Research

My research has addressed contemporary, important scientific problems of state, regional, and international scope. I have conducted basic and applied research on a wide variety of topics: forest productivity and management; impacts of Gypsy moth defoliation on forests; fuelwood management; habitat use by wild turkeys; position finding radio telemetry; bird and mammal use of wetland buffers; the effects of mute swan herbivory; the conservation genetics and systematics of New England and eastern cottontail rabbits; production of wood ducks in Rhode Island; a first-ever faunal inventory of the Atlantic forest in Sergipe, Brazil; measuring edge effects on small mammals in Brazil’s Atlantic forest; population ecology of the banded bog haunter, an endangered dragonfly; reintroduction ecology of the highly endangered American Burying Beetle; and a study of the conservation genetics of the endangered Cretan wild goat. Most recently, I have projects that have explored the genetics of tree kangaroos in Papua New Guinea, examined the ranges of mesopredators in the national parks of the Northeast U.S., determined the habitat use of white-tailed deer in Rhode Island, studied of the home ranges of elephants in Malaysia, and studied the mammalian biodiversity in coffee-dominated landscapes in Costa Rica, India, and East Africa.