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
- Conservation motivations and willingness to pay for wildlife management areas among recreational user groups , LAND USE POLICY (2023)
- Efficacy of autonomous recording units to evaluate wild turkey gobbling chronology in North Carolina, USA , WILDLIFE SOCIETY BULLETIN (2023)
- Minimal shift of eastern wild turkey nesting phenology associated with projected climate change , Climate Change Ecology (2023)
- Patterns in longitudinal distribution of American Eel (Anguilla rostrata) population characteristics in rivers of Puerto Rico , FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AND ECOLOGY (2023)
- Robust assessment of associations between weather and eastern wild turkey nest success , JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT (2023)
- Survival and cause-specific mortality of male wild turkeys across the southeastern United States , JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT (2023)
- Ungulate responses and habituation to unmanned aerial vehicles in Africa's savanna , PLOS ONE (2023)
- Using decoys and camera traps to estimate depredation rates and neonate survival , PLOS ONE (2023)
- Variations in reproduction and age structure in the North American river otter in North Carolina, USA , The Journal of Wildlife Management (2023)
- Economic contributions of wildlife management areas in North Carolina , FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS (2022)