November 19, 2021
November 19, 2021
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Ecology and Conservation of Ungulate Migration
Ecology and Conservation of Ungulate Migration
Dr. Jerod Merkle
Dr. Jerod Merkle
Professor, University of Wyoming
Abstract
Abstract
From one million wildebeest traversing the Serengeti to hundreds of thousands of caribou navigating the open tundra, ungulate migrations have captivated humans for centuries. With continued deployment of GPS collars over the last few decades, we’ve made leaps and bounds in our scientific understanding of ungulate migration. In this talk, I will take you on a tour of Wyoming’s ungulate migrations, detailing new and exciting discoveries while recounting their conservation story. I aim to leave you with a renewed excitement for big, open landscapes and the animals that traverse them, as well as some hope for a conservation-oriented future.
Biosketch
Biosketch
Jerod is the Knobloch Professor of Migration Ecology and Conservation within the Department of Zoology and Physiology at the University of Wyoming. He is also a research associate with the Wyoming Migration Initiative. Jerod is a quantitative wildlife ecologist with broad interests in understanding how the movement of animals relates to environmental heterogeneity and change, and how these interactions scale to population- and landscape-level ecological processes. Jerod’s specific research foci include movement and migration ecology, fitness consequences of behavior, how cognition and innovation influence foraging behavior, and conservation and management of large mammals.
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