Principal Investigator
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Chris Schalk
Assistant Professor of Forest Wildlife Management PhD. 2016 - Texas A&M University Email: schalkc [at] sfasu [dot] edu |
Graduate Students
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Connor Adams
M.S. Student, Forestry B.S., Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Texas A&M University |
Connor's project examines the effects of forest management practices on food-web structure and trait-based community organization in upland pine ecosystems. The objective of this research is to better understand how anthropogenic influenced land-use change affects the trajectories of ecological community organization.
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Undergraduate Students
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John Michael Arnett
Forest Wildlife Management |
John Michael is studying overlap of non-native Mediterrean House Geckos (Hemidactylus turcicus) and lizards native to East Texas (Plestiodon, Scincella, Anolis) along multiple niche dimensions, including their habitat, trophic, and isotopic niches.
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Sarah Ebert
Biology |
Sarah worked on a project examining snake entanglement in erosion control mesh netting. Results from this project will be used to develop best practices that minimize threats of erosion control materials on wildlife.
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Hailey Hester
Forest Wildlife Management |
For her Honors project, Hailey is describing the advertisement calls for the frogs that occur the Gran Chaco ecoregion in Bolivia. While calls of these species have been described from other localities, there are currently no descriptions of the frogs from the Bolivian Chaco. She will compare her findings to past descriptions to examine if there is any geographic variation in call structure in these species.
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Kasey Jobe
Biology |
Kasey also worked on the TPWD snake project to study the impacts of the erosion control materials on snakes.
Currently Kasey is working on another project that is quantifying the predator diversity and predator-prey size relationships of salamanders. |
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Nick Schiwitz
Forest Wildlife Management |
Nick is currently working on a project examining the activity rate and predation risk tradeoff in larval anurans. He is specifically looking at how larval anurans alter their activity level and habitat use in the presence of cues from odonate predators. The objective of this work is to better understand the how interspecific variation in activity rate corresponds to distributions of different species along the hydroperiod gradient.
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Dylan Thompson
Forest Wildlife Management |
Dylan is investigating the functional role of the Little Brown Skink (Scincella lateralis) in East Texas forest food webs. He is quantifying the abundance, biomass, and occupancy of skinks across a forest management gradient. Results from his project will provide insights into energy flow and food web structure in managed forests.
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Krista Ward
Biology |
Krista is working on a project testing the effects of installation method of erosion control blankets on snake entanglement. She's also helping to classify the diversity of available erosion control products based on their attributes. Results from this project will be used to develop best practices for soil erosion control while minimizing risk to wildlife.
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Collaborators
Mike Cove - Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University
Lee Fitzgerald - Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University
Dan Leavitt - Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, U.S. Navy
Tom Luhring - Department of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska
Carmen Montaña - Department of Biological Sciences, Sam Houston State University
Dan Saenz - Southern Research Station, U.S. Forest Service
Ronald Sosa - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Lee Fitzgerald - Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University
Dan Leavitt - Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, U.S. Navy
Tom Luhring - Department of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska
Carmen Montaña - Department of Biological Sciences, Sam Houston State University
Dan Saenz - Southern Research Station, U.S. Forest Service
Ronald Sosa - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
