Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/amayfield02

Email:

albert.e.mayfield@usda.gov

Address:

200 W.T. Weaver Blvd
Asheville, NC 28804-3454

Phone:

828-257-4358

Fax:

828-257-4313

Featured Publications

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/whaag

Email:

wendell.haag@usda.gov

Address:

Center for Mollusk Conservation, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
3761 Georgetown Road
Frankfort, KY 40601

Phone:

502-573-0330 x228

Mobile Phone:

859-707-4263

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Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/tracyjohnson

Email:

tracy.johnson@usda.gov

Address:

PO Box 236
Volcano, HI 96785

Phone:

808-967-7122

Featured Publications

1. Miconia biocontrol: Where are we going and when will we get there?
2. Insects that feed on Miconia calvescens in Costa Rica
3. Host range of Secusio extensa (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae), and potential for biological control of Senecio madagascariensis (Asteraceae)
4. Biology and host preferences of Cryptorhynchus melastomae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a possible biocontrol agent for Miconia calvescens (Melastomataceae) in Hawaii
5. Repelling invaders: Hawaiian foresters use ecology to counter invasive species

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/bkerns

Email:

becky.kerns@usda.gov

Address:

3200 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis, OR 97331-8550

Phone:

541-750-7497

Featured Publications

1. Complex restoration challenges: weeds, seeds, and roads in a forested wildland urban interface
2. Reintroducing fire into a ponderosa pine forest with and without cattle grazing: understory vegetation response
3. Managing uncertainty in climate-driven ecological models to inform adaptation to climate change
4. Season and severity of prescribed burn in ponderosa pine forests: implications for understory native and exotic plants.
5. Risk assessment for biodiversity conservation planning in Pacific Northwest forests
6. Modeling Tamarisk (Tamarix spp.) habitat and climate change effects in the northwestern United States

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/jkilgo

Email:

john.kilgo@usda.gov

Address:

P.O Box 700
New Ellenton, SC 29809

Phone:

803-725-0561

Fax:

803-725-0311

Featured Publications

1. Can coyotes affect deer populations in southeastern North America?
2. Predation by coyotes on white-tailed deer neonates in South Carolina
3. Factors affecting breeding season survival of red-headed woodpeckers in South Carolina
4. Can snag creation benefit a primary cavity nester: response to an experimental pulse in snag abundance
5. Quantitative analysis of woodpecker habitat using high-resolution airborne LiDAR estimates of forest structure and composition

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/rlucardi

Email:

rima.lucardi@usda.gov

Address:

320 Green Street
Athens, GA 30602-2044

Phone:

706-559-4278

Fax:

318-473-7222

Featured Publications

1. Seeds attached to refrigerated shipping containers represent a substantial risk of nonnative plant species introduction and establishment
2. An initial industrial flora: A framework for botanical research in cooperation with industry for biodiversity conservation
3. Successful invasions and failed biocontrol: the role of antagonistic species interactions
4. Evaluating hybridization as a potential facilitator of successful cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica) invasion in Florida, USA
5. Native or non‐native? Historical biogeography of an emergent forest pest, Matsucoccus macrocicatrices
6. Extant population genetic variation and structure of eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) in the Southern Appalachians
7. Natural sources and bioactivities of 2,4-Di-tert-butylphenol and its analogs

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/dpearson

Email:

dean.pearson@usda.gov

Address:

800 East Beckwith Avenue
Missoula, MT 59801

Phone:

406-542-4159

Featured Publications

1. Seed size predicts global effects of small mammal seed predation on plant recruitment
2. Life in interstitial space: Biocrusts inhibit exotic but not native plant establishment in semi-arid grasslands
3. Community assembly theory as a framework for biological invasions
4. The fluctuating resource hypothesis explains invasibility, but not exotic advantage following disturbance
5. Are invasive plants more abundant in the introduced versus native range?
6. The tortoise and the hare: Reducing resource availability shifts competitive balance between plant species
7. Spicing up restoration: Can chili peppers improve restoration seeding by reducing seed predation?
8. Biotic resistance via granivory: Establishment by invasive, naturalized, and native asters reflects generalist preference
9. Quantifying "apparent" impact and distinguishing impact from invasiveness in multispecies plant invasions
10. Secondary invasion: The bane of weed management

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/jrothlisberger

Email:

john.rothlisberger@usda.gov

Address:

1400 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20250-0003

Phone:

202-365-4062

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Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/mkschwartz

Email:

michael.k.schwartz@usda.gov

Address:

800 East Beckwith Avenue
Missoula, MT 59801

Phone:

406-542-4161

Fax:

406-543-2663

Featured Publications

1. Modeling the effects of dispersal and patch size on predicted fisher (Pekania [Martes] pennanti) distribution in the U.S. Rocky Mountains
2. Stand- and landscape-scale selection of large trees by fishers in the Rocky Mountains of Montana and Idaho
3. Using environmental DNA sampling to monitor the invasion of nonnative Esox lucius (northern pike) in the Columbia River basin, USA
4. Using environmental DNA methods to improve winter surveys for rare carnivores: DNA from snow and improved noninvasive techniques
5. Integrative taxonomy refutes a species hypothesis: The asymmetric hybrid origin of Arsapnia arapahoe (Plecoptera, Capniidae)
6. Estimating abundance of a cryptic social carnivore using spatially explicit capture-recapture
7. Demographic fragmentation of a protected wolverine population bisected by a major transportation corridor
8. eDNA sampling: Not just for fisheries biologists anymore
9. Marine mammal subspecies in the age of genetics: Introductory remarks from the Associate Editor and Editor-in-Chief of Marine Mammal Science
10. Trade-offs and efficiencies in optimal budget-constrained multispecies corridor networks

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/mkyoung

Email:

michael.k.young@usda.gov

Address:

800 East Beckwith Avenue
Missoula, MT 59801-5801

Phone:

406-542-3254

Fax:

406-543-2663

Featured Publications

1. Climate, demography, and zoogeography predict introgression thresholds in salmonid hybrid zones in Rocky Mountain streams
2. The cold-water climate shield: Delineating refugia for preserving salmonid fishes through the 21st century
3. DNA barcoding at riverscape scales: Assessing biodiversity among fishes of the genus Cottus (Teleostei) in northern Rocky Mountain streams
4. Evidence of climate-induced range contractions in bull trout Salvelinus confluentus in a Rocky Mountain watershed, U.S.A.
5. Cottus schitsuumsh, a new species of sculpin (Scorpaeniformes: Cottidae) in the Columbia River basin, Idaho-Montana, USA
6. Patch size but not short-term isolation influences occurrence of westslope cutthroat trout above human-made barriers
7. Understanding environmental DNA detection probabilities: A case study using a stream-dwelling char Salvelinus fontinalis
8. Slow climate velocities of mountain streams portend their role as refugia for cold-water biodiversity
9. Sampling large geographic areas for rare species using environmental DNA: A study of bull trout Salvelinus confluentus occupancy in western Montana
10. Patterns of hybridization among cutthroat trout and rainbow trout in northern Rocky Mountain streams