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New Mexico Research Activities

Radiocollared pronghorn on the White Sands Missile Range

Research at the New Mexico Cooperative Fishery Research Unit is geared toward providing practical solutions that are transferable to our Cooperators (New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and New Mexico State University) and other agencies. Unit scientists and affiliated staff meet with resource professionals to discuss management needs. If the Unit cannot provide the expertise to develop and solve management needs, then we engage University faculty, staff and a network of professional colleagues to offer solutions. The Unit scientists address resource issues throughout the arid southwest that span from the southern Rockies to the Chihuahua and Sonoran ecosystems. Research areas of special emphasis include environmental stressors and native fish restoration and management, resource selection and population ecology of game birds and large mammals.

New Mexico Active Projects

New Mexico Completed Projects

New Mexico 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.
  • Calkins, M.T., E.A. Beever, K.G. Boykin, J.K. Frey, and M.C Andersen. 2012. Not-so-splendid Isolation: Modeling Climate-mediated Range Collapse of a Montane Mammal (Ochotona princeps) Across Numerous Ecoregions. Ecography 35: 001–012, 2012, doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.07227.x
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New Mexico 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
  • Turnbull, T.T., J.W. Cain, III, G.W. Roemer. 2011. Evaluating trapping techniques to reduce potential for injury to Mexican wolves. U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 2011-1190.
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New Mexico Theses and Dissertations

  • Kathryn N. Smith. 2011. Nesting ecology and multi-scale habitat use of the
    black-capped vireo. M.S. Thesis. Department of Biological and Environmental Science, Texas A&M University-Commerce. 80 pp.
  • McCann, M.J. 2011. Burrow Characteristics and Social Elements of Juvenile Bolson Tortoises (Gopherus flavomarginatus) in New Mexico. Thesis, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
  • O'Shaughnessy, R. 2010. Comparative diet and habitat selection of puku (Kobus vardonii) and lechwe (Kobus leche) on the Chobe River Floodplain, Botswana. M.Sc. Thesis. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Current Staff

Federal Staff: 3

Masters Students: 14

Phd Students: 1

Post Docs: 1

University Staff: 4

5 Year Summary

Students graduated: 15

Scientific Publications: 59

Presentations: 110

 

New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Cooperators

  1. New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
  2. New Mexico State University
  3. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  4. U.S. Geological Survey