A5046179766- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
Mississippi State University
2023-2025
Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
2025
Nottingham Trent University
2020-2021
Umeå University
2016
Temperature is increasing in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions at a higher rate than anywhere else the world. The frequency nature of precipitation events are also predicted to change future. These changes climate expected, together with human pressures, have significant impacts on species ecosystems. Due key role that reindeer play those ecosystems, it essential understand how will affect region's most important species. Our study assesses dynamics fourteen Eurasian (Rangifer tarandus)...
Abstract Obtaining robust estimates of population abundance is a central challenge hindering the conservation and management many threatened exploited species. Close‐kin mark‐recapture (CKMR) genetics‐based approach that has strong potential to improve monitoring data‐limited species by enabling abundance, survival, other parameters for populations are challenging assess. However, CKMR models have received limited sensitivity testing under realistic dynamics sampling scenarios, impeding...
Abstract Close‐kin mark–recapture (CKMR) is a method analogous to traditional but without requiring recapture of individuals. Instead, multilocus genotypes (genetic marks) are used identify related individuals in one or more sampling occasions, which enables the opportunistic use samples from harvested wildlife. To apply accurately, it important build appropriate CKMR models that do not violate assumptions linked species’ and population's biology methods. In this study, we evaluated...
Abstract Interspecific competition is an important evolutionary force, influencing interactions between species and shaping the composition of biological communities. In mammalian carnivores, to reduce risks negative encounters competitors, can employ a strategy temporal partitioning, adapting activity patterns limit synchronous activity. This non‐human competitor avoidance, however, may be influenced by expansion human activities, which has driven wild mammals towards nocturnality. We...
ABSTRACT Predicting the spatial and temporal responses of species exhibiting intraguild predation (IGP) relationships is difficult due to variation in potential interactions environmental context. Eurasian badgers ( Meles meles ) are predators European hedgehogs Erinaceus europaeus implicated their population decline via both direct competition for shared food resources. Previous studies have shown separation between these attributed this experiencing a ‘landscape fear’, but little known...
Abstract Close‐kin mark–recapture (CKMR) methods use information on genetic relatedness among individuals to estimate demographic parameters. An individual's genotype can be considered a ‘recapture’ of each its parent's genotype, and the frequency kin‐pair matches detected in population sample directly inform estimates abundance. CKMR inference procedures require analysts define kinship probabilities functional forms, which inevitably involve simplifying assumptions. Among others, structure...
Abstract Obtaining robust estimates of population abundance is a central challenge hindering the conservation and management many threatened exploited species. Close-kin mark-recapture (CKMR) genetics-based approach that has strong potential to improve monitoring data-limited species by enabling abundance, survival, other parameters for populations are challenging assess. However, CKMR models have received limited sensitivity testing under realistic dynamics sampling scenarios, impeding...