Michael Cove
Adjunct Faculty
Research Curator of Mammalogy, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
DCL 217
Area(s) of Expertise
Conservation Biology, Herpetology, Mammalogy, Museum Collections, Species Interactions, Sustainable Development, Tropical Ecology, Urban Wildlife, Zoology
Publications
- 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)
- Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024)
- SNAPSHOT USA 2021: A third coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States, Ecology (2024)
- Using global remote camera data of a solitary species complex to evaluate the drivers of group formation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024)
- Biodiversity benefits of an ecosystem engineer are negated by an invasive predator, Food Webs (2023)
- Counting the Capital's cats: Estimating drivers of abundance of free‐roaming cats with a novel hierarchical model, Ecological Applications (2023)
Publications
Education
PhD, Zoology, North Carolina State University (2016)
MS, Biology, University of Central Missouri (2011)
BS, Animal Science, University of Connecticut (2007)