A bit behind, but Sofia Orlando successfully defended her MS thesis, Small Mammal Community Structure and Bait Preference in Missouri Prairie Patches, this summer.
Congrats Sofia!
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Congrats Morgan!
On Friday 23 April, Morgan successfully presented her thesis that examined data on small mammals in prairie habitats in SW Missouri.
New paper from the lab… Congrats Emily!
A chunk of Emily Beasley’s thesis is now out in Journal of Mammalogy (https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz102). The paper covers her two seasons of sampling in Ozark glades and documents species composition and turn-over during that time.
Small mammal community composition varies among Ozark glades
Emily M Beasley, Sean P Maher
J Mammal, Volume 100, Issue 6, 19 December 2019, Pages 1774–1782, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz102
Congrats Paige!
At the Central Plains Society of Mammalogists meeting in Cape Girardeau, MO this month, Paige Harman received an award for her poster examining potential short-tailed shrew distribution in Missouri. Congrats!
New paper on mammalian traits associated with Ebola detection
In August, our paper analyzing traits associated with mammals exposed to Ebola lineages was published. We collated information from published reports on detection and then used boosted regression trees to examine trends associated with species that have tested positive for Ebola. The mammals infected tended to be large, frugivorous, and had slow life-histories.
JP Schmidt, SP Maher, JM Drake, T Huang, MJ Farrell and BA Han. Ecological indicators of mammal exposure to Ebolavirus 374 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0337
Congrats Casey!
Casey Adkins successfully defended her thesis evaluating tick distribution in southwest Missouri (aka there are plenty of Lone-star ticks out there). Casey is off to Nevada-Reno in the fall to start her PhD this fall.
New paper in Journal of Biogeography!
A new paper led by Tom Giarla is now available from Journal of Biogeography, and investigates the genetic structure of Maxomys musschenbroekii and potential mechanisms to explain patterns. Other authors include Anang S. Achmadi, Meagan K. Moore, Mark T. Swanson, Kevin C. Rowe, and Jacob A. Esselstyn
Giarla TC, Maher SP, Achmadi AS, et al. Isolation by marine barriers and climate explain areas of endemism in an island rodent. J Biogeogr. 2018;00:1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13392
Congrats Stephanie!
Stephanie Sickler successfully defended her thesis, “Long-term trends of stream fish community assemblages in southern Missouri with contemporary land use impacts” on 8 May! She collected fish community data at 45 sites in SW Missouri and analyzed how the communities differ with varying land-use at three spatial scales. Further, she examined patterns of fish occupancy based on 46 years of Ichthyology class surveys (plus her sampling). Stephanie is headed to South Dakota for a technician job this summer.
Congrats Emily!
Recent grad Emily Beasley was awarded the Annie Alexander Award to attend this year’s American Society of Mammalogists Meeting.
http://www.mammalogy.org/committees/honoraria-and-travel-awards#tab2
Congrats Emily!
Emily successfully defended her thesis and graduated last semester, and now is off to bigger things. Her work included testing predictions of island biogeography using small mammals on glades, and a comparison of ectoparasite and small mammal community structure. She’s headed to South Carolina for a field position as she awaits to hear about future graduate positions.
Maher Lab - Computational Wildlife Ecology 