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Congratulations to Shauna Sayers on a successful defense of her thesis, “Density estimates, interactions, and habitat use of two endemic endangered rodents in response to invasive species in the Florida Keys, USA”.

Dr. Pease recently presented early findings on bird responses to eclipses for SIU’s Journey to the Sun series. You can view the recording here

Recent research led by former graduate student and lab member, Rebecca Ducay, on how audio correction filters affect acoustic indicies was publsihed this week in Ecological Indicators. A copy of the article is available here Congratulations, Rebecca!

Drs. Brent Pease and Guillaume Bastille-Rousseau at Southern Illinois University seek 2 Ph.D.-level Graduate Research Assistants (GRA) to study wild turkey gobbling chronology and nesting phenology in Illinois. Please see the complete posting here and reach out with any questions!

Kelly Crandall’s article, Human-derived food shrinks home ranges and alters resource selection of mammals at the urban-wild interface, was published today in Food Webs. We documented decrease in space use in developed areas in mesopredators in an island ecosystem.

Today we published an updated range distribution map for chuck-will’s-widow to include Illinois - a state previously overlooked despite decades of consistent occurrence. This effort was a collaboration across research universities and Illinois DNR employees.

The 4th annual Saluki BioBlitz will take place on August 30th at SIU’s main campus and Touch of Nature. To join the iNaturalist project, click here. To read more about the project and how to participate, check out our Campus Biodiversity.

Recent research led by former graduate student Elaine Metz (now PhD Student at Virginia Tech) highlighting changes in the distribution of two nightjar species in southern Illinois was published today in Avian Conservation and Ecology.

Recent research led by Dr. Brent Pease showing how ecological scales of effect vary across space and time using a 20-year continuous dataset was published today in Ecography.

Four graduate students in the PEASE Lab successfully defended their theses during Spring 2024! Congratulations to Kylie Bosch, Shasta Corvus, Kelly Crandall, and Rebecca Ducay on completing their degrees. Kylie is now a migratory bird biologist for the Kentucky DNR.