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

• Do indirect bite count surveys accurately represent diet selection of white-tailed deer in a forested environment? (2016)
• A comparison of survey techniques for medium- to large-sized mammals in forested wetlands (2016)
• The mating system of white-tailed deer under quality deer management (2016)
• Impacts of the conservation education program in Serra Malagueta Natural Park, Cape Verde (2016)
• Resource selection by southeastern fox squirrels in a fire-maintained forest system (2016)
• Phantoms of the forest: Legacy risk effects of a regionally extinct large carnivore (2016)
• Seasonal coyote diet composition at a low-productivity site (2015)
• Variability in fire prescriptions to promote wildlife foods in the longleaf pine ecosystem (2015)
• Fructosamine: An alternative to serum glucose measurement in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) (2015)
• Evaluation of resident Canada goose movements to reduce the risk of goose-aircraft collisions at suburban airports (2015)

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