Patuxent's Effects of Ecological Processes and Human Impacts on Biological Resources--Landscape and Ecosystem Management

This includes landscape ecology, management at the ecosystem and watershed scales, human impacts on natural, urban, and other disturbed ecological systems, effects of global climate change.

Active projects include:

Tropical forest conservation plan - Campeche, Mexico

Vertebrate Metapopulation Dynamics: The Interaction Between Fragmentation and Resource Abundance

Development of landscape scale evaluation criteria to assess and protect the biological and ecological integrity of Great Lakes wetlands

Alternative Designs to Protect Aquatic Biota in Urban Environments

Sea level rise, marsh inundation, and wildlife habitat implications

Impacts of selective tree harvesting on the Delmarva fox squirrel

Development of satellite telemetry methods for birds and application to the study of bird migration

Development of methods to translate water and land management practices into physical, hydrological, and biological changes in the riverine corridor

Tri-State Comprehensive Water Management Study: Riverine Habitat Component

Control and Containment of the Brown Tree Snake

Length of Stay, Survival, and Habitat Use of Fall Migrant Sora (Porzana carolina) on the Patuxent River Marsh as Determined by Radio Telemetry

Landscape-level determinants of the distribution and abundance of black ducks wintering in habitats along the Atlantic coast

Evaluation of Methods for Designing Wildlife Studies

Managing the environmental effects of off-road vehicles in Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida

Effects of landscape changes on the Painted Bunting population in the southeastern United States from 1966-1996

Status of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker population on Billy’s Island, Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge

Technical Assistance to the Fish and Wildlife Service, Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture

Application of Satellite Imagery to the Conservation of Neotropical Migrants in Guatemala

Impacts of Land Use Changes on Migratory Nongame Bird Populations

Groundwater withdrawal from municipal wellfields: Ecological effects on aquatic resources of Cape Cod National Seashore

Technical assistance to the National Park Service - Coastal Ecology

Nest Success of Songbirds at Big Bend National Park, Texas