Mississippi Research Activities

Mississippi Active Projects

• Habitat impairment in US reservoirs
• Abundance estimates and populations modeling of the Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis jamaicensis) in the Luquillo Mountains: Development of annual removal estimates
• Crappie in reservoirs
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Mississippi Completed Projects

• Population Biology and Habitat Suitability Modeling of Solanum Conocarpum in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
• Geographic distribution of the Puerto Rican Nightjar: a patch occupancy approach
• Movements and habitat use of pallid and shovelnose sturgeon in the lower Mississippi River
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Mississippi Peer Reviewed Publications

• Gomes L.C., C.K. Bulla, A.A. Agostinho, L. Vanconcelos, and L.E. Miranda. 2011. Fish assemblage dynamics in littoral areas of a Neotropical floodplain relative to the homogenizing effect of a flood pulse. Hydrobiologia (published online doi:10.1007/s10750-011-0870-6).
• Vilella, F. J., J. A. Cruz-Burgos, and M. López-Flores. 2011. Nesting biology of the Yellow-breasted Crake Porzana flaviventer in Puerto Rico. Waterbirds 34(3): 363-368.  | Abstract | 
• Dembkowski, D.J., and L.E. Miranda. 2011. Comparison of fish assemblages in two disjoined segments of an oxbow lake in relation to connectivity. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 140:1060-1069.
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Mississippi Technical Publications

• Schramm, H.L., Jr., and N.M. Kuntz. 2011. Pallid sturgeon habitat use and movement in the lower Mississippi River 2009-2011. Annual report submitted to Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Little Rock, Arkansas. Mississippi Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Mississippi State, Mississippi.
• Herrala, J.R., and H.L. Schramm, Jr. 2011. Movement and Habitat Use of Pallid Sturgeon in the Old River and the Atchafalaya River. Report for 2010. Annual report submitted to Louisiana Hydroelectric, Vidalia, Louisiana. Mississippi Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Mississippi State, Mississippi.
• Miranda, L.E., J.D. Dagel, and S.L. Wigen. 2010. Promoting crappie recruitment in Northwest Mississippi reservoirs. Progress Report submitted to Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, Jackson.
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Mississippi Theses and Dissertations

• Alfermann, T. 2011. Centrarchid assemblages in oxbow lakes of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley with perspectives for fisheries management. M.S. thesis, Mississippi State University.
• Dembkowsky, D. 2011. Species richness in oxbow lakes of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. M.S. thesis. Mississippi State University.
• Mirick, P. 2011. An evaluation of otter trawls and trotlines for catching pallid sturgeon in the lower Mississippi River. Masters thesis, Mississippi State University
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