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

• Estimating density and detection of bobcats in fragmented midwestern landscapes using spatial capture-recapture data from camera traps (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)
• 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)
• Eastern Wild Turkey Roost-site Selection in a Fire-maintained Longleaf Pine Ecosystem (2018)
• Predictors of Bachman's Sparrow Occupancy at its Northern Range Limit (2018)
• Range expansion of Fascioloides magna in North Carolina (2018)
• Setting an evolutionary trap: Could the hider strategy be maladaptive for white-tailed deer? (vol. 35, pg. 251, 2017) (2018)

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