Corey Dunn
Assistant Professor
Unit Leader – NC Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research
Education
PhD., Natural Resources, University of Missouri
M.Sc., Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech
B.Sc., Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
Research Interests
Dr. Dunn is an Assistant Professor and a Research Fisheries Biologist for the United States Geological Survey. He leads the USGS North Carolina Fish & Wildlife Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, which supports the conservation and management of natural resources through applied research, graduate education, and by technical support to conservation agencies. His overarching research interest is conservation of rivers and river-dependent species. General themes of his research program include 1) linkages between landscapes, and freshwater fish and invertebrate communities, 2) monitoring and assessment of freshwater ecosystems, 3) imperiled species management, and 4) natural resources decision-making. Much of his work has focused geographically within southeastern (USA) streams and rivers — a biodiversity hotspot.
Publications
- Diverse portfolios: Investing in tributaries for restoration of large river fishes in the Anthropocene, Frontiers in Environmental Science (2023)
- Fish functional gradients along a reservoir cascade, Freshwater Biology (2023)
- Patterns of zero and nonzero counts indicate spatiotemporal distributions, aggregation, and dispersion of invasive carp, Management of Biological Invasions (2023)
- Accounting for dispersal and local habitat when evaluating tributary use by riverine fishes, Ecosphere (2021)
- Co-occurring lotic crayfishes exhibit variable long-term responses to extreme-flow events and temperature, Freshwater Science (2021)
- A flexible survey design for monitoring spatiotemporal fish richness in nonwadeable rivers: optimizing efficiency by integrating gears, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (2020)
- Remaining populations of an upland stream fish persist in refugia defined by habitat features at multiple scales, Diversity and Distributions (2019)
- Intensive Sampling Reveals Underreported Use of Great-River Tributaries by Large-River Fishes in Missouri, Southeastern Naturalist (2018)
- Development of Habitat Suitability Indices for the Candy Darter, with Cross-Scale Validation across Representative Populations, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (2016)
- Documentation of Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis (Eastern Hellbender) Predation on Nest-Associate Stream Fishes, Northeastern Naturalist (2016)