J L David Smith

Dr. David JL Smith.
Distinguished Global Professor Emeritus
[email protected]
612-624-5369
324 Hodson Hall
CLAWS - Collaborative Lab for Asian Wildlife Studies
Education

Ph. D. University of Minnesota

Areas of Interest

Asian mammal conservation

Teaching

  • FW 4103 – Principles of Wildlife Management – 3 cr.
  • FW 5625 – Wildlife Handling and Immobilization – 2 cr.
  • CFANS 3504 - Tiger Conservation and Vertebrate Field Methods – 3 cr.

Research

My research focuses on the biology and conservation of mammals in Asia, including individual based modeling of large mammals, metapopulation structure of large mammals in relation to landscape patterns and human-wildlife conflict. Most of my personal research has focused on tigers but I have advised students studying a number of other species (e.g. gaur, banteng, fishing cat, sloth bear, snow leopard). My current research is in Thailand and Nepal but I have also worked in China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Bangladesh. Through my research I have developed study abroad programs at U Minnesota for undergraduates in Thailand and Nepal. 

Keywords

Biology and conservation of mammals in Asia; conservation data bases; individual based modeling of large mammal and human dynamics, metapopulation structure of large mammals in relation to landscape patterns and the human dimension context, ecosystem management.

Select Publications

  • Liu, Y., Dodge, S., Simcharoen, A., Ahearn, S.C., Smith, J.L.D. 2024. Analyzing tiger interaction and home range shifts using a time-geographic approach. Movement Ecology. 12:13 doi.org/10.1186/s40462-024-00454-0
  • Li, Z.,  Lu, J., Shi, X, Duo, L., Smith, J.L.D., Wang, T. 2024. Competitive interactions and coexistence of sympatric flagship. Integrative Zoology Integrative Zoology 19:183-199.
  • Wang, D., Smith, J.L.D. Francesco Accatino, Jianping, G.E., Wang, T. 2023. Addressing the impact of canine distemper spreading on an isolated tiger population in northeast Asia. Integrative Zoology doi: 10.1111/1749-4877.12712
  • Simcharoen, A., Simcharoen, S., Duangchantrasiri, S., Vijittrakollchai, C., 2021. Exploratory dispersal movements by young tigers in Thailand’s Western Forest Complex: the challenges of securing a territory. Mammal Research 67: 21-30.
  • Feng, R., Lü, X., Xiao, W. Feng, J., Sun, Y., Guam, Y., Feng, L., Smith, J.L.D., Ge, J., Wang, T. 2021. Effects of free‑ranging livestock on sympatric herbivores at fine spatiotemporal scales.  Landscape Ecology 36: 1441-1457.
  • Feng, J., Sun, Y., Li, H., Xiao, Y., Zhang, D., Smith, J.L.D., Ge, J., Wang, T. 2021. Assessing mammal species richness and occupancy in a Northeast Asian temperate forest shared by cattle. Diversity and Distributions 27:857-872.
  • Dodge, S., Su, R., Johnson, J., Simcharoen, A., Goulias, K., Smith, J.L.D., Ahearn, A.C. 2021. ORTEGA: an object-oriented time-geographic analytical approach to trace space-time contact patterns in movement data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 88: 101630.
  • Simcharoen, S., A. Simcharoen, S. Hasin, f. Cuthbert, J.L.D. Smith. 2020. Diet of the large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha L., 1758) in west-cental Thailand. Malayan Nature Journal 72:287-293. 
  • Simcharoen, S., A. Simcharoen, S. Hasin, f. Cuthbert, J.L.D. Smith. 2020. Diet composition of the golden jackal (Canis aureus L,) during the dry season in western-central Thailand. Malayan Nature Journal 72:275-286. 
  • Khaewphakdee, S., A. Simcharoen, S. Dongchantrasiri, V. Chimchome, S. Simcharoen, J.L.D. Smith. 2020. Weights of gaur (Bos gaurus) and banteng (Bos javanicus) killed by tigers in Thailand. Ecology and Evolution. 10: 5152-5159. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6268.
  • Jornburom, P., S. Duangshantrasiri, S. Jinamoy, A. Pattanavibol, J.E. Hines, T. Arnold, J. Fieberg, J.L.D. Smith. 2020. Habitat use by tiger prey in Thailand’s Western Forest Complex: What will it take to fill a half-empty tiger landscape? 2020. J. Nature Conservation 58: 1-11.  
  • Saisamorn, A., P. Duengkae, A. Pattonavibol, S. Duangchatrasiri, A. Simcharoen & J.L.D. Smith. 2019. Spatial and temporal analysis of leopards (Panthera pardus), their prey and tigers (Panthera tigris) in Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand. Folia Oecologia 46(2).
  • Dou, H., H. Yang, J.L.D. Smith, L. Feng, T. Wang, J. Ge. 2019. Prey selection of Amur tigers in relation to the spatiotemporal overlap with prey across the Sino-Russian border. Wildlife Biology. doi: 10.2981/wlb.00508
  • Duangchatrasiri,S., *J. Pornkamol, J. Sitthichai, A.Pattanvibool, J.E.Hines, T. W. Arnold, J. Fieberg, and J.L.D. Smith. In Press. Impact of prey occupancy and other ecological and anthropogenic factors on tiger distribution in Thailand's Western Forest Complex. Ecology and Evolution.
  • Liu,Yue-Chen,X.Sun, C. Driscoll, D.G. Miquelle, X.Xu, P. Martelli, O. Uphrykina, J.L.D. Smith, S.J. O'Brien, *S-J.Luo. 2018. Genome-Wide Evolutionary Analysis of Natural History and Adaptation in the World's Tigers. Current Biology.
  • B.R. Lamichhane, N. Subedi, C. Pokheral, M. Dhakal, K. Acharya, N. Pradhan, J.L.D. Smith, S.Malla, B. Thakuri and C. Yackulic. 2017. Using interviews and biological sign surveys to infer seasonal use of forested and agricultural portions of a human-dominated landscape by Asian elephants in Nepal. Ethol. Ecol. & Evol. 29: 1-17 https://doi.org/10.1080/03949370.2017.1405847
  • S. Pakpien, A Simcharoen, S. Duangchantrasiri, V. Chimchome, N. Pongpattannurak and J.L.D.  Smith. 2017. Ecological covariates at kill sites influence tiger (Panthera tigris) hunting success in Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand. Trop. Conser. Sci. 10: 1-7. doi: 10.1177/1940082917719000
  • Ahearn, S.C., S. Dodge, A. Simcharoen, G. Xavier, J.L.D.Smith. 2016. A context-sensitive correlated random walk: a new simulation model for movement. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 1-17.

Honors and Awards

2021 Award for Global Engagement at the University of Minnesota