Nils Peterson
Professor
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources
Turner House 3
Area(s) of Expertise
Intersections between Human and Natural Systems
Education
BS, Texas A&M University (2000)
MS, Texas A&M University (2003)
PhD, Michigan State University (2007)
Research Interests
Unraveling the drivers of human behavior relevant to wildlife conservation: environmental literacy, household dynamics, conflict, hunting, democracy
Publications
- Comparing personalities of self-identified cat colony caretakers and bird conservation professionals (2020)
- Effects of group size and group density on trade-offs in resource selection by a group-territorial central-place foraging woodpecker (2020)
- How Urban Identity, Affect, and Knowledge Predict Perceptions About Coyotes and Their Management (2020)
- Reaching Underserved Populations through a Fisheries Education Program (2020)
- A method for mapping hunting occurrence using publicly available, geographic variables (2019)
- Children can foster climate change concern among their parents (2019)
- Educational attainment predicts negative perceptions women have of their own climate change knowledge (2019)
- Evaluating natural resource planning for longleaf pine ecosystems in the Southeast United States (2019)
- Feedback effect of crop raiding in payments for ecosystem services (2019)
- Hunting interacts with socio-demographic predictors of human perceptions of urban coyotes (2019)