Wildlife—Research
Wildlife (biodiversity) is often impacted by human activities and land-use patterns. Such impacts can be understood using a variety of tools, including habitat modeling, field studies of demographic traits, studies of animal behavior, and stable isotopes.
Wide-ranging research in the School yields insights into the impacts of forest and grassland management for bioenergy, the influence of overabundant game species on ecosystems, the population biology of wolves and moose on Isle Royale and the mainland, the role of large animals in forest nutrient cycling, the dynamics of Hawaiian food webs in forests naturally fragmented by lava flows, and impacts of wind-energy development on wildlife.
Faculty Areas of Interests
Predator ecology & ecological heterogeneity; Aquatic-terrestrial links; Stable isotopes in animal ecology & conservation; Vertebrate habitat ecology; Conservation ethics
Remote sensing of vegetation structure and composition; LiDAR remote sensing; Forest mensuration and biometrics; Landscape ecology; Wildlife habitat modeling; Remote sensing of active fire and post-fire effects; Fire ecology; Spatial ecology; Statistics
Conservation biology; Avian ecology and reproduction; Cascading effects of deer overbrowse; Island ecology
Woody bioenergy; Climate change; Natural resource policy; Water resource policy; Bioenergy policy
Geographic information systems; Cartography; Global positioning systems; Great Lakes Quaternary (glacial) geomorphology
Environmental and Natural Resources Policy; Sustainability science; Landscape ecology; Biodiversity and Conservation; International Trade; Information Theory
Mammalian ecology; Predator-prey relationships; Ecology and behavior of gray wolves
Aquatic ecology; Aquatic-terrestrial links; Conservation and management of aquatic systems; Long-term monitoring
Demographic and genetic elements of population biology; Ecology of wolves and moose; Environmental ethics
Isle Royale wolf genetics; Field research methods
Gap dynamics and disturbance ecology; Invasion biology of exotic species; Landscape ecology; Plant community response to herbivory; Restoration silviculture; Wildlife habitat relationships
