Brett G. Dickson, Ph.D.

David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow

Assistant Research Professor

Center for Sustainable Environments

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.

Dickson, B. G., W. M. Block, and T. D. Sisk. 2004. Conceptual framework for studying the effects of fuels treatments on avian communities in ponderosa pine forests of northern Arizona. Chapter 17 in C. Van Riper, III and K. Cole, eds., The Colorado Plateau: cultural, biological and physical research. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.

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.

Popular press:

WIRED Magazine (2007)

Scientific Computing (2007)

I'm proud to be associated with the following research groups and organizations:

- The Smith Fellows Program

- The Southwest Forest Ecosystem Restoration Analysis Team (ForestERA), NAU

- The Sisk Lab of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology, NAU

1. -The Center for Sustainable Environments, NAU
   

- Nevada Conservation Areas Design, National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis

- The Grand Canyon Trust Restoration Program

- The Geospatial Research and Information Laboratory, NAU

- The Cougar Fund

- The Beier Lab Group in Conservation Biology and Wildlife Ecology, NAU

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