Chris DePerno
Professor, Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources
Turner House 9
Area(s) of Expertise
Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Population Ecology; Wildlife ecology, management
Education
B.S. – Central Michigan University (1990)
M.S. – Purdue University (1994)
Ph.D. – South Dakota State University (1998)
Research Interests
Population ecology and management of big game species and predators; habitat use and selection of big game species and predators; interactions of predators and prey, and sexual segregation and resource partitioning in ungulates; animal damage and wildlife education.
Publications
- Detection and Prevalence of Babesia spp. in American Black Bears (Ursus americanus) from Eastern and Western North Carolina, USA (2019)
- Estimating density and detection of bobcats in fragmented midwestern landscapes using spatial capture-recapture data from camera traps (2019)
- Hunting interacts with socio-demographic predictors of human perceptions of urban coyotes (2019)
- Influence of military training on breeding ecology of Bachman's sparrow (2019)
- LEPTOSPIROSIS IN URBAN AND SUBURBAN AMERICAN BLACK BEARS (URSUS AMERICANUS) IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, USA (2019)
- Listeria monocytogenes at the human-wildlife interface: black bears (Ursus americanus) as potential vehicles for Listeria (2019)
- Northern bobwhite breeding season habitat selection in fire-maintained pine woodland (2019)
- Predicting private landowner hunting access decisions and hunter density (2019)
- Resource selection by coyotes (Canis latrans) in a longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystem: effects of anthropogenic fires and landscape features (2019)
- Seasonal space use of transient and resident coyotes (Canis latrans) in North Carolina, USA (2019)