Douglas Bolger

Associate 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 logging in the northern hardwood forests of New Hampshire.

Selected Publications

• Bolger, D.T., K.H. Beard, A.V. Suarez, and T.J. Case. 2008. Increased abundance of native and non native spiders with habitat fragmentation. Diversity and Distributive. Published online:15-April-2008. (DOI:10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00470.x) (inpress).
• 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., M. A. Patten, and D. C. Bostock. 2005. Avian Reproductive Failure Response to an Extreme Climate Event. Oecologia, 142: 398-406.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Bolger, D.T. 2002. Fragmentation effects on birds in southern California: Contrast to the top-down paradigm. Studies in Avian Biology 25:141-157.

Courses

• ENVS 2
• ENVS 7
• ENVS 20
• ENVS 50
• ENVS 80
• ENVS 86
• Africa Foreign Study Program

Office: 106 Steele

Phone: 603-646-1688

Email: douglas.bolger@dartmouth.edu

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