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Fisheries & Aquatic EcologyListed below are research topics and faculty members to contact.

Topics

  • Ecology of streams and rivers
  • Fisheries science
  • Population and community ecology of riverine fishes
  • Movement patterns and habitat relationships of riverine fishes
  • Management of recreational fisheries
  • Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote sensing applications in fisheries

Topics Continued

  • Role of predation risk, competition, and abiotic factors in structuring food webs in aquatic systems
  • How fish optimize their habitat selection and diet in the face of competitive and predatory pressures
  • How changes in habitat selection or diet by a species affects (directly or indirectly)other species in the system

Fisheries & Aquatic Ecology Contacts

Jim Long

Fisheries and Aquatic Ecology
longjm@okstate.edu

Daniel Shoup

Fisheries and Aquatic Ecology
daniel.shoup@okstate.edu


Forest ResourcesListed below are research topics and faculty to contact.

Ecohydrology

  • Plant, soil, and water interactions
  • Soil moisture dynamics and redistribution
  • Woody plant expansion and eco-hydrological impact
  • Coupling of carbon and water cycles
  • Ecosystem fluxes of CO2 and H20
  • Eddy covariance technique

 

Forest and other Natural Resource Management

Stated and revealed preference methods in natural resource valuation

  • Timber price and market forecasting
  • Timber growth projections and economic valuation
  • Economics of wood-based bioenergy
  • Input-output modeling of forest and related industries
  • Family forest landownership's in United States
  • Community and social forestry issues

Forest Biometrics

  • Modeling growth and development of naturally-occurring shortleaf pine forests
  • Sampling and monitoring trees and shrubs in great plains riparian ecosystems
  • Evaluation of restoration of shortleaf pine - bluestem forest type (pre-settlement forest type)
  • Polyareal plot sampling and growth estimation from permanently established sample points
  • Distance sampling for forest inventory
  • Estimation of volume, product yield, weight, center of gravity and moment of inertia for individual tree-length stems and logs
  • Growth and development of intensively managed loblolly pine plantations

Forest Ecophysiology & Silviculture

  • Water relations, carbon and nitrogen metabolism of forest plants
  • Factors controlling vegetation dynamics
  • Water uptake and transfer in trees
  • Relations between root morphology and anatomical structures
  • Hydraulic properties of pine and oak
  • Effects of environmental stress on tree and forest stand
  • Effects of silvicultural treatments on growth, productivity, and physiology of forest stands
  • Environmental effects on the photosynthesis and respiration of trees
  • Canopy dynamics of forest stands
  • Effects of global climate change on trees and forests

Forest Resources Contacts

Rod Will

Forest Ecophysiology / Silviculture
rodney.will@okstate.edu

Lu Zhai

Assistant Professor
lu.zhai@okstate.edu

Chris Zou

Professor Ecohydrology
chris.zou@okstate.edu

Rangeland Ecology & ManagementThe Grassland Management Graduate Certificate is a 12-credit graduate certificate offered completely online. Students are required to enroll in three core courses (7 credits) and two elective courses (at least 5 credits) to earn the certificate.

Topics

  • Grazing behavior and animal performance
  • Targeted grazing
  • Plant animal interactions
  • Integrated plant management
  • Ecological restoration
  • Conservation of native plant communities
  • Sustainable use for products and services
  • Landscape ecology
  • Plant-animal interactions
  • Wildlife habitat ecology
  • Community ecology
  • Rangeland monitoring
  • Landscape management

Topics

  • Ecological succession
  • Diversity of rangeland
  • Grazing ecology
  • Conservation grazing
  • Rangeland management
  • Invasive plant species (Old World Bluestems, tall fescue, Serica lespedeza)
  • Fire Ecology
  • Grassland ecology
  • Social-ecological resilience
  • Eastern redcedar ecology and management
  • Large-scale conservation
  • Sociology of conservation management

Rangeland Ecology & Management Contacts

Wildlife Ecology and Management

Topics

  • Upland Bird Ecology & Management
  • Large-scale conservation partnerships
  • Wildlife damage management
  • Ecology and management of avian species, with an emphasis on wetland and grassland species
  • Ecology and management of terrestrial invertebrates
  • Grassland bird responses to different grazing practices
  • Ecology and recovery of endangered Ozark big eared bats, interior least terns, and red-cockaded woodpeckers
  • Assessment of the status of lesser prairie-chickens
  • Resource conservation and management in Romania and Poland
  • Effects of habitat alterations on wildlife populations
  • Field studies of breeding songbirds
  • Habitat loss and degradation
  • Landscape ecology
  • Ecology and management of upland game birds
  • Bobwhite thermal ecology, nesting success and behavior, nocturnal ecology
  • Modeling of operative temperatures on landscapes, and response of populations to forest management practices
  • Human-caused accidental mortality of birds (e.g. collisions with man-made structures, predation by pets, poisoning
  • Effects of invasive species on bird habitats
  • Urban ecology of bird populations and communities
  • Ecology of arthropod borne diseases for which birds are reservoir hosts

Topics

Behavior, Ecology, & Conservation of Large Mammals

    • Red wolves in Texas, giant anteaters in Brazil and American bison
    • Captive mammals, mainly primates, at the Tulsa and Oklahoma City Zoos
    • Analysis of media coverage of environmental issues
    • Habitat selection and behavior of ungulates and black bear
    • Population ecology of ungulates and black bear
    • Seed dispersal by bison in tall grass prairie
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