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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. Recently, I have been
exploring new methods for multispecies assessments as part of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service multispecies recovery effort in South Florida.
Selected Publications:
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. (in revision). Linking Habitat Selection and Behavior to Source-Sink
Dynamics in a Managed Landscape. Landscape Ecology
Pickens, B. and K.V. Root. 2008. Factors affecting host-plant quality and nectar use for the Karner
blue butterfly: Implications for oak savanna restoration. 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.
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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