne, R.B., Boydston, E.E., Fisher, R.N., Lyren,L.M., Jennings, M.K., Riley, S.P.D., Serieys, L.E.K., VandeWoude, S., Crooks, K.R., Carver, S. 2019. Urbanization reduces genetic connectivity in bobcats (Lynx rufus) at both intra‐and inter‐population spatial scales. Molecular Ecology, 28(23): 5068-5085.

2018

Serieys, L.E.K., Lea, A., Epeldegui, M., et al. 2018. Urbanization and anticoagulant poisons promote immune dysfunction in bobcats. Proc Biol Sci, 285: 20172533. Doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.2533

Fraser, D* and Mouton, A.* Serieys, L.E.K., et al. 2018. Genome-wide expression analysis reveals multiple systemic effects of anticoagulant poisons in bobcats. Molecular Ecology, 27(5): 1170-1187. *share first authorship

Serieys, L.E.K, Lea, A., Epeldegui, M., Foley, J., Moriarty, J.G., Riley, S.P.D., Uittenbogaart, C.H., Fraser, D., Mouton, A., Wayne, R.K. 2018. Widespread anticoagulant poison exposure is linked with immune dysregulation and severe notoedric mange in urban bobcats. Proceedings of the 28th Vertebrate Pest Conference, 28, 258-263.

2017

Thomassen, H., Harrigan, R., Semple Delaney, K., Riley, S.P.D., Serieys, L.E.K., Pease, K., Wayne, R.K., Smith, T. 2017. Determining the drivers of population structure in a highly urbanized landscape to inform conservation planning. Conservation Biology, 32 (1): 148-158

Lee J., Malmberg J.L., Wood B.A., Hladky S., Troyer R., Roelke M., Cunningham M., McBride R., Vickers W., Boyce W., Boydston E., Serieys L.E.K., Riley S.P.D., Crooks K., VandeWoude S. 2017. Feline immunodeficiency virus cross-species transmission: implications for emergence of new lentiviral infections. Journal of Virology 91:e02134-16. https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.02134-16.

2016

Benson, J.F., Mahoney, P.J., Sikich, J.A., Serieys, L.E.K., Pollinger, J.P., Wayne, R.K., Ernest, H.B., Riley, S.P.D. Interactions between demography, genetics, and landscape connectivity increase extinction probability for a small population of large carnivores in a major metropolitan area. Proc Biol Sci, 283(1837), pii: 20160957. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0957

Foley, J., Serieys, L.E.K., Stephenson, N., Riley, S.P.D., Foley, C. Woods, L., Jennings, M., Wengert, G., Vickers, W., Boydston, E.E., Lyren, L.M., Moriarty, J., Clifford, D. 2016. A synthetic review of Notoedres species mites and mange. Parasitology, 143(14) 1847-1861.

Carver, S., Bevins, S.N., Lappin, M.R., Boydston, E.E., Lyren, L.M., Alldredge, M., Logan, K.A., Sweanor, L.L., Riley, S.P.D., Serieys, L.E.K., Fisher, R.N., et al. 2016. Pathogen exposure varies widely among sympatric populations of wild and domestic felids across the United States. Ecological Applications, 26(2): 367-381.

2015

Serieys, L.E.K., Lea, A., Pollinger, J., Riley, S.P.D., and R.K. Wayne. 2015. Disease and freeways drive genetic change in urban bobcat populations. Evolutionary Applications 8(1): 75-92. doi:10.1111/eva.12226

Serieys, L.E.K, Tiffany, C.A., Moriarty, J., Boydston, E.E., Lyren, L., Poppenga, R.H., Wayne, R.K., Crooks, K.R., and S.P.D. Riley. 2015. Anticoagulant rodenticides in urban bobcats: measuring exposure, risk factors, and consequences. Ecotoxicology, 24 (4): 844-862.

2014

Riley, S.P.D., Serieys, L.E.K., Pollinger, J.P., Sikich, J.A., Dalbeck, L., Wayne, R.K., and H.B. Ernest. 2014. Individual behavior dominates the dynamics of a mountain lion population in a highly fragmented urban landscape. Current Biology 24(17): 1989-1994.

Lee, J.S., Bevins, S.N., Serieys, L.E.K., Vickers, W., Logan, K.A., Aldredge, M., Boydston, E.E., Lyren, L.M., McBride, R., Roelke-Parker, M., Pecon-Slattery, J., Troyer, J.L., Riley, S.P.D., Boyce, W.M., Crooks, K.R. and S. VandeWoude. 2014. The evolution of puma lentivirus in bobcats (Lynx rufus) and mountain lions (Puma concolor) in North America. Journal of Virology, 88(14):7727-7737.

Troyer, R.M, Beatty, J.A., Stutzman-Rodriguez, K.A., Carver, S., Lozano, C.C., Lee, J.S., Lappin, M.R., Riley, S.P.D., Serieys, L.E.K., Logan, K.A., Sweanor, L.L., Boyce, W.M., Vickers, W., McBride, R., Crooks, K.R., Lewis, J.S., Cunningham, M.W., Rovnak, J., Quackenbush, S.L., and S. VandeWoude. 2014. Novel gammaherpesviruses in North American domestic cats, bobcats and pumas: identification, prevalence and risk factors. Journal of Virology, 88:3914-3924. doi:10.1128/JVI.03405-13

2013

Serieys, L.E.K., Foley, J., Owens, S., Woods, L., Boydston, E.E., Lyren, L.M., Poppenga, R.H., Clifford, D.L., Stephenson, N., Rudd, J. and S.P.D. Riley. 2013. Clinical chemistry abnormalities in bobcats (Lynx rufus) with notoedric mange and anticoagulant rodenticide exposure. Journal of Parasitology 99(6): 989-996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1645/12-175.1

Stephenson, N., Clifford, D., Worth, J., Serieys, L.E.K., Foley, J. 2013. Development and validation of a fecal PCR assay for Notoedres cati and assessment of a notoedric mange epizootic in bobcats (Lynx rufus) in northern California. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 49(2): 303-311.

2012

Moriarty, J.G., Riley, S.P.D., Serieys, L.E.K et al. 2012. Exposure of wildlife to anticoagulant rodenticides at Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area: from mountain lions to rodents. Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference, 25: 144-148.

Schwochow, D., Serieys, L.E.K., Thalmann, O., and R.K. Wayne. 2012. Efficient recovery of whole blood RNA – a comparison of commercial RNA extraction techniques. BMC Biotechnology, 12:33.

Book chapter

Riley, S.P.D., Serieys, L.E.K., Moriarty, J. 2014. Infectious disease and contaminants in urban wildlife: unforeseen and often overlooked threats. Pages 175-216 in McCleery, R.A., Moorman, C. and Peterson, N. editors. Urban Wildlife Science: Theory and Practice . Springer, New York, NY. (BOOK CHAPTER)

Non-peer reviewed articles

Allen, M., Serieys, L.E.K., Broadfield, J. 2016. It takes a village to raise a project. National Geographic website.

Serieys, L.E.K. Summer 2015. Elusive cats and roads: some consequences may be just as hard to spot. Environment Magazine, 24.

Serieys. L.E.K. 2013. Anticoagulant rodenticides: a cryptic threat for wild felid populations. Wild Felid Monitor, 6(2): 13-15.

Serieys. L.E.K. 2012. Conference report: The Wildlife Society Meeting 2012. Wild Felid Monitor, 2: 10-11.