Wildlife Biologist - Little River Band of Ottawa Indians | @UofNH & @MichiganStateFW Alum. π³οΈβπ Posts my own.
Joined October 2019
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May 21
Jeff didn't have to humiliate the guy, poor Rizzo. Basically "sorry about that, anyways lets watch this loser fuck up" #RIZZGOD
#Survivor #JeffProbst
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David Heit retweeted
17 Oct 2024
I'm awaiting funding decisions but anticipate recruiting a PhD student for fall 2025
If ur @ #TWS2024, have interests & skills that align w/our lab, & want 2 talk, pls get in touch or stop by the poster session where I'll present on coyote work done w/@RolandKays & #SnapshotUSA
ALT Map of coyote abundance across the USA
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David Heit retweeted
12 Jul 2024
New Paper - @DavidRHeit's 2nd MS chapter is out!
A review mammal & bird case studies exploring nonlinearity in GLMs
GLMs are "nonlinear" on the natural scale yet entail a linearity assumption, which can be confusing
Read more (open access):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/β¦
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29 Mar 2023
New paper out in Landscape Ecology:
The spatial scaling and individuality of habitat selection in a widespread ungulate π¦
We found that selection coefficients varied widely, not only by spatial scale, but also by individual.
doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-0β¦
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29 Mar 2023
Future modeling frameworks may be wise to consider not only individual-level selection coefficients, but also individual-level scales of effect.
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29 Mar 2023
Of the suite of potential intrinsic and extrinsic factors we tested, study area, home range size, and % of forest cover w/in a home range predicted scale of effect for an individual.
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29 Mar 2023
We fit iSSFs to white-tailed deer at 65 spatial scales, and found that >57% of the time coefficients were both positive or negative, depending on the scale.
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David Heit retweeted
16 Aug 2022
At #ESA2022? Interested in spatial ecology or modeling or resource selection or ungulates?
Come check out @DavidRHeit's cool work on the spatial scaling of habitat selection today at 4:30pm in room 515A!
[session COS 114 - Modeling 4]
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David Heit retweeted
20 Apr 2022
Being inclusive doesn't guarantee we're being welcoming. We need to do more to make our campuses be both. I'm very proud of our Grad student recipients of the Kidder award and of Stonewall Grads for being recognized for their efforts. #thisisunh @UNH_GradSchool
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David Heit retweeted
9 Feb 2022
My webinar on Animal Movement Analysis in R is now available on Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=WELTpbB5β¦.
Includes:
β’ brief introduction to HMMs for animal movement;
β’ discussion of some common challenges;
β’ example analysis using momentuHMM on elephant data (feat. crawl/foieGras).
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David Heit retweeted
24 Jan 2022
Pending final funding, I anticipate recruiting an MS student this fall to model moose populations using camera traps & drones in NH w/me & @UNH_SAD_rs
Looking for stds excited for fieldwork, population modeling, & beautiful mountain scenery
More info: mypages.unh.edu/moll-lab/oppβ¦
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26 Jan 2022
You would think after probably 45 first-days of school that I would have established a go-to 'fun fact' for ice breakers
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30 Oct 2021
Feels strange watching these from across the country, but what a game!!! ππ
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David Heit retweeted
29 Jul 2021
Looking for a grad opportunity? I have a couple openings for students to work on soil nitrogen. Below is one of the positions, this one in agricultural nitrogen use efficiency. Description and instructions for those interested below. @seritafrey @daly_ab
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David Heit retweeted
25 Jun 2021
The U.S. Department of Interior announced Wednesday the restoration of more than 18,800 acres of land, known as the National Bison Range, so it can be returned to Indigenous tribes in Montana. lakota.law/2SZeLJa
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19 Jun 2021
New review out in @ESAEcology!
We found that 8 out of 1,203 #homerange publications (0.7%) take into account the added surface area that comes with topography and other sources of landscape complexity.
18 Jun 2021
New in @ESAEcology's Concepts & Synthesis section:
Landscape complexity persists as a critical source of bias in terrestrial animal home range estimation
#HomeRanges #Topography #SpatialEcology
@DavidRHeit @WaldoOrtizCalo @RECaP_Lab
doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3427
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19 Jun 2021
We observed that studies increasingly recognized the importance of complex surfaces in text, while not adjusting methods accordingly as is seen with other sources of bias like sample size and spatial autocorrelation.
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19 Jun 2021
Also, among the 18 home range estimators we encountered in our review, kernel density estimation and minimum convex polygons have remained the most popular over time
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13 Jun 2021
Blessed by the presence of a porcupine at my point count location this morning! #spikeybutt
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