Miami University Natural Areas behind the scene(ry): a Q-and-A with ecologist Dave Gorchov and field manager Nancy Feakes. (link to Miami University News story) Abby Hay successfully defended her MS thesis, "Individual and interactive effects of white-tailed deer and woody invasive plants on native tree seedlings in an early-successional forest," July 20, 2023
Elea Cooper featured by College of Arts and Science for her undergraduate research. Read the story here.
Images from trail camerasStudents in our lab placed trail cameras in the Miami University Natural Areas to quantify the activity of white-tailed deer and explore correlations with tree seedling density, diversity, and browse damage. From these cameras we also have evidence of deer browse on invasive shrubs. We also see squirrels, raccoons, and the occasional wild turkey, coyote, and even a bobcat!
Marco Donoso succesfully defended his Botany MS thesis, "Long-term impacts of the interactive effects of the invasive shrub, Lonicera maackii, and white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus, on woody vegetation," July 2022
Hanna Leonard successfully defended her Honors Thesis in Biology, May 2022
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Department of Biology Miami University Oxford, OH 45056 Advisor, Co-major in Environmental Sciences Chair, Miami University Natural Areas Committee 180 Pearson Hall Office Hours Spring 2024: Mondays 11 am - 12 pm and Thursdays 2-3 pm Logan Perez presented his findings on "Litter size in white-tailed deer determined by trail camera imagery" at the August 5, 2023 REU (Research Experiences of Undergraduates) symposium Ecology in Human-Dominated LandscapesMS student Abby Hay (left) wins Directors' Award at Five Rivers MetroParks' 3 Minute Thesis event, December 2022.
Click here for the video. Read Sam Norton's article in The Miami Student Magazine Spring 2023 explaining this significance of his 'capture' of this bobcat. Watch the bobcat video on youtube or re-tweet it from Twitter WVXU story on bobcat video and white-tailed deer monitoring in Miami University Natural Areas Miami University news story on bobcat video and deer management in Miami University Natural Areas The Greenacres Foundation awards a research grant to David Gorchov for "Improving restoration of forest understory: experimental deer exclosure, invasive plant management, and enrichment planting," June 2022. Field work will begin in Fall 2022 in Greenacres Foundation woodlots in Indian Hills, Ohio.
Oxford Observer article by Jillian Inks Kallie Koon successfully defended her MS thesis in Botany, "White-tailed deer impacts on tree regeneration and plant species composition in the Cincinnati Parks," May 2022 |
Dave Gorchov and co-authors publish a review paper on interactive effects of invasive plants and abundant white-tailed deer in Biological Invasions
Janet Deardorff defended her MS thesis, July 8, 2019 - and manuscript published October 2020 in Biological Invasions
Goldenseal added to IUCN Red List as 'vulnerable.' Research by former graduate students Margie Mulligan and Deanna Christensen used in the assessment. Goldenseal species account.
Christina Haffey defends her Honors thesis, Dec. 8, 2017. Christina graduates with University and Departmental Honors!
Chris Dolanc gives Biology Department seminar on Dec. 7, 2017. Chris completed his MS with me in 2001, went on to a PhD at the University of California, Davis, studying changes in forest composition due to fire and climate change over the past century in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and now teaches at Mercyhurst University.
with grad students (& former grad student), April 2013