Current Projects

Wildlife Projects

Movements, Space Use, and Vital Rates of Mourning Doves (Natalie Pegg)

Assessing Effects of Vegetation Characteristics and Management of the Conservation Reserve Program on Lesser Prairie-Chicken Habitat Quality, Resource Selection, and Demographics throughout the Species’ Northern Range (Elisabeth Teige)

Landscape ecology of wild turkeys in Kansas (Sara Hansen)

Greater prairie-chicken reproductive ecology across a precipitation gradient in Kansas and Nebraska (Malia Agee)

Assessing long distance movements and breeding season survival in Kansas and Nebraska in the context of CRP practices (Ryan Giordanelli)

Greater prairie-chicken habitat use in relation to fire regimes in the Flint Hills of Kansas (Holly Henderson)

Strategic conservation of greater prairie-chickens and pronghorn in Kansas (Kat Travis)

Great blue heron predation impact and spatial and temporal distribution in response to Colorado Pikeminnow release along the San Juan River in New Mexico (Randall Wilson, Zachery Verzino)

Disentangling effects of climate and evolutionary history on avian Z/A diversity ratios: a whole-genome study of white-ruffed manakins (Randall Wilson, Zachery Verzino)

Lesser prairie-chicken movement in relation to habitat quality, fitness, and management interventions (Camille Rieber)

Fisheries Projects

Developing a strategic planning process for native fish restoration (Shelby Kuck, Olivia Rode, Victoria Reed)

Thresholds in prairie streams: implications for understanding and conservation (Martha Mather)

A Strategic Process for Fisheries Management and Aquatic Conservation (Martha Mather)

C3PO - Connecting conservation culture to policy opportunity - available right now in a next-generation land grant and conservation agency galaxy near you (Martha Mather)

Guiding Present and Future Native Fish Restoration Using a Strategic Planning Process, Literature Synthesis, Database Analysis, Field Protocol Development/Testing, and Adaptive Management (Olivia Rode)

Developing Communities of Expert Practice (COEP) to Apply Intergenerational Expertise to Challenging Aquatic Conservation Problems (Martha Mather)