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Author:

Norton, Andrew Scott

Title:

AN EVALUATION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA SEX-AGE-KILL MODEL FOR WHITE-TAILED DEER

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

temporal variability
spatial variability
harvest rate
bootstrapping
Sex-Age-Kill
ecology
wildlife
population modeling
white-tailed deer
Odocoileus virginianus
deer
sensitivity
robustness
Pennsylvania
precision

File:

Download Final_draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Duane R Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Duane R Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Stainbrook, David Philip

Title:

METHODS OF ESTIMATING WHITE-TAILED DEER ABUNDANCE AT GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK: TESTING ASSUMPTIONS OF DISTANCE SAMPLING

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

Global Positioning System (GPS)
Lincoln-Petersen
mark-resight
Bowden
abundance
density
bias
non-uniform transects
roads
distance sampling
Odocoileus virginianus
white-tailed deer
resource selection
habitat use
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania

File:

Download Thesis_DPS_final_2011_high_res.pdf

Committee Members:

Duane R Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Duane R Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Keenan, Matthew Thomas

Title:

HUNTER DISTRIBUTION AND HARVEST OF FEMALE WHITE-TAILED DEER IN PENNSYLVANIA

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

harvest
hunter density
hunter distribution
hunting efficiency
hunting mortality
Odocoileus virginianus
Pennsylvania
survival
white-tailed deer
antlerless

File:

Download Keenan_Thesis_Nov2.pdf

Committee Members:

Duane R Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Duane R Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Christensen, Sonja Ann

Title:

MOVEMENT AND HABITAT USE OF SIKA AND WHITE-TAILED DEER ON ASSATEAGUE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE, MARYLAND

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

white-tailed deer
resource selection
Habitat use
sika deer

File:

Download SCHRISTENSEN_THESIS_FINAL2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Duane R Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Buderman, Frances Elizabeth

Title:

A joint Kaplan-Meier known-fate and Brownie tag-recovery model to estimate harvest and survival rates

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

white-tailed deer
deer harvest
deer survival
deer abundance
tag-recovery
known-fate
Kaplan-Meier
wildlife
estimation

File:

Download Buderman_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Duane R Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Barton, Ethan Patrick

Title:

Effects of Marcellus Shale Development on Songbird Abundance and Habitat Use in Northcentral Pennsylvania Forests

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

Marcellus
shale gas
forest
songbirds
biotic homogenization
habitat fragmentation

File:

Download BartonThesis2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Margaret Brittingham Brant, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Walter Matthew Tzilkowski, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Duane R Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Gerard Messina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Vreeland, Wendy Christine

Title:

Dispersal timing, distances, and rates of Pennsylvania black bear

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

black bear
dispersal rates
dispersal distances
dispersal timing
Pennsylvania
population density
range expansion

File:

Download Dispersal_timing_distances_and_rates_of_Pennsylvania_black_bear.pdf

Committee Members:

Duane R Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lutz, Clayton Lee

Title:

Dispersal Behavior in Female White-tailed Deer

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

barriers
chronic wasting disease
disease spread
dispersal
foray
movement
Odocoileus virginianus
Pennsylvania
proximate causes
ultimate causes
white-tailed deer

File:

Download Lutz_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Duane R Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Paola Ferreri, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael John Sheriff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher S Rosenberry, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Gerard Messina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gigliotti, Laura Christine

Title:

Ecology, habitat use, and winter thermal dynamics of snowshoe hares in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

snowshoe hare
Pennsylvania
body condition
survival
home range
habitat use
adaptation
movement

File:

Download Gigliotti_thesis_final_format.pdf

Committee Members:

Duane R Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor