Todd Arnold

Todd Arnold
Professor
Undergraduate Major Coordinator
[email protected]
612-624-2220
B51C Skok Hall
Education

Ph.D. University of Western Ontario

Areas of Interest

Waterfowl ecology & management

Teaching

  • FW 2001 Intro to Fisheries, Wildlife & Conservation Biology
  • FW 5051 Analysis of Populations

Research

My research interests focus on the ecology and conservation of wetland- and prairie-dependent wildlife, particularly waterfowl. Recent research has focused on better methods of estimating population size of wetland and grassland wildlife, estimation of population vital rates (e.g. nest success, brood survival), and development of population models to guide management activities and predict future population trajectories.

Keywords 

Population ecology and management of grassland and wetland-dependent wildlife; mark-recapture analysis; population assessment and modeling.

Select Publications

Weegman, MD, JH Devries, RG Clark, DW Howerter, D Gibson, JP Donnelly, and TW Arnold. 2024. Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of annual waterfowl productivity are synchronous across species, space, and time. Ecological Applications 2024; e2979.

Gallman, C, T Arnold, E Michel, and J Stafford. 2023. Evaluation of fall-seeded cover crops for grassland nesting waterfowl in eastern South Dakota. Wildlife Society Bulletin, e1484.

Laidre, KL, TW Arnold, EV Regehr, S Atkinson, E Born, Ø Wiig, NJ Lunn, M Dyck, HL Stern, S Stapleton, B Cohen, and D Paetkau. 2023. Demographic response of a high-Arctic polar bear (Ursus maritimus) subpopulation to changes in sea ice and subsistence harvest. Endangered Species Research 51: 73-87.

Koons, DN, TV Riecke, GS Boomer, BS Sedinger, JS Sedinger, PJ Williams, and TW Arnold. 2022. A niche for null models in Adaptive Resource Management. Ecology & Evolution 12(1), e8541.

Arnold, TW. 2021. Individual heterogeneity in annual survival: quantifying the “Doomed Surplus.” Pages 203-209 in KL Pope and LA Powell, eds. Harvest of Fish and Wildlife: New Paradigms for Sustainable Management. CRC Press.