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Past Graduate Students
Daniel Linden (PhD 2011; Post-doctoral Researcher 2012)

Impacts of Structural Retention on Avian Ecology on Managed Forests of the Pacific Northwest

  • Linden, D. W., G. J. Roloff, and A. J. Kroll.  2012.  Conserving avian richness through structure retention in managed forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA.  Forest Ecology and Management 284:174-184.

  • Linden, G. J., and G. J. Roloff.  2013.  Retained structures and bird communities in clearcut forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA.  Forest Ecology and Management 310:1045-1056.

  • Linden, D. W., and G. J. Roloff. 2015. Improving inferences from short-term ecological studies with Bayesian hierarchical modeling: white-headed woodpeckers in managed forests. Ecology and Evolution doi: 10.1002/ece3.1618.

Robert Montgomery (PhD 2012)

The Technology and Ecology of Wildlife Habitat Selection Research

  • Montgomery, R., J. Vucetich, G. J. Roloff, J. Bump, and R. O. Peterson. 2014.  Where wolves kill moose: The influence of prey life history dynamics on the landscape ecology of predation. PLoS ONE 9(3):e91414.

  • Montgomery, R. A., J. A. Vucetich, R. O. Peterson, G. J. Roloff, and K. F. Millenbah.  2012.  The influence of winter severity, predation, and senescence on moose habitat use.  Journal of Animal Ecology.

  • Montgomery, R. A., and G. J. Roloff.  2013.  Habitat selection.  In: Levin, S. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Biodiversity 2nd Edition, Academic Press.

  • Montgomery, R. A., G. J. Roloff, and J. M. Ver Hoef.  2011.  Implications of ignoring telemetry error on inference in wildlife resource use models.  Journal of Wildlife Management 75(3):702-708.

  • Montgomery, R. A., G. J. Roloff, J. M. Ver Hoef, and J. J. Millspaugh.  2010.  Can we accurately characterize wildlife resource use when telemetry data are imprecise?  Journal of Wildlife Management 74(8):1917-1925.

Clint Otto (PhD 2012)

The Impact of Timber Harvest on Wildlife Distribution Patterns and Population Vital Rates: Does Structural Retention Ameliorate the Negative Effects of Clearcutting?

  • Otto, C. R. V., G. J. Roloff, R. Thames.  2014.  Comparing population patterns to processes: abundance and survival of a forest salamander following habitat degradation.  PLoS ONE 9:e93859.

  • Otto, C. R. V., L. Bailey, and G. J. Roloff.  2013.  Improving species occupancy estimation when sampling violates the closure assumption.  Ecography 36:001-011.

  • Otto, C. R.V., and G. J. Roloff.  2012.  Songbird response to green-tree retention prescriptions in clearcut forests.  Forest Ecology and Management 284:241-250.

  • Otto, C. R. V., and G. J. Roloff.  2011.  Comparing detection probability for Red-backed Salamanders, Plethodon cinereus, using cover object and leaf litter surveys.  Journal of Herpetology 45:256-260.

  • Otto, C. R. V., and G. J. Roloff.  2011.  Using multiple methods to assess detection probabilities of forest-floor wildlife.  Journal of Wildlife Management 75(2):423-431.

Tammy Otto (MS 2013)

Small Mammals and Timber Management in Northern California

Rachael Thames (MS 2013)

Salamander Response to Woody Biomass Harvests in Clearcut Aspen Stands in Michigan

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Steven Gray (MS 2014)

Small Mammals and Timber Management in Northern California

  • Gray, S. M., A. K. Killion, G. J. Roloff, B. P. Dotters, and T. T. Engstrom. 2016. Fine-scale correlates of small mammal abundance in industrial forests of northern California, USA. Northwest Science 90(3):301-314.

  • Gray, S. M., G. J. Roloff, A. Dennhardt, B.P. Dotters, T.T. Engstrom. 2019. Within-patch structures influence small mammal abundance in managed forests of northern California, USA. Forest Science DOI: 10.1093/forsci/fxz037.

Diana Guzman-Colon (MS 2014)

Mongoose in the Rainforest: Analyzing Population Estimates and Habitat Attributes to Support Management in El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico

  • Guzman-Colon, D., and G. J. Roloff. 2014. Small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) population abundance and effects of habitat features on trapping success in protected areas of eastern Puerto Rico. Caribbean Naturalist 19:1-12.

  • Guzmán-Colón, D., G.J. Roloff, and R.A. Montgomery. 2019. Environmental features associated with trapping success of mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) in eastern Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 49(2):144-152.

David Burt (MS 2014)

Climatic and Vegetation factors Influencing Snowshoe Hare Occupancy and Abundance in Michigan

  • Burt, D., G. J. Roloff, D. Etter, and E. Clark. 2016. Reliability of winter track counts for quantifying snowshoe hare occupancy. Wildlife Society Bulletin DOI: 10.1002/wsb.630.

  • Burt, D. M., G. J. Roloff, and D. R. Etter. 2016. Climate factors related to localized changes in snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) occupancy. Canadian Journal of Zoology 95:15-22. doi: 0.1139/cjz-2016-0180.

Alex Killion (MS 2016)

Monitoring Mast Occurrence and Production Using Citizen-Science to Inform Wildlife Management in Michigan

  • Killion, A.K., , S. Mayhew, H. Campa, III, and S. Winterstein. 2018. Implementing a citizen science program to support wildlife management: MI-MAST. Wildlife Society Bulletin 42(3): 518-527. (doi:10.1002/wsb.903)

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Tracy Melvin (MS 2017)

Prescribed Fire Effects on Eastern Box Turtles in Southwestern Michigan

  • Melvin, T.A., and G.J. Roloff. 2018. Reliability of post-fire surveys for eastern box turtles. Wildlife Society Bulletin 42(3): 498-503. (doi: 10.1002/wsb.911)

Bradford Silet (MS 2017)

Resource Utilization and Movements of American Marten (Martes americana) in the Eastern Upper Peninsula, Michigan

  • Roloff, G.J., B.R. Silet, S.M. Gray, J.M. Humphreys, and E.M. Clark. 2020. Resource use by marten at fine spatial extents. Mammal Research (doi: 10.1007/s13364-020-00525-8)

Steven Gray (PhD 2019)
Steven M. Gray (PhD, Since 2014)

Feral Swine Spatial Ecology and Control in  Michigan

  • Gray, S.M., G.J. Roloff, R.A. Montgomery, J.C. Beasley, and K.M. Pepin. 2020. Spatial ecology and behaviors. Pages 33-56 in K. Vercauteren, J. Beasley, S. Ditchkoff, J. Mayer, G.J. Roloff, and B. Strickland, editors. Invasive Wild Pigs in North America: Ecology, Impacts and Management. Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL.

  • Gray, S.M., G.J. Roloff, D. B. Kramer, D.R. Etter, K. C. Vercauteren, and R.A. Montgomery. 2020. Impacts of a low-density wild pig population on forest vegetation and soils in central Michigan, USA. Journal of Wildlife Management 84(4):739-748.

Talesha Dokes (PhD 2020)

Humans, Wildlife Populations, and Habitat: An Exploration of the Pillars of Wildlife Conservation

  • Dokes, T.J., G.J. Roloff, K.F. Millenbah, B.J. Wolter, and R.A. Montgomery. In press. Natural resource undergraduate students in the new millennium. Wildlife Society Bulletin.

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