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

• Setting an evolutionary trap: Could the hider strategy be maladaptive for white-tailed deer? (2017)
• Nest-site selection and nest survival of Bachman's Sparrows in two longleaf pine communities (2017)
• Importance of demographic surveys and public lands for the conservation of eastern hellbenders Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis in southeast USA (2017)
• Influence of vegetation type and prescribed fire on peromyscus abundance in a longleaf pine ecosystem (2017)
• Considerations on neonatal ungulate capture method: Potential for bias in survival estimation and cause-specific mortality (2017)
• Are camera surveys useful for assessing recruitment in white-tailed deer? (2017)
• Macroarthropod response to time-since-fire in the longleaf pine ecosystem (2017)
• Sexual segregation of forage patch use: Support for the social-factors and predation hypotheses (2017)
• Survival and cause-specific mortality of coyotes on a large military installation (2016)
• Do indirect bite count surveys accurately represent diet selection of white-tailed deer in a forested environment? (2016)

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