Liz Kierepka

Bio

I am a wildlife geneticist with broad interests across ecology and evolution. I investigate varied questions across wildlife from reproductive isolation in evolutionary lineages to evaluating management strategies in invasive species.

Publications

• Ecotone Might Provide Key Refugium for Sky Island Mammals in the Southern Appalachian Mountains , (2025)
• Emotions and political identity predict public acceptance of urban deer management , URBAN ECOSYSTEMS (2025)
• Mammals on the Margins: Identifying the Drivers and Limitations of Range Expansion , GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (2025)
• Geographic barriers but not life history traits shape the phylogeography of North American mammals , Global Ecology and Biogeography (2024)
• Guidelines for estimating occupancy from autocorrelated camera trap detections , METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (2024)
• Can demographic histories explain long-term isolation and recent pulses of asymmetric gene flow between highly divergent grey fox lineages? , MOLECULAR ECOLOGY (2023)
• Genomic analyses of gray fox lineages suggest ancient divergence and secondary contact in the southern Great Plains , Journal of Heredity (2022)
• Landscape genetics of an endangered salt marsh endemic: Identifying population continuity and barriers to dispersal , CONSERVATION GENETICS (2022)
• A comparison of cost and quality of three methods for estimating density for wild pig (Sus scrofa) , Scientific Reports (2020)
• Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) gene flow across a mountain transition zone in western North America , CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY (2020)