CURRENT POSITION(S)
RESEARCH
I am interested in how predator/prey dynamics and interspecific competition, as well as other abiotic and biotic factors, affect species’ population dynamics and spatial ecology.
My PhD research focusED on the mechanisms that regulate cyclic population dynamics in mammalian communities of the northern forests. Through experimental manipulation we hope to restore and evaluate the impact of these mechanisms, which have been altered by the functional extirpation of an important prey species, the snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus), from the tension zone of central Wisconsin. While Dr. Jon Pauli is the lead advisor on this project, I will be collaborating extensively with the Peery Lab and the Zuckerberg Lab as well.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Forest and Wildlife Ecology | University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2020
MS, Environment and Natural Resources, 2012, The Ohio State University. Thesis: “The dynamics of sarcoptic mange in an urban coyote (Canis latrans) population”. Advisor: Stanley D. Gehrt
BS, Biology, 2004, Grand Valley State University
Wilson*, E.C, B. Zuckerberg, M.Z. Peery, A.A. Shipley, and J.N. Pauli (2022). Experimental repatriation of snowshoe hares along a southern range boundary reveals historical community interactions. Ecological Monographs doi: 10.1002/ecm.1509
Wilson*, E.C., B. Zuckerberg, M.Z. Peery, and J.N. Pauli (2020). The past, present and future impacts of climate and land use change on snowshoe hares along their southern range boundary. Biological Conservation 249: 108731.
Wilson*, E., A. Shipley, B. Zuckerberg, M.Z. Peery, and J.N. Pauli (2019). An experimental translocation identifies habitat features that buffer camouflage mismatch in snowshoe hares: conservation in the face of climate change. Conservation Letters 12(2): e12614.