Relationships between plateau Tibetan foxes (Vulpes ferrilata) and plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae)

Richard B. Harris - Principal Investigator

Objectives: Quantify correlates of habitat use of Tibetan foxes, focusing on their movements, den-site selection, and home range location relative to the distribution and density of plateau pikas. Quantify food habits of Tibetan foxes via analysis of verified fox scats.

Using non-invasive genetics to monitor snow leopard (Uncia uncia) in Bhutan and across its range.

Tshewang Wangchuk, Ph.D. Wildlife Biology
Advisor: L. Scott Mills

Objectives: My ultimate research goal is to use non-invasive genetics to monitor snow leopard populations in Bhutan and across its range.

Since the 1980’s, the University of Montana and the government of Pakistan has collaborated on developing community based conservation programs for wildlife conservation in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan

Geographic structure of Marco Polo sheep in the Pamir Region of Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, and Tajikistan

Principal Investigators: Gordon Luikart and Richard Harris

Objectives: We are addressing issues of connectivity, corridors, isolation, loss of genetic diversity, and possible barriers to movement among sub-populations of Marco Polo argali (Ovis ammon poli) throughout the 4 country transboundary region (Tajikistan, Afghanistan, China, Pakistan)....

High Country Citizens Science Training

Jami Belt, M.S. Wildlife Biology
Advisor: Paul Krausman

Objectives: 1. Use observational data gathered at least 3 times per season during 1 hour surveys by volunteers (citizen scientists) to develop an estimate of abundance and distribution of mountain goats in Glacier National Park... more

Stress physiology during life history transitions in Laysan Albatross

 Rachel S. Sprague, Ph.D. Wildlife Biology
Advisor: Creagh W. Breuner

Objectives: I am interested in the role of glucocorticoid (GC) hormones as a proximate mechanism mediating life-history transitions. Specifically, I am investigaging the action of GC hormones in a long-lived seabird with an extreme life-history strategy, the Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutablis)