Name: Robert L. Schooley

Title: Assistant Professor

Contact Information:
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
N-407 Turner Hall
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Office: (217) 244-2729
Email: schooley@uiuc.edu

Research Interest:
Spatial ecology with a focus on habitat fragmentation, metapopulations, and landscape connectivity; animal movements; behavioral landscape ecology; spatial scaling; statistical modeling of species distributions; conservation biology.

As a field ecologist, I attempt to combine rigorous sampling with GIS and statistical analyses within a theoretical framework to understand how the distribution and abundance of species is related to habitat structure. I enjoy integrating aspects of behavioral ecology and landscape ecology, such as investigating how a species perceptual range affects its dispersal behavior and landscape connectance. I also am interested in how spatial scale affects inferences about organism-environment relationships. Finally, I enjoy applied research aimed at understanding how human land use affects the persistence of species, especially those inhabiting patchy landscapes.

My current research program is centered on the ecology and conservation of mammals. Because of my broad interests in many aspects of animal ecology, however, I welcome graduate students and other collaborators with different taxonomic preferences but interesting questions.

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