Our research group based at Clemson University is broadly interested in conducting investigations into wildlife ecology and their responses to global change.  Our research, both in the US and abroad, has centered on conducting projects that not only advance ecological theory, but address current problems facing the management of terrestrial wildlife - particularly mammals.  To achieve this, our research often occurs outside of protected areas, incorporating private lands or what we collectively call working conservation landscapes. Please click on the links at the top of the page for more information about us, where we work, and projects we have undertaken.

News

Post-doctoral fellow Sara Bombaci accepted a tenure track faculty position at Colorado State University.  Congratulations Sara!

Our 2019 Montana Summer Program wrapped up in June.  What a great month in the Great Plains with our undergraduate students!

Sara Bombaci was awarded the prestigious Murray F. Buell Award for Excellence in Ecology from the Ecological Society of America

We are proud of undergraduate researcher grant award winner Erin McDaniel and her of research on the effects of pine thinning on forage quality and quantity conducted at our prairie ecology lab in Montana

We are starting a large new collaborative multi-year study on the ecology of deer-coyote interactions in South Carolina - the project webpage can be found here

Thanks to the great work of our lab members and colleagues, our research group has been awarded college-level "Researcher of the year" status at Clemson

Recent Publications

​Gigliotti, L.C., R. Slotow, L.T.B. Hunter, J. Fattebert, C. Sholto-Douglas, and D.S. Jachowski.  2020.  Context-dependency of top-down and bottom-up influence on cheetah demography.  Journal of Animal Ecology 89:449-459.

​​Butler, A., K. Bly, H. Harris, B. Inman, A. Moehrenschlager, D. Schwalm, and D.S. Jachowski.  2020.  Home range size and resource utilization by swift fox in northeastern Montana.  Journal of Mammalogy 101:684-696.

Froehly, J.L., N.R. Beane, D.E. Evans, K.E. Cagle, and D.S. Jachowski.  2020.   Using multi-scale behavioral investigations to inform wild pig (Sus scrofa) population management. PLoS ONE 15:e0228705.

Harris, S.N., T.J. Doonan, E.L. Hewett Ragheb, and D.S. Jachowski.  2020.  Den site selection of the Florida spotted skunk.  Journal of Wildlife Management 84:127-137.

Gigliotti, L.C., M.R. Matchett and D.S. Jachowski.  2019.  Mountain lions on the prairie: Habitat selection by recolonizing mountain lions at the edge of their range. Restoration Ecology 27:1032-1040.

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