Brett G. Dickson, Ph.D.

Assistant Research Professor

Director, Lab of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology

School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability

Northern Arizona University

Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5694

brett.dickson[at]nau.edu

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Selected reprints (PDF's)


Dickson, B. G., B. R. Noon, C. H. Flather, S. Jentsch, and W. M. Block. 2009. Quantifying the multi-scale response of avifauna to prescribed fire experiments in the southwest United States. Ecological Applications 19:608-621.


Dickson, B. G., and P. Beier. 2007. Quantifying the influence of topographic position on cougar (Puma concolor) movement in southern California, USA. Journal of Zoology (London) 271:270-277.


Dickson, B. G., J. W. Prather, Y. Xu, H. M. Hampton, E. N. Aumack, and T. D. Sisk. 2006. Mapping the probability of large fire occurrence in northern Arizona. Landscape Ecology 21:747-761.


Prather, J. W., N. L. Dodd, B. G. Dickson, H. M. Hampton, Y. Xu, E. N. Aumack, and T. D. Sisk. 2006. Landscape models to predict the influence of forest structure on tassel-eared squirrel populations. Journal of Wildlife Management 70(3):722-730.


Dickson, B. G., J. S.. Jenness, and P. Beier. 2005. Influence of vegetation, topography, and roads on cougar movement in southern California. Journal of Wildlife Management, 69(1):264-276.


Noon, B. R., and B. G. Dickson. 2004. Managing the wild: should stewards be pilots? Invited essay. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2(9):494-499.


Dickson, B. G., and P. Beier. 2002. Home-range and habitat selection by adult cougars in southern California. Journal of Wildlife Management, 66(4):1235-1245.

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Research interests:  Conservation biology, landscape ecology, forest and fire restoration, carnivore ecology, connectivity conservation, spatial statistics and analysis, information theory and multi-model inference