Amanda Cheeseman

Education

PhD, Fish and Wildlife Biology and Management, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
MS, Biology, Fort Hays State University
BS, Zoology, Michigan State University

Academic Interests

Wildlife Management
Population 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 Mammalogists
The Wildlife Society
Ecological Society of America
World Lagomorph Society

Area(s) of Research

Publications

DV 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