Chris DePerno
Professor, Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
Turner House 9
Bio
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.
Area(s) of Expertise
Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Population Ecology; Wildlife ecology, management
Publications
- Breeding-season Survival, Home-range Size, and Habitat Selection of Female Bachman's Sparrows , SOUTHEASTERN NATURALIST (2021)
- Effects of Prescribed Fire on Northern Bobwhite Nesting Ecology , WILDLIFE SOCIETY BULLETIN (2021)
- The relationship between upland hardwood distribution and avian occupancy in fire-maintained longleaf pine forests , FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT (2021)
- Tree encroachment impacts on seed predator selection and seedling establishment in degraded pine woodlands , APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE (2021)
- A Sheaf Theoretical Approach to Uncertainty Quantification of Heterogeneous Geolocation Information , SENSORS (2020)
- Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements , CONSERVATION BIOLOGY (2020)
- Fledgling Bachman's Sparrows in a longleaf pine ecosystem: survival, movements, and habitat selection , JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY (2020)
- How Urban Identity, Affect, and Knowledge Predict Perceptions About Coyotes and Their Management , ANTHROZOOS (2020)
- LEPTOSPIRA, PARVOVIRUS, AND TOXOPLASMA IN THE NORTH AMERICAN RIVER OTTER (LONTRA CANADENSIS) IN NORTH CAROLINA, USA , JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES (2020)
- Large-scale spatial variation of chronic stress signals in moose , PLOS ONE (2020)