Wildlife Ecology and Epidemiology Staff - Dean Anderson

Dean Anderson

DDI: 03 321 9820
Phone: 03 321 9999

Fax: 03 321 9998
Email

Qualifications

BsC, Physical Therapy, University of Puget Sound
PHD - Zoology, University of Wisconsin

Role at Landcare Research

Research Scientist in Spatial modelling of disease and pest vertebrates in New Zealand.  Wildlife Ecology and Epidemiology team, Landcare Research, Lincoln.

Research interests

• Spatiotemporal modelling of species – landscape interactions
• Animal movements
• Hierarchical Bayesian modelling
• Detection probabilities of disease and scarce populations

Professional affiliations

Recent publications

Anderson, D.P.; Forester, J.G.; Turner, M.G. 2008: When to slow down: elk residency rates on a heterogeneous landscape. Journal of Mammalogy 89:105–114.

Forester, J.D.; Anderson, D.P.; Turner, M.G. 2008: Do high-density patches of and regenerating saplings create browsing refugia for aspen (Populus tremuloides) in Yellowstone National Park (USA)? Forest Ecology and Management 253:211-219.

Rooney, T.R.; Anderson, D.P. (in press): Are wolf-mediated trophic cascades boosting biodiversity in the Great Lakes Region? In A.P. Wydeven, T.R.Van Deelen, and E.J. Heske (eds.). Recovery of Gray Wolves in the Great Lakes Region of the United States: an Endangered Species Success Story. Life Science Publishing.

Forester, J. D.; Anderson, D.P.; Turner, M.G. (in press): Landscape and local factors affecting northern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis) recruitment in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Wisconsin (USA). American Midland Naturalist.

Forester, J.D.; Ives, A.R.; Turner, M.G.; Anderson, D.P.; Fortin, D.; Beyer, H.L.; Smith, D.W.; Boyce, M.S. 2007: Using state-space models to link patterns of elk (Cervus elaphus) movement to landscape characteristics in Yellowstone National Park. Ecological Monographs 77: 285–295.

Anderson, D.P.; Boesch, C.; Nordheim, E.V. 2006: Environmental factors influencing the seasonality of estrus in Chimpanzees. Primates 47: 43–50.

Boesch, C.; Bi, Z.B.J.; Anderson, D.P.; Stahl, D. 2006: Food choice in Taï chimpanzees: Are cultural differences present? In: Hohmann G, Robbins M, Boesch C eds Feeding ecology of apes, humans and other primates. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Pp. 183–201.

Anderson, D.P. 2005: Preface: Reciprocal interactions between herbivores and landscapes. Landscape Ecology 20: 255–256.

Anderson, D.P.; Forester, J.D.; Turner, M.G.; Frair, J.; Merrill, E.; Fortin, D.; Beyer, H.; Mao, J.S.; Boyce, M.S.; Fryxell, J. 2005: Factors influencing female home-range sizes in elk (Cervus elaphus) in North American landscapes. Landscape Ecology 20: 257–271.

Anderson, D.P.; Nordheim, E.V.; Bi, Z.B.G.; Boesch, C. 2005: Deviations in tropical tree phenology patterns caused by climatic variables. Biotropica 37: 631–640.

Anderson, D.P.; Turner, M.G.; Forester, J.D.; Zhu, J.; Boyce, M.S.; Beyer, H.; Stowell, L. 2005: Scale-dependent habitat use by elk (Cervus elaphus) in Wisconsin, U.S.A. Journal of Wildlife Management 69: 298–310.

Anderson, D.P.; Nordheim, E.V.; Boesch, C.; Moermond, T.C. 2002: Factors influencing fission-fusion grouping in chimpanzees in the Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire. In: Boesch C, Hohmann G, Marchant L eds Behavioural diversity in chimpanzees and bonobos.