Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
Program Information and Faculty Achievements  Volume 11, Issue 4 December 1, 2014
Online at http://cnr.ncsu.edu/fer/news/fisheries-wildlife-and-conservation-biology-newsletter/
IN THIS ISSUE
uFWCB creates Bull Neck Swamp Scholarship
u Turner House Garden’s transformation
u Graduate student abstracts
uUndergraduate research
INDEX
FWCB creates Bull Neck Swamp
Endowed Scholarship................2
Turner House Gardens through
the changing seasons................4 
Haven for snubfin dolphins.................. 3
Understanding food webs.............5
Graduate student abstracts...................6
Undergraduate research.................6
Alumni update............................................. 7
Research publications............................10
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Dr. Chris DePerno, College of Natural Resources Dean Mary Watzin, and Dr. Chris Moorman
Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Program
establishes Bull Neck Swamp Endowed Scholarship
The Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
(FWCB) Program established the Bull Neck Swamp Endowed Scholarship. The endowment will provide scholarships for a rising senior enrolled in the FWCB Program
in the College of Natural Resources. Funds for the endowment were generated through timber sales and hunting leases at Bull Neck Swamp Research Forest.
Bull Neck is one of the largest remaining tracts of undeveloped private waterfront property on North Carolina’s
Albemarle Sound. It covers 6,158 acres, including more
than seven miles of rare, undisturbed shoreline and 2,317
acres of preserve. The preserves include 1,118 acres of
Shoreline and Islands Preserve, 777 acres of Non-riverine
Swamp Forest Preserve, 237 acres of Pond Pine Preserve,
and 185 acres of Atlantic white-cedar Preserve. Bull Neck
provides vital habitat for many wildlife species.
North Carolina State University’s Department of For-
estry and Environmental Resources acquired the tract in
early 1996 through a series of grants from the Natural
Heritage Trust Fund. The site is located on the Albermarle Sound in Washington County, N.C., approximately 18 miles east of Plymouth. Historically, the site was
owned by numerous logging companies and logged extensively for Atlantic white-cedar. Efforts have focused
on re-establishing Atlantic white-cedar on the property.
The Bull Neck Swamp tract consists of five community
types including nonriverine swamp forest, peatland Atlantic white cedar, mesic mixed hardwood forest, tidal cypress
gum swamp, and tidal freshwater marsh. The diversity and
uniqueness of the tract makes it an ideal wetland research
site and allows for various forestry and wildlife management options.
For more information or to contribute, please contact Dr.
Chris DePerno.
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Dr. Ken Pollock coauthors report that re-enforces Roebuck Bay’s
importance as a haven for Australia’s unique snubfin dolphins
Murdoch University’s Cetacean Research Unit (MUCRU) provided the
findings that re-enforce Roebuck
Bay’s importance as a haven for Australia’s unique snubfin dolphins to
WWF-Australia today. It covers the
latest field work to estimate the population size of these poorly-understood
snubfin dolphins in the waters adjacent to the Kimberley town of
Broome.
Assisted by Yawuru traditional
owners, the research team used photo-identification techniques to identify and count individual dolphins
based on unique marks on their dorsal fins.
MUCRU PhD candidate Alex
Brown, who led the study, said: “In
October 2013 we surveyed the northern third of the bay and estimated that
130-140 individuals were using this
area over the month. This was a significant finding as it represents the
highest density of snubfin dolphins
reported to date.
“In April 2014, the researchers repeated that survey, saw mostly the
same individuals, and produced a very
similar abundance estimate.
“These surveys, along with what
we know from other research in the
bay including monthly surveys by
WWF-Australia and Yawuru traditional owners, suggest that the bay is
of importance to snubfin dolphins
year-round,” Alex said.
While there are more snubfins in
Roebuck Bay than other parts of the
Kimberley coast, Alex emphasised
their vulnerability.
“The population is small by conservation standards; these low numbers,
combined with their lack of mixing
Snubfin dolphin
with an adjacent population, make
them vulnerable to environmental
change”.
Therefore the report encourages
management agencies to prioritise
measures to minimise threats, caused
by humans, to this important snubfin
population.
WWF-Australia has been working
with the local community to protect
Roebuck Bay for much of the last decade. This includes close cooperation
with the Yawuru traditional owners
and establishing the Roebuck Bay
Working Group. Both have a proud
record in promoting, researching and
protecting the Bay.
Dr Alexander Watson, WWF’s
Kimberley Program Manager, was
encouraged by the report. “Broome
locals have known for years that Roebuck Bay is a magical place. Research
like this makes people more determined to protect and better understand their own backyard. WWF will
continue to support research by universities and Yawuru traditional owners on species like snubfin dolphins
because they are a great indicator of
the Bay’s health.”
Roebuck Bay is currently internationally recognised as a RAMSAR
site due to the hundreds of thousands
of shorebirds that annually feed on the
mudflats.
The WA Government will also recognise these values by shortly establishing the Roebuck Bay Marine Park
which will be co-managed by the
Yawuru traditional owners and the
WA Government.
“WWF applauds the WA government for recognising and conserving
Roebuck Bay’s natural and cultural
values,” said Dr Watson. “Last year
the Barnett Government ended gillnet
fishing in the Bay; we now look forward to seeing Roebuck Bay becoming an internationally acclaimed marine park, one which is underpinned
and managed by the best scientific
and cultural knowledge”.
The report is available at http://mucru.org/latest-abundance-estimateof-snubfin-dolphins-in-roebuck-bayreleased-2/
Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
June 2010
Fall 2014
Turner House garden’s transformation
The Turner House native plant landscape was created in 2005 with the help of Fisheries and Wildlife program students and faculty and funding from the NCDFR Urban and
Community Forestry Program. The landscape contains over 60 species of native plants and has already attracted a variety of birds, butterflies and other wildlife to the intensely
urban environment. Everyone is invited to visit the landscape and watch the changing seasons. Fisheries and Wildlife faculty and students practice what they preach. For additional
information on landscaping with native plants see the Going Native website at http://www.ncsu.edu/goingnative/.
Front view before the gardens.
Garage view before the gardens.
Spring 2009
Fall 2014
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faculty profile: dr. craig A. Layman
Understanding food web ecology:
What eats what and why?
When I started my first research
project as an undergraduate at the
University of Virginia, who would
have thought a major focus of my research program would eventually be
fish “pee”. Fish, I could have predicted. But fish pee? That will take a little bit of background to explain.
My first project was on small fishes
that inhabited salt marshes on the
Eastern Shore of Virginia. This provided a bridge to the M.S. Program in
Environmental Sciences at UVA, and
then on to a Ph.D. program at Texas
A&M University. My Ph.D. research
was conducted in a Venezuelan floodplain river, where I looked at how
commercial fishing was affecting the
fish communities. This is when I became fascinated with food web ecology (i.e., exploring what eats what and
trying to understand why).
Politics in Venezuela eventually
forced me to shift my research to The
Bahamas (the only thing I would ever
thank Hugo Chavez for). Here I began to explore the food webs of shallow coastal systems, such as seagrass
beds and mangroves. Importantly,
these systems in The Bahamas are extremely oligotrophic (i.e., there is very
low ambient nutrient availability). So
where do the nutrients come from to
support these productive systems?
That brings me back to fish pee.
When I refer to fish pee, it is important to note that it is not primarily
urine, as many marine fishes produce
very little urine at all. Instead it is
physiological waste products, such as
Dr. Craig A. Layman
ammonia, that pass across the gills.
But many of these nitrogen and phosphorus waste products are exactly
what seagrasses need to grow.
To explore this dynamic, we have
constructed more than 60 artificial
reefs from cinder blocks. These structures serve to aggregate fishes, concentrating their pee adjacent to reefs.
This fuels seagrass productivity,
thereby improving the habitat value
for other fishes and invertebrates. Essentially a positive feedback cycle is
created, all by simply facilitating fish
aggregations in particular areas.
More online: http://craiglaymanlab.com/
An important application of this
may be a way to augment fisheries.
For example, we are working in Haiti,
where fish communities have been
vastly over-exploited. Working with
the local fisherman to build reefs, we
may be able to help increase their fishery yields. All because of a little bit of
fish pee.
For more information on the numerous projects we have going on in the
lab, you can visit my web page (http://
craiglaymanlab.com/) and our science
blog (http://appliedecology.cals.ncsu.
edu/absci/).
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abstract: morgan brianna elfelt
Coyote movement ecology and food habits
at Fort Bragg military installation
(Under the direction of Drs. Christopher E. Moorman and Christopher S. DePerno)
The coyote (Canis latrans) recently
expanded its range into the eastern
United States following the extirpation of other large carnivores. Coyote
diet and movement ecology vary regionally and temporally, and local
data are important to understanding
the impacts of this novel predator on
southeastern ecosystems. In the firedependent longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystem, low prey density may
contribute to larger home-range size
and greater movement rates than in
other areas of the Southeast. Also,
low food availability could cause coyotes to have an amplified impact on
energetically beneficial prey items
such as white-tailed deer (Odocoileus
virginianus). To determine the diet of
coyotes in the longleaf pine ecosystem, we analyzed scat samples collected from Fort Bragg Military Installation (FBMI), North Carolina.
White-tailed deer were the most common mammalian food item, occurring in 14.9% of all scats. However,
white-tailed deer occurrence in scats
was lowest in fall, when soft mast occurred in most coyote scats (98.2%),
suggesting the widespread availability of soft mast during the fall may decrease predation pressure on whitetailed deer.
To investigate the abundance of
small mammals, an important coyote
food item, we established live-trapping grids in five vegetation types:
open, lowland hardwood, upland pine
1-year post burn, upland pine 2-yrs
post burn, and upland pine 3-yrs post
burn. We captured 243 individuals in
Morgan Brianna Elfelt
12,250 trap-nights, including 208 Peromyscus spp. We used closed capture
models to estimate the abundance of
Peromyscus spp. in each of the five
vegetation types. We did not detect
differences in abundance among the
1-, 2-, and 3-years post burn upland
pine vegetation types, suggesting no
effect of time since burn. However,
the open and lowland hardwood vegetation types differed from each other, with open having the lowest and
lowland hardwood having the greatest
Peromyscus abundance.
Greater
abundance in the lowland cover type
likely was attributable to greater
ground-level vegetation complexity,
which provided more food and cover
resources.
Little is known about coyote move-
ment ecology in the southeastern United States; therefore, we determined
home-range size, movement rates, and
dispersal distances for coyotes at FBMI
using GPS technology. We captured
30 coyotes and attached radiocollars
programmed to record locations every
3 hours for 70 weeks. Home-range
size (95% fixed-kernel) averaged 85.04
km2, with males marginally larger
than females (t = -1.99, P = 0.06), and
no difference among age classes (F2,24
= 0.77, P = 0.47). Movement rates (m/
hr) differed among seasons (F3,73 =
19.18, P < 0.001) and between time periods (night vs. day; F1,26 = 236.54, P
< 0.001). Movement rates did not dif-
Please see, Elfelt Page 8
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alumni update: Ryan davis
Former valedictorian Ryan Davis now working with
Pheasants Forever as a biologist in Pennsylvania
Ryan grew up in southern Virginia
and northern North Carolina, where
he developed a passion for the outdoors. He began his freshman year at
NC State as a Zoology major but
quickly switched to Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology as he
realized that the College of Natural
Resources was a better fit for the applied ecological curriculum he was
seeking. Ryan graduated with his BS
in May 2011 and was Valedictorian
of his class with a perfect 4.0 grade
point average. As an undergraduate,
he bolstered his education in the
wildlife program with a Forest Management minor and an undergraduate research project on the response
of songbirds to succession following
clearcut timber harvests. He began
working in the field in the summer
following his freshman year, and
held a host of technician positions
across the country. He monitored
red-cockaded woodpeckers in eastern NC, located southwestern willow
flycatcher nests for two seasons in
Nevada, banded fall migrant birds in
Missouri, and tracked radiocollared
fox squirrels on Fort Bragg in North
Carolina. In the spring of 2012, he
began an MS in Wildlife and Fisheries Resources at West Virginia University, where his research focused
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fer between sexes (t = -1.44, P = 0.16)
or among age classes (F2,24 = 0.97, P
= 0.39). Also, we observed three col-
Ryan Davis
on the impacts of land management
practices on early-successional songbirds. His thesis was composed of
three studies: a habitat selection study
on blue-winged warblers, an investigation of unconventional gas development effects on nest survival and
the avian community, and an assessment of the utility of former surface
mines to shrubland songbirds as
breeding habitat. After graduating,
he led a crew of point count technicians in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and afterwards worked
as an Environmental Scientist for an
environmental consulting company
in West Virginia.
Ryan is now moving on to begin
working for Pheasants Forever as a
Farm Bill Biologist in Pennsylvania.
His role will be to assist private
landowners in managing their land
in a fashion which is beneficial to
wildlife and financially feasible.
This position marks the confluence
of his varied experiences and passions and he is very excited to start
a new chapter of his life and to undertake the huge responsibility of
facilitating conservation measures.
lared coyotes which dispersed from
FBMI, traveling straight-line distances
of 192km, 221km, and 345km before
establishing new home ranges. The
large home-range sizes and long dispersal distances recorded in our study
may be attributable to low food avail-
ability at our study site. Our results
highlight the ability of coyotes to travel
long distances and colonize new areas,
which suggests an extended geographic and temporal scale should be considered when managing local coyote populations.
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undergraduate research: Lauren Maynard
Clearing a path through nature: urban greenways
effects on wildlife and woody debris
Green spaces are being incorporated in urban areas in response to society’s rapid urbanization. Introducing
green space into an urban area can increase human physiological well-being and opportunities for recreation,
and are of great importance for the
quality of life in our rapidly urbanized
society. A greenway system is an example of urban green space designed
to offer recreational use to people
while providing adequate habitat and
function to wildlife. Greenways can
serve as movement corridors and habitat for edge species, enhancing biodiversity overall. However, most greenway
studies concerning wildlife have been
done using a coarse filter approach and
did not evaluate microhabitats.
The project consisted of 60 sample
sites along 90 miles of the Capital
Area Greenway System in Raleigh,
NC. Working with a natural resources
course led by Dr. George Hess, we established sampling sites along the
greenways. At each site, we quantified downed woody debris and surveyed herpetofauna, both in relation
to distance from recreational use. To
achieve this, we established uniform
transects at varying distances from
the greenway path and measured all
downed wood encountered. For each
piece of downed woody debris over
2.5 centimeters, we measured the diameter and decay class. The measure
of decay was based on a five-classification decay system. Once measured,
the downed wood was overturned to
document the presence or absence of
amphibians. If an individual was
found, the species and life stage were
Samantha Hanson (left) and Rachel Henson (right) collecting woody debris data along
the Capital Area Greenway.
Rachel Henson performing line intersect sampling.
recorded.
Our work will help shed light on
the potential ecological importance
of downed wood to wildlife conservation in urban environments. Extensive research has been conducted
on downed wood in forest settings,
but its availability and function in urban locations has been largely over-
looked. By placing emphasis on
downed wood to perform vital ecosystem processes, the results could
prompt managers and policy makers
to incorporate sustainable land-use
practices and affect change in environmental policy. A small difference
in management could have large consequences for wildlife.
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Dr. Sarah cannizzion wins first place for post doctoral presentations
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Cannizzo, for winning the
first place award for post doctoral presentations at the recent
combined annual meetings of the American Association of
Zoo Veterinarians, the American College of Zoological
Medicine and several other allied veterinary organizations.
The presentation that won the award was “Evaluation of inhouse urine dipstick, reference laboratory urinalysis, and
urine protein:creatinine ratio from a colony of Goeldi’s
Monkeys (Callimico goeldii).”
Sarah is the newest Zoological Medicine Resident at the
CVM. She comes to us directly from Wildlife Safari in
Winston, Oregon where she completed a zoological based
internship after completing a rotating internship at Angel
Animal Medical Center in Boston. She received her VMD
at University of Pennsylvania, coming to veterinary medicine after having considerable experience in national park
management. She has been working hard and acclimating
to North Carolina as she has been traveling to her different
rotating assignments in her new residency. We are excited
to have her on our resident team and she is looking forward
to working with other graduate students and faculty in the
Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology Program
Dr. Sarah Cannizzion
Dr. Chris Moorman named
Natural resource
scientist of the year
Dr. Chris Moorman, Coordinator of
the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Program, recently was
named Natural Resources Scientist of
the Year by the North Carolina Wildlife
Federation. The award is given for outstanding scientific effort by an individual working for governmental agencies,
educational institutions, or related enterprise.
Dr. Chris Moorman
Wildlife stickers
Show your support for the N.C. State Leopold Wildlife Club by
purchasing a sticker for all of your vehicles. Stickers are $7.
If interested contact Dr. Chris DePerno ([email protected])
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Publications & Presentations
Research Publications
Ancrenaz, M., R. Sollmann, E. Meijaard, A. J. Hearn, J. Ross, et al. 2014. Coming down from the trees: Is terrestrial activity in Bornean orangutans natural or disturbance driven? Scientific Reports 4: 4024.
Carrillo-Rubio, E., M. Kéry, S. J. Morreale, B. Gardner, P. J. Sullivan, E. G. Cooch, and J. P. Lassoie. 2014. Use
of multispecies occupancy models to evaluate the response of bird communities to forest degradation associated
with logging. Conservation Biology 28: 1034–1044. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12261.
Chitwood, M. C., M. A. Lashley, C. E. Moorman, and C. S. DePerno. 2014. Confirmation of coyote predation on
an adult female white-tailed deer in the southeastern United States. Southeastern Naturalist 13:N30-N32.
Chitwood, M. C., S. P. Phillips, S. Whisnant, J. Tyndall, M. A. Lashley, and C. S. DePerno. 2014. Serum leptin
as an indicator of fat levels in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in the southeastern USA. Journal of
Wildlife Disease 50:887-890.
Cove, M. V., R. M. Spinola, V. L. Jackson, and J. C. Saenz. 2014. The role of fragmentation and landscape changes
in the ecological release of common nest predators in the Neotropics. PeerJ2:e464; DOI 10.7717/peerj.464
Dunn, D. C., A. M. Boustany, J. J. Roberts, E. Brazer, M. Sanderson, B. Gardner, and P. N. Halpin. 2014. Empirical move-on rules to inform fishing strategies: a New England case study. Fish and Fisheries 15: 359–375.
doi: 10.1111/faf.12019
Goyert, H. F. 2014. Relationship among prey availability, habitat, and the foraging behavior, distribution, and abundance
of common terns (Sterna hirundo) and roseate terns (S. Dougallii). Marine Ecology Progress Series 506:291-302
Goyert, H. F., L. L. Manne, and R. R. Veit. 2014. Facilitative interactions among the pelagic community of temperate migratory terns, tunas and dolphins. Oikos:DOI: 10.1111/oik.00814.
Grote, A. B., M. M. Bailey, J. D. Zydlewski, and J. E. Hightower. 2014. Multibeam sonar (DIDSON) assessment of
American shad (Alosa sapidissima) approaching a hydroelectric dam. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 71:545-558.
Grovenburg, T. W., K. L. Monteith, C. N. Jacques, R. W. Klaver, C. S. DePerno, T. J. Brinkman, K. B. Monteith,
S. L. Gilbert, J. B. Smith, V. C. Bleich, C. C. Swanson, and J. A. Jenks. 2014. Re-evaluating neonatal age
models for ungulates: Does model choice affect survival estimates? PLOS ONE 9(9): e108797. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0108797.
Leonard, J. A., W. G. Cope, M. C. Barnhart, and R. B. Bringolf. 2014. Metabolomic, behavioral, and reproductive
effects of the aromatase inhibitor fadrozole hydrochloride on the unionid mussel Lampsilis fasciola. General and
Comparative Endocrinology 206:213-226.
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Publications & Presentations
Martin, J., H. H. Edwards, F. Bled, C. Fonnesbeck, J. A. Dupuis, B. Gardner, S. M. Koslovsky, L. I. WardGeiger, R. H. Carmichael, D. E. Fagan, M. A. Ross, A. M. Aven, and J. A. Royle. 2014. Estimating upper
bounds for occupancy and number of manatees in areas potentially affected by oil from the deepwater horizon
oil spill. PLoS ONE 9: e91683. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0091683.
Melo-Ferreira, J., F. A. Seixas, E. Cheng, L. S. Mills, and P. C. Alves. 2014. The hidden history of the snowshoe
hare, (Lepus americanus): extensive mitochondrial DNA introgression inferred from multilocus genetic variation. Molecular Ecology 23:4617-4630.
Prince, A., C. S. DePerno, B. Gardner, and C. E. Moorman. 2014. Survival and home-range size of southeastern
fox squirrels in North Carolina. Southeastern Naturalist 13:456-462.
Rich, L. N., M. J. Kelly, R. Sollmann, A. J. Noss, L. Maffei, R. L. Arispe, A. Paviolo, C. D. De Angelo, Y. E. Di
Blanco, and M. S. Di Bitetti. 2014. Comparing capture-recapture, mark-resight and spatial mark-resight models
for estimating puma densities via camera traps. Journal of Mammalogy 95:382-391.
Roques, S., M. M. Furtado, A. T. A. Jacomo, L. Silveira, R. Sollmann, N. M. Torres, J. Godoy, and F. Palomares.
2014. Monitoring jaguar populations (Panthera onca) with noninvasive genetics: a pilot study in Brazilian ecosystems. Oryx 48:361-369.
Silveira, L., R. Sollmann, A. T. A. Jácomo, J. A. F. D. Filho, and N. M. Tôrres. 2014. The potential for large-scale
wildlife corridors between protected areas in Brazil using the jaguar as a model species. Landscape Ecology
29:1213–1223.
Sollmann, R., M. Linkie, I. Haidir, and D. Macdonald. 2014. Bringing clarity to the clouded leopard: First density
estimates from Sumatra. Oryx DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S003060531400043X.
Wilton, C. M., E. E. Puckett, J. Beringer, B. Gardner, L. S. Eggert, and J. L. Belant. 2014. Trap array configuration influences estimates and precision of black bear density and abundance. PLoS ONE 9: e111257. doi:10.1371/
journal.pone.0111257.
Research Presentations
Betsch, J.B., Roelke-Parker, M., Dubovi, E., Davis, B., Packer, C., Cleaveland, S., Mills, L.S. September 2014.
Evolutionary genetics of clinical Canine distemper virus emergence in Panthera leo: understanding heterogeneity in exposure outcome in Serengeti lions. Viral Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology Bioinformatics Workshop, Rome, Italy
Brownell, P., J. Ellis, J. E. Hightower, R. W. Laney, A. L. LaRoche III, D. Michaelson, K. Rawls, F. Rohde, G.
Wright, and B. Wynne. 2014. Reconnecting American eels to the upper Roanoke basin. 144th Annual Meeting,
American Fisheries Society, Québec City, Québec.
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Publications & Presentations
Chitwood, M. C., M. A. Lashley, M. B. Elfelt, C. E. Moorman, and C. S. DePerno. 2014. Coyotes: dominance in
a longleaf pine ecosystem. Symposium: Ecology and management of coyotes in eastern North America: synthesizing information from contemporary studies. 21st Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
Chitwood, M. C., M. A. Lashley, J. C. Kilgo, C. E. Moorman, and C. S. DePerno. White-tailed deer population
decline and potential mitigation strategies in the presence of a novel predator. 21st Annual Conference of The
Wildlife Society, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Ellis, T. A., J. E. Hightower, J. A. Buckel, and K. H. Pollock. 2014. Relative importance of fishing and natural mortality of spotted seatrout at northern latitudinal limits. 144th Annual Meeting, American Fisheries Society,
Québec City, Québec.
Flowers, H. J., and J. E. Hightower. 2014. Long-term migratory patterns of Roanoke River, NC Atlantic Sturgeon.
144th Annual Meeting, American Fisheries Society, Québec City, Québec.
Fox, D. A., J. E. Hightower, L. M. Brown, and M. W. Breece. 2014. Estimated 2007-2013 survival and detection
probabilities for Atlantic Sturgeon, based on a long-term telemetry study. 144th Annual Meeting, American
Fisheries Society, Québec City, Québec.
Garabedian, J. E., C. E. Moorman, M. N. Peterson, and J. C. Kilgo. 2014. Quantifying habitat quality for an endangered bird using LiDAR. 21st Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Grodsky, S. M., R. B. Iglay, C. E. Sorenson, and C. E. Moorman. 2014. Do wildlife journals shrug at bugs? Symposium: Integrating invertebrates into wildlife science and management: the importance of our most abundant
and diverse wildlife group. 21st Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Grodsky, S. M., R. B. Iglay, C. E. Sorenson, and C. E. Moorman. 2014. Considerations for integration of invertebrates into wildlife research. Symposium: Integrating invertebrates into wildlife science and management: the
importance of our most abundant and diverse wildlife group. 21st Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Harms C. A. 2014. Humane endings for cetaceans and fish in field settings. AVMA Animal Welfare Symposium:
Humane Endings. Chicago, Illinois. (And panel member for Companion, Exotic, Zoo and Wild Animals summation.)
Kumar, A. and L. S. Mills. Effects of stand structure manipulation on the molt progression and vital rates of snowshoe hares. The Wildlife Society Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Mills, L. S. 2014. Monitoring wildlife populations in the Himalayas, Opening Lecture for “Conservation Biology
Research Symposium”, Ugyen Wangchuk Institute for Conservation and the Environment, Bhutan.
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Publications & Presentations
Lashley, M. A., M. C. Chitwood, M. T. Biggerstaff, D. L. Morina, C. E. Moorman, and C. S. DePerno. 2014.
White-tailed deer vigilance: The influence of social and environmental factors. 21st Annual Conference of The
Wildlife Society, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Post, B. C., M. Loeffler, C. Collier, J. E. Hightower, and D. L. Peterson. 2014. Use of ultrasonic telemetry to
monitor sturgeon movement: a multistate approach. 144th Annual Meeting, American Fisheries Society, Québec City, Québec.
Raabe, J. K., T. A. Ellis, and J. E. Hightower. 2014. Evaluation of fish passage following installation of a rock arch
rapids at Lock and Dam #1, Cape Fear River, North Carolina. International Conference on Engineering and Ecohydrology for Fish Passage. Madison, Wisconsin.
Raabe, J. K., T. A. Ellis, and J. E. Hightower. 2014. Effectiveness of a rock arch rapids for fish passage at a lock and
dam on a large coastal river. 144th Annual Meeting, American Fisheries Society, Québec City, Québec.
Raabe, J. K., T. A. Ellis, and J. E. Hightower. 2014. Evaluation of fish passage following installation of a rock arch
rapids at lock and dam #1, Cape Fear River, North Carolina. 2014 International Conference on Engineering &
Ecohydrology for Fish Passage (Fish Passage 2014), Madison, Wisconsin.
Rudershausen, P. J., J. A. Buckel, and J. E. Hightower. 2014. Estimating reef fish discard mortality using surface
and bottom tagging: effects of hook injury, barotrauma, and multiple captures. 144th Annual Meeting, American
Fisheries Society, Québec City, Québec.
Sahlén, E., S. Noell, C. S. DePerno, J. Kindberg, G. Spong, and J. Cromsigt. 2014. Phantoms of the forest – legacy risk effects of a regionally extinct predator. 21st Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
Popular Press
Chitwood, M. C., M. A. Lashley, C. E. Moorman, and C. S. DePerno. 2014. So, coyotes eat deer – The question is:
Should we panic? The Upland Gazette Fall 2014:4-5.
Richardson, A., C. Moorman, B. Strope, and M. Jones. 2014. A quail’s tale: using radio-transmitted northern bobwhites to better understand the benefits of habitat management. The Upland Gazette Fall 2014:10-11.
Mills, L. S. Nov. 6, 2014: My Bhutanese graduate student and I were interviewed by the Bhutan Broadcasting Service
about the symposium we held in Bhutan on conservation research on tigers and other species: http://www.bbs.bt/
news/?p=45832
Mills, L. S. November 2014: “Total white out: snowshoe hares vs global warming”; article on our coat color mismatch
work in New Scientist, by Lesley Evans-Ogden.
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Publications & Presentations
Mills, L. S. Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014: “West Virginia Snowshoe Hare Study Links Camouflage and Climate Changes”;
article on our new work in W. VA in Charleston Gazette, by John McCoy: http://www.wvgazette.com/
article/20140907/GZ07/140909623
Books
Royle, J. A., R. B. Chandler, R. Sollmann, and B. Gardner. 2014. Spatial CaptureRecapture. Academic Press, Waltham MA, USA.
Extension and Outreach
Fritts, S., S. Grodsky, and C. Moorman. 2014. Managing woody debris to sustain
wildlife populations following woody biomass harvests. Publication in the Southeastern Partnership for Integrated Biomass Supply Systems Series.
Moorman, C. E. 2014. Prescribed fire and fauna in the Southeast: lessons learned from recent research. Annual Meeting of the South Carolina Prescribed Fire Council, Clemson, South Carolina.
Moorman, C. E. 2014. Update on the North Carolina Prescribed Fire Council. Annual Meeting of the South Carolina Prescribed Fire Council, Clemson, South Carolina.
Invited university seminar
Mills, L. S. “How seasonal camouflage hides animals while revealing mysteries of climate change.” Presented Sept.
19, 2014 at University of Wisconsin Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology Seminar Series.
International visitors hosted
DePerno, C. S. hosted Dr. Gӧran Spong, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden. November 1622, 2014.
Mills, L. S. hosted Dr. Klaus Hackländer, Professor of Wildlife Biology and Game Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria. July 2013-July 2014 (sabbatical year)
Mills, L. S. hosted Dr. Paulo Alves, Professor, University of Porto, Portugal. September 9-18, 2014
Mills, L. S. hosted Dr. Nawang Norbu (Director) and Tshering Tempa (Faculty member) of Ugyen Wangchuk Institute
for Conservation and the Environment, Bhutan. September 20-24, 2014.
Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
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North Carolina State University Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
students and faculty are active in a number of peer and industry organizations
devoted to aspects of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology.
The Leopold Wildlife Club offers students the opportunity to network and
learn from professionals in wildlife science and management. Meetings are held
twice a month and typically feature speakers on a variety of topics. Past speakers
have included falconers, fishing guides, taxidermists, decoy carvers and more.
The Student Fisheries Society is a sub-unit of the North Carolina Chapter of
the American Fisheries Society. It encourages the exchange of fisheries and
aquatic science information among students, faculty and regional professionals
while also providing career guidance to students. The American Fisheries Society is the oldest and largest not-for-profit professional society for government,
academic and industry scientists associated with conservation, development and
management of fishery resources in North America.
The NC Chapter of The Wildlife Society provides a forum for wildlife professionals and others to interact to improve wildlife conservation and management while fostering high professional standards and ethics within all related
fields. It is an acknowledged source of current scientific information and expertise and acts as a collective voice on matters relating to wildlife biology, management, education and policy.
Summer Camp student endowments
Please consider giving to our two Summer Camp student endowments. These
endowments help undergraduate students attend the Fisheries and Wildlife Summer Camp. For more information on how to contribute, contact Dr. Chris Moorman at 919-515-5578 or [email protected]
Phil Doerr Endowment Fund
Also, you may consider giving to the Phil Doerr Endowment Fund. The endowment, established with the North Carolina Natural Resources Foundation,
will be used to fund an annual award to assist undergraduate or graduate student(s)
in gaining valuable field experience. For more information on how to contribute,
contact Dr. Chris Moorman at 919-515-5578 or [email protected]
The Newsletter Compiled and edited by:
Editor: Christopher S. DePerno, Ph.D.
Professor, Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
Department of Forestry
College of Natural Resources
North Carolina State University
Turner House, Box 7646
Raleigh, NC 27695-7646
919-513-7559 (office)
919-334-8935 (cell)
[email protected]
Co-editor: Christopher E. Moorman, Ph.D.
Professor and coordinator, Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
[email protected]
Steve Allen
Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology graduate
design and editing
336-209-5093 (cell) [email protected]
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