Buchanan RA, Conquest LL, Courbois J-P. A cost analysis of ranked set sampling to estimate a population mean. Environmetrics. 2005 ;16.

Buchanan RA. Release-recapture models for migrating juvenile and adult salmon in the Columbia and Snake Rivers using PIT tag and radiotelemetry data. Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management. 2005 ;Ph.D.

Buchanan RA, Skalski JR, Smith SG. Estimating the Effects of Smolt Transportation from Different Vantage Points and Management Perspectives. North American Journal of Fisheries Management [Internet]. 2006 ;26:460-472. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/M05-080.1

Skalski J, Millspaugh JJ, Dillingham P, Buchanan RA. Calculating the variance of the finite rate of population change from a matrix model in Mathematica. Special section: Advanced Technology for Environmental Modelling [Internet]. 2007 ;22(3):359 - 364. Available from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364815206000028

Buchanan RA, Conquest LL. How many does it pay to rank? Linear and quadratic cost models to estimate a population mean. Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications. 2007 ;6.

Buchanan RA, Skalski JR. A Migratory Life-Cycle Release-Recapture Model for Salmonid PIT-Tag Investigations. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics [Internet]. 2007 ;12:325-345. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1198/108571107X229331

Buchanan RA, Skalski J, McMichael GA. Differentiating mortality from delayed migration in subyearling fall Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic SciencesCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences [Internet]. 2009 ;66(12):2243 - 2255. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1139/F09-154

Skalski JR, Buchanan RA, Townsend RL, Steig TW, Hemstrom S. A Multiple-Release Model to Estimate Route-Specific and Dam Passage Survival at a Hydroelectric Project. North American Journal of Fisheries Management [Internet]. 2009 ;29:670-679. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/M07-227.1

Skalski JR, Buchanan RA, Griswold J. Review of Marking Methods and Release-Recapture Designs for Estimating the Survival of Very Small Fish: Examples from the Assessment of Salmonid Fry Survival. Reviews in Fisheries Science [Internet]. 2009 ;17:391-401. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10641260902752199

Buchanan RA, Skalski JR, Giorgi AE. Evaluating Surrogacy of Hatchery Releases for the Performance of Wild Yearling Chinook Salmon from the Snake River Basin. North American Journal of Fisheries Management [Internet]. 2010 ;30:1258–1269. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/M09-175.1

Skalski JR, Liao S, Buchanan RA. Performance of Three Alternative Estimators of Stream Residence Time Based on Live and Dead Counts of Salmonids. North American Journal of Fisheries Management [Internet]. 2010 ;30:191-208. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/M08-237.1

Buchanan RA, Skalski JR. Using multistate mark-recapture methods to model adult salmonid migration in an industrialized river. Ecological Modelling [Internet]. 2010 ;221:582-589. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.11.014

Skalski J, Seaburg AG, Buchanan RA. The effects of high detection probabilities on model selection in paired release-recapture studies in the era of electronic tagging studies. [Internet]. 2013 ;1(1):12. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/2050-3385-1-12

Buchanan RA, Skalski J, Brandes PL, Fuller A. Route Use and Survival of Juvenile Chinook Salmon through the San Joaquin River Delta. North American Journal of Fisheries ManagementNorth American Journal of Fisheries Management [Internet]. 2013 ;33(1):216 - 229. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/02755947.2012.728178

Buchanan RA, Brandes PL, Marshall M, J. Foott S, Ingram J, LaPlante D, Israel J. 2012 South Delta Chinook Salmon Survival Study. Lodi: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Lodi Fish & Wildlife Office; 2015 p. 145. Available from: https://www.fws.gov/lodi/salmonid_survival_studies/juvenile_salmonid_survival_reports.htm

Buchanan RA, , Mackey G, Snow C, Murdoch AR. Estimating Cohort Survival through Tributaries for Salmonid Populations with Variable Ages at Migration. North American Journal of Fisheries ManagementNorth American Journal of Fisheries Management [Internet]. 2015 ;35(5):958 - 973. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/02755947.2015.1064837

Perry RW, Buchanan RA, Brandes PL, Burau J, Israel JA. Anadromous salmonids in the delta: new science 2006–2016. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science [Internet]. 2016 ;14(2). Available from: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27f0s5kh

Pope AC, , Lockhart T, Buchanan RA. Generation of multistate release–recapture models using a graphic user interface (GUI). [Internet]. 2016 ;4(1):23. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-016-0115-6

Dietrich J, Eder K, Thompson D, Buchanan RA, Skalski J, McMichael G, Fryer D, Loge F. Survival and transit of in-river and transported yearling Chinook salmon in the lower Columbia River and estuary. [Internet]. 2016 ;183:435 - 446. Available from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165783616302181

Buchanan RA, Brandes PL, Marshall M, Nichols K, Ingram J, LaPlante D, Israel J. 2013 South Delta Chinook Salmon Survival Study. Lodi: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Lodi Fish & Wildlife Office; 2018 p. 139. Available from: https://www.fws.gov/lodi/salmonid_survival_studies/juvenile_salmonid_survival_reports.htm

Buchanan RA. 2014 Six-Year Acoustic Telemetry Steelhead Study: Statistical Methods and Results. Seattle: Columbia Basin Research, School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, University of Washington; 2018. Available from: sites/default/files/papers/UW 6yr steelhead report 2014 FINAL.PDF

Buchanan RA, Brandes PL, Ingram J, Marshall M, Nichols K, LaPlante D, Barnard D, Towne K, Israel J. 2014 South Delta Chinook Salmon Survival Study. Lodi: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Lodi Fish & Wildlife Office; 2018 p. 228. Available from: https://www.fws.gov/lodi/salmonid_survival_studies/juvenile_salmonid_survival_reports.htm

Buchanan RA. 2015 Six-Year Acoustic Telemetry Steelhead Study: Statistical Methods and Results. Seattle: Columbia Basin Research, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington; 2018. Available from: sites/default/files/papers/UW 6yr steelhead report 2015 FINAL.pdf

Buchanan RA, Barnard D, Brandes PL, Towne K, Ingram J, Nichols K, Israel J. 2015 South Delta Chinook Salmon Survival Study. Lodi: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Lodi Fish & Wildlife Office; 2018 p. 208. Available from: https://www.fws.gov/lodi/salmonid_survival_studies/juvenile_salmonid_survival_reports.htm

Buchanan RA. 2016 Six-Year Acoustic Telemetry Steelhead Study: Statistical Methods and Results. Seattle: Columbia Basin Research, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington; 2018. Available from: sites/default/files/papers/UW 6yr steelhead report 2016 FINAL.pdf

Buchanan RA, Brandes PL, Skalski JR. Survival of Juvenile Fall‐Run Chinook Salmon through the San Joaquin River Delta, California, 2010–2015. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 2018 ;38(3):663-679.

Buchanan RA, Skalski JR. Relating survival of fall-run Chinook Salmon through the San Joaquin delta to river flow. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 2020 ;103:389-410.

Barnard D, Brandes PL, LaPlante D, Nichols K, Holbrook C, Buchanan RA. 2016 South Delta Chinook salmon survival study. Ed. P. Brandes and B. Matthias; 2021.

Holbrook C, Towne K, Brandes PL, Nichols K, Buchanan RA, Ammann A, Singer G, Chapman E. 2017 South Delta Chinook salmon survival study. Ed. P. Brandes, G. Castillo, and B. Matthias; 2021.

Townsend RL, Skalski J, Buchanan RA, Lady J. Evaluation of the 2021 predictions of the run-timing of wild and hatchery-reared salmon and steelhead smolts to Rock Island, Lower Granite, McNary, John Day, and Bonneville Dams Using Program RealTime. Monitoring and evaluation of smolt migration in the Columbia Basin Volume XXXIII; 2021.

Buchanan RA, Buttermore E, Israel J. Outmigration Survival of a Threatened Steelhead Population through a Tidal Estuary. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic SciencesCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences [Internet]. 2021 . Available from: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2020-0467

Buchanan RA. Rare migration strategy key during climate change. Nature Climate Change [Internet]. 2021 ;11(11):906 - 907. Available from: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01192-6

Buchanan RA, Whitlock SL. Diagnosing predated tags in telemetry survival studies of migratory fishes in river systems. [Internet]. 2022 ;10(1):13. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-022-00283-1