Nathan Hostetter
Assistant Professor
Assistant Unit Leader – NC Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research
Education
PhD, Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, NC State University (2016)
Research Interests
Population ecology, quantitative ecology, demographic modeling, endangered species research.
My research integrates movement, population, and landscape ecology to study how environmental processes and anthropogenic stressors affect population dynamics. I link research to decision making by combining field studies, ecological theory, and robust statistical and mathematical modeling methods to directly quantify processes critical to informing management decisions. Given these broad applications, work within my lab spans a range of game and nongame species across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems (mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles).
Publications
- Artificial structure selection by economically important reef fishes at North Carolina artificial reefs, FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE (2024)
- High-Quality, Chromosome-Level Reference Genomes of the Viviparous Caribbean Skinks Spondylurus nitidus and S. culebrae, GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (2024)
- Multiple records of the introduced parthenogenetic Smooth-scaled Tegulet, <i>Gymnophthalmus underwoodi</i> Grant 1958, in Puerto Rico, Reptiles & Amphibians (2024)
- Multiple records of the introduced parthenogenetic Smooth-scaled Tegulet, Gymnophthalmus underwoodi Grant 1958, in Puerto Rico, Reptiles & Amphibians (2024)
- A Review of Factors Affecting the Susceptibility of Juvenile Salmonids to Avian Predation, NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES MANAGEMENT (2023)
- Cumulative effects of piscivorous colonial waterbirds on juvenile salmonids: A multi predator-prey species evaluation, PLOS ONE (2022)
- Integrated animal movement and spatial capture-recapture models: Simulation, implementation, and inference, ECOLOGY (2022)
- Modeling spatiotemporal abundance and movement dynamics using an integrated spatial capture–recapture movement model, Ecology (2022)
- Predation probabilities and functional responses: How piscivorous waterbirds respond to pulses in fish abundance, ECOSPHERE (2022)
- Age-structured Jolly-Seber model expands inference and improves parameter estimation from capture-recapture data, PLOS ONE (2021)