CURRICULUM VITAE

THOMAS W. SHERRY
Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology;
New Day Professor III and Siegel Professor in Social Entrepreneurship,
Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking

Address:       Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
                      400 Boggs Hall, Tulane University
                      New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118 USA (504 862-8296)
                      tsherry@tulane.edu

Personal:      Born 1951, White Plains, New York; Married, 2 children

EDUCATION:

• 1975-80    Ph.D. Ecology, UCLA (Ecological and evolutionary inferences from morphology, foraging behavior, and diet of sympatric insectivorous Neotropical flycatchers (Tyrannidae), 1982; H. A. Hespenheide, director)

• 1974-75    A.M. Biology, Dartmouth College (Foraging behavior and niche relationships of breeding American redstarts (Setophaga ruticilla) and least flycatchers (Empidonax minimus): the flycatcher guild in a New England hardwoods ecosystem, 1975; R. T. Holmes, director)

• 1969-73    A.B. Biology, Dartmouth College; Graduated cum laude, with highest honors in the major

FELLOWSHIPS & HONORS:

• 2016    Tulanian Magazine feature article: Louisiana Bird Calls. December.
  

• 2016-2019    New Day Professor III and the Siegel Professor in Social Entrepreneurship (three year appointment)

• 2016    Winner of the 2016 George H. Lowery Award, the premier recognition award of the Louisiana Ornithological Society, recognizing "persons who have made a significant contribution to Louisiana birding and/or habitats or who have had a major positive influence on ornithology in Louisiana".
  

• 2014    Article focused on Sherry’s Jamaica research published in The Broadsheet BirdLife Jamaica: "The Font Hill redstarts Setophaga ruticilla from little acorns… Introduction: history, topics, and principals" by David Marshall.
  

• 2012    Poster by Nicole Michel (Sherry Ph.D. student) and Sherry chosen for the Second Emerging Issues Conference of the Ecological Society of America: “Walking the line between the ‘empty forest’ and ‘ecological meltdown’: managing to prevent the tropical biodiversity crisis in an era of mesoherbivore decline and release”

• 2009    Beetle new to science (from Cocos Island, Costa Rica) named after Sherry and wife : Hoplocopturus sherrywernerorum (Hespenheide, H. A., 2009, Coleopterists Bulletin 63: 333-339)

• 2006-14    International Ornithological Committee, elected member; and treasurer,  Executive Committee of International Ornithologists’ Union
  

• 2005    Research Fellow in Environmental Studies, Dartmouth College, Fall semester

• 2004-05    Chercheur Associé, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Montpellier, France : Salaried six-month appointment in laboratory of Jean-Dominique Lebreton

• 1999    Elective Fellow, American Ornithologists' Union

• 1992    Election to membership of Graduate Faculty, Tulane University

• 1991    Election to Sigma Xi

• 1986    Elective member, American Ornithologists' Union

• 1979-80    NSF National Needs Fellowship (UCLA)

• 1979     Special recognition for paper "Prey Handling and Prey Selection in Two Tropical Puffbirds", Delivered at 49th Annual meeting of the Cooper Ornithological Society.

• 1978-79   University of California Regents Fellowship (UCLA)

• 1974-75   Dartmouth College Graduate Fellowship

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

• 2016-17    Acting chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University (starting July 1)

• 2015    On-campus faculty liaison for Artist-in-Residence (vocalist Shay Nichols) at A Studio In The Woods, Tulane’s Flint and Steel program.

• 2015    Organized symposium for Birds Caribbean 2015 meeting, Kingston, Jamaica: “Ecological value of migrants in the Caribbean” (6 papers presented, including Cuban, Caribbean, & N. American scientists/conservation biologists)

• 2011    National Science Foundation: Population & Community Ecology Panel.

• 2010, 11    Served on MS, and Ph.D. thesis external review committee for three students, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica.

• 2010    Dissertation committee of Karl Mokross (Brazilian graduate student at LSU, Baton Rouge).

• 2010    Co-organized symposium “Habitat fragmentation in tropical forest birds” for 25th International Ornithological Congress, Campos do Jordão, Brazil (with Luis Dos Anjos, of Brazil)

• 2006, 07    National Science Foundation: Ecology Panel, Evolutionary and Population Ecology Panel
  

• 2004-09    Council member, American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU, 3-year elective position); chair, International Affairs Committee

• 2006-    Treasurer, Federation of International Ornithological Societies

• 2005-    Member, La Selva Advisory Committee (LSAC), Organization for Tropical Studies    
  

• 2004        Ad Hoc Assignment Editor, Conservation Biology

• 2003-04    Student Awards Committee, American Ornithologists’ Union

• 1999-02    Co-Chair (& Local Chair) 3rd North American Ornithological Conference (New Orleans, Sept. 2002). Conference highlights: 1,400 ornithologists (30 countries represented; largest ornithology conference ever); six societies including Mexican and Caribbean ornithology societies for first time ever in U.S. & AOU; $330,000 budget; $40,000 funding raised locally towards meeting expenses; $40,000 provided in student travel awards; program included 4 plenary speakers, 418 spoken papers, 328 posters, 140 talks in 14 symposia, and 9 workshops.

• 1997    National Science Foundation, Ecology Panel

• 1995    Co-President with Tracey K. Werner Twitchell Lake Fish & Game Society (Adirondack Mountains, NY, USA).  Facilitated a controversial community-wide debate over watercraft use; studied & gained first-hand experience in conflict resolution (re-elected 1996, 1997)

• 1990-    Member of Research Working Group, Neotropical Migrant Bird Conservation Program   
  

• 1989-2011    Assembly of Delegates, Organization for Tropical Studies

• 1995-    Tenure  (& Full Professor) Reviews of candidates at Cornell Univ., Univ. Maine, Southeast Louisiana University, University of the West Indies, Michigan State, Smithsonian Institution, Oregon State University, Univ. of Utah, among others
  

RESEARCH & TEACHING GRANT SUPPORT:

• 2016-17    Levin-Bernick Award (Tulane, internal): “Genetic Basis for Population Connectivity in a Migratory Bird: Integrating Ecological and Evolutionary Contributions to Population Processes” ($6,000)
  

• 2012-17    NSF “LTREB Renewal: Collaborative Research: Density-dependent and Density-independent Effects on the Non-breeding Season Dynamics of a Migratory Bird” ($118,640 to Tulane for a second five year period; with P.P. Marra and S.L. Sillett)
  

• 2010-12    NSF “Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Impacts on migratory shorebirds and carry-over effects to distant ecosystems”.  For 2 years, with Caz Taylor. ($198,000)
  

• 2010-12    NSF “Dissertation research: Do mesoherbivores drive Neotropical rainforest understory insectivorous bird declines by limiting availability of preferred foraging microhabitat?” ($14,894 to Tulane to support Nicole Michel’s dissertation)
  

• 2010-14      Louisiana Board of Regents, Graduate Fellows Program: “Recruiting Superior Students in Environmental Biology-022GF-10” ($104,000 for 4 years).  With D.H. Heins and M.L. Blum.
  

• 2009-10    Pilot Funding for New Research (PFund), NSF EPSCoR, Louisiana Board of Regents: “Effects of forest fragmentation on genetic population structure of tropical forest birds” ($10,000; with Stefan Woltmann)
  

• 2007-12    NSF “LTREB Collaborative Research: Density-dependent and Density-independent Effects on the Non-breeding Season Dynamics of a Migratory Bird” ($118,640 to Tulane for five years; with P.P. Marra and S.L. Sillett)
  

• 2006    NSF “Travel Grant to the 4th North American Ornithological Conference” (in support of graduate students  & post-docs), with K.A. Sullivan, Utah State University ($13,000)
  

• 2004    Organization for Tropical Studies-Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Senior Investigator Award, “Comparison of Forest Bird Communities and Community Change at La Selva and Barro Colorado Island” ($5,995)
  

• 2004    NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, “Dissertation Research: Modeling Winter Food Limitation in a Migratory Bird” ($10,500 to Tulane to support David Brown’s dissertation)
  

• 2002    Environmental Protection Agency:  “Environmental Education Grant, for K-12 teacher-education workshop associated with 3rd North American Ornithological Conference”  ($6,890)
  

• 2002    Louisiana Dept. of Wildlife & Fisheries:  “Identifying Swallow-tailed Kite activity centers: determining use of state of Louisiana managed lands”  ($48,000)
  

• 2002    Coypu Foundation:  Support for 3rd North American Ornithological Conference ($10,000)
  

• 2002    Coypu Foundation:  “Fragmentation of hardwood forests and spider communities” ($5,092)
  

• 2001    Weyerhaueser Corporation: “Reproductive success and habitat use by Swainson’s Warbler in Loblolly Pine Plantations” ($12,000)
  

• 2001    Coypu Foundation:  Meetings on Biodiversity and Environmental Change ($17,500)
  

• 2001    NSF: “Collaborative research: population limitation of Neotropical migratory birds and the seasonal-interaction hypothesis” ($246,996)
  

• 2000      Louisiana Board of Regents, Graduate Fellowship Program: “Recruiting superior graduate students to Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology”.  Louisiana Board of Regents, Graduate Fellowship Program ($64,000 for 4 years)
  

• 1997    Newcomb Foundation, student-initiated grant to support honors thesis research:  “Migrant Bird Ecology and Conservation”  ($500) 
  

• 1996    NSF:  “Collaborative research: population responses of neotropical-nearctic migrant birds to human-impacted habitats in the winter grounds”  ($97,376)
  

• 1995    NSF:  Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program:  “Acid Precipitation, Calcium Limitation, and Birds on Two Geological Substrates in the Adirondacks, NY”  ($5,000)
  

• 1995    Newcomb Foundation, student-initiated grant to support summer research of two senior honors thesis candidates: “Acid precipitation, calcium limitation, and bird populations” ($2,800)
  

• 1995    Tulane Senate Committee on Research Summer Fellowship:  “Acid Precipitation, Calcium Limitation, and Migratory Bird Reproductive Ecology”  ($4,000) 
  

• 1994    DOE:  “Hazardous Materials in Aquatic Ecosystems-Environmental Management; Ecological sentinels of Aquatic Contamination Cluster Group; Effects of Environmental Contaminants on Colonial Wading Birds  (support for Sally Spahn, PhD. Student) ($45,000).  Renewed, 1995--same budget
  

• 1993    NSF:  ROA Supplement: “Lipid Storage and Body Mass Dynamics in Wintering Warblers and the Effect of Habitat” (With Bradley Bergstrom, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia) ($15,000)
  

• 1992    NSF:  “Collaborative Research:  Ecology of Migratory Passerine Birds in Breeding and Wintering Areas: Demographic and Experimental Studies” (with R.T. Holmes, Dartmouth College) ($100,089 for 2 years to Tulane University)
  

• 1992    Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund, Graduate Fellows Program, Louisiana Board of Regents: “Recruitment of Superior Graduate Students to Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology”, T.W. Sherry, S.P. Darwin, and M.W. Fingerman ($192,000 for 4 years)
  

• 1991    Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (World Wildlife Fund, Smithsonian Institution, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia): “Dietary and Foraging Specialization in Amazonian Birds of Forest Interior vs. Canopy and Edge Habitats”, M. Cohn-Haft & T. Sherry  ($11,000)
  

• 1990    NSF, Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program: “Nest Predation as a Cause of Habitat Selection in Migrant Birds” ($4,800).
  

• 1990    LaSER (Louisiana Stimulus for Excellence in Research), Joint Colloquium      Program: “Conservation of Biodiversity and Biotic Resources”  ($5,000) (With J.S. Denslow) 
  

• 1989-92      NSF: “Collaborative Research: Ecology of Migratory Passerine Birds on Breeding and Wintering Areas--Demographic and Experimental Studies” (with R.T. Holmes, Dartmouth College)($180,000 to Tulane University)
  

• 1986-88      NSF: "Ecology of Migratory Passerine Birds in Breeding and Wintering Areas: Demographic and Experimental Studies" (co-authored with R.T. Holmes) ($248,000)
  

• 1985-90      NSF: "Long-term Population Trends of Birds in Northern Hardwoods Forests" (co-authored with R.T. Holmes and F.W. Sturges) ($160,000)
  

• 1983-86      NSF: "Effects of Food Abundance, Habitat Structure, and Species Interactions on Migratory Bird Populations in Temperate Forests" (co-authored with R.T. Holmes) ($250,000)
  

• 1983-84      National Geographic Society:  "Behavioral Niche-variation in the Cocos Island Finch" (co-authored with T.K. Werner) ($29,000)
  

• 1983-84      EARTHWATCH Foundation: "Behavioral Niche-variation in the Cocos Island Finch" (co-authored with T.K. Werner)
  

• 1981-83      NSF: "Competitive Interactions, Inclusive Niches and the Evolution of Life History Traits: A study of Two Forest Passerines", R.T. Holmes & T.W. Sherry ($90,000)
  

• 1980    Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund, American Museum of Natural History: "Breeding Biology and Ecology of Cocos Island Flycatcher"
  

• 1978-79      NSF: Dissertation Improvement Grant: "Guild Structure of Hover-gleaning Birds in a Tropical Rainforest" ($4,000)
  

• 1978-79      University of California Graduate Student Travel Award: "Study of Lowland Rainforest Flycatchers"
  

• 1976    NSF: Research Initiative and Support Program (O.T.S.): "Studies of Tropical Rainforest Flycatchers."
  

• 1972    Mellon Foundation (Dartmouth Outing Club): "Time and Energy Budget of the Least Flycatcher in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, N.H."
  

TEACHING & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

• 2016-    Developed new course, “Climate Change across the Curriculum: Science, Stakes, and Solutions”, as senior elective for Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship minor, Phyllis Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking
  

• 2014-    Developed new course, “Tropical Conservation and Global Change”, at Tulane’s CIAPA facility in San José, Costa Rica.  Course was intensive 2-week module, with two weekend field trips to tropical dry forest and tropical wet forest sites.
  

• 2013-    Developed Journal Review Course (co-taught with Liz Derryberry) incorporating required use of scientific teaching (engaged learning, student-centered) activities into each session taught by graduate students.
  

• 2006-    Developed Service Learning course in conjunction with Conservation Biology
  

• 2006    Semester-long faculty-development seminar, Tulane University: Service Learning Pedagogy & Practice
  

• 2005    Supervisor of Directed Reading Course for Leo Douglas, Jamaican student enrolled at Columbia University: Ecology, Evolution, and Envir. Biology 9509
  

• 1999-    Full Professor (Tulane University)
  

• 1996    Participant, inaugural two-week Environmental Faculty Enrichment Seminar, Tulane University
  

• 1994-    Associate Professor (Tulane University): General Ecology, Population Biology, Graduate Seminar in Conservation Biology, Ornithology, Processes of Evolution, Conservation Biology, “Cooperation, confrontation, & Environmental Controversy” Freshman Writing Seminar
  

• 1989-    Assistant Professor (Tulane University): Comparative Vertebrate Morphology, Ecology, Population Biology, Processes of Evolution, Ornithology, Graduate Seminar in Population Ecology
  

• 1988    Visiting Professor (Univ. NH Extension, School for Lifelong Learning): Bird Ecology and Migration
  

• 1984-88      Visiting Assistant Professor (Dartmouth College): Tropical Vertebrate Ecology, Animal Behavior, Population Genetics and Evolution, Conservation Biology  (Freshman Seminar)
  

• 1982    Instructor (Dartmouth College): Tropical Vertebrate Ecology
  

• 1981-88      Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dartmouth College   
  

• 1976    Teaching Assistant (Organization for Tropical Studies): 76-2 Basic Ecology
  

• 1975-81      Teaching Assistant (UCLA): Ecology, Field Ecology, Field Ornithology, Field Entomology, Evolution
  

• 1974-75      Teaching Assistant (Dartmouth College): Introductory Biology, Animal Behavior, Vertebrate Field Ecology
  

DISSERTATIONS AND THESES SUPERVISED:

• 2019    (Expected) Kent, Cody.  Ph.D. dissertation, TBD
  

• 2017    MacPherson, Maggie.  Migration patters in birds of the New World: seasonal, morphometric and physiological considerations. Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University, co-advised by Dr. Caz Taylor.
  

• 2015    Visco, Deborah.  Demography, ecology, and behavior of chestnut-backed antbird (Myrmeciza exsul) populations in fragmented Neotropical rainforest.  Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University. (Restoration Programs Director with the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana)
  

• 2015    Peele, Ashley.  Population regulation of a long distance migratory bird population in the non-breeding season: a test of buffer and crowding effects.  Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University. (Research Faculty, Conservation Management Institute, Virginia Tech. University, Coordinator Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas)
  

• 2014    O’Malley, Briana.  Natural history of the bird-eating snake (Pseustes poecilonotus) and its impact on tropical understory nesting birds.  Senior Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Tulane University.
  

• 2014    Cooper, Nathan W.  How do winter food availability and population density interact to determine avian body condition and migratory performance?  Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University. (Smithsonian Research Fellow, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Program)
  

• 2012    Mammen, Serena.  Microhabitat preferences of the chestnut-backed antbird (Myrmeciza exsul) in Panama. Senior Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Tulane University. 
  

• 2012    Michel, Nicole.  Mechanisms and consequences of avian understory insectivore population decline in fragmented tropical rainforest. Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University.   Recipient of George Henry Penn Award for Best Dissertation, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University.  (Did Post-doc with Canadian Wildlife Service, then in Dept. of Animal & Poultry Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; hired (2015) as Quantitative Ecologist, Conservation Science, National Audubon Society)
  

• 2011    Hunter, Sarah. "Insectivorous birds and trophic cascades in bottomland hardwood ecosystems: the roles of habitat fragmentation and predator diversity".  M.S. thesis, Tulane University. (Faculty Biology Dept., Delgado Community College, New Orleans)
  

• 2010    Woltmann, Stefan.  Dispersal of a tropical rainforest understory bird, the chestnut-backed antbird (Myrmeciza exsul).  Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University.  (Assistant Professor, Austin Peay State University, TN)
  

• 2009    McAvoy, Caroline.  Diet similarities & differences of five Neotropical-Nearctic migratory warblers wintering in shade-grown coffee habitat. Senior Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Tulane University.
  

• 2007    Sigel, Bryan J. The susceptibility of tropical forest bird communities to forest fragmentation.  Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University. (Assistant Professor, Nevada State College, Las Vegas)
  

• 2006    Coulson, Jennifer A.  Intraguild predation, low reproductive potential, and social behaviors that may be slowing the recovery of the Northern Swallow-tailed Kite.  Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University.  (Free-lance scientist, book author, researcher living in Pearl River, LA)
  

• 2006    Brown, David. Food supply and the dry-season ecology of a tropical resident bird community and an over-wintering migrant bird species.  Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University. Recipient of George Henry Penn Award for Best Dissertation, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University. (Assistant Professor, Eastern Kentucky University)
  

• 2004    Henry, Donata (Roome):  Reproductive success and habitat selection of Swainson’s warbler in managed pine versus bottomland hardwood forests. Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University. Recipient of George Henry Penn Award for Best Dissertation, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology , Tulane University. (Professor of the Practice, Tulane University)
  

• 2004    Valderrama, Carlos.  Effect of bottomland hardwood forest fragmentation on spider communities in southeastern Louisiana.  Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University.  (Associate Professor, Universidad Icesi, Cali, Colombia)
  

• 2004    Voth, Caroline.  Are habitat and food niches complementary: a test using tropical insectivorous flycatchers (Tyrannidae) in Costa Rica. Senior Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Tulane University.
  

• 2003    Tanner, Shannon.  Habitat Selection by Swainson’s Warbler in Commercial Pine Plantations, LA. Senior Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Tulane University.
  

• 2003    Leumas, Cecelia.  Habitat Use Patterns and Changes in Abundance of 22 Insectivorous Neotropical Birds at a Lowland Rainforest Site in Costa Rica. Senior Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Tulane University.
  

• 2002    Douglas, Leo.  Effects of human habitat disturbance on resident and migrant bird communities, Caribbean tropical dry forest, Jamaica.  M.S. thesis, University of the West Indies, Jamaica.  Funded by TWS, and thesis co-supervised by TWS and Dr. Peter Vogel, Univ. of the West Indies, Mona campus, Jamaica.  (Douglas completed his Ph.D. at Columbia Univ., and now works in NY City)
  

• 2000    Kaban, Jordana.  Food resources used by three Neotropical migrant warblers wintering in a Jamaican shade coffee plantation.  Senior Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Tulane University.
  

• 1999    Johnson, Matthew D.  Habitat Suitability for Canopy-Foraging
      Warblers Wintering in Jamaica: Patterns, Determinants, and Conservation Implications.  Ph.D. Dissertation, Tulane University.  (Professor, Humboldt State University, CA)
  

• 1999    Strong, Alan M.  Modeling Winter Habitat Suitability for Ovenbirds and Swainson’s Warblers (Emberizidae: Parulinae).  Ph.D. Dissertation, Tulane University. Recipient of George Henry Penn Award for Best Dissertation, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University.  (Associate Professor, University of Vermont)
  

• 1998    Medori, Amanda.  Seasonal and habitat changes in the diet of a neotropical migrant warbler, with special emphasis on the conservation value of shade coffee plantations. Senior Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Tulane University
  

• 1997    Spahn, Sally.  Colonial Wading Birds as Bioindicators of Food Chain Contamination by Heavy Metals and Organohalogens: Relationships among Tissue Concentrations, Growth Rates, and Reproduction.  Ph.D. Dissertation, Tulane University (2º school teacher, New Orleans)
  

• 1996    Fleury, Bruce E.  Population Trends of Colonial Wading Bird Populations in the Southern United States:  Food Limitation and the Response of Louisiana Populations to Crayfish Aquaculture.  Ph.D. Dissertation, Tulane University.  Recipient of George Henry Penn Award for Best Dissertation, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,  Tulane University.  (Professor of the Practice, Tulane University)
  

• 1996    Arp, Jeffrey T.  Ecological Factors Influencing Habitat Selection by Foliage-Gleaning Birds along a Vegetation Gradient in a Northern Hardwoods Forest Ecosystem.  M.S. Thesis, Tulane University
  

• 1996    Bazzano, Lydia.  Calcium Limitation to Northern Hardwood Tree Species in Relation to Bedrock Geology.  Senior Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Tulane University
  

• 1996    Keefe, Martina.  Acid Precipitation’s Effects on Forest Birds of the Adirondack Mountains, New York.  Senior Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Tulane University 
  

• 1995    Cohn-Haft, Mario.  Dietary Specialization by Lowland Tropical Rainforest Birds: Forest Interior Vs. Canopy and Edge Habitats.  M.S. Thesis, Tulane University (Staff scientist, INPA, Manaus, Brazil)
  

• 1995    Adelson, Robert T.  The Functional Morphology of Diplocaulis (Permian Amphibian).  Senior Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Tulane University.
  

• 1993    Crews, James P.  Nest Site Selection in American Redstarts:  Importance of Nest Predators.  Senior Undergraduate Research Project, Tulane Univ.
  

• 1991    Parrish, Jeffrey D.  Sexual Habitat Segregation in American Redstarts (Setophaga ruticilla) Wintering in Jamaica, West Indies.  Senior Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Tulane University 
  

• 1991    Sloan, Stephen P.  Nest Predation in a Northern Hardwoods Forest As a Function of Season, Stratum, and Habitat:  Experiments with Artificial Nests--Senior undergraduate thesis at Dartmouth College (R.T. Holmes supervisor), but unofficially initiated, funded, and edited in part by T. Sherry)
  

• 1991    Sliwa, Alex.  Age-, and Sex-Specific Habitat and Geographic Segregation Patterns of two New World Wood Warblers (Parulinae) Wintering in Jamaica. (MS. thesis, Berlin Free University, Germany; but idea devised, funded, supervised, and thesis edited in English by T. Sherry) (Curator, Cologne Zoo, Germany)
  

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE:

• 2011    Served on Self-study Committee to review Tulane University’s Payson Center for International Development, newly situated in Tulane Law School, including the Center’s operation, mission, and programs.  Served on Undergraduate Programs sub-committee.
  

• 1994    Member 3-person panel reviewing BBIRD Program, U.S. Forest Service;
      Missoula, Montana
  

• 1990    Invited participant, Inaugural Meeting, Partners in Flight (Neotropical Migrant Bird Conservation Program), Atlanta, Georgia.   
  

• 1986    Consultant for Conservation Law Foundation: Critique of wildlife management parts of U.S. Forest Service’s Final EIS for White Mountain National Forest, N.H.
  

• 1985    Consultant for Wilderness Society: Critique of wildlife management parts of U.S. Forest Service’s Draft EIS for White Mountain National Forest, N.H.
  

• 1985    Initiator/advisor, extracurricular undergraduate student project: Permanent Exhibit, Dartmouth Tropical Biology Foreign Studies Program
  

• 1983    Initiator/advisor, extracurricular undergraduate student project: Pamphlet & slide show (Montshire Museum of Science, Hanover, NH) on Tropical Deforestation
  

INVITED SYMPOSIA & LECTURES:

• 2016    Energy & Environmental Policy in the Next Administration: A Discussion with Tulane Professors. One of two panelists for Tulane University “Science Café” event
  

• 2016    North American Ornithological Conference, “Gut contents reveal dietary opportunism and diffuse competition among migratory Parulid warblers wintering in Jamaican shade coffee farms”, in symposium “Knowing your S#!%: Comparing Traditional and Next-generation Methods for Understanding Bird Diets”; and “Evolutionary specialization in a changing world: are resident tropical insectivores at greater risk than previously thought?” in symposium “Identifying unifying factors driving bird population declines: are life history traits all that matter?”
  

• 2014    University of Tsukuba, Japan: “Population limitation in a migratory songbird: direct and indirect effects of nest predation and weather on reproductive success”
  

• 2014    New Orleans Sierra Club: “Tropical forest loss and fragmentation threaten resident birds: a case study from Central America”
  

• 2014    Orleans Audubon Society invited lecture: “What controls populations of migratory songbird: perspectives from Jamaica, New Hampshire, and Louisiana”
  

• 2014    University of Costa Rica, and University of the West Indies (Mona campus, Jamaica) invited lectures: “Population control in a migratory songbird: winter and summer decoupled?”
  

• 2013    University of New Orleans invited lecture: “Population control in a migratory songbird: winter and summer decoupled”
  

• 2012    Participated in Tulane (Provost)-initiated Tulane faculty rapprochement with discipline-linked faculty at University of Havana, Havana, Cuba, December, 2012
  

• 2010    Invited participant in symposium on “Habitat Selection in Birds” (Cooper Ornithological Society annual meeting, San Diego, CA): “The importance of food to habitat suitability” (T.W. Sherry, D. R. Henry, and N.L. Michel)
  

• 2007    Invited participant in Post Katrina Economic Development Summit, New Orleans, Louisiana, in session “Affordable Energy Solutions for Rebuilding”
  

• 2007    New Orleans Society for Conservation Biology featured speaker: “Getting a handle on global change demography in birds”
  

• 2007    Organization for Tropical Studies workshop, “Tropical Forests in Transition: La Selva as a Case Study” presentation titled: “Birds at La Selva: 40 Years of Data” (with Bryan Sigel)
  

• 2006    Organization for Tropical Studies Annual Board of Directors Meeting at NSF Headquarters, symposium on Long-term Change in Tropical Ecosystems: “Bird Declines at La Selva: Patterns, Possible Causes, and Research Needs”
  

• 2003    4th Annual Ecological Integration Symposium, topic of “Natural History and Modern Conservation”, Texas A& M University.  Tentative talk title:  “The Garden of Eden meets Noah’s Ark: the agricultural ecosystem as ecological refuge”
  

• 2002    Birds of Two Worlds, Migratory Bird Symposium, Smithsonian Institution: “Population limitation of long-distance migrant birds: evidence for food limitation in winter”
  

• 1997    Thomas Waring Bennett Symposium & Migratory Bird Workshop, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS.  “Population Regulation and Limitation in Migratory birds.”
  

• 1995    International Partners in Flight Program on monitoring migrant bird populations, Cape May, NJ
  

• 1994    “Winter Ecology of Migrant Birds”, and “Habitat Selection in Birds”, XXI International Ornithological Congress, Vienna, Austria (With R.T. Holmes and M. Cohn-Haft, respectively)
  

• 1993    Winter Habitat Limitation for Neotropical-Nearctic Migrant Songbirds: Distributional, Demographic, and Experimental Evidence, in “Population Trends in Neotropical Migrant Birds: What are the Key Processes at Work”, Ecological Society of America, Madison, Wisconsin (With R.T. Holmes)
  

• 1990    Demography and Population Dynamics of Long-distance Migratory Passerines: Variability in Time and Space, in “Long-term Population Studies” symposium, XX International Ornithological Congress, Christchurch, New Zealand (with R. T. Holmes)
  

• 1990    Demographic and Numerical Responses of Temperate Forest Birds to Fluctuating Food Resources, in “Food Limitation in Breeding Terrestrial Bird Populations” symposium, XX International Ornithological Congress, Christchurch, New Zealand (with R. T. Holmes)
  

• 1989    Demography of a Long-distance Migrant: Causes and Consequences of variable yearling recruitment in the  American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla), in "Ecology and Conservation of Neotropical Migrant Landbirds" symposium, Manomet Bird Observatory, Manomet, Massachusetts (with R.T. Holmes)
  

• 1989    Site Fidelity and Site Attachment of Migrant Warblers in Temperate Breeding and Neotropical Wintering Quarters:  Implications for Population Dynamics, Habitat Selection, and Conservation, in "Ecology and Conservation of Neotropical Migrant Landbirds" symposium, Manomet Bird Observatory, Manomet, Massachusetts (with R.T. Holmes)
  

• 1988    When is a Bird a food Specialist? In "Food Exploitation by Terrestrial Birds” symposium, Cooper Ornithological Society Meeting, Pacific Grove, California
  

• 1986    Temporal and Spatial Heterogeneity in a Temperate Forest Bird Community, in "Community Ecology: the Importance of Scale", Cooper Ornithological Society Meeting, Davis, California (with R.T. Holmes)
  

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS:

Journal Articles (see published book chapters, book reviews, in subsequent sections, below)

• 2017(100) Sherry, T.W. “Bio-Box 15.3: The role of feeding in population and community ecology by Thomas W. Sherry”. In ORNITHOLOGY: Foundation, Critique, and Application, M. L. Morrison, A. D. Rodewald, G. Voelker, J. F. Prather, and M. R. Colón, editors. Johns Hopkins University Press, in Review.
  

• 2016    Dornelas, M., et al. (many authors). BioTIME: a database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene. BioTIME database.

• 2016    Sherry, Thomas W., Richard T. Holmes, Peter Pyle and Michael A. Patten. American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla), The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; retrieved from the Birds of North America: https://birdsna-org.libproxy.tulane.edu/Species-Account/bna/species/amered.
  

• 2016    Sherry, T.W., M.D. Johnson, K. Williams, J. Kaban, C. McAvoy, A. Medori, S. Rainey, and S. Xu. Dietary opportunism, resource partitioning, and consumption of coffee-berry borers by five migratory wood warblers (Parulidae) wintering in Jamaican shade coffee plantations. Journal of Field Ornithology 87: 273-292. DOI: 10.1111/jofo.12160
  

• 2015    Marra, P. P., C. E. Studds, S. Wilson, T. S. Sillett, T. W. Sherry, and R. T. Holmes. Non-breeding season habitat quality mediates the strength of density-dependence for a migratory bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Pp. 1-8, published on-line, 2 Jul: 20150624. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0624.
  

• 2015    Sherry, T.W., D. S. Wilson, C. S. Hunter, and R. T. Holmes. Impacts of nest predators and weather on reproductive success and population limitation in a long-distance migratory bird. Journal of Avian Biology 46: 559-569. Selected as “Editor’s Choice”, with following summary: “Understanding the population ecology of different phases in the complex annual cycle of long-distance migratory birds, and determining the importance of winter vs summer vs migration impacts, and their carry-over effects, on population dynamics, represents a major long-standing research challenge in animal ecology. This fascinating experimental and analytical study of the American redstart, demonstrates that annual variation in nest success is caused mainly by predation (and by climate presumably affecting the predators) and explains much of the annual fluctuations in breeding population, thus stressing the importance of breeding season limitation for the population dynamics. This represents one significant step towards a more complete view of the impact of different limiting factors in different geographic regions and in different phases of the annual cycle, which is discussed in a very stimulating and illuminating way in the paper.”
  

• 2015    Peele, A. M., P. P. Marra, T. S. Sillett, T. W. Sherry. Combining survey methods to estimate abundance and transience of birds among tropical non-breeding habitats. The Auk: Ornithological Advances 132: 926-937 http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1642/AUK-14-282.1.
  

• 2015    Visco, D. M., N. L. Michel, A. W. Boyle, B. J. Sigel, S. Woltmann, and T. W. Sherry.  Patterns and causes of understory bird declines from human-disturbed tropical forest landscapes: A case study from Central America. Biological Conservation 191: 117-129.
  

• 2015    Michel, N. L., W. P. Carson, and T. W. Sherry. Do collared peccaries reduce understory insectivorous rainforest bird abundance indirectly via lianas and vines?  Biotropica 47(6): 745-757.

• 2015    Cooper, N., T. W. Sherry, and P. P. Marra. Experimental reduction of winter food availability decreases body condition and delays spring migration in a long-distance migratory bird. Ecology 96(7): 1933-1942. For news coverage see http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/14-1365.1/abstract;jsessionid=85AE93D4701A6E7DED80FEF97A9859F2.f03t03
  

• 2015    (90) Visco, D. M., and T. W. Sherry. Increased abundance, but reduced nest predation in the chestnut-backed antbird in costa rican rainforest fragments: surprising impacts of a pervasive snake species. Special Issue Article: Tropical Insectivores. Biological Conservation 188: 22-31.  Featured in blogs by Jeff Stratford (Wilkes University, PA):  http://concreteornithology.blogspot.com/2015/02/this-snake-loves-omlettes-al-fresco.html; and Roberta Kwok: http://conservationmagazine.org/2015/02/bird-eating-snakes-ravage-nests-in-forest-reserve.

• 2014    Cooper, N., T. W. Sherry, and P. P. Marra. Modeling three-dimensional space use and overlap in birds. The Auk: Ornithological Advances 131: 681-693.

• 2014    Michel, N. L., T. W. Sherry, and W. P. Carson.  The omnivorous collared peccary negates an insectivore-generated trophic cascade in Costa Rican wet tropical forest understory.  Journal of Tropical Ecology 30: 1-11. 

• 2013    Douglas, L. R., G. Winkel, and T. W. Sherry.  Does the bananaquit benefit commensally from parrot frugivory? An assessment using habitat quality. Biotropica 45: 457-464.

• 2012    Robinson, W. D., and T. W. Sherry.  Mechanisms of avian population decline and species loss in tropical forest fragments.  Journal of Ornithology 153 (Suppl 1): S141-S152. (DOI 10.1007/s10336-011-0806-y)

• 2012    Woltmann, S., B. R. Kreiser, and T. W. Sherry.  Fine-scale genetic population structure of an understory rainforest bird in Costa Rica. Conservation Genetics 13: 925-935.

• 2012    Woltmann, S., T. W. Sherry, and B. R. Kreiser. A genetic approach to estimating natal dispersal distances and self-recruitment in resident rainforest birds. Journal of Avian Biology 43: 33-42.

• 2011    Woltmann, S., and T. W. Sherry. 2011. High apparent survival and stable territory dynamics of Chestnut-backed Antbird (Myrmeciza exsul) in a large rain forest preserve. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 123:15-23.

• 2011    Brown, D. R., T. W. Sherry, and J. Harris. Hurricane Katrina impacts on the breeding bird community in bottomland hardwood forest of the Pearl River basin, Louisiana.  Forest Ecology and Management 261: 111-119.

• 2010     Faaborg, J., R. T. Holmes, A. Anders*, K. Bildstein, K. Dugger, S. Gauthreaux, P. Heglund, K. Hobson, D. H. Johnson, S. C. Latta, D. Levey, P. P. Marra, C. L. Merkord , E. Nol, S. I. Rothstein, T. S. Sillett, T. W. Sherry, F. R. Thompson III,  and N. Warnock.  Recent advances in understanding migration systems of New World land birds.  Ecological Monographs 80(1): 3-48. *Authors other than Faaborg & Holmes listed in alphabetical order.

• 2010 (80) Faaborg, J., R. T. Holmes, A. Anders, K. Bildstein, K. Dugger, S. Gauthreaux, P. Heglund, K. Hobson, D. H. Johnson, S. Latta, D. Levey, P.P. Marra, C. Merkord , E. Nol, S. I. Rothstein, T. S. Sillett, T.W. Sherry, F. Thompson III,  and N. Warnock.  Managing migratory birds in the New World: do we know enough?  Ecological Applications 20(2): 398-418.  *Authors other than Faaborg & Holmes listed in alphabetical order.

• 2010    Sigel, B., W. D. Robinson, and T. W. Sherry. Comparing bird community responses to forest fragmentation in two lowland Central American reserves. Biological Conservation 143: 340-350.

• 2008    Sherry, T.W.  Community approach to tropical forest fragmentation gets us closer to understanding mechanisms by revealing strong indirect effects.  (Invited) Commentary.  Animal Conservation 11: 361-363.

• 2008    Brown, D. R., and T. W. Sherry.  Alternative strategies of space use and response to resource change in a wintering migrant songbird.  Behavioral Ecology 19: 1314-1325.

• 2008    Bergstrom, B.J., and T.W. Sherry.  Estimating Lipid and Lean Body Mass in Small Passerine Birds using TOBEC, External Morphology and Subcutaneous Fat scoring. Journal of Avian Biology 39: 507-513.

• 2008    Brown, D. R., and T. W. Sherry. Solitary winter roosting of ovenbirds in core foraging area. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 120: 455-459.

• 2008    Young, B.E., T.W. Sherry, B.J. Sigel, and S. Woltmann.  Edge and isolation effects on nesting success of Costa Rican forest birds.  Biotropica 40: 615-622.

• 2008    Coulson, J.O., T.D. Coulson, S.A. DeFrancesch, T.W. Sherry.  Predators of the swallow-tailed kite in Southern Louisiana and Mississippi.  Journal of Raptor Research 42:1-12.

• 2007    Siccama, T.G., C.E. Johnson, T.W. Sherry, E.B. Girdler, G.E. Likens, T. Fahey, and P. Schwarz.   Population and biomass dynamics of trees in a northern hardwood forest at Hubbard Brook.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37: 737-749.

• 2006     Brown, D.R., T.W. Sherry.  Food supply controls physical condition of a long distance migrant bird wintering in the tropics.  Oecologia 149: 22-32.

• 2006 (70) Staicer, C.A., V. Ingalls, and T.W. Sherry.  Singing behavior varies with breeding status of American Redstarts (Setophaga ruticilla).   The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 118(4): 439-451.   Winner of The Edwards Prize, awarded by the editor for best paper in the Wilson Journal of Ornithology, volume 118.

• 2006    Johnson, M.D., A.M. Strong, and T.W. Sherry.  Migrants in tropical bird communities: the Balanced Breeding Limitation Hypothesis.   Journal of Avian Biology 37: 229-237.

• 2006    Johnson, M.D., T.W. Sherry, R.T. Holmes, and P.P. Marra.  Assessing habitat quality for a wintering songbird in natural and agricultural areas.  Conservation Biology 20: 1433-1444.

• 2006    Sigel, B., T.W. Sherry, and B.E. Young.  Avian community response to lowland tropical rainforest isolation: 40 years of change at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. Conservation Biology 20: 111-121.

• 2006    Brown, D.R., and T.W. Sherry.  Population response of resident Jamaican birds to food supplementation: evidence of dry-season limitation.  Biotropica 38: 91-99.

• 2005    Irschick, D., L. Dyer, and T.W. Sherry.  Phylogenetic methodologies for studying specialization.  Oikos 110: 404-408.

• 2005    Johnson, M.D., T.W. Sherry, A.M. Strong, and A. Medori.  Migrants in Neotropical bird communities: an assessment of the breeding currency hypothesis.  Journal of Animal Ecology 74:333-341.

• 2004    Norris, D.R., P.P. Marra, T.K. Kyser, T.W. Sherry, and L.M. Ratcliffe.  Tropical winter habitat limits reproductive success on the temperate breeding grounds in a migratory bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, 271: 59-64.

• 2001    Strong, A.M., and T.W. Sherry.  Body condition of Swainson’s warblers wintering in Jamaica, with emphasis on the conservation value of Caribbean dry forests.  Wilson Bulletin, 113: 410-418.

• 2001     McPeek, M.A., N.L. Rodenhouse, R.T. Holmes, and T.W. Sherry.  A general model of site-dependent population regulation: population -level regulation without individual-level interactions.  Oikos 94: 417-424.

• 2001 (60) Holmes, R.T., and T.W. Sherry.  30-year bird population trends in an unfragmented temperate deciduous forest: the importance of habitat change.  The Auk 118: 589-609. [Commentary by Scott Collins preceeding article]

• 2001    Johnson, M.D., and T. W. Sherry.  Effects of food availability on the distribution of migratory warblers among habitats in Jamaica. Journal of Animal Ecology 70: 546-560.

• 2000    Strong, A.M., T.W. Sherry, and R.T. Holmes.  Bird predation on herbivorous insects: indirect effects on sugar maple saplings.  Oecologia 125: 370-379.

• 2000    Sillett, T.S., R.T. Holmes, and T.W. Sherry.  Impacts of a global climate cycle on population dynamics of a migratory songbird. Science  288: 2040-2042.

• 2000    Strong, A.M., and T.W. Sherry.  Habitat-specific effects of food abundance on the condition of ovenbirds wintering in Jamaica. Journal of Animal Ecology 69: 883-895.

• 2000    Rodenhouse, N.L., T.W. Sherry, and R.T. Holmes.  Site-dependent regulation of population size: reply.  Ecology 81: 1168-1171.

• 2000    Sherry, T.W.  Overview.  Shade coffee: a good brew even in small doses.  The Auk 117: 563-568.

• 1999    N.L. Rodenhouse, T.W. Sherry, and R.T. Holmes.  Multiple mechanisms of population regulation: contributions of site-dependence, crowding, and age structure.  In N.J. Adams and R.H. Slotow, editors.  Proceedings of the 22nd International Ornithological Conference, Durban, South Africa, 16-22 August 1998.  CD-ROM format.  Birdlife South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa.

• 1999    Spahn, S.A., and T.W. Sherry.  Cadmium and lead exposure associated with reduced growth rates, poorer fledging success of little blue heron chicks (Egretta caerulea) in south Louisiana wetlands.  Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 37: 377-384.

• 1998     Sherry, T.W., and R.T. Holmes.  Migrants wintering in the Caribbean:  vacation time?  Jamaican Naturalist 5: 16-19.

• 1998 (50) Sloan, S.S., R.T. Holmes, and T.W. Sherry.  Depredation rates and predators at artificial bird nests in an unfragmented northern hardwoods forest.  Journal of Wildlife Management 62: 529-539.

• 1997    Holmes, R.T., and T.W. Sherry.  Ecological factors influencing biodiversity in northern hardwoods ecosystems: contributions of long-term studies of bird populations at Hubbard Brook.  13 pp. in “Biodiversity at LTER Sites” (R.B. Waide, ed.).  Internet publication (peer-reviewed): http://atlantic.evsc.virginia.edu/auto_docs/LTER_biod97352439.html

• 1997    Rodenhouse, N.L., T.W. Sherry, and R.T. Holmes.  Site-dependent regulation of population size: a new synthesis (in section, “Concepts in Ecology”).  Ecology 78: 2025-2042.

• 1997    Sherry, T.W., and R.T. Holmes.  American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla). In Birds of North America, No. 277 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.).  The academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the American Ornithologists’ Union, Washington, DC.

• 1997    Chamberlain, C.P., J.D. Blum, R.T. Holmes, X. Feng, T.W. Sherry, and G.R. Graves. The use of isotope tracers for identifying populations of migratory birds.  Oecologia, 109: 132-141.

• 1996    Holmes, R.T., P.P. Marra, and T.W. Sherry.  Habitat-specific demography of breeding black-throated blue warblers (Dendroica caerulescens): implications for population dynamics.  J. Anim. Ecol. 65: 183-195.

• 1996    Sherry, T.W., and R.T. Holmes.  Winter habitat limitation in Neotropical Nearctic migrant birds: implications for population dynamics and conservation. Ecology 77: 36-48  (in Special Feature: “Continental Scale Ecology and Neotropical Migratory Birds”).

• 1996    Fleury, B.E., and T.W. Sherry.  Long-term population trends of colonial wading birds in the southern United States:  The impact of crawfish aquaculture on Louisiana populations.  The Auk 112: 613-632.

• 1995    Omland, K.E., and T.W. Sherry.  Parental care not likely to explain poor mating success in yearling male American redstarts.  The Condor 97: 836-837.

• 1994     Omland, K.E., and T.W. Sherry.  Parental Care at Nests of Two Age Classes of Male American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla): Implications for Female Choice of Mate.  The Condor 96: 606-613.

• 1994 (40) Parrish, J., and T.W. Sherry.  Sexual habitat segregation in American Redstarts (Setophaga ruticilla) wintering in Jamaica: impact of resource seasonality.  The Auk 111: 38-49.

• 1993    Marra, P.P., T.W. Sherry, and R.T. Holmes.  Territorial exclusion by a Neotropical migrant warbler in Jamaica: a removal experiment with American redstarts (Setophaga ruticilla).  The Auk 110: 565-572.

• 1993    Sherry, T.W., and R.T. Holmes.  Limits for migrant landbirds--year-round.  Quart. Jour. Point Reyes Bird Observatory 97 (Fall): 4-5.

• 1992    Sliwa, A., and T.W. Sherry.  Surveying Wintering Warbler Populations in Jamaica:  Point Counts with and without Broadcast Vocalizations. The Condor 94:924-936.

• 1992    Holmes, R.T., T.W. Sherry, P.P. Marra, and K.E. Petit.  Multiple-brooding, nesting success, and annual productivity of a Neotropical Migrant, the Black-throated Blue Warbler (Dendroica caerulescens), in an Unfragmented Temperate Forest.  The Auk 109:321-333.

• 1991    Holmes, R.T., and T.W. Sherry, and F.W. Sturges.  Numerical and Demographic Responses of Temperate Forest Birds to Annual Fluctuations in their Food Resources.  Acta XX Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici: 1559-1567.

• 1991    Sherry, T.W., and R.T. Holmes.  Population Age structure of Long-distance Migratory Passerine Birds: Variation in Time and Space.  Acta XX Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici: 1542-1556.

• 1991    Secunda, R.C., and T.W. Sherry.  Polyterritorial Polygyny in the American Redstart.  The Wilson Bulletin 103:190-203.

• 1990    Reitsma, L.R., R.T. Holmes, and T.W. Sherry.  Effects of removal of Red Squirrels, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, and Eastern Chipmunks, Tamias striatus, on nest predation in a northern hardwoods forest: an artificial nest experiment. Oikos 57: 375-380.

• 1989     Holmes, R.T., and T.W. Sherry.  Ecological Studies of Migrant Warblers in Jamaica--A Progress Report.  Gosse Bird Club (Jamaica, W.I.) Broadsheet No. 53, pp. 7-10.

• 1989 (30) Sherry, T.W., and R.T. Holmes.  Age-specific social dominance affects habitat use by breeding American redstarts (Setophaga ruticilla): a removal experiment.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 25:327-333.

• 1989    Holmes, R.T., T.W. Sherry, and L. Reitsma.  Population Structure, Territoriality and Overwinter Survival of Two Migrant Warbler Species in Jamaica.  The Condor 91:545-561.

• 1988    Holmes, R.T., and T.W. Sherry.  Assessing Population Trends of New Hampshire Forest Birds: Local vs. Regional Patterns.  The Auk 105:756-768.

• 1988    Sherry, T.W., and R.T. Holmes.  Habitat Selection by breeding American Redstarts in Response to a Dominant Competitor, the Least Flycatcher.  The Auk 105:350-364.

• 1987    Werner, T.K. and T.W. Sherry.  Behavioral Feeding Specialization in Pinaroloxias inornata, the 'Darwin's Finch' of Cocos Island, Costa Rica.  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.USA, 84:5506-5510.  (For commentary see J. Diamond.  1987.  News and Views.  Nature 330:16-17.  Also, this paper was selected in 2014 for a senior Biology coursepack at the College of Saint Mary Magdalen, Warner, NH.)

• 1987    Kroodsma, D.E., V. Ingalls, T.W. Sherry, and T.K. Werner.  Songs of the Cocos Flycatcher: Vocal Behavior of a Suboscine on an isolated Oceanic Island.  The Condor 89: 75-84.

• 1986    Holmes, R.T., T.W. Sherry, and  F.W. Sturges.  Bird Community Dynamics in a Temperate Deciduous Forest: Long-term Trends at Hubbard Brook.  Ecological Monographs 56: 201-220.

• 1986     Sherry, T.W.  Nest, Eggs, and Reproductive Behavior of the Cocos Flycatcher (Nesotriccus ridgwayi). The Condor 88:531-532.

• 1984    Sherry, T.W. Comparative Dietary Ecology of Sympatric, Insectivorous Neotropical Flycatchers (Tyrannidae). Ecological Monographs 54: 313-338.

• 1982     Sherry, T.W., and L.A. McDade.  Prey Selection and Handling in Two Neotropical Hover-gleaning Birds. Ecology 63: 1016-1028.

• 1980 (20) Anderson, R.C., P.L. Wong, and T.W. Sherry. Diplotriaena  muscisaxicolae Schuurmans-Stekhoven, 1952 (Nematoda: Diplotriaenoidea) from Nesotriccus ridgwayi Townsend (Tryannidae) of Cocos Island, Costa Rica. Can. J. of Zool. 58:1923-1926.

• 1979    Holmes, R.T., C.P. Black, and T.W. Sherry. Comparative Population Bioenergetics of Three Insectivorous Passerines in a Deciduous Forest.  The Condor 81: 9-20.

• 1979    Sherry, T.W. Competitive Interactions and Adaptive Strategies of American Redstarts and Least Flycatchers in a Northern Hardwoods Forest. The Auk 96: 265-283.

• 1978    Holmes, R.T., T.W. Sherry, and S.E. Bennett. Diurnal and Individual Variation in the Foraging Behavior of American Redstarts  (Setophaga ruticilla). Oecologia 36: 141-49.
  

• 2016    Sherry, T. W.  Chapter 8. Avian Food and Foraging. Pp. 264-310 in The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Handbook of Bird Biology, 3rd Edition (I. J. Lovette and J. W. Fitzpatrick, Eds).  John Wiley  & Sons, West Sussex, UK.
  

• 2015    Henry, D. R., D. A. Miller, and T. W. Sherry. Chapter 10. Integrating wildlife conservation with commercial silviculture: demography of the Swainson’s warbler, a migrant bird of conservation concern in southern pine forests, USA. Pp. 217-236 in Precious Forests—Precious Earth, Editor Miodrag Zlatic, ISBN 978-953-51-2175-6. In-Tech publishers. Published 30 Sept., 2015.
  

• 2014    Michel, N. L., D. R. Robinson, and T. W. Sherry.  Ch. 25. Liana-bird relationships: a review.  Pp. 362-397, in Ecology of Lianas, S. A. Schnitzer, F. Bongers, R. J. Burnham, and F. E. Putz, eds.  Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.

• 2012     Michel, N.L., and T.W. Sherry. Human-altered mesoherbivore densities and cascading effects on plant and animal communities in fragmented tropical forests.  Pp. 177-202, in “Tropical Forests”, P. Sudarshana, M. Nageswara-Rao, and J. R. Sonegi, Eds., InTech Open Access Publisher. https://www.intechopen.com/books/tropical-forests/human-altered-mesoherbivore-densities-and-cascading-effects-on-plant-and-animal-communities-of-fragm

• 2005    Sherry, T.W., M.D. Johnson, and A.M. Strong.  Does winter food limit populations of migratory birds?   Pp. 414-425 in R. Greenberg and P.P. Marra (eds.), Birds of Two Worlds: the Ecology and Evolution of Migration.  Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.

• 2000    Sherry, T.W., and R.T. Holmes.  Demographic modeling of migratory bird populations: The importance of parameter estimation using marked individuals. Proceedings of the Partners in Flight/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Conference, Cape May, NJ. Available on line at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pifcapemay/sherry_and_holmes.htmAlso pp. 211-219 in Bonney, R.; Pashley, D. N.; Cooper, R. J.; Niles, L., eds. 2000. Strategies for bird conservation: The Partners in Flight Planning Process; Proceedings of the 3rd Partners in Flight Workshop; 1995 October 1-5; Cape May, NJ. Proceedings RMRS-P-16. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 281 p. 
  

• 1999 (10) Fleury, B.E., T.W. Sherry, and J.V. Huner.  Agricultural wetlands and the conservation of colonial wading birds in Louisiana.  Pp. 287-294 in Rozas, L.P., J.A. Nyman, C.E. Proffitt, N.N. Rabalais, D.J. Reed, and R.E. Turner, Eds, Recent Research in Coastal Louisiana: Natural system Function and Response to Human Influence.  Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, Louisiana.  http://nsgl.gso.uri.edu/lsu/lsuw98002/lsuw98002index.html

• 1995    Sherry, T.W., and R.T. Holmes.  Summer versus winter limitation of populations: issues and the evidence.  Pp. 85-120 In T.M. Martin, and D. Finch, eds. Ecology and management of Neotropical migratory birds. Oxford University Press.
  

• 1995    Sherry, T.W., American redstart, Species account in New Hampshire Breeding Bird Atlas.  New Hampshire Audubon Society.
  

• 1993    Sherry, T.W., and R.T. Holmes.  Are Populations of Neotropical Migrant Birds Limited in Summer or Winter?  Implications for Management.  Pp. 47-57, in Finch, D.M., and P.W. Stangel (eds.).  Status and Management of Neotropical Migratory Birds.  U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Fort Collins, Colorado.  General Technical Report RM-229.
  

• 1992    Holmes, R.T., and T.W. Sherry.  Site Fidelity of Migratory Warblers in Temperate Breeding and Neotropical Wintering Areas: Implications for Population Dynamics, Habitat Selection, and Conservation.  Pp. 563-575 in J.M. Hagan III and D.W. Johnston, eds. Ecology and Conservat Neotropical Migrant Landbirds, Smithsonian Inst. Press, Wash., D.C.
  

• 1992    Sherry, T.W., and R.T. Holmes.  Population Fluctuations in a Long-Distance Neotropical Migrant: Demographic Evidence for the importance of Breeding Season Events in the American Redstart.  Pp. 431-442 in J.M. Hagan III and D.W. Johnston, eds. Ecology and Conservation of Neotropical Migrant Landbirds, Smithsonian Inst. Press, Wash., D.C.
  

• 1990    Sherry, T.W.  When are birds dietarily specialized? Distinguishing ecological from evolutionary approaches.  In Avian Foraging: Theory, Methodology, and Applications.  M.L. Morrison, C.J. Ralph, and J. Verner, and J. Jehl, eds. Studies in Avian Biology  13:337-352.  See https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/sab/sab_013.pdf.

• 1985    Sherry, T.W., and R.T. Holmes. Dispersion Patterns and Habitat Responses of Birds in Northern Hardwoods Forests. Pp. 283-309, in M.L. Cody, ed. Habitat Selection in Birds. Academic Press.

• 1985    Sherry, T.W. Adaptation to a Novel Environment: Food, Foraging, and Morphology of the Cocos Island Flycatcher. Pp. 908-920 in Neotropical Ornithology, P.A. Buckley, M.S. Foster, E.S. Morton, R.S. Ridgely, and F. Buckley, eds. Ornithological Monographs  No. 36, American Ornithologists'Union, Washington, D.C.
  

• 1983    Sherry, T.W. Galbula ruficauda (Jacamar Rabirrufo, Gorrion de Montana, Rufous-tailed Jacamar), pp. 579-581; Mionectes oleaginea (Mosqueitero Ojenido, Tontillo, Ochre-bellied Flycatcher), pp. 586-587; Monasa morphoeus  (Monja Cariblanca, Julio, White-fronted Nunbird), pp. 587-590; Terenotriccus erythrurus (Mosqueitero Colirrufo, Tontillo, Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher), pp. 605-607; Todirostrum cenereum (Espatulilla Comun, Pechita, Tontilla, Common Tody-Flycatcher), pp. 608-610.  In Costa Rican Natural History, D.H. Janzen, ed. Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

• 2002    Sherry, T.W., editor.  Program for 3rd North American Ornithological Conference (Tulane Printing, New Orleans, LA; 130 pp.)

Book Reviews

• 2011    Sherry, T. W. Reviews of “Bird Migration and Global Change” (by George W. Cox, 2010, Island Press, Washington, DC, 291 pp.); and “Effects of Climate Change on Birds” (ed. by Anders Pape Møller, Wolfgang Fielder, and Peter Berthold, 2010, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 321 pp.).  The Auk 128 (4): 804-805
  

• 2011    Sherry, T. W. Review of “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming” (Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway, 2010, Bloomsbury Press, New York, New York, 355 pp.).  The Auk 128 (2): 435-436.
  

• 2010    Sherry, T. W.  Review of “A Photographic guide to the birds of Jamaica” (by Ann Haynes-Sutton, et al., Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA., 304 pp.)  The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 122 (4): 817-818.
  

• 1999    Sherry, T.W.  Review of “Conservation of Faunal Diversity in Forested Landscapes” (ed. by R.M. Degraaf and R. I. Miller, Chapman & Hall, NY).  The Condor 101: 186-187.
  

• 1998    Sherry, T.W. Review of “Life of the Flycatcher” (by Alexander Skutch, Univ. Nebraska Press).  The Auk 115: 266-267.
  

• 1990    Sherry, T.W. Winging it in hemispheric eco-politics.  Review of “Where Have All the Birds Gone”, by John Terborgh (Princeton University Press, 1989). Ecology 71:1224-1225.
  

• 1990    Sherry, T.W.  Neotropical Migrant Birds.  Review of Ecology and Conservation of Neotropical Migrant Landbirds, a symposium, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, December, 1989 (organized by Manomet Bird Observatory).  Tropinet vol. 2 (Biotropica Supplement No. 25).
  

• 1987    Sherry, T.W.  Darwin's Finches Revisited.  Review of P.R. Grant, Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches.   Ecology 68:1127-1128.

• 2017    Guest Column, The Advocate of New Orleans, Feb. 22nd: "Trump and Putin’s dangerous embrace of fossil fuels." http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_8494fbf4-f919-11e6-8621-17ddf3e0fa05.html
  

• 2016    Letter to the Editor, The Advocate of New Orleans, Nov. 17th. “Protesters’ Right to Challenge Trump” (http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_8ebc02ca-bb3f-11e6-b94b-df758092cf4c.html)

• 2010    Sherry, Tracey W., and Thomas W. Sherry.  “Cutting through the haze in bars, casinos”, Times-Picayune Newspaper, New Orleans, LA (21 May)
  

• 2009    Sherry, Thomas W., & Tracey W. Sherry.  “Recent floods are what a warmer, wetter world would look like” Times-Picayune Newspaper, New Orleans. LA (17 December)
  

• 2007    Sherry, Thomas W., & Tracey W. Sherry.  “Coast to coast, more live in harm’s way”. Times-Picayune Newspaper, New Orleans. LA (3 November)
  

• 2007    Sherry, Thomas W., & Tracey W. Sherry.  “Seeing past distractions to tame global change”. Times-Picayune Newspaper, New Orleans. LA (6 March)
  

• 2002    Sherry, Tracey W., & Thomas W. Sherry.  “Ditching the TV opens up possibilities”.  Times-Picayune Newspaper, New Orleans. LA
  

• 2002    Sherry, Tracey W., & Thomas W. Sherry.  “Why we chose to homeschool”.  Times-Picayune Newspaper, New Orleans, LA
  

• 1992    Partners in Flight/Aves de las Americas:  A call for broader participation. Editorial, in Tropinet, Vol. 2, No. 4, Winter 1991.