Education:

Academic Interests:
I am broadly interested in the roles of large herbivores in ecosystems. Virtually all of my work links ecological modeling to empirical studies in the field and laboratory.

Projects:

• TBISON Project
• Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Prion Disease in Wildlife: Responses to Changing Land Use
• An Integrated Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Rocky Mountain National Park and its Gateway Community
• Biocomplexity, Spatial Scale, and Fragmentation: Implications for Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems (SCALE)
• Colorado Wildlife Habitat Assessment Project
• PRIMES (Program in Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Ecology, and Statistics)
  

Recent Publications:

Farnsworth, M. L., L. L. Wolfe, N. T. Hobbs, K. P. Burnham, E. S. Williams, D. M. Theobald, M. M. Conner. 2005. Human land use influences chronic wasting disease prevalence in mule deer. Ecological Applications: 15.

Searle, K. R., T. Vandervelde, N. T. Hobbs and L. A. Shipley. 2005. Gain functions for large herbivores: tests of alternative models. Journal of Animal Ecology 74:181-189.

Manier, D. J., N. T. Hobbs, D. M. Theobald, R. M. Reich, M. Kalkhan, and M. R. Campbell. 2005. Canopy change and human caused disturbance on a semi-arid landscape in the Rocky Mountains , U.S.A. Landscape Ecology 20:1-17.

Theobald, D. M. T. Spies, J. Kline, B. Maxwell, N. T. Hobbs, V. H. Dale. 2005. Ecological support for rural land use planning and policy. Ecological Applications: 15:1906-1914.

Searle, K. R., N. T. Hobbs, and L. A. Shipley. 2005. Should I stay or should I go? Patch departure decisions by herbivores at multiple scales. Oikos 111:417-424.

Hobbs , N. T., and K. R. Searle. 2005. A reanalysis of the body mass scaling of trampling by large herbivores. Oecologia 145:462-464.

Hobbs , N. T., and R. Hilborn. 2006. Alternatives to statistical hypothesis testing in ecology: A guide to self teaching. Ecological Applications 16:5-19.

Hobbs , N. T., S. Twombly, and D. S. Schimel . 2006. Deepening ecological insights using contemporary statistics. Ecological Applications 16:3-4.

Manier, D. J., and N. T. Hobbs. 2006. Large herbivores influence the composition and diversity of shrub-steppe communities in the Rocky Mountains, USA . Oecologia 146:641-651.

Searle, K. R., N. T. Hobbs, B. A. Wunder, and L. A. Shipley. 2006. Preference in patchy landscapes: the influence of scale-specific intake rates and variance in reward. Behavioral Ecology 17:315-323.

Wang, G. M., N. T. Hobbs, R. B. Boone, A. W. Illius, I. J. Gordon, J. E. Gross, and K. L. Hamlin. 2006. Spatial and temporal variability modify density dependence in populations of large herbivores. Ecology 87:95-102.

*Cooper, D. J., J. Cackca, N. T. Hobbs, L. Christiansen, and L. Landrum. 2006. Hydrologic, geomorphic and climatic processes controlling willow establishment in a montane ecosystem. Hydrological Processes 20: 1845–1864.

Recent Student Theses:

• Matt Farnsworth, Spatial Epidemiology of Chronic Wasting Disease in Colorado Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus)
• Melissa Miller, Snowshoe Hare Habitat Relationships in Successional Stages of Spruce-Fir, Lodgepole Pine, and Aspen in Northwest Colorado
• Kate Searle, PhD 2004, Responses of Herbivores to Heterogeneity in Forage Resources Expressed at Multiple Spatial Scales

Courses Taught:   Refer to CSU catalog ("Courses of Instruction") for course descriptions & prerequisites

• NR 575 Systems Ecology - An Introduction to Ecological Modeling

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