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Garrett MacDonald

Garrett MacDonald is a Biologist for the USGS at Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center in Jamestown, North Dakota.

My current projects include 1) predicting Piping Plover habitat in the Prairie Pothole Region through the use of remote-sensed and other geospatial datasets and 2) quantifying grassland bird use of pollinator-enhanced grasslands during the spring and fall migratory periods in the Dakotas. My background is in avian ecology.

 

Professional Experience

  • Biologist, USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, North Dakota

Education and Certifications

  • M.S. Biology, Ball State University, 2018

  • B.S. Wildlife Biology, University of Montana, 2010

  • B.A. Spanish, University of Montana, 2010

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Capturing spatiotemporal patterns in presence-absence data to inform monitoring and sampling designs for the threatened Dakota skipper (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) in the Great Plains of the United States

Declines among species of insect pollinators, especially butterflies, has garnered attention from scientists and managers. Often these declines have spurred governments to declare some species as threatened or endangered. We used existing presence–absence data from surveys for the threatened Dakota skipper Hesperia dacotae (Skinner) to build statistical maps of species presence that could be used
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

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