The Wildlife Society has awarded Elisabeth “Elli” Teige, graduate student at the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, the Donald H. Rusch Memorial Game Bird Scholarship, which honors the memory and furthers the legacy of Donald H. Rusch by supporting graduate students researching the biology and management of upland game birds or waterfowl.
Dave Haukos, PhD
Unit Leader - Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Dave joined the Kansas Unit as Unit Leader in 2011.
Dave conducts research on wildlife population responses to conservation and management with a goal of directed investigations towards addressing information needs of natural resource managers. A primary focus is assessing population demography, space use, and habitat selection in response to landscape characteristics and management practices. Although much of his research centers on resident and migratory game birds and their habitats, other investigations included assessed sympatric white-tailed deer and mule deer, pollinators, control of invasive plants, grassland songbirds, and connectivity of Great Plains wetlands. Dave teaches graduate level classes in Demographic Methods, Wildlife Study Design, and Ecology and Management of Habitat.
Dave received graduate degrees from Texas Tech University and was a migratory bird biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Linking Research and Stakeholder Engagement for Effective Wetland Conservation in a Changing Climate
Climate change threatens many functions of wetlands and habitat connectivity for migratory shorebirds who use wetlands across the Southern Great Plains. Researchers supported by this South Central CASC project will survey stakeholders in the region, project climate impacts on wetland-dependent birds, and create tools for conservation planning (e.g., ranking wetland importance to...
Intermittent Stream Risk Assessment: Mapping Patterns of Stream Drying and Identifying Vulnerabilities of Stream Fish and Crayfish Communities to Drying
Small creeks and streams often dry out during the summer but still support many insects, fish, crayfish, and plants. Though intermittent streams are the most common type of flowing water across the globe, not much is known about which, how, why, or when streams dry or about how patterns of drying affect species in these habitats. More information about patterns of stream drying can help...
The Impact of Future Climate Variability on Shorebirds and Their Wetland Habitats in the South Central U.S.
Healthy wetlands provide buffers against drought, flooding, pollution, and other threats to humans and nature. Climate change imperils wetland health, including impacting the connections among wetlands that facilitate movements and prevent extinctions of wetland-dependent wildlife. One wildlife group of considerable conservation concern and vulnerability to climate induced wetland...
Elisabeth Teige holds a lesser prairie-chicken
The Wildlife Society has awarded Elisabeth “Elli” Teige, graduate student at the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, the Donald H. Rusch Memorial Game Bird Scholarship, which honors the memory and furthers the legacy of Donald H. Rusch by supporting graduate students researching the biology and management of upland game birds or waterfowl.
Science and Products
Linking Research and Stakeholder Engagement for Effective Wetland Conservation in a Changing Climate
Climate change threatens many functions of wetlands and habitat connectivity for migratory shorebirds who use wetlands across the Southern Great Plains. Researchers supported by this South Central CASC project will survey stakeholders in the region, project climate impacts on wetland-dependent birds, and create tools for conservation planning (e.g., ranking wetland importance to...
Intermittent Stream Risk Assessment: Mapping Patterns of Stream Drying and Identifying Vulnerabilities of Stream Fish and Crayfish Communities to Drying
Small creeks and streams often dry out during the summer but still support many insects, fish, crayfish, and plants. Though intermittent streams are the most common type of flowing water across the globe, not much is known about which, how, why, or when streams dry or about how patterns of drying affect species in these habitats. More information about patterns of stream drying can help...
The Impact of Future Climate Variability on Shorebirds and Their Wetland Habitats in the South Central U.S.
Healthy wetlands provide buffers against drought, flooding, pollution, and other threats to humans and nature. Climate change imperils wetland health, including impacting the connections among wetlands that facilitate movements and prevent extinctions of wetland-dependent wildlife. One wildlife group of considerable conservation concern and vulnerability to climate induced wetland...
Elisabeth Teige holds a lesser prairie-chicken
The Wildlife Society has awarded Elisabeth “Elli” Teige, graduate student at the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, the Donald H. Rusch Memorial Game Bird Scholarship, which honors the memory and furthers the legacy of Donald H. Rusch by supporting graduate students researching the biology and management of upland game birds or waterfowl.
The Wildlife Society has awarded Elisabeth “Elli” Teige, graduate student at the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, the Donald H. Rusch Memorial Game Bird Scholarship, which honors the memory and furthers the legacy of Donald H. Rusch by supporting graduate students researching the biology and management of upland game birds or waterfowl.