Krishna Pacifici
Bio
Education
Ph.D., Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA (2011)
M.S., Statistics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA (2012)
M.S., Wildlife Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (2007)
B.S., Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (2003)
Research Interests
Quantitative ecology, wildlife ecology, spatio-temporal modeling, statistical ecology, computational statistics, disease ecology, structured decision making, adaptive management, decision making under uncertainty
My specific research interests are driven by understanding the effects of environmental stressors and disturbances on ecological populations and communities and by making conservation and management decisions in the face of such uncertainty. My research can be broadly classified into two main areas: (1) making conservation and management decisions in the face of uncertainty, and (2) identifying the underlying mechanisms and responses of ecological systems to environmental stressors and disturbances. The connecting thread between both research areas is the development and application of quantitative methods to solve real world problems.
Courses
FW 453/553 Principles of Wildlife Science every Spring Semester
Publications
- Assessing spatial ecological patterns of wild turkey relative abundance across North America , (2025)
- Discussion on "Continuous-space occupancy models" by Wilson J. Wright and Mevin B. Hooten , BIOMETRICS (2025)
- Host Environment, Genetics, and Behaviors That Contribute to Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease in Hawai'i , AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE (2025)
- Mammals on the Margins: Identifying the Drivers and Limitations of Range Expansion , GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (2025)
- Optimizing automated photo identification for population assessments , CONSERVATION BIOLOGY (2025)
- Applying mark-resight, count, and telemetry data to estimate effective sampling area and fish density with stationary underwater cameras , CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES (2024)
- Capital to Coast: Primary Drivers of Distribution in the Secretive and Data-Limited Neuse River Waterdog (Necturus lewisi) , ICHTHYOLOGY AND HERPETOLOGY (2024)
- Distribution, Occupancy, and Habitat of the Endangered Carolina Madtom: Implications for Recovery of an Endemic Stream Fish , FISHES (2024)
- 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)