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 conservation and restoration of terrestrial wildlife - particularly mammals.  To achieve this, our research involves close collaboration with agencies and organizations tasked with the management of wildlife. 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

We are excited about our new collaboration with the Tribes of Ft. Belknap, World Wildlife Fund, Smithsonian Institution and others to restore swift fox to central Montana

Laura Gigliotti, Blaise Newman and Kyle Shute all graduated from our lab in spring 2020.  Blaise accepted a PhD position at University of Georgia and Laura is now a post-doc in Arthur Middelton's lab at UC Berkeley

Our work on swift fox in the Northern Great Plains was a featured news story by The Wildlife Society and in an article in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

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

Recent Publications

​​Gigliotti, L.C., R. Slotow, L.T.B. Hunter, J. Fattebert, C. Sholto-Douglas, and D.S. Jachowski.  2020.   Habitat complexity and duration of predation risk influence mesopredator survival in a multi-predator system.  Scientific Reports 10:17841

Jachowski, D.S., A. Butler, R.Y.Y. Eng, L. Gigliotti, S. Harris and A. Williams.  2020.  Identifying mesopredator release in multi-predator systems: a review of evidence from North America. Mammal Review 50:367-381. (*Editor's choice)

​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.

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