Restoration of woodland and savanna ecosystems has become a common management strategy in the Central Hardwoods region. Over the past two decades forest managers have implemented woodland and savanna restoration at the landscape level (≥10,000 ha), especially using early growing…
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Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) continue to decline due to habitat loss, poaching and conflict with humans. Yet, developing effective land conservation strategies for elephants is difficult because there is little information available on their foraging ecology, h…
Animal community structures, life histories and individual foraging behaviour are all an outcome of a trade-off between competition for resources (and thus the risk of starvation) and survival (and thus the risk of predation). The relative importance of these factors however, di…
Most research on Eastern wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris ) has occurred in extensively forested habitats atypical of midwestern landscapes. I studied the ecology of female wild turkeys in a portion of southern Illinois consisting of an agricultural matrix interspers…
This dissertation investigated male-male competition in one-male groups of simakobu (Simias concolor) and the role of loud calls as honest signals of male competitive ability at a protected forest in northeastern Siberut, Indonesia, with five main objectives. 1) To establish the…
Connectivity is essential for the maintenance of genetic diversity and stability of wildlife populations. However, aquatic habitats are becoming more isolated, particularly in semiarid regions of the southwestern United States. An artificial aquatic mosaic of stock tanks often r…