Douglas Bolger
Professor
An ecologist and conservation biologist interested in how human land-use affects animal and plant populations, Professor Bolger has research projects that examine the impact of residential development in the coastal sage scrub ecosystem of southern California, and of agricultural intensification in landscapes surrounding national parks in Africa.
Wild-ID Download
This link, Wild-ID, will begin a download of the Wild-ID software and documentation. Wild-ID is a multi-platform application for pattern extraction and matching for use in photographic mark-recapture studies. It requires Java 1.5 or higher. (Most Mac OSX, Windows, and Linux systems satisfy this requirement. The download is the same for all systems)
Selected Publications
- Bolger, D.T. 2002. Fragmentation effects on birds in southern California: Contrast to the top-down paradigm. Studies in Avian Biology 25:141-157.
- Patten, M.A. and D.T. Bolger. 2003. Variation in Top-down Control of Avian Reproductive Success Across a Fragmentation Gradient. Oikos 101:479-488.
- Crooks, K., A. Suarez, and D.T. Bolger, 2004. Avian assemblages along a gradient of urbanization in a highly fragmented landscape. Biological Conservation 115: 451-462.
- Lowe W.H., K.H. Nislow, and D.T. Bolger, 2004. Stage-specific and interactive effects of sedimentation and trout on a headwater stream salamander. Ecological Applications 14: 164-172.
- Bolger, D. T., M. A. Patten, and D. C. Bostock. 2005. Avian Reproductive Failure Response to an Extreme Climate Event. Oecologia, 142: 398-406.
- Bolger, D. T. 2007. Spatial and temporal variation in the Argentine ant edge effect: Implications for the mechanism of edge limitation. Biological Conservation, 136:295-305.
- Bolger, D.T., W.D. Newmark, T.A. Morrison and D.F. Doak. 2008. The need for integrative approaches to understand and conserve migratory ungulates. Ecology Letters, 11: 63-77.
- Wolkovich, E.M., D. Lipson, R.A. Virginia, K. Cottingham, and D.T. Bolger. 2009. Grass invasion causes rapid increases in ecosystem carbon and nitrogen storage in a semi-arid shrubland. Global Change Biology. 16: 1351-1365.
- Morrison, T.A., J. Yoshizaki, J.D. Nichols, D.T. Bolger. 2011. Estimating survival in photographic capture-recapture studies: overcoming misidentification error. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2:454-463
Current Courses:
- ENVS 7- First Year Seminar; Population, Consumption and Sustainability
- ENVS 20- Conservation of Biodiversity
- ENVS 50- Environmental Problem Analysis
Past Courses
Contact Information
Professor Douglas Bolger
Environmental Studies Program
106 Steele Hall
HB 6182
Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: 603-646-1688
Fax: 603-646-1682
Douglas.Bolger@Dartmouth.Edu
Links
Faculty Directory: http://dfd.dartmouth.edu/directory/show/356
