Michael Cove
Adjunct Faculty
Research Curator of Mammalogy, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
DCL 217
mvcove@ncsu.eduEducation
PhD Zoology North Carolina State University 2016
MS Biology University of Central Missouri 2011
BS Animal Science University of Connecticut 2007
Area(s) of Expertise
Conservation Biology, Herpetology, Mammalogy, Museum Collections, Species Interactions, Sustainable Development, Tropical Ecology, Urban Wildlife, Zoology
Publications
- Harnessing natural history collections for collaborative pandemic preparedness , BioScience (2025)
- Mammals on the Margins: Identifying the Drivers and Limitations of Range Expansion , GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (2025)
- SNAPSHOT USA 2019-2023: The First Five Years of Data From a Coordinated Camera Trap Survey of the United States , GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY (2025)
- Wildlife of Florida Fact Sheet: Key Largo Woodrat , EDIS (2025)
- iNaturalist and Structured Mammal Surveys Reflect Similar Species Richness but Capture Different Species Pools Across the United States , ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (2025)
- Camera traps strengthen inference about endangered beach mouse activity , Mammal Research (2024)
- Climate, food and humans predict communities of mammals in the United States , Diversity and Distributions (2024)
- Endangered beach mouse resistance to a Category 5 hurricane is mediated by elevation and dune habitat , Integrative Conservation (2024)
- Geographic barriers but not life history traits shape the phylogeography of North American mammals , Global Ecology and Biogeography (2024)
- Guidelines for estimating occupancy from autocorrelated camera trap detections , METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (2024)