Alabama Project
ADCNR Inventory and Conservation Planning
October 2022 - September 2028
Personnel
Participating Agencies
- Alabama Department of Conservation & Natural Resources
Alabama ranks fifth among U.S. states in biodiversity of plants and animals, yet only 4% of the state is sheltered from development. Support of Alabama's extraordinary biodiversity thus depends on fastidious management of these limited protected areas. We are evaluating the effects of historical land management on wildlife communities within state-owned Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs). These data are critical for understanding how historical management has affected target species, assessing the accuracy of predicted management outcomes, and improving management plans within an adaptive framework. This work is being conducted in collaboration with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Results will be used by the agency to improve habitat management for game and non-game species on their WMAs and to tease out the relative importance of local management vs. landscape changes on shaping wildlife communities.
| Presentations | Presentation Date |
|---|---|
| Valente, J.J. (2025). U.S. Geological Survey Cooperative Research Units: working together to address wildlife conservation issues. Auburn University Chapter of the Wildlife Society meeting, Auburn, AL. | February 2025 |
| Parvin, L.K., and J.J. Valente (2025). Leveraging asymptotic regression models to enhance accuracy and comparability of occupancy estimates across studies and species. U.S. Geological Survey Annual Cooperators Meeting, Auburn, AL. | April 2025 |
| Parvin, L.K., and J.J. Valente (2025). A novel modeling approach for standardizing and improving estimation of occupancy rates for mobile species. Alabama Chapter of the Wildlife Society annual meeting, Anniston, AL. | March 2025 |
| Hall, J.F., and J.J. Valente (2025). Improving soundscape research with a cost-effective device for studying environmental sound and wildlife behavior. U.S. Geological Survey Annual Cooperators Meeting, Auburn, AL. | April 2025 |
| Hall, J.F., and J.J. Valente (2025). Improving soundscape ecology using an affordable device for acoustic monitoring and environmental sound manipulation. Auburn University Research Symposium, Auburn, AL. | March 2025 |
| Hall, J.F., and J.J. Valente (2025). Bridging soundscape ecology and conservation: A new tool for manipulating and monitoring environmental sound in wildlife habitats. Alabama Chapter of the Wildlife Society annual meeting, Anniston, AL. | March 2025 |
| Gans, D., J.F. Hall, and J.J. Valente. (2025). Examining 15-year changes in the small mammal communities occupying Alabama's Wildlife Management Areas. Alabama Chapter of the Wildlife Society annual meeting, Anniston, AL. | March 2025 |
| Gans, D., J.F. Hall, and J.J. Valente. (2025). Effects of population changes and sampling heterogeneity on long-term changes in small mammal communities on Alabama State Lands. Auburn University Research Symposium, Auburn, AL. | March 2025 |
| Blake, K., J.F. Hall, L.K. Parvin, and J.J. Valente. (2025). Effects of habitat management on avian communities across Alabama's state lands: implications for targeted management using conspecific attraction. Auburn University Research Symposium, Auburn, AL. | March 2025 |
| Blake, K., J.F. Hall, L.K. Parvin, and J.J. Valente (2025). Examining habitat selection mechanisms and changes in habitat use for breeding birds on Alabama’s wildlife management areas. Alabama Chapter of the Wildlife Society annual meeting, Anniston, AL. | March 2025 |
| Abubakar, S.K., L.L. Narine, and J.J. Valente (2025). The application of freely available geospatial tools to monitor land management progress in Wildlife Management Areas. Alabama Chapter of the Wildlife Society annual meeting, Anniston, AL. | March 2025 |
| Abubakar, S.K., L.L. Narine, and J.J. Valente (2025). Evaluating the effectiveness of a ground-up management framework for meeting broad-scale objectives on Alabama's Wildlife Management Areas. U.S. Geological Survey Annual Cooperators Meeting, Auburn, AL. | April 2025 |
| Abubakar, S.K., L.L. Narine, and J.J. Valente (2025). Evaluating the effectiveness of a ground-up management framework for meeting broad-scale objectives on Alabama's Wildlife Management Areas. Auburn University Research Symposium, Auburn, AL. | March 2025 |
| Abubakar, S.K., L. Narine, and J.J. Valente. (2024). Effects of local-scale land management decisions on progress toward regional wildlife habitat targets. 109th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Long Beach, CA. | August 2024 |