Research Projects

 

Current

Plant

The effect of riparian forested corridors on native biodiversity in suburban and agricultural landscapes

Invertebrate

The impact of alien plants on native insect herbivores

The influence of native plants on arthropod population dynamics: can natives enhance conservation biological control?

Taxonomy and systematics of Delphacodes planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) of the New World

Assessment of total Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera: Insecta) richness for the GSMNP and initiative to develop web-based resources.

Biological control of mile-a-minute weed

Biological Control of kudzu

Avian

Mercury contamination in tidal marsh birds of Delaware Bay

Monitoring breeding bird communities to assess forest condition in Mid-Atlantic National Parks

Development of avian rapid assessment metrics to monitor salt marsh integrity

The effects of atmospheric deposition on a Delaware forest bird community

An assessment of wintering bird use of Wetland Reserve Program restored wetlands in California using NEXRAD weather radar

Impact of exotic plants on bird populations in suburban forest fragments

Resident Canada geese nesting and brood ecology

A predictive habitat model for northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) in Delaware

Determining food use and time/energy budgets of wintering and staging Atlantic brant

Estimating habitat carrying capacity for American black ducks wintering in southern New Jersey

The effect of white-tailed deer density on forest songbirds

Mammal

The effect of deer browsing on bearded and unbearded wheat yield

A spatial explicit model of the white-tailed deer population in Delaware

 

Completed 2008

Invertebrate

A generic revision of the New World Dictyopharinae (Hemiptera: Dictyopharidae)

Avian

Salt marsh bird community responses to open marsh water management

Winter ecology of northern bobwhite in New Jersey

Breeding ecology of northern bobwhite in New Jersey

 

Completed 2007

Invertebrate

Evaluating the effect of amendments and landscape position on the biotic community of constructed depressional wetlands

Avian

Seasonal food availability for wintering and migrating dabbling ducks and its implications for management at the Hackensack Meadowlands of New Jersey

The effects of long piers on birds using tidal wetlands in Worcester County, Maryland

 

Completed 2006

Mammal

The efficacy of controlled hunts for managing white-tailed deer in an exurban landscape

 

Completed 2003

Herpetological

The ecology of the eastern box turtle in a fragmented landscape