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D-Index
33
Citations
3795
World Ranking
7922
National Ranking
2636

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1984 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

L. Mike Conner is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States and focuses their research within the field of Environmental Science. Their work includes a significant number of publications primarily in Ecology and related subfields.

Themes explored in their research encompass wildlife ecology, animal behavior, and the ecological impacts of environmental factors such as fire and land cover changes. Their major topics of study include:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Conner has published extensively, with recent papers addressing predator-prey dynamics, behavioral ecology, and the influence of ecological disturbances. Select recent papers include:

  • Fire as a driver and mediator of predator-prey interactions, 2022, published in Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Prey tells, large herbivores fear the human 'super predator', 2022, published in Oecologia
  • Predation risk increases intraspecific heterogeneity in white-tailed deer diel activity patterns, 2020, published in Behavioral Ecology
  • Fire and land cover drive predator abundances in a pyric landscape, 2020, published in Forest Ecology and Management
  • Behavioral responses to ecological disturbances influence predation risk for a capital breeder, 2021, published in Landscape Ecology

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Michael J. Cherry
  • Robert A. McCleery
  • Elina P. Garrison
  • Steven B. Castleberry
  • Richard B. Chandler

Conner regularly publishes in venues such as The American Midland Naturalist, Oecologia, Landscape Ecology, Southeastern Naturalist, and Ecology. These journals reflect their focus on ecology and related environmental science disciplines.

Their subfields of study highlight a concentration in Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Genetics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. This range illustrates interdisciplinary engagement within biological and environmental sciences.

In recognition of their work, L. Mike Conner has been named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1984.

Best Publications

  • A COMPARISON OF DISTANCE-BASED AND CLASSIFICATION-BASED ANALYSES OF HABITAT USE

    L. Mike Conner;Mark D. Smith;L. Wesley Burger

  • Using Euclidean Distances to Assess Nonrandom Habitat Use

    L. Mike Conner;Bruce W. Plowman

  • Abiotic and biotic factors modulate carrion fate and vertebrate scavenging communities

    Kelsey L. Turner;Erin F. Abernethy;L. Mike Conner;Olin E. Rhodes

  • Space use and multi-scale habitat selection of adult raccoons in Central Mississippi

    Michael J. Chamberlain;L. Mike Conner;Bruce D. Leopold;Kurt M. Hodges

  • Ecological value of retaining pyrophytic oaks in longleaf pine ecosystems

    J. Kevin Hiers;Jeffrey R. Walters;Robert J. Mitchell;J. Morgan Varner

  • Space Use, Movements and Habitat Selection of Adult Bobcats (Lynx rufus) in Central Mississippi

    Michael J. Chamberlain;Bruce D. Leopold;L. Mike Conner

  • Stable isotopic signatures, tissue stoichiometry, and nutrient cycling (C and N) of native and invasive freshwater bivalves

    Carla L. Atkinson;Stephen P. Opsahl;Alan P. Covich;Stephen W. Golladay

  • Effects of predation risk and group dynamics on white-tailed deer foraging behavior in a longleaf pine savanna

    Michael J. Cherry;L. Mike Conner;Robert J. Warren

  • Effects of Mesopredators and Prescribed Fire on Hispid Cotton Rat Survival and Cause-Specific Mortality

    L. Mike Conner;Steven B. Castleberry;Anna M. Derrick

  • Seasonal habitat selection by raccoons (Procyon lotor) in intensively managed pine forests of Central Mississippi.

    Michael J. Chamberlain;L. Mike Conner;Bruce D. Leopold

  • The phenology of ticks and the effects of long-term prescribed burning on tick population dynamics in southwestern Georgia and northwestern Florida

    Elizabeth R. Gleim;L. Mike Conner;Roy D. Berghaus;Michael L. Levin

  • Effects of Mesopredators on Nest Survival of Shrub‐Nesting Songbirds

    L. Mike Conner;Jessica C. Rutledge;Lora L. Smith

  • Multi‐Scale Roost‐Site Selection by Evening Bats on Pine‐Dominated Landscapes in Southwest Georgia

    Adam C. Miles;Steven B. Castleberry;Darren A. Miller;L. Mike Conner

  • Effects of predator exclusion on nest and hatchling survival in the gopher tortoise

    Lora L. Smith;David A. Steen;L. Mike Conner;Jessica C. Rutledge

  • Prey tells, large herbivores fear the human ‘super predator’

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  • Effects of prescribed fire, supplemental feeding, and mammalian predator exclusion on hispid cotton rat populations.

    Gail Morris;Jeffrey A. Hostetler;L. Mike Conner;Madan K. Oli

  • HABITAT USE OF FOX SQUIRRELS IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA

    Micah W. Perkins;L. Mike Conner

  • Effects of predation, fire, and supplemental feeding on populations of two species of Peromyscus mice

    Gail Morris;Jeffrey A. Hostetler;Madan K. Oli;L. Mike Conner

  • Fire‐mediated foraging tradeoffs in white‐tailed deer

    Michael J. Cherry;Robert J. Warren;L. Mike Conner

  • Assessment of accuracy, fix success rate, and use of estimated horizontal position error (EHPE) to filter inaccurate data collected by a common commercially available GPS logger.

    Gail Morris;L. Mike Conner

  • Nest and brood site selection of eastern wild turkeys

    Jeremy D. Wood;Bradley S. Cohen;L. Mike Conner;Bret A. Collier

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Warren
Robert J. Warren Buffalo State College
Michael J. Chamberlain
Michael J. Chamberlain University of Georgia
Bruce D. Leopold
Bruce D. Leopold Mississippi State University
Karl V. Miller
Karl V. Miller University of Georgia
Madan K. Oli
Madan K. Oli University of Florida
Michael J. Yabsley
Michael J. Yabsley University of Georgia
Michael Levin
Michael Levin Tufts University
James C. Beasley
James C. Beasley University of Georgia
Joel S. Brown
Joel S. Brown University of Illinois at Chicago
Robert J. Cooper
Robert J. Cooper University of Georgia

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