Michael Cove
Adjunct Faculty
Research Curator of Mammalogy, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
DCL 217
Education
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
- 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)
- 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)
- Guidelines to Reduce Invasive Fire Ant Interference of Small Mammal Trapping , Wildlife Letters (2024)
- Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape , Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024)