Ecology Center Seminar with Dr. Laura Prugh from the Department of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington. Thursday's (3/5) seminar is "Integrating positive and negative interactions in carnivore community ecology."

Research in my lab examines how species interactions such as facilitation, predation, and competition jointly determine the responses of wildlife communities to global change. We use novel combinations of techniques including animal tracking technology (e.g., GPS collars), winter snow tracking, non-invasive genotyping, next-generation sequencing, motion-triggered cameras, remote sensing, and mathematical modeling to examine spatially explicit interactions among species of interest. My current projects in Alaska, Washington, and Norway address topics such as climate change impacts on wildlife, effects of large carnivores on ungulates and smaller carnivores outside protected areas, and endangered species recovery.