
Title
Assistant ProfessorOffice Building
Edgar S. McFadden Biostress LabOffice
141AMailing Address
McFadden Biostress Laboratory 141ANatural Resource Management-Box 2140B
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007
Biography
My research broadly focuses on the relationships between wildlife (mostly mammals) and their habitats to answer today's conservation and management challenges. I work in highly impacted systems, using collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to better understand these complex and dynamic relationships across multiple spatial and temporal scales.Education
PhD, Fish and Wildlife Biology and Management, SUNY College of Environmental Science and ForestryMS, Biology, Fort Hays State University
BS, Zoology, Michigan State University
Academic Interests
Wildlife ManagementPopulation Ecology & Genetics
Spatial Ecology
Mammalogy
Academic Responsibilities
Undergraduate Courses- NRM 230: Natural Resource Management Techniques
- WL 355/355L: Mammalogy/ Mammalogy Lab
- RANG 374/374L: Habitat Conservation and Management/ Habitat Conservation and Management Lab
- WL 496: Field Experience
- WL 498: Undergraduate Research Experience
Graduate Courses
- NRM 792: Ecological Modelling
- NRM 791: Independent Study: Wildlife Bayesian Statistics
- WL 798: Thesis
- WL 898: Dissertation
Professional Memberships
American Society of MammalogistsThe Wildlife Society
Ecological Society of America
World Lagomorph Society
Area(s) of Research
PublicationsDV Eline, JB Cohen, TJ McGreevy Jr., CM. Whipps, and AE Cheeseman. 2023. Behavior as a rapid indicator of reintroduction and translocation success for a cryptic species. Journal of Mammalogy. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyad023
DV Eline, JB Cohen, CM. Whipps, AE Cheeseman. 2023. Habitat management to reduce competitive interactions: Case study of native and invading cottontails. Journal of Wildlife Management. 70:710-729. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.22327
AI Kovach, AE Cheeseman, JB Cohen, CD Rittenhouse, CM Whipps. 2022. Separating proactive conservation from species listing decisions. Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-022-01713-9
AE Cheeseman, BP Tanis, EJ Finck. 2021. Temporal assessment of Eastern Spotted Skunk geographic distribution. Southeastern Naturalist 20(sp11):24-28. https://doi.org/10.1656/058.020.0sp1104
AE Cheeseman, BP Tanis, EJ Finck. 2021. Quantifying temporal variation in dietary niche to reveal drivers of past population declines. Functional Ecology 35:930-941. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13765
AE Cheeseman, JB Cohen, SJ Ryan, CM Whipps. 2021. Is conservation based on best available science creating an ecological trap for an imperiled lagomorph? Ecology and Evolution 11:912-930. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7104
Whipps CM, AE Cheeseman, KA Fox, JB Cohen. 2020. Evaluation of cottontail pellets collected in suboptimal conditions for DNA analysis. Wildlife Society Bulletin 44: 182-190. https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.1073
AE Cheeseman, JB Cohen, CM Whipps, AI Kovach, SJ Ryan. 2019. Hierarchical population structure of a rare lagomorph indicates recent fragmentation has disrupted metapopulation function. Conservation Genetics 20: 1237-1249. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-019-01206-z
AE Cheeseman, JB Cohen, SJ Ryan, CM Whipps. 2019. Determinants of home range size of imperiled New England and introduced eastern cottontails. Canadian Journal of Zoology 97: 516-523. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2018-0277
AE Cheeseman, SJ Ryan, CM Whipps, JB Cohen. 2018. Competition alters seasonal resource selection and promotes use of invasive shrubs by an imperiled native cottontail. Ecology and Evolution 8: 11122-11133. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4580
Ryan SJ, EJ Gavard, AE Cheeseman, JB Cohen, CM Whipps. 2016. Reference and baseline hematocrit measures for the threatened New England cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis) and comparison with sympatric eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) rabbits. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 47: 659-662. https://doi.org/10.1638/2015-0157.1
Department(s)
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Department of Natural Resource Management