West Virginia Division of Natural Resources

Recent papers from West Virginia Division of Natural Resources

1. Lack of Evidence of Herd Immunity to Hemorrhagic Disease in White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus) in West Virginia, UsaJournal of Wildlife Diseases · 2026
2. Curves and complexity of riverine fish invasionsBiological Invasions · 2026
3. Mitogenomic insights into Sarcoptes scabiei in American black bears (Ursus americanus): COI utility for regional surveillance and mite genetic structureParasites & Vectors · 2026
4. Northern Snakehead relative abundance in four Virginia tidal creeks over 20 years following colonizationNorth American Journal of Fisheries Management · 2026
5. Short‐term survival of mallards following external transmitter attachmentIbis · 2026
6. CWD prions are present in the blood of healthy-appearing, naturally infected free-ranging white-tailed deerScientific Reports · 2026
7. Strategic conservation prioritization through creating and updating the regional species of greatest conservation need list in the northeastern United StatesConservation Science and Practice · 2026
8. Pulmonary echinococcosis caused by Echinococcus canadensis G8 in a white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), Pennsylvania, USA, 2026One Health · 2026
9. Estimating white‐tailed deer density in West Virginia, USA, from camera traps and telemetry dataJournal of Wildlife Management · 2026
10. Survival of a Long‐Lived Avian Scavenger: Implications of Age, Season, and Landscape Composition for Mortality RiskEcology and Evolution · 2026
11. Stock Identity of Stranded Tamanend's Bottlenose Dolphins ( Tursiops erebennus ) With Evidence of Fisheries Interaction in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, 1996–2019Marine Mammal Science · 2026
12. Seasonal, age‐ and sex‐related differences in the use of external migratory cues by American Woodcock ( Scolopax minor )Ibis · 2026
13. Designing communication strategies to increase rural participation in clinical trials using the Health Belief Model and strategic communicationContemporary Clinical Trials Communications · 2026
14. Abstract TP269: Endothelium-dependent Vasodilation in Cerebral Resistance Arteries: Effects of Age and Estrogen StatusStroke · 2026
15. Reclaiming West Virginia gas wells for agrivoltaics: a fuzzy logic approachFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · 2026
16. Climate and landscape drivers of a mosquito-borne pathogen in an iconic game bird in the eastern and upper midwestern USAScientific Reports · 2025
17. Ecosystem Size and Functional Group Relative Abundance Drive Stream Community Body Size StructureFishes · 2025
18. Vertical transmission of chronic wasting disease in free-ranging white-tailed deer populationsScientific Reports · 2025
19. Clade 2.3.4.4b Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Pathology in a Common Shorebird Species (Sanderling; Calidris alba) in Virginia, USAAnimals · 2025
20. Development and validation of environmental DNA assays for the detection of endangered and threatened freshwater musselsConservation Genetics Resources · 2025