Adam's research is focused on adaptive management of wildlife populations and their habitats. He is particularly interested in how environmental change structures wildlife communities and how these changes also affect population demographics (e.g., survival, population growth).
Adam's research lab is currently investigating how active management of invasive hybrid cattails (T. x glauca) affect the distribution of semiaquatic mammals and shore birds in the boundary waters of Minnesota, USA.
Subject area
- Wildlife and outdoors management
Research interests:
- Understanding how occupancy and abundance dynamics of muskrats are influenced by wetland isolation, wetland quality, and matrix composition
- What affects the the spatial distribution and persistence of swift fox populations on the fringes of their geographic range?
- Can muskrats serve as a native biocontrol for invasive-hybrid cattail expansions?
- Quantifying the effects of invasive-hybrid cattail (T. x glauca) expansions on native wetland biodiversity
- Investigating how landscape composition and intraguild competition structure carnivore communities
- Inferring population dynamics from wildlife harvest data
- Determining factors that affect hunter recruitment, retention and reactivation (R3)
