McCleery Lab

The last data chapter from my PhD in Ecology on freshwater protected areas for conservation and fisheries sustainability of Galaxias maculatus in New Zealand has been published! doi.org/10.1111/fwb.14…

Check out the latest publication from our lab!

Maricopa Incoming.

Take a look at what @UFWildlife Wildlife Techniques students have been working on all semester! #WildlifeTechniques

Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, researchers using GUDs with sand as an inedible substrate take warning @rkmckee14 #phdlife #theneverendingfieldseason

New pub alert! How do paid vs. unpaid employment opportunities impact success in wildlife-related fields? @karnebe @alexpotash @quollemur @McCleeryLab @UFWildlife @UFSNRE wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ws…

Voice-mediated interactions in a megaherbivore cell.com/current-biolog…

We're interested in learning how new science gets incorporated into on-the-ground wildlife management. If you are a manager that makes decisions impacting wildlife habitat/populations and are willing to share your decision making process, please send us a DM!

New paper! You've probably heard about the pythons in the #Everglades and the catostrophic effects on native mammals. Well we wanted to check in and see how it's going. Spoiler: not good. @McCleeryLab authors.elsevier.com/a/1da3J1R~eL8EY

We made a big update to the McCleery lab website this morning. We have graduation, publication and birth announcements! Check out the news here: #RecentNews" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">themccleerylab.org/#RecentNews

You can check out my feeding trays, complete with a little roof to combat the daily summer showers and a few happy study participants.

One way to assess risk perception is to put out feeding trays and measure the amount of food left behind under different scenarios. More food remaining equals more fear....the rats won't risk it for the biscuit!

McCleery lab member @rkmckee14 here with a late #FieldworkFriday post! As I mentioned in my post last week, I am interested in studying the perceived predation risk of cotton rats when they are exposed to different predator cues.

Does anyone have any additional tips for @alexpotash?

Popular places are easy to spot as the rodents frequently eat all the seed, take a bite out of the plate, and leave droppings for a calling card.

Before I can do that though, I have to find areas where cotton rats are really active. The last few weeks, I've been deploying some plates with seeds in different sections of my study site to see where the most eager participants are!

Whoops! I (@rkmckee14) forgot to share some field updates this past Friday for #FieldWorkFriday. For my field research this summer, I am hoping to measure the perceived predation risk of native mammals, including cotton rats.

Like their tidal counterparts, freshwater marshes also filter water, reduce flood damage, and provide important habitat for wildlife. For more info, check out the EPA's classifies wetlands! #marshes" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">epa.gov/wetlands/class…

Much of the surrounding habitat is wet prairie and freshwater marsh. When you hear "marsh" many people think of the tidal marshes near the coast, but most marshes in North America are actually non-tidal! If its usually wet and has mostly soft-stemmed vegetation, its a marsh.

Hi everyone! McCleery Lab member, Rebecca McKee @rkmckee14 here. I'm in the first field season of my PhD and because field work is one of the best parts of grad school, I wanted to pop in on Fridays with field photos and updates. #FieldWorkFriday