Positions

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Overview

  • The ongoing and projected threat from global change poses unique challenges to wildlife populations, species, and ecosystems. My research leverages biogeographical and ecological theory and novel field and quantitative methods to address these challenges and better understand natural phenomena. I enjoy working with a diversity of scientists, including climate modelers, ecohydrologists, forest ecologists, and natural resource managers to ensure that knowledge is co-produced and utilized in a meaningful and impactful way. I am currently studying the impact of climate change on moose (Alces alces) populations in the northeastern US, with a focus on identifying cost-effective monitoring tools for natural resource agencies. Ongoing projects include 1) identifying and predicting forest structure attributes that support early- and late-successional species, 2) developing efficient and robust tools to monitor climate and wildlife populations, 3) scaling up regional camera trap efforts to establish a continental network, 4) studying mechanisms that influence population dynamics across species’ ranges, and 5) identifying the effects of adaptive silvicultural treatments for climate change on wildlife populations. My past research includes studying anthropogenic disturbance, namely wind farm development, on wildlife populations with a focus on forest-sensitive species.
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2024 Boom and bust: the effects of masting on seed predator range dynamics and trophic cascadesDiversity and Distributions: a journal of conservation biogeography.  30. 2024
    2024 Monitoring questing winter tick abundance on traditional moose hunting landsJournal of Wildlife Management.  88. 2024
    2024 Accounting for missing ticks: Use (or lack thereof) of hierarchical models in tick ecology studies.Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases.  15:102342. 2024
    2023 A Great Escape: resource availability and density‐dependence shape population dynamics along trailing range edgesEcography: pattern and diversity in ecology.  2023. 2023
    2023 Space use and resource selection of Wood Turtles (Glyptemys insculpta) in the northeastern part of its rangeCanadian Journal of Zoology.  101:20-31. 2023
    2022 Forecasting species distributions: Correlation does not equal causationDiversity and Distributions: a journal of conservation biogeography.  28:756-769. 2022
    2021 Abiotic stress and biotic factors mediate range dynamics on opposing edgesJournal of Biogeography.  48:1758-1772. 2021
    2021 Habitat use as indicator of adaptive capacity to climate changeDiversity and Distributions: a journal of conservation biogeography.  27:655-667. 2021
    2020 Interactive range-limit theory (iRLT): An extension for predicting range shifts.Journal of Animal Ecology.  89:940-954. 2020
    2020 Local climate determines vulnerability to camouflage mismatch in snowshoe haresGlobal Ecology and Biogeography.  29:503-515. 2020
    2018 Looking beyond wildlife: using remote cameras to evaluate accuracy of gridded snow dataRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation.  4:375-386. 2018
    2018 Integrating telemetry data into spatial capture-recapture modifies inferences on multi-scale resource selectionEcosphere.  9. 2018
    2017 Potential Influence of High-Elevation Wind Farms on Carnivore MobilityJournal of Wildlife Management.  81:1505-1512. 2017
    2017 Describing habitat suitability of bobcats (Lynx rufus) using several sources of information obtained at multiple spatial scalesMammalian Biology.  82:17-26. 2017
    2016 Efficacy of remote telemetry data loggers for landscape-scale monitoring: A case study of American martensWildlife Society Bulletin: perspectives on wildlife conservation and sustainable use.  40:570-582. 2016
    2016 Identification and Density Estimation of American Martens (Martes americana) Using a Novel Camera-Trap MethodDiversity.  8:3-3. 2016
    2016 Spatial ecology and resource selection of a high-elevation American marten (Martes americana) population in the northeastern United StatesCanadian Journal of Zoology.  94:169-180. 2016

    Full Name

  • Alexej Siren