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Dr. Brent Pease and colleagues recently published an article in Diversity and Distributions, What drives spatially varying ecological relationships in a wide-ranging species? - check out the open-access article here!

The Sounds of Nature was recently featured in several news outlets. Click here to read the story!

Dr. Brent Pease was recently interviewed for his work on the economic impact of the vagrant Steller’s Sea Eagle in North America by The University of Maine’s Maine Sea Grant program on the radio show, Coastal Conversations.

Shasta Corvus has joined our lab to contribute to our bird monitoring initiative across Illinois - welcome, Shasta!

Our lab is recruiting for a M.S. student to apply cutting edge quantitative techniques to study swamp rabbit distrubiton across Missouri. To see more details on the position and how to apply, click here.

Drs. Clay Nielsen, Guillaume Bastille-Rousseau, and Brent Pease at Southern Illinois University seek 3 Ph.D.-level Graduate Research Assistants (GRA) to study carnivore ecology in Illinois. Please see the complete posting here and reach out with any questions!

Our lab is recruiting an MS student to assess the movement patterns of mesopredators in association with supplemental human foods and invasive predators in an island ecosystem. Field work based in Key Largo, Florida and academic home at Southern Illinois University.

New research published in Citizen Science: Theory and Practice on the spatial biases and sample size of a statewide citizen science project. This is work related to our camera trapping project in North Carolina, USA - North Carolina Candid Critters.

Our lab is recruiting an MS or PhD student to estimate distribution and abundance of avian species of conservation concern in southern Illinois. Using point counts and acoustic recorders, the student will work to understand drivers of decline in aerial insectivores across the region.

New research published in Biological Conservation on the consideration of accounting for dietary traits in multispecies hierarchical models. Check it out here