Faculty

Thomas Riecke

James K. Ringelman Chair in Waterfowl Conservation

Contact

Office
SH307A
Phone
406-243-5521
Email
thomas.riecke@umontana.edu
Website
https://thomasriecke.github.io/

Education

PostDocSwiss Ornithological Institute (2020-2022)

PostDoc, University of Nevada, Reno (2020)

PhD, University of Nevada, Reno (2020)

MSc, Stephen F. Austin State University (2013)

BA, Austin College (2009)

Courses Taught

WILD 370, Wildlife Habitat Conservation and Management

WILD 595, Bayesian Integrated Population Modeling

WILD 595, Path analysis and structural equation models in Ecology

Selected Publications

Forister ML, Grames EM, Halsch CA, Burls KJ, Carroll CF, Bell KL, Jahner JP, Bradford T, Zhang J, Cong Q, Grishin NV, Glassberg J, Shapiro AM, Riecke TV (2023) Assessing risk for butterflies in the context of climate change, demographic uncertainty, and heterogeneous data sources. Ecological Monographs

Riecke TV, Hegelbach J, Schaub M (2023) Senescence and mating strategy interact and conflict to drive reproductive success in a passerine. Journal of Animal Ecology

Gibson D, Riecke TV, Catlin DH, Hunt KL, Friedrich MJ, Karpanty SM, Koons DK, Fraser JD (2023) Climate change and industrial fishing practices codetermine survival of a long-lived seabird. Global Change Biology

Riecke TV, Lohman MG, Sedinger BS, Arnold TW, Feldheim CL, Koons DN, Rohwer FC, Williams PJ, Sedinger JS (2022) Density-dependence produces spurious relationships among  demographic parameters in harvested species. Journal of Animal Ecology

Riecke TV, Sedinger BS, Arnold TW, Gibson D, Koons DN, Lohman MG*, Schaub M, Williams PJ, Sedinger JS (2022) A hierarchical model for jointly assessing ecological and harvest effects on animal demography. Journal of Animal Ecology

Leach AG, Riecke TV, Sedinger JS, Ward DH, Boyd WS (2020) Mate fidelity improves survival and breeding performance in a long-lived bird. Journal of Animal Ecology

Acevedo CR, Riecke TV, Leach AG, Lohman MG, Williams PJ, Sedinger JS (2020) Long-term research and hierarchical models reveal consistent fitness costs of being the last egg in a clutch. Journal of Animal Ecology

Riecke TV, Williams PJ, Behnke TL, Gibson D, Leach AG, Sedinger BS, Street PA, Sedinger JS (2019) Integrated population models: model assumptions and inference. Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Leach AG, Sedinger JS, Riecke TV, Van Dellen AW, Ward DH, Boyd WS (2019) Brood size affects future reproduction in a long-lived bird with precocial young. The American Naturalist

Riecke TV, Leach AG, Gibson D, Sedinger JS (2018) Parameterizing the robust design in the BUGS language: lifetime carry-over effects of environmental conditions during growth on a long-lived bird. Methods in Ecology and Evolution