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

• Breeding-season Survival, Home-range Size, and Habitat Selection of Female Bachman's Sparrows (2021)
• The relationship between upland hardwood distribution and avian occupancy in fire-maintained longleaf pine forests (2021)
• A Sheaf Theoretical Approach to Uncertainty Quantification of Heterogeneous Geolocation Information (2020)
• Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements (2020)
• Fledgling Bachman's Sparrows in a longleaf pine ecosystem: survival, movements, and habitat selection (2020)
• How Urban Identity, Affect, and Knowledge Predict Perceptions About Coyotes and Their Management (2020)
• LEPTOSPIRA, PARVOVIRUS, AND TOXOPLASMA IN THE NORTH AMERICAN RIVER OTTER (LONTRA CANADENSIS) IN NORTH CAROLINA, USA (2020)
• Large-scale spatial variation of chronic stress signals in moose (2020)
• Listeria monocytogenes at the human–wildlife interface: black bears ( Ursus americanus ) as potential vehicles for Listeria (2020)
• Metal contamination of river otters in North Carolina (2020)

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