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- Ph. D., Florida Institute of Technology
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- Office: 429E Life Sciences Building
- Phone: 1-419-372-8559
- Email: kvroot@bgsu.edu
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- Research:
- conservation biology, population viability analysis, reserve design
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- Root Lab Home Page
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- Courses taught:
- Conservation Biology in Practice
- Landscape Ecology
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Research Interests:
My primary research focus
is the conservation of biodiversity, particularly conservation
planning and management. This research combines fieldwork with
the application of quantitative
techniques such as GIS.
and risk assessment to conservation issues. Work in my lab includes
projects that focus on a variety of organisms and scales from
single species population dynamics to landscape-scale multispecies
reserve designs. My graduate students work on projects such as
habitat suitability analysis for vertebrates, PVA for listed
species, mark-recapture studies, and ecosystem characterization.
Recently, I have been exploring new methods for multispecies
assessments as part of multispecies recovery efforts in Florida
and Ohio.
Selected Publications:
Pickens, B. and K. V. Root. In press. Butterfly Behavior as a Tool for Assessing a Managed Landscape: A Case Study of the Karner Blue Butterfly. Landscape Ecology.
Pickens, B. and K. V. Root. In press. Oviposition strategy and behavior of the Karner blue butterfly, Lycaeides melissa samuelis. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society.
Pickens, B. and K.V. Root. 2008. Identifying factors affecting nutrition for
the endangered Karner Blue Butterfly, Lycaeides Melissa samuelis.
Natural Areas Journal 28: 210-217
Kautz, R., R. Kawula, T. Hoctor, J. Comiskey, D. Jansen, D. Jennings, J. Kasbohm, D. Land, F.
Mazzotti, R. McBride, L. Richardson, and K. Root. 2006. How Much Is Enough? Landscape-scale Conservation for the Florida Panther. Biological Conservation
130:118-133.
Root, K. V. (ed.) 2005.
Environmental Science Interactive. Web School of Science, Setauket, NY.
Root, K. V. 2004. Using models to guide recovery efforts for the Florida Panther. Pages 491-504
in H. R. Akçakaya, M. Burgman, O. Kindvall, C. C. Wood, P. Sjogren-Gulve, J. Hatfield, and
M. McCarthy (eds.), Species Conservation and Management: Case Studies,
Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
Root, K. V. 2003. Prioritizing Conservation of Biodiversity Using a Multispecies
Approach. Gap Analysis Bulletin
11:18-23. (http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/Bulletins/11/Prioritizing_conservation.htm)
Regan, H.M., H. R. Akcakaya; S. Ferson; K.V. Root; L.R. Ginzburg; R. Pastorok. 2003.
Treatments of uncertainty and variability in ecological risk assessment of populations, ecosystems,
and landscapes. Human Ecological Risk Assessment 9(4):889-906.
Root, K.V.; H.R. Akcakaya; L.R. Ginzburg. 2003. A multispecies approach to ecological
valuation and conservation. Conservation Biology 17: 196-206.
Root, K.V. (ed.) 2002. Environmental Science on the Web: Interactive Online
Laboratories for Environmental Science. Applied Biomathematics, Setauket, NY.
Root, K.V. 2002. Evaluating risks for threatened aquatic species: the shortnose sturgeon
in the Connecticut River. In W. Van Winkle; P.J. Anders; D.H. Secor; and D.A. Dixon (eds), Biology, Management and Protection of North American Sturgeon. American Fisheries Society.
Root, K.V. 2002. RAMAS Multispecies Assessment: Estimating Multispecies
Conservation Values across the Landscape. Applied Biomathematics, Setauket, NY.
Root, K.V. 2001. Classification of species. in Pastorok, R.A.; S.M. Bartell; S. Ferson,
L.R. Ginzburg (eds). Ecological modeling in risk assessement: Chemical effects on
populations, ecosystems, and landscapes. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL.
Shultz, S.M.; A.E. Dunham; K.V. Root; S.L. Soucy; S.D. Carroll; L.R. Ginzburg. 1999. Conservation Biology with RAMAS EcoLab. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
Root, K.V. 1998. Evaluating effects of habitat quality, connectivity and catastrophes on a
threatened species. Ecological Applications 8:854-865.
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