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New York Unit student Mike Wegan, with anesthetized adult black bear captured as part of collaborative eff ort with the U.S. Army’s Fort Drum Military Installation in northern New York and New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation to assess population size, movements, and foraging habitats of bears

The Cooperative Research Units Program conducts research on a wide range of disciplines related to fish, wildlife, and natural resource management. Our 40 Units collectively conduct research on virtually every type of North American ecological community. Most research projects are carried out by graduate students participating with and/or under the direction of unit or other university scientists. Collectively, the Units typically have more than 1,000 research projects under way and generate 250-300 scientific publications annually.

Unit research may be of local, regional, national, or international interest. The research programs conducted by units are approved as directed by the Coordinating Committee overseeing each unit.

Check out our current and completed research projects by clicking a link below. You can also find a complete list of publications by clicking on the Publications link on the main menu.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Cain, J.W., III, N. Owen-Smith, and V.A. Macandza. 2012. The costs of drinking: relative water dependency of sable antelope and zebra. Journal of Zoology 286:58-67.

Smith, K.N., J.W. Cain, III, M.L. Morrison, and R.N. Wilkins. 2012. A Novel Songbird Nest Predator: The Greater Arid-land Katydid. American Midland Naturalist 167:210-212.

Carthy, R.R. The leatherheads of Grande Riviere Trinidad and Tobago. 2012. Florida Environmental Outreach. (3),1- 10-13.

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Technical Publications

Slaughter, C.T. and K.G. Boykin. (2012) Genetic Analysis and Habitat Assessment of the Iron Creek Woodlandsnail (Ashmunella mendex) including Black Range congeners A. binneyi and A. cockerelli. New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Final Completion Report. 84 Pages

Carleton, SA and C Martinez del Rio. 2008-2011. United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Webless Migratory Game Bird Program. A Genetic and Isotopic Characterization of Eastern and Western White-winged Dove Breeding Populations to Determine Wintering Ground Distribution and Population Genetic Structure. http://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/reports/reports.html

Dugger KM, JW Schilling, RG Anthony, and LS Andrews. 2011. Apparent occupancy and the reproductive rates of Northern Spotted Owls in the Ashland Watershed, Siskiyou Mountains, southern Oregon 1993-1997, 2005-2011. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Corvallis, OR

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Theses and Dissertations

DISPERSAL OF SONIC-TAGGED LAKE STURGEON
(Acipenser fulvescens) AND A COMPARISON OF SAMPLING GEARS IN THE UPPER TENNESSEE RIVER. MS THESIS, TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, COOKEVILLE. 57 PAGES.

SURVIVAL AND MOVEMENTS OF LARGE BROWN TROUT IN A REGULATED RIVER SYSTEM IN EAST TENNESSEE. MS THESIS, TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, COOKEVILLE. 76 PAGES.

Garland, Kathryn Alice. Consumptive use and conservation of marine turtles in Pearl Lagoon, Nicaragua: implications of taste preferences, local opinions, and cultural knowledge. PhD dissertation. December 2011. Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

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