Massachusetts Research Activities

Massachusetts Active Projects

• Landscape Use by a Re-colonizing Moose Population in Massachusetts
• Bobcat distribution and movements in a mixed urban-rural environment
• Movements, Site Fidelity, Foraging Ecology, and Roosting Behavior of Ring-billed Gulls in Relation to a Water Supply Reservoir in Central Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts Completed Projects

• Salt Drive in Beavers: An Experimental Assessment with Field Feeding Trials
• Regeneration of Forest Vegetation in Response to Browsing by Moose and Deer: An Experimental Approach Using Exclosures
• Optimal Habitat Configuration for Mature-Forest and Scrub-Shrub Birds
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Massachusetts Peer Reviewed Publications

• Mayer, A.L., W.D. Shuster, J.J. Beaulieu, M.E. Hopton, L.K. Rhea, A.H. Roy, and H.W. Thurston. 2012. Building green infrastructure via citizen participation: a six-year study in the Shepherd Creek (Ohio). Environmental Practice 14:57-67.  | Abstract |  Publisher Website | 
• Stein A. B., T. K. Fuller, S. DeStefano, and L. L. Marker. 2011. Leopard population and home range estimates in north-central Namibia. African Journal of Ecology 49:383-387.
• McDonald, J. E., S. DeStefano, C. Gaughan, M. Meyer, W. A. Woytek, S. Christensen, and T. K. Fuller. 2011. Survival and harvest-related mortality of white-tailed deer in Massachusetts. Wildlife Society Bulletin 35:209–219.
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Massachusetts Technical Publications

• Parrish, D. L., M. E. Mather, and E. A. Marschall. 2010. Population modeling of Atlantic salmon in Vermont tributaries of the Connecticut River. Progress report to NMFS.
• DeStefano, S., E. Faison, J. Compton, and D. Wattles. 2010. Forest exclosures: an experimental approach to understanding browsing by moose and deer. Massachusetts Wildlife 60:14-23.
• Burak, M. K., M. E. Mather, J. T. Finn, J. B. Kim, R. M. Muth2University of Massachusetts, Amherst, River Herring Video Monitoring Final Report (2008-2009) March 2010
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Massachusetts Theses and Dissertations

• Wattles, D. W. 2011. Status, movements, and habitat use of moose in Massachusetts. MS Thesis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
• Willey, Lisabeth. 2010. Spatial Ecology of Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene C. Carolina) in Central Massachusetts. PhD Dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
• McCarthy, K. P. 2009. Evaluation of disturbance factors and their effect on breeding common loons at Lake Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge, New Hampshire and Maine. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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