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Mesoniche: investigating carnivore communities and more with remote cameras

Dr. Nyeema Harris
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
7:30-9:00 PM
Gates Lecture Hall, UM Biological Station Map
Michigan’s predatory mammals do a delicate ecological dance. They pursue much of the same prey, but adjust their behavior to reduce direct competition with each other. Little is known about how these mesocarnivores “share” resources and respond to environmental changes such as prey availability, parasite load and density of competitor species. Dr. Nyeema Harris is investigating mesocarnivore community ecology and whether species interactions and community-level relationships are maintained through time.

Her first step is using remote camera traps to document community composition and spatial variation in different Michigan habitats. This lecture will share some of her preliminary findings from the camera traps at the University of Michigan Biological Station and other locations in Michigan’s lower and upper peninsulas.

Nyeema Harris is an Assistant Professor in the University of Michigan’s department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Immediately before coming to U-M, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Luc Hoffmann Institute, WWF International. She also he was an NSF and Chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow in the Environmental Science, Policy and Management Department at University of California, Berkeley. Harris received her PhD from North Carolina State University in 2011 studying the biogeography of carnivores and their parasites.
Building: Gates Lecture Hall, UM Biological Station
Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: Lecture
Source: Happening @ Michigan from University of Michigan Biological Station, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology