Jeffrey Kerby

  • Dickey Center Visiting Arctic Fellow

  • Neukom '16 Post-doctoral Fellow

I'm interested in how life history traits mediate species interactions, particularly in highly seasonal and rapidly changing environments of the Arctic and alpine regions of Africa. This research touches on elements of community, landscape, and behavioral ecology, and has recently focused on gelada monkeys and large Arctic herbivores. In conjunction with this research, I'm developing and testing applications for near-surface remote sensing platforms and the data they can generate.  Themes include long-term quantitative time lapse photography, non-invasive morphometric scanning, and the deployment of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) designed for mapping and animal censuses in remote areas.

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Contact

Jeffrey.T.Kerby@Dartmouth.edu
Environmental Studies
6044

Education

  • PhD Candidate, Penn State University, 2015
  • BS, University of Richmond, 2007

Selected Publications

  • Venkataraman V.V., Kerby J., Fashing P.J., Nguyen N., Ashenafi Z.T. (accepted).
    Solitary Ethiopian wolves increase predation success on rodents when among
    grazing monkey herds. Journal of Mammalogy.

    Fashing, P., Nguyen, N., Venkataraman, V. & Kerby, J. (2014) Gelada feeding ecology
    in an intact ecosystem at Guassa, Ethiopia: Variability over time and implications
    for theropith and hominin dietary evolution. American Journal of Physical
    Anthropology, 155, 1-16.

    Kerby, J. & Post, E. (2013) Advancing plant phenology and reduced herbivore
    production in a terrestrial system associated with sea ice decline. Nature
    Communications, 4, 2514.

    Post, E., Bhatt, U., Bitz, C., Brodie, J., Fulton, T., Hebblewhite, M., Kerby, J, Kutz, S.,
    Stirling, I., Walker, D. (2013) Ecological consequences of sea-ice decline.
    Science, 341, 519-524.

    Kerby, J. & Post, E. (2013). Capital and income breeding traits differentiate trophic
    match-mismatch dynamics in large herbivores. Philosophical Transactions of
    the Royal Society B., 386,1624.

    Kerby, J. & Post, E. (2013). Reproductive phenology of large mammals. In:
    Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science. Kluwer Academic
    Publishers, ed: Schwartz, M. D.

    Kerby, J., Wilmers, C., Post, E. (2012) Climate change, phenology, and the nature of
    consumer-resource interactions: Advancing the Match/Mismatch Hypothesis.
    Trait Mediated Indirect Interactions, Cambridge University Press, eds:
    Ohgushi, T., Schmitz, O., Holt. R.

    Olsen, K., Mueller, T., Kerby, J., Bolortsetseg, S., Leimgruber, P., Nicolson, C., Fuller,
    T. (2011). Death by a thousand huts: Effects of household presence on density
    and distribution of Mongolian Gazelles. Conservation Letters, 4, 304-312.

    Fashing, P., Nguyen, N., Barry, T., Goodale, C., Burke, R., Jones, S., Kerby, J., Lee, L.,
    Nurmi, N., Venkataraman, V. (2010). Death among geladas (Theropithecus
    gelada): A broader perspective on mummified infants and primate thanatology.
    American Journal of Primatology, 73, 405-409.

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