Some literature on the ocelot, and its habitat in Texas and Mexico

This page exists primarily to share literature among the members of the Recovery Team for the ocelot. Each hyperlinked title can bring you a pdf file that contains the document. Please Email copies of the other titles (preferably as pdf files) to me, and I'll add them here. A huge thanks to Linda Laack for scanning these.

Bailey, V. 1905. Biological Survey of Texas. North American Fauna, Vol. 25, Department of Agriculture, 222 pp.

Bies, L. 2007. Bordering on disaster. The Wildlife Professional 1(1):24-28

Bisbal, F. J. 1986. Food habits of some neotropcial carnivores in Venezuela (Mammalia, Carnivora). Mammalia. 50(3):329-339.

Bragin, N. 1999. North American regional studbook for ocelot. Phoenix Zoo.

Brown, D.E. 1990. The ocelot. Pp. 420-433 in Audubon Wildlife Report 1989/1990 (W.C. Chandler, ed.). Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, CA.

Cain, A.T. 1999. Bobcat use of highway crossing structures and habitat use near a highway expansion in southern Texas. M.S. thesis, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, Texas.110 pp.

Caso, A. 1994. Home range and habitat use of three neotropical carnivores in northeast Mexico. M.S. thesis, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, TX, 78 pp.

Chavez-Leon, . 2005. A recent record of Leoparis pardalis from Michoacan.  Revista Mexicana de Mastozoología 9:110-114.

Cook, N.S., E.J. Redeker, and M.E. Tewes. 2000. SPOT satellite imagery for quantifying wild cat cover types. Pp. 10 in Report of Current Research July 1 1999 to June 30 2000, CKWRI.

Crawshaw, P.G.Jr. 1995. Comparative ecology of ocelot (Felis pardalis) and jaguar (Panthera onca) in a protected subtropical forest in Brazil and Argentina. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Florida.

Crawshaw, P.G.Jr., and H.B. Quigley. 1989. Notes on ocelot movement and activity in the Pantanal Region, Brazil. Biotropica 21(4):377-379.

De Villa Meza, A, M.A. Casariego Madorell, M.G. Hidalgo Mihart, E. Martinez Meyer, C.A. Lopez Gonzalez, A. Gonzalez Romero, and J.W. Laundre. 1997. Ocelot food habits in the tropical dry forest of the Mexican Pacific. Pp. 362 in Seventh International Theriological Congress. Acapulco, Mexico.

de Villa Meza, A., E. Martinez Meyer, and C.A. Lopez Gonzalez. 2002. Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) food habits in a tropical deciduous forest of Jalisco, Mexico. Am. Midl. Nat. 148:146-154.

Eaton, R. 1977.Breeding biology and propagation of the ocelot (Leopardus [Felis] pardalis). Zool. Garten N.F., Jena 47:9-23.

Emmons, L. H. 1987. Comparative feeding ecology of felids in a neotropical rainforest. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 20:271-283.

Emmons, L. H., P. Sherman, D. Bolster, A. Goldizen, and J. Terborgh. 1989. Ocelot behavior in moonlight. Pp. 232-242 in Advances in Neotropical Mammalogy (K.H. Redford and J. F. Eisenberg, eds.). Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, Florida, 614 pp.

Emmons, L.H. 1988. A field study of ocelots (Felis pardalis) in Peru. Rev. Ecol. (Terre Vie), 43:133-157.

Fischer, C.V. 1998. Habitat use by free-ranging felids in an agroecosystem. M.S. thesis, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, Texas.

Foster, M.L., and S.R. Humphrey. 1995. Use of highway underpasses by Florida panthers and other wildlife. Wildlife Society Bulletin 23:95-100.

Frye, F.L., J.F. Detrick, E.D. Clement, and J.D. Carney. 1975. Pancreatic Amyloidosis with subsequent diabetes mellitus in an ocelot. Veterinary Medicine/Small Animal Clinician. July: 860-862.

Gaydos, J.K., and J.R. Fischer. 1999. Feline panleukopenia in free ranging bobcats (Lynx rufus) from 3 states. Second international virtual conference in veterinary medicine: diseases of exotic animals and wildlife. 5pp.

Goldman, E.A. 1925. J. Mammalogy 6:123

Goldman, E.A. 1943. The races of the ocelot and margay in middle America. J. Mammalogy 24:372-385.

Grigione, M.M., and R. Mrykalo. 2004.Effects of artificial night lighting on endangered ocelots (Leopardus paradalis) and nocturnal prey along the United States-Mexico border: A literature review and hypotheses of potential impacts. Urban Ecosystems 7: 65–77

Haines, A. M., J. E. Janecka, M. E. Tewes, L. I. Grassman, and P. Morton. 2006. The importance of private lands for ocelot Leopardus pardalis conservation in the United States. Oryx 40:1-5.

Haines, A. M., A. Caso, M. E. Tewes, and E. J. Redeker. In Press. Using Landsat imagery to identify potential ocelot habitat in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Proceedings of the 20th Biennial Workshop on Aerial Photography, Videography, and High Resolution Digital Imagery for Resource Assessment.

Haines, A.M., L. I. Grassman, M. E. Tewes, and J. E Janecka. In Review. The first ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) monitored via GPS telemetry. Southwestern Naturalist.

Haines, A. M., M. E. Tewes, and J. Young. 2006. Habitat based population viability analysis of ocelots in southern Texas. Biological Conservation 132:424-436.

Janecka, J. E., L. I. Grassman, A. M. Haines, T. L. Blankenship, M. E. Tewes, A. Caso, L. L. Laack, and R. L. Honeycutt. In Review. Genetic structure of sympatric ocelot and bobcat population. Journal of Wildlife Management.

Haines, AM, ME Tewes, LL Laack, WE Grant, and J Young. 2005. Evaluating recovery strategies for an ocelot (Felis pardalis) population in the United States. Biological Conservation 126:512-522.

Haines, A, A Caso, M Teses, and E Redeker. 2005. In Using landsat imagery to identify potential ocelot habitat in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Second Beinneal Workshop of Aerial Photogrpahy, Videography, and High Resolution Digial Imagery for Resource Assessment. Weslaco Texas.

Haines, AM, LI Grassman Jr, ME Tewes, and JR Janecka. 2006. First ocelot monitored with GPS telemetry. European Journal Wildl Res 52:216-218.

Haines, AM, ME Tewes, and LL Laack. 2005. Survival and sources of mortality in ocelots. Journal of Wildlife Management 69:255-263.

Haines, AM, AD Tjelmeland, and TE Fulbright. 2006. Landscape management for south Texas wildlife. South Texas Wildlife Newsletter.

Harveson, PM, ME Tewes, GL Anderson, and LL Laack. 2004. Habitat use by ocelots in south Texas: implications for restoration. Wildlife Society Bulletin 32:948-954.

Harveson, P.M. 1996. Using GIS to analyze habitat selection by ocelot and bobcat populations in south Texas. M.S. thesis. Texas A&M University, Kingsville, Texas.

Horne, J.S. 1998. Habitat partitioning of sympatric ocelot and bobcat in southern Texas. M.S. thesis, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, Texas.

Jackson, VL, LL Laack, and EG Zimmerman. 2005. Landscape metrics associated with habitat use by ocelots in south Texas. Journal of Wildlife Management 69:733-738.

Jackson, V.L. 2002. Use of GIS and remote sensing technologies to study habitat requirements of ocelots, Leopardus pardalis, in south Texas. Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, 94 pp.

Jahrsdoerfer, S.E. and D.M. Leslie, Jr. 1988. Tamaulipan brushland of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of south Texas: description, human impacts, and management options. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Biological Report 88(36). 63 pp.

Judd, F.W., R.I. Lonard, and G.L. Waggerman. 2002. Evaluation of facilitated succession at Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area in south Texas. Texas J. Sci. 54(2):163-176.

Konecny, M.J. 1989. Movement patterns and food habits of four sympatric carnivore species in Belize, Central America. Pp. 242-264 in Advances in Neotrical Mammalogy (K. H. Redford and J. F. Eisenberg, eds.). Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, Florida, 614 pp.

Laack, L.L. 1991. Ecology of the ocelot (Felis pardalis) in south Texas. M.S. thesis, Texas A&I University, Kingsville, Texas, 113 pp.

Laack, L. L., M. E. Teses, A. M. Haines, and J. H. Rappole. 2005. 1995. Reproductive life history of ocelots Leopardus pardalis in southern Texas. Acta Theriologica 50:505-514.

Leopold, A.S. 1959. Wildlife of Mexico. University of California Press, Berkeley, California

Lopez Gonzalez, CA, DE Brown, and JP Gallo-Reynoso. 2003. The ocelot Leopardus pardalis in north-western Mexico: ecology, distribution and conservation status. Oryx 37:358-364.

Ludlow, M. E., and M. E. Sunquist. 1987. Ecology and behavior of ocelots in Venezuela. National Geographic Research, 3(4):447-461.

Maehr, D.S, E.D. Land, D.B. Shindle, O.L. Bass, and T.S. Hoctor. 2002. Florida panther dispersal and conservation. Biological Conservation 106:187-197.

Maffei, L, AJ Noss, E Cuellar, and DI Rumiz. 2005. Ocelot (Felis pardalis) population densities, activity, and ranging behaviour in the dry forests of eastern Bolivia: data from camera trapping. Journal of Tropical Ecology 21:1-6.

McAlister, W.H., and M.K. McAlister. 1987. Guidebook to the Aransas NWR. Mince County Press, Victoria, Texas.

Mearns, E.A. 1902. The ocelot cats. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 1286:237-249. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Mercer, S.H., L.P. Jones, J.H. Rappole, D. Twedt, L.L. Laack, and T.M. Craig. 1988. Hepatozoon sp. in wild carnivores in Texas. J. of Wildl. Diseases 24(3):574-576.

Mondolfi, E. 1986. Notes on the biology and status of the small wild cats in Venezuela. Pp 125-146 in Cats of the world: biology, conservation, and management (S.D. Miller and D.D. Everett, eds.). National Wildlife Federation. Washington, D.C.

Mora, M.A., Laack, L.L., Lee, M.C., Sericano, J., Presley, R., Gardinali, P.R., Gamble, L.R., Robertson, S., and D. Frank. 2000. Environmental contaminants in blood, hair, and tissues of ocelots from the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, 1986-1997. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 64:447-492.

Murray, J.L. and G.L. Gardner. 1997. Leopardus pardalis. Mammalian Species 548:1-10.

Navarro, D., J.J. Rappole, and M.E. Tewes, 1993. Distribution of the endangered ocelot (Felis pardalis) in Texas and northeastern Mexico. Pp. 157-169 in R. A. Medellin and G. Ceballos, eds. Avances en el estudio de los mamiferos de Mexico. Publicaciones Especiales Volume 1. Asociacion Mexicana de Mastozoologia, A. D., Mexcio, D.F.

Navarro-Lopez, D. 1985. Status and distribution of the ocelot in South Texas. Unpublished M.S. thesis, Texas A&I University, Kingsville, 92 pp.

Pence, D.B., F.D. Matthews, and L.A. Windberg. 1982. Notoedric mange in the bobcat, Felis rufus, from south Texas. J. of Wildl. Diseases, 18:47-50.

Pence, D.B., M.E. Tewes, and L.L. Laack. 2003. Helminths of the ocelot from southern Texas. J. of Wildl. Diseases 39:x-xx.

Pence, D.B., M.E. Tewes, D.B. Shindle, and D.M. Dunn. 1995. Notoedric mange in an ocelot (Felis pardalis) from southern Texas. J. of Wildl. Diseases, 31:558-561.

Petrides, G.A., B.O. Thomas, and R.B. Davis. 1951. Breeding of the ocelot in Texas. J. of Mammalogy 32:116.

Shindle, D.B. 1995. Habitat use of ocelots in the Tamaulipan Biotic Province. M.S. thesis, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, Texas. 90 pp.

Shindle, D.B. and M.E. Tewes 1998. Woody species composition of habitats used by ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) in the Tamaulipan Biotic Province. Southwestern Naturalist 43(2):272-279.

Shinn, K.J. 2002. Ocelot distribution in the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. M.S. thesis, University of Texas-Pan American, 85 pp.

Sunquist, M. E., F. Sunquist, and D. E. Daneke. 1989. Ecological separation in a Venezuelan llanos carnivore community. Pp. 197-232 in Advances in Neotropical Mammalogy (K. H. Redford and J. F. Eisenberg, eds.). Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, Florida, 614 pp.

Tewes, M. E. 1986. Ecological and behavioral correlates of ocelot spatial patterns. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Idaho, Moscow, 128 pp.

Tewes, M.E., and D.D. Everett. 1986. Status and distribution of the endangered ocelot and jaguarundi in Texas. Pp. 147-158 in Cats of the world: biology, conservation, and management (S.D. Miller and D.D. Everett, eds.). National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D.C., 501 pp.

Tewes, M.E., and D.J. Schmidly. 1987. The neotropical felids: jaguar, ocelot, margay, and jaguarundi. Pp 695-712 in Wild furbearer management and conservation in North America (M. Novak, J.A. Baker, M.E. Obbard, and B. Malloch, eds.). Ministry of Natural Resources, Ontario. 1150 pp.

Tewes, M.E., and S.D. Miller. 1987. Future research for the endangered ocelot population of the United States. Pp. 164-166 in Proceedings of the 3rd Southeastern Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Symposium (R.R. Odum, K.A. Riddleberger, and J.C. Ozier, eds.). Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources, Athens, Georgia, 253 pp.

Tewes, M.E., J. Young, L.L. Laack, and W.E. Hayslette. 1998. Dietary overlap of co-occurring ocelots and bobcats. Pp. 56 in Report of Current Research July 1 1997 to June 30 1998, CKWRI.

Tewes, M.E., L.L. Laack, A. Caso, and T.R. Bishop. 1995. Corridor management for ocelots in the southern United States and northern Mexico. Pp. 444-446 in Proceedings of the first International Wildlife Management Congress (J.A. Bissonette and P.R. Krausman, eds.). The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, Maryland.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. 1977. Regulations for taking, possessing, transporting, exporting, processing, selling or offering for sale, or shipping endangered species. Texas Parks and Wildlife Regulations 127.30.0.001-.006.

Trolle, M, and M Kery. 2003. Estimation Of ocelot density in the Pantanal using capture-recapture analysis of camera-trapping data. Journal of Mammalogy 84:607-614.

Tuovila, V.R. 1999. Bobcat movements and survival near U.S. highway 281 in southern Texas. M.S. thesis, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, Texas. 67 pp.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1990. Listed cats of Texas and Arizona recovery plan (with emphasis on the ocelot). Albuquerque, New Mexico.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1999. Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge Proposed Refuge Expansion Plan. Albuquerque, New Mexico. 57 pp.

Walker, C. W. 1997. Patterns of genetic variation in ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) populations for south Texas and northern Mexico. Ph.D. dissertation, Texas A&M University and Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 117 pp.

Weaver, J.L., P.Wood, D. Paetkau, and L.L. Laack.. 2005. Use of scented hair snares to detect ocelots. Wildlife Society Bulletin 33:xxx-xxx.

Woodward, D.W. 1980. Selected vertebrate endangered species of the seacoast of the United States - the ocelot. U. S. Fish And Wildlife Service Report, FWS/OBS-80/01.9. 5pp.

Young, J.H.Jr. 1992. Development of techniques to establish thorn shrub seedlings for restoration of ocelot habitat. M.S. thesis. Texas A&M University, Kingsville, Texas.

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