Dr. Dana Morin
Title
- Assistant Professor
Contact Information
dm3090@msstate.edu
Office: 662-325-8577
Thompson Hall, Rm #251
Overview
Education
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) , Wildlife Conservation
- San Diego State University, Master of Science (M.S.), Ecology
- Louisiana State University, Bachelor of General Studies (B.G.S), General Studies
Research Interests
Carnivore Ecology
Quantitative Ecology
Population Modeling
Conservation Genetics
Landscape Ecology
Endangered Species Monitoring
Publications
Year | Publications |
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2024 | Seveque, A., Lonsinger, R. C., Waits, L. P., Brzeski, K., Komoroske, L., Ott-Conn, C., Mayhew, S., Norton, C., Petroelje, T., Swenson, J., Morin, D. J. 2024. Sources of bias in applying close-kin mark–recapture to terrestrial game species with different demography and life history. Ecology |
2024 | Jachowski, D., Bergeson, S. M., Cotey, S., Croose, E., Hofmeester, T., MacPherson, J., Wright, P., Calderón-Acevedo, C. A., Durst, A. C., Egloff, G. B., Hamed, M. K., Hapeman, P., Harris, S. N., Hassler, K., Humbert, J., Karp, D., Kays, R., Mausbach, J., Morin, D. J., Mos, J., Allue, S. S., Smith, L., Twining, J. P., Williamson, C. R., Zub, K. 2024. Non-invasive methods for monitoring weasels: Emerging technologies and priorities for future research. Mammal Review |
2023 | Kurth, K. A., Watson, E. M., Gerhold, R. W., Metts, D. L., Miller, B. F., Morin, D. J., Eda, S., Yang, S., Muller, L. I. 2023. Elk Mortality, Survival, and Health in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee. Journal of Wildlife Disease 59(3):420-431. |
2023 | Contasti, A. L., Firth, A., Baker, B. H., Brooks, J. P., Locke, M. A., Morin, D. J. 2023. Balancing trade-offs in climate smart-agriculture: can on-farm actions store organic carbon and maximize net utility by selling carbon credits?. Decision Analysis 20(4)(4):252-275. |
2023 | Firth, A. G., Brooks, J. P., Locke, M. A., Morin, D. J., Brown Johnson, A. E., Baker, B. 2023. Soil bacterial community dynamics in plots managed with cover crops and no-till farming in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, USA. Journal of Applied Microbiology lxac051. |
2023 | Sklarczyk, C., Evans, K., Greene, D. U., Morin, D. J., Iglay, R. B. 2023. Effects of spatial patterning within working pine forests on priority avian species in Mississippi. Landscape Ecology 38:2019-2034. |
2023 | Meier, A., Bourgeois, S., Adams, E., Alberts, S., Bikang, H., Jasper-Sjolander, L., Lewis, M., Masseloux, J., Morin, D. J., Poulsen, J. 2023. Spatiotemporal ecological and anthropogenic factors influencing forest elephant group size. Animal Behavior 203:171-182. |
2022 | Morin, D. J., Lesmeister, D. B., Nielsen, C. K., Schauber, E. M. 2022. Asymmetrical intraguild interactions with coyotes, red foxes, and domestic dogs may contribute to competitive exclusion of declining gray foxes. Ecology and Evolution 12(7):e9074. |
2022 | Garshelis, D. L., Pigeon, K., Hwang, M., Proctor, M., McShea, W., Fuller, A., Morin, D. J. 2022. The need to step-up monitoring of Asian bears. Global Ecology and Conservation |
2022 | McShea, W. J., Hwang, M., Lui, F., Li, S., Lamb, C., McLellan, B., Morin, D. J., Pigeon, K., Proctor, M., Yanez-Hernandez, H., Freichs, T., Garshelis, D. L. 2022. Is the Delineation of Range Maps Useful for Monitoring Asian Bears?. Global Ecology and Conservation 35(e02068). |
2022 | Morin, D. J., Boulanger, J., Bischof, R., Lee, D. C., Ngoprasert, D., Fuller, A. K., McLellan, B., Steinmetz, R., Sharma, S., Garshelis, D. L., Gopalaswamy, A., Nawaz, M. A., Karanth, U. 2022. Comparison of methods for estimating density and population trends for low-density Asian bears. Global Ecology and Conservation 35(e02058). |
2022 | Fuller, A. K., Augustine, B. C., Morin, D. J., Pigeon, K., Boulanger, J., Lee, D. C., Biisi, F., Garshelis, D. L. 2022. The occupancy-abundance relationship and sampling designs using occupancy to monitor populations of Asian bears. Global Ecolocy and Conservation 35(e02075). |
2022 | Firth, A. G., Brooks, J. P., Locke, M. A., Morin, D. J., Brown Johnson, A. E., Baker, B. 2022. Dynamics of Soil Organic Carbon and CO2 Flux under Cover Crop and No-Till Management in Soybean Cropping Systems of the Mid-South (USA). Environments lxac051(9(9)):109. |
2022 | Burger, I., Lampert, S., Vance, C. K., Morin, D., Kouba, A. J. 2022. Development of an amphibian sperm biobanking model for genetic management and population sustainability. Conservation Physiology 10(1):1-16. |
2021 | Morin, D. J., Schablein, L., Simmons, L. N., Lorber, J. H., Smith, M. K. 2021. Identifying coarse- and fine-scale drivers of avian abundance following prescribed fires. Forest Ecology and Management 485:118940. |
2021 | Tumendemberel, O., Tebbenkamp, J. M., Zedrosser, A., Proctor, M. F., Blomberg, E. J., Morin, D. J., Rosell, F., Reynolds, H. V., Adams, J. R., Waits, L. P. 2021. Long-term monitoring using DNA sampling reveals the dire demographic status of the critically endangered Gobi bear. Ecosphere 12(8):e03696. |
2020 | Cassel, K. W., Morin, D. J., Nielsen, C. K., Preuss, T. S., Glowacki, G. A. 2020. Low-intensity monitoring of small-mammal habitat associations and species interactions in an urban forest-preserve network. Wildlife Research 47(2):114-127. |
2020 | Smith, J., Hunter, J. S., Gaynor, K. M., Keller, C., Palmer, M. S., Suraci, J. P., Atkins, J., Castaneda, I., Cherry, M. J., Garvey, P., Huebner, S., Morin, D. J., Teckentrup, L., Weterings, M., Beaudrot, L. 2020. Zooming in on mechanistic predator-prey ecology: integrating camera traps with experimental methods to reveal the drivers of ecological interactions. Journal of Applied Ecology 89(9):1997-2012. |
2020 | Morin, D. J., Yackulic, C. B., Diffendorfer, J. E., Lesmeister, D. B., Nielsen, C. K., Reid, J., Schauber, E. M. 2020. Is your ad hoc model selection strategy affecting your multimodel inference?. Ecosphere 11(1):e02997. |
2019 | Morin, D. J., Higdon, S. D., Lonsinger, R. C., Gosselin, E. N., Kelly, M. J., Waits, L. P. 2019. Comparing methods of estimating carnivore diets with uncertainty and imperfect detection. Wildlife Society Bulletin 43(4):651-660. |
2019 | Monterroso, P., Godinho, R., Oliveira, T., Ferreras, P., Kelly, M. J., Morin, D. J., Waits, L. P., Alves, P. C., Mills, L. S. 2019. Feeding ecological knowledge: The underutilised power of faecal DNA approaches for carnivore diet analysis. Mammal Review 49(2):97-112. |
2019 | Mastro, L. L., Morin, D. J., Gese, E. M. 2019. Home Range and Habitat Use of West Virginia Canis latrans (Coyote). Northeastern Naturalist 26(3):616-628. |
2019 | Gupta, A., Dilkina, B., Morin, D. J., Fuller, A. K., Royle, J. A., Sutherland, C., Gomes, C. P. 2019. Reserve design to optimize functional connectivity and animal density. Conservation Biology 33(5):1023-1034. |
2019 | Carson, H. S., Morin, D. J., Bouma, J. V., Ulrich, M., Sizemore, R. 2019. The survival of hatchery-origin pinto abalone Haliotis kamtschatkana released into Washington waters. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 29(3):424-441. |
2019 | Bleicher, S., Marko, H., Morin, D. J., Teemu, K., Hannu, Y. 2019. Balancing food, activity and the dangers of a sunlit nights. Behavioural Ecology and Sociology 73:95. |
Graduate Students
- Varsha Shastry
- Chloe Beall
- Fabian Jimenez
- Lindy Gasta
- Spencer Daniels
- Daniela Adjaye
- Lacy Dolan