A5084701913- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Animal Virus Infections Studies
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
University of Maryland, College Park
2022-2025
George Mason University
2020-2024
Lincoln Park Zoo
2017-2023
Hudson Institute
2018
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2018
Colorado State University
2015-2017
The University of Texas at Austin
2011
The Invaders of Texas program is a successful citizen science in which volunteers survey and monitor invasive plants throughout Texas. Invasive are being introduced at alarming rates, our limited knowledge about their distribution major cause for concern. trains scientists to detect the arrival dispersal local areas report them into an online, statewide mapping database. In order test value scientists' data, we compared observations Arundo donax (giant reed) with previously recorded A. found...
Abstract As urban growth expands and natural environments fragment, it is essential to understand the ecological roles fulfilled by green spaces. To evaluate how spaces function as wildlife habitat, we estimated mammal diversity metacommunity dynamics in city parks, cemeteries, golf courses, areas throughout greater Chicago, Illinois , USA region. We found similar α‐diversity (with exception of parks), but remarkably dissimilar communities different Additionally, type space greatly...
Abstract Understanding how biodiversity responds to urbanization is challenging, due in part the single‐city focus of most urban ecological research. Here, we delineate continent‐scale patterns species assemblages by leveraging data from a multi‐city camera trap survey and quantify differences greenspace availability average housing density among 10 North American cities relate distribution eight widespread mammals. To do so, deployed traps at 569 sites across these ten between 18 June 14...
Urban biodiversity provides critical ecosystem services and is a key component to environmentally socially sustainable cities. However, varies greatly within among cities, leading human communities with changing unequal experiences nature. The "luxury effect," hypothesis that predicts positive correlation between wealth, typically measured by per capita income, species richness may be one indication of these inequities. While the luxury effect well studied for some taxa, it has rarely been...
Time is a fundamental component of ecological processes. How animal behavior changes over time has been explored through well-known theories like niche partitioning and predator-prey dynamics. Yet, in within the shorter 24-hr light-dark cycle have largely gone unstudied. Understanding if an can adjust their temporal activity to mitigate or adapt environmental change become recent topic discussion important for effective wildlife management conservation. While spatial habitat consideration...
ABSTRACT Motivation SNAPSHOT USA is an annual, multicontributor camera trap survey of mammals across the United States. The growing dataset intended for tracking spatial and temporal responses mammal populations to changes in land use, cover climate. These data will be useful exploring drivers relative abundance distribution, as well impacts species interactions on daily activity patterns. Main Types Variables Contained 2019–2023 contains 987,979 records image sequence 9694 deployment...
Scientists are increasingly using Twitter as a tool for communicating science. can promote scholarly discussion, disseminate research rapidly, and extend diversify the scope of audiences reached. However, scientists also caution that if does not accurately convey science due to inherent brevity this media, misinformation could cascade quickly through social media. Data on whether effectively communicates conservation types user groups receiving these tweets lacking. To address knowledge...
Abstract Urbanization is considered the fastest growing form of global land‐use change and can dramatically modify habitat structure ecosystem functioning. While ecological processes continue to operate within cities, urban ecosystems are profoundly different from their more natural counterparts. Thus, predictions derived rarely generalizable environments. In this study, we used data a large‐scale long‐term camera trap project in Chicago IL , USA determine whether urbanization alters...
Abstract SNAPSHOT USA is a multicontributor, long‐term camera trap survey designed to mammals across the United States. Participants are recruited through community networks and directly website application ( https://www.snapshot-usa.org/ ). The growing Snapshot dataset useful, for example, tracking wildlife population responses land use, cover, climate changes spatial temporal scales. Here we present 2021 dataset, third national US. Data were collected 109 arrays included 1711 sites. total...
Keynote and plenary speakers at professional conferences serve as highly visible role models for early-career scientists provide recognition of scientific excellence. This may be particularly important women, who are underrepresented in senior positions the biological sciences. To evaluate whether fulfill this potential, we examined distinguished North American ecology between 2000 2015 compared these data with percentage women ecologists diverse career stages. We found that 15%–35%...
Breast cancer mortality is complex and traditional approaches that seek to identify determinants of assume their effects on are stationary across geographic space scales.
Abstract For over a century there have been continual efforts to incorporate nature into urban planning. These (i.e., reconciliation) aim manage and create habitats that support biodiversity within cities. Given species select habitat at different spatial scales, understanding the scale which respond their environment is critical success of reconciliation efforts. We assessed species–habitat relationships for common bat 50‐m, 500‐m, 1 km scales in Chicago (U.S.A.) metropolitan area predicted...
Free-roaming domestic cats ( Felis catus ) are known to pose threats ecosystem health via transmission of zoonotic diseases and predation native wildlife. Likewise, free-roaming also susceptible or disease from Physical interactions required for many these risks be manifested, necessitating spatial temporal overlap between wildlife species. Therefore, knowledge the location extent shared habitat activity periods would benefit management programs. We used data a 3-year camera trap survey...
Circadian rhythms are a mechanism by which species adapt to environmental variability and fundamental understanding behavior. However, we lack data standardized framework accurately assess compare temporal activity for during rapid ecological change. Through global network representing 38 countries, leveraged 8.9 million mammalian observations create library of 14,587 diel estimates 445 species. We found that less than half the species’ were in agreement with classifications from reference...