Email: krisenhoover@portblakely.com
Ph.D (Biological Sciences),
Michigan Technological University, 1987
M.S. (Wildlife Ecology), Colorado State University, 1981
B.S. (Wildlife and Fishery
Biology), Colorado State University, 1977
The ecology of managed forests. The Effects of landscape composition
and structure, and the spatial-temporal distributions of resources on the
behavioral ecology of vertebrates. Foraging ecology and environmental factors
influencing food-searching behavior, animal feeding efficiency, and their
utilization of habitats and landscapes. Herbivory, plant-animal interactions,
and the influence of large herbivores on community structure, composition,
function, and trophic dynamics. Assessment of effects of scale on measures
of resource heterogeneity and structure. Development of spatially-explicit
simulation models for evaluating wildlife responses to landscape composition
and structure. Nutritional ecology of ungulates. The conservation and management
of wildlife and their habitats.
Publications
and Reports
Research
at the Wildlife Habitat Analysis Lab at Texas A&M
Research
projects at the TAES Sonora Station
Hearing
Sensitivity in White-Tailed Deer
Research
Project Summaries
Deer
Management Simulator
Current
Research Projects
Graduate
Students
Kohlmann, S. G. and K. L. Risenhoover. 1999. Estimating handling times for herbivore diets: a statistical method using the gamma distribution. Journal of Animal Ecology (in press).
Kohlmann, S. G. and K. L. Risenhoover. 1998. Effects of resource distribution, patch spacing and pre-harvest information on foraging decisions of northern bobwhites. Behavioral Ecology 9:177-186.
Kohlmann, S. G. and K. L. Risenhoover. 1997. White-tailed deer in a patchy environment: a test of the ideal free distribution theory. Journal of Mammalogy 78:265-276.
Risenhoover, K. L., H. B. Underwood, W. Yan and J. L. Cooke. 1997. A spatially-explicit modeling environment for evaluating deer management strategies. Pages 366-379 in: (W. J McShea, H. B. Underwood, and J. H. Rappole, eds.) The science of overabundance: deer ecology and population management. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
Kohlmann, S. G. and K. L. Risenhoover. 1996. Using artificial food patches to evaluate habitat quality for granivorous birds: an application of foraging theory. Condor 98:854-857.
Kohlmann, S. G. and K. L. Risenhoover. 1994. Spatial and behavioral responses of white- tailed deer to forage depletion. Canadian Journal of Zoology 72:506-513.
Gorsira, B. and K. L. Risenhoover. 1994. An evaluation of woodland restoration on strip- mined lands in east Texas. Environmental Management 18:787-793.
Murden, S. B. and K. L. Risenhoover. 1993. Effects of habitat enrichment on patterns of diet selection. Ecological Applications 3:497-505.
Smith, M. H. and K. L. Risenhoover. 1993. Association between reproductive effort and genetic variability in cervids. Proc. Inter. Union Game Biol. Congr. (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 21:113-118.
Roese, J. H., K. L. Risenhoover, and L. J. Folse. 1991. Habitat heterogeneity and foraging efficiency: an individual-based model. Ecological Modelling 57:133-143.
Brandner, T. A., R. O. Peterson, K. L. Risenhoover. 1990. Balsam fir on Isle Royale: effects of moose herbivory and population density. Ecology 71:155-164.
Risenhoover, K. L. 1989. Composition and quality of moose winter diets in interior Alaska. Journal of Wildlife Management 53:568-577.
Risenhoover, K. L., J. A. Bailey, and L. A. Wakelyn. 1988. Assessing the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep management problem. Wildlife Society Bulletin 16:204-210.
Risenhoover, K. L. and J. A. Bailey. 1988. Bighorn sheep growth rates and birthing period in low-elevation habitats in Colorado. Journal of Mammalogy. 69:592-597.
Risenhoover, K. L. and S. A. Maass. 1987. The influence of moose on the composition and structure of Isle Royale forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 17:357-364.
Risenhoover, K. L. 1987. Intraspecific variation in moose preference for willows. Pages 58- 63 In: Plant-herbivore interactions (F. D. Provenza, J. T. Flinders, and E. D. McArthur, Compilers). Proc. Fourth Inter. Wildland Shrub Symp. U.S. Forest Service Intermountain Research Station General Technical Report INT-222. 179pp.
Risenhoover, K. L. 1986. Winter activity patterns of moose in interior Alaska. Journal of Wildlife Management 50:727-734.
Risenhoover, K. L. and R. O. Peterson. 1986. Mineral licks as a sodium source for Isle Royale moose. Oecologia (Berlin) 71:121-126.
Risenhoover, K. L. and J. A. Bailey. 1985. Foraging ecology of mountain sheep: implications for habitat management. Journal of Wildlife Management. 49:797-804.
Risenhoover, K. L. and J. A. Bailey. 1985. Relationships between group size, feeding time, and agonistic behavior of mountain goats. Canadian Journal of Zoology 63:2501-2506.
