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Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# overview
My research interest is in quantitative population ecology, with a particular emphasis on understanding the dynamics of fish and wildlife populations. My studies focus on individual and population level processes because I believe a deeper knowledge of these processes will lead to a deeper understanding of how the environment affects ecological processes.

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Associate Professor and Associate Department Head

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Mass Dependent Mortality And Birth Rates

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology - (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)

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Analysis of size trajectory data using an energetic-based growth model

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Climate-related factors cause changes in the diversity of fish and invertebrates in subtropical coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

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Understanding the interplay between density dependent birth function and maturation time delay using a reaction-diffusion population model

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A GENERAL APPROACH TO TEMPORARY EMIGRATION IN MARKRECAPTURE ANALYSIS

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Climate-related factors cause changes in the diversity of fish and invertebrates in subtropical coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

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Mass-dependent energetics and survival in Harbour Seal pups

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Assessment of Spatiotemporal Phytoplankton Composition in Relation to Environmental Conditions of Gorgan Bay, Iran

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Assessment of a small-scale fishery: Lane Snapper (Lutjanus synagris) using a length metric method.

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On the estimation of dispersal kernels from individual mark-recapture data

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Selection of trilateral continuums of life history strategies under food web interactions.

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Constructing stage-structured matrix population models from life tables: comparison of methods.

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Harpacticoid copepods: potential link between inbound adult salmon and outbound juvenile salmon

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Demographic diversity and sustainable fisheries.

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Incorporating demographic diversity into food web models: Effects on community structure and dynamics

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Effects of an autocorrelated stochastic environment and fisheries on the age at maturity of Chinook salmon

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Dynamics of a predator-prey interaction with seasonal reproduction and continuous predation

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Minimum viable population size and population growth rate of freshwater fishes and their relationships with life history traits.

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Persistent problems in the construction of matrix population models

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Climate change linked to functional homogenization of a subtropical estuarine system.

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Growth autocorrelation and animal size variation

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Declining survival probability threatens the North Atlantic right whale.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Regime shift in fish assemblage structure in the Yangtze River following construction of the Three Gorges Dam

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Demographic heterogeneity, cohort selection, and population growth.

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Life-history traits and temporal patterns in the incidence of coastal fishes experiencing tropicalization

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Interaction between Penaeid Shrimp and Fish Populations in the Gulf of Mexico: Importance of Shrimp as Forage Species.

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A general approach to temporary emigration in mark-recapture analysis

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Identifying interactions among salmon populations from observed dynamics.

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Seasonal patterns of habitat suitability and spatiotemporal overlap within an assemblage of estuarine predators and prey

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Juvenile growth and mortality effects on white shrimp Litopenaeus setiferus population dynamics in the northern Gulf of Mexico

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A coupled recreational anglers' decision and fish population dynamics model.

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Mean and variance of population density and temporal Taylor's law in stochastic stage-structured density-dependent models of exploited fish populations

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Demography and population trends of Whooping Cranes

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Identifying environmental signals from population abundance data using multivariate time-series analysis

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Ecology. North Atlantic right whales in crisis.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Demography of the endangered North Atlantic right whale.

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Finding regulation among seemingly unregulated populations: a practical framework for analyzing multivariate population time series for their interactions

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Effects of Ceratomyxosis on Population Dynamics of Klamath Fall-Run Chinook Salmon

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Estimating mortality for the assessment of a small-scale fishery: Lane snapper (Lutjanus synagris) in Honduras

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Estimating population projection matrices from multi-stage mark-recapture data

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Development of a Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle Stock Assessment Model

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Transient population dynamics and viable stage or age distributions for effective conservation and recovery

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The effects of disease-induced juvenile mortality on the transient and asymptotic population dynamics of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).

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The impact of dams on the population viability of a migratory fish in the Yangtze River, China

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Climate effects on fish diversity in the subtropical bays of Texas

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ESTIMATING POPULATION PROJECTION MATRICES FROM MULTISTAGE MARKRECAPTURE DATA

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Beyond survival estimation: Mark-recapture, matrix population models, and population dynamics

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Changes in taxonomic and functional diversity of fish communities after catastrophic habitat alteration caused by construction of Three Gorges Dam.

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A mathematical model to investigate the effects of fishing zone configurations and mass dependent rates on biomass yield: Application to brown shrimp in Gulf of Mexico

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Lethal and sub-lethal effects of the insecticide fipronil on juvenile brown shrimp Farfantepenaeus aztecus.

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Comprehensive Evaluation of Survival and Population Growth for Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Mississippi Sound, USA, following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

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DEMOGRAPHY AND DISPERSAL OF JUVENILE AND ADULT BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS (MOLOTHRUS ATER) IN THE EASTERN SIERRA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, ESTIMATED USING MULTISTATE MODELS

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Identification of larval stages of fish in southeastern coastal waters of the Caspian Sea- Golestan Province

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The adverse effects of the phenylpyrazole, fipronil, on juvenile white shrimp Litopenaeus setiferus.

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Effects of insecticides, fipronil and imidacloprid, on the growth, survival, and behavior of brown shrimp Farfantepenaeus aztecus.

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Ubm-Institutional: Integrated Undergraduate Research Experiences In Biological and Mathematical Sciences

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Understanding the role of demographic diversity on dynamics and structure of food webs

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National Institute of Food and Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Effects of physical environment conditions on the species distribution and composition of marine fish and invertebrates along the Texas coast.-

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences; 2258 TAMU

# organizations[]
Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management

# schools[]
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# etdChairOf[].label
Sun, Mengmeng (2013-05). Regional Climate Effect on Population Abundance of Major Duck Species in Interior Plains of Canada. Master's Thesis.

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Zhou, Can (2015-07). A Predator-prey System with Seasonal Reproduction: Theoretical and Statistical Developments. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Piper, Cyrenea Bragdon (2017-11). Size and Density-Dependent Survival in a Brown Shrimp (Farfantepenaeus aztecus) Population. Master's Thesis.

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Shankara Narayana Rao, Bheemaiah Veena (2016-10). On a Spatiotemporal Population Dynamics Model to Track Density and Average Mass: Application to Brown Shrimp (Farfantepenaeus aztecus) in Gulf of Mexico. Doctoral Dissertation.