Professor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology

Todd Arnold

B51C Skok Hall

2003 Upper Buford Circle

Ste. 135

Saint Paul, MN 55108

arnol065@umn.edu

+1 612 624 2220

Education

Ph.D. University of Western Ontario

Areas of Interest

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

Teaching

FW 5051 Analysis of Populations
ESPM 3003 Sustainable People, Sustainable Planet

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.

Select Publications

Arnold, TW, RG Clark, DN Koons, and M Schaub. 2018. Integrated population models to inform future waterfowl ecology and management. Journal of Wildlife Management 82(1): in press.
Specht, HM, HT Reich, F Iannarilli, MR Edwards, MK Johnson, SP Stapleton, MD Weegman, BJ Yohannes, and TW Arnold. 2017. Occupancy surveys with conditional replicates: an alternative sampling design for rare species. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8:1725-1734.
Arnold, TW, AD Afton, MJ Anteau, DN Koons, and CA Nicolai. 2016. Temporal variation in survival and recovery rates of lesser scaup. Journal of Wildlife Management 80:850-861.
Thompson, SJ, TW Arnold, J Fieberg, DA Granfors, S Vacek, and N Palaia. 2016. Grassland birds demonstrate delayed response to large-scale tree removal in central North America. Journal of Applied Ecology 53:284-294.
Swanson, A, T Arnold, M Kosmala, J Forester, and C Packer. 2016. In the absence of a “landscape of fear”: how lions, hyenas and cheetahs coexist. Ecology and Evolution: DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2569.