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‘Life as Research Scientist’: Grant Connette, Population Biologist

By BlogArenaMarch 2, 2014Education, Interview, Media, Naturegrant connette, indicator species, movement behavior, population biologist, population dynamics, raymond semlitsch, salamander, salamander populations decline, terrestrial salamander, timber production

Grant Connette received a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology from Davidson College in 2008. In the Fall of 2009 he began a Ph.D. program in Biology at the University of Missouri. His general research interests include various aspects of the population ecology, movement behavior, and landscape-scale distributions of animals. Much of his current research focuses on the behavior, population dynamics, and landscape ecology of terrestrial salamanders in forest landscapes managed for timber production. (more…)

Native Delaware: Turkey Trackers

UD researcher works to ensure Delaware’s wild turkey population proliferates

In colonial times, the Eastern wild turkey was abundant in Delaware. But by the late 1800s, wild turkeys were gone, eradicated by over-zealous market hunters and habitat destruction.

Usually, that’s the end of the story for a species. (more…)

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‘Life as Research Scientist’: Grant Connette, Population Biologist

Native Delaware: Turkey Trackers