Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Nearing the end!

I have submitted my thesis and waiting for my defense date to be set. I am also in the process of submitting papers from my thesis. One chapter has already been published in Landscape Ecology. The link to the abstract.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/0xl7532qg62152p3/

In a nutshell...we found that mature forest is important for the movement of flying squirrels- we found this out by moving flying squirrels (translocation) varying distances across different landscape types (low to high amounts of mature forest and connectivity).

Another paper will be published this month in Northeastern Naturalist on the evidence of double litters in Northern Flying Squirrels. I will post a copy when it comes out.

A big thanks to everyone (the many many field workers) who helped me over the years, and especially my family- Lindsey, Ira, Hannah and Esme.

It was an adventure!

Matt

No comments: