Student Information
Graduate Student
Environmental Life Sciences
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Research Interests
I seek to understand urbanization's impact on mammal communities, species interactions, and human-wildlife conflict. Specifically, I focus on how cities influence coyote distributions, biology, and interactions with other middle-sized carnivores, especially pets. By understanding how and why coyotes occupy urban spaces, I hope my work will inform urban wildlife management that supports the needs of people while also considering the unique ecological benefits coyotes provide urban systems.
Publications
Weiss, K.C.B., and C.A. Ray*. 2019. “Unifying functional trait approaches to understand the assemblage of ecological communities: Synthesizing taxonomic divides.” Ecography. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04387. *co-first author
Gerber, L.R., M.C. Runge, R.F. Maloney, G.D. Iacona, C.A. Drew, S. Avery-Gomm, J. Brazill-Boast, D. Crouse, R.S. Epanchin-Niell, S.B. Hall, L.A. Maguire, T. Male, D. Morgan, J. Newman, H.P. Possingham, L. Rumpff, K.C.B. Weiss, R.S. Wilson, and M. Zablan. 2018. “Endangered species recovery: A resource allocation problem.” Science 362(6412): 284-286.
Filoso, S., M. Ometto Bezerra, K.C.B. Weiss, and M.A. Palmer. 2017. “Impacts of forest restoration on water yield: A systematic review.” PLoS ONE 12(8): e0183210.
Courses
2024 Spring
2023 Spring
2022 Spring
2021 Fall
2020 Spring