Krishna Pacifici
Associate Professor
Jordan Hall Addition 5217
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
- Effects of Prescribed Fire on Northern Bobwhite Nesting Ecology , WILDLIFE SOCIETY BULLETIN (2021)
- Genetic Structure and Diversity of the Endemic Carolina Madtom and Conservation Implications , NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES MANAGEMENT (2021)
- Linking demographic rates to local environmental conditions: Empirical data to support climate adaptation strategies for Eleutherodactylus frogs , GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION (2021)
- Measuring the value of public hunting land using a hedonic approach , HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF WILDLIFE (2021)
- Residency and movement patterns of Cuvier's beaked whales Ziphius cavirostris off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA , MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES (2021)
- Survey design optimization for monitoring wildlife communities in areas managed for federally endangered species , ANIMAL CONSERVATION (2021)
- An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when? , METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (2020)
- Estimating the drivers of species distributions with opportunistic data using mediation analysis , ECOSPHERE (2020)
- Global forensic geolocation with deep neural networks , JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES C-APPLIED STATISTICS (2020)
- LEPTOSPIRA, PARVOVIRUS, AND TOXOPLASMA IN THE NORTH AMERICAN RIVER OTTER (LONTRA CANADENSIS) IN NORTH CAROLINA, USA , JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES (2020)