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

• How Urban Identity, Affect, and Knowledge Predict Perceptions About Coyotes and Their Management (2020)
• Metal contamination of river otters in North Carolina (2020)
• 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)

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