Ecologist & conservation scientist | PhD from @UWEnvironment on the #WAPredatorPreyProject | MS from @EnvironmentYale | tweets & typos my own (she/her)
Happy and proud to share that the last paper from my dissertation, “White-tailed deer population dynamics in a multi-predator landscape shaped by humans,” is published in @ESAApplications 🦌🐺🌲👩🌾
Reach out if you’d like a copy, and follow along for a 🧵
https://t.co/GH9WKqY2jD
Had a great conversation with @BloodOriginsCan about our latest study on white-tailed deer from the #WAPredatorPreyProject. Tune in to their newest podcast episode to hear all about it!
Dr. Taylor Renee Ganz joins the show to talk about her research in the Washington Predator Prey Project.
Available on The Hunter Conservationist Podcast
Happy to share our new paper out today!! 🦌🔥🌳
We investigate the plasticity of deer movement and behavior following a major megafire in Northern California @HoplandREC. TL;DR : Deer can adjust their behaviors to keep up with a rapidly changing landscape!
https://t.co/zb7j8CjJOY
We just released the model to extract snow depth from snow pole images! 🥳Paper: https://t.co/7OMD3dgvPL . Big big thank you to my fellow coauthors @LauraPrugh, Carrie Vuyovich @space_potato, Ryan Currier @wcurrier, & Zhongqi Miao, as well as @NASAGoddard@cv4ecology
Latest pub from my dissertation out now in @ESAEcosphere! As #wildfire size distributions shift, we ask how burn severity patterns (& #ecological effects) might differ if an area is burned in many small 🔥 vs few large 🔥.
Great summary by @NW_CASC here: https://t.co/fP5CfOHMPS
#WAPredatorPreyProject research in the @SpokesmanReview! Study: Food availability more important than predators for white-tailed deer in northeast Washington (and predators are important too!) https://t.co/V7SflMULfz
Our latest media tip sheet covers recent research from @ESAApplications, @ESAEcosphere & @ESAFrontiers, including:
🌲The potential for pines in Alaska
🦌Washington's white-tailed deer
🐝Honey bees: overwinter disease reservoir
🦜Crowdsourcing bird records
https://t.co/QOJ11Gesmk
Happy and proud to share that the last paper from my dissertation, “White-tailed deer population dynamics in a multi-predator landscape shaped by humans,” is published in @ESAApplications 🦌🐺🌲👩🌾
Reach out if you’d like a copy, and follow along for a 🧵
https://t.co/GH9WKqY2jD
My co-authors @LauraPrugh, @S_Bassing, @LabGardner, Aaron Wirsing, and Lauren Satterfield of @UW_SEFS, Melia DeVivo, Brian Kertson, and Ben Turnock of @WDFW, Lisa Shipley (WSU), and Savanah Walker and Derek Abrahamson (Spokane Tribe) added so much value to this work. 🙏 (9/9)
Habitat was the MOST important influence on the deer population growth rate. Recently (< 20 yrs) logged forests had 55% more biomass of understory plants (deer food), leading to higher deer survival. If the habitat for deer improves, their population should increase. (3/9)
Huge thanks to our #WAPredatorPreyProject team, including our field crews who captured 400+ animals, conducted 250+ habitat surveys and dissected 100+ deer. Thanks to local landowners who provided property access, and generous funders like @RMEF. (8/9)
We collared 280 deer, 33 bobcats, 50 cougars, 28 coyotes, and 14 wolves in NE WA (2016-2021), tracking their survival, reproduction, and movement. The deer population was stable to slightly declining over the study period, but what drove this trend? (2/9)