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Tara Easter

Tara Easter
Resource Ecology Management (REM)
tseaster@umich.edu
Entering Year
2018
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I am a human-environment systems researcher interested in the efficacy and politics of wildlife conservation and management. My dissertation research investigates the intersection between legal, commercial turtle harvest, illegal turtle trapping and trade, and different turtle trapping regulations among states in the Southeast US. My work draws from geography, social-ecological systems, and conservation criminology, and utilizes both qualitative and quantitative methods. With this work and future endeavors, I hope to advance applied conservation research to better incorporate underlying political and cultural interactions and improve policymaking.

 

Education

MS in Biology, Boise State University, 2018

BS in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation, North Carolina State University, 2012

Committee Chair/Advisor
Neil Carter
Specialization
Ecosystem Science and Management
Research
  • Climate change, cattle, and the challenge of sustainability in a telecoupled system in Africa TS Easter, AK Killion, NH Carter - Ecology and Society, 2018
  • Rapid human‐induced divergence of life‐history strategies in B ahamian livebearing fishes (family P oeciliidae R Riesch, T Easter, CA Layman, RB Langerhans - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2015

  • Opportunities for biodiversity conservation outside of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique: A multispecies approach T Easter, P Bouley, N Carter - Biological Conservation, 2019

  • Road development in Asia: Assessing the range-wide risks to tigers N Carter, A Killion, T Easter, J Brandt, A Ford - Science Advances, 2020

  • Intraguild dynamics of understudied carnivores in a human‐altered landscape T Easter, P Bouley, N Carter - Ecology and Evolution, 2020

  • Quantifying Mammalian Interactions and Distributions to Inform Conservation Planning in Mozambique T Easter - 2018

 

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