Area(s) of Expertise

Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences

Education

B.S. University of Michigan (1968)
M.A. Southern Illinois University (1974)
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts (1979)

Research Interests

Wildlife biology; wildlife-habitat interrelationships; spatial and temporal habitat modeling; population analysis and estimation; fur-bearer ecology; biotelemetry; endangered species.

Courses

(FOR) FW 404 – Forest Wildlife Management
FW (FOR) 310 – Wildlife Summer Camp
FOR (FW) 585 – Advanced Wildlife Habitat Management
FOR (FW) 594 – Seminar in Wildlife Management

Publications

• The mating system of white-tailed deer under quality deer management (2016)
• Nesting ecology of swainson's warblers in a south carolina bottomland forest (2012)
• Intracranial abscessation as a natural mortality factor for adult male white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in Kent County, Maryland, USA (2009)
• Using video surveillance to estimate wildlife use of a highway underpass (2007)
• Effect of population demographics and social pressures on white-tailed deer dispersal ecology (2006)
• Factors influencing acadian flycatcher nesting success in an intensively managed forest landscape (2006)
• Relationships between avian richness and landscape structure at multiple scales using multiple landscapes (2006)
• Managed forest landscape structure and avian species richness in the southeastern US (2005)
• Swainson's warbler habitat selection in a managed bottomland hardwood forest (2019)
• Influences of hardwood stand area and adjacency on breeding birds in an intensively managed pine landscape (2002)

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