What do you even call a job like this?

May 01, 2012 01:35

Well, this is awkward… I’m not really sure how to go about asking this, so I’ll do my best so feel free to ask me for clarifications if what I’m asking is difficult ( Read more... )

~education (misc), ~wilderness survival

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orthent May 1 2012, 20:54:24 UTC
I don't know if these will be of any use to you, but here are a couple of links to papers by people doing what your guy does:

Does interference competition with wolves limit the distribution and abundance of coyotes?

Indirect effects and traditional trophic cascades: a test involving wolves, coyotes and pronghorn

Trophic cascades among wolves, elk and aspen on Yellowstone National Park's northern range

And it's a different ecosystem, but you might also want to check out David Mech's work on the wolves of Isle Royale, here, since he'd likely be familiar with it and might even have met Mech.

He might aim to publish his results in a journal like Oikos, Journal of Animal Ecology, American Naturalist, or Behavioral Ecology, and those journals might furnish his reading material.

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panur_links May 2 2012, 22:48:50 UTC
oooh, publishing sounds like a good idea to start getting funds, I like it, thank you!

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orthent May 3 2012, 15:30:29 UTC
Well, I'm pretty sure you have to get the funding before you do your research--then your project history helps you get more funding to do additional research...

I don't know whether you're working in a place where you can access the full articles, or just the abstracts, but the Acknowledgements section at the end of such articles will have a list of the funding source--like this:

This study was funded by Grand Teton National Park and the Biological Resources Division of the US Geological Survey under Cooperative Agreement no. 01CRAG0031, the Wildlife Conservation Society, the National Wildlife Research Center at Utah State University, and the NatureFlight Foundation.

(The International Wolf Center might also be a source of funding for your character's research.)

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anonymous May 9 2012, 20:09:49 UTC
Hello,

Comparative psychology studies and compars the behaviors of different types of animals and also conducts experiments and observations on things like pack/herd behavior, learning, mating rituals, rearing of offspring...it might be an appropriate career for your character :)

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