Mammal Ecology Lab

Mammal and Wildlife Ecology Laboratory Overview

Wildlife plays a significant role in maintaining ecosystem health, ecosystems services and plant community stability and succession.  NRRI’s mammal and wildlife ecology research program is an applied research program that has been studying the direct impacts of environmental change on wildlife, biodiversity, and ecosystem function for almost 20 years.  Our research gathers critical data on threatened, endangered and rare

Minnesota National Forest Breeding Bird Monitoring Program

  • Document long-term population trends of breeding forest birds in the Chippewa and Superior National Forests.
  • Use the data that has been collected every year from 1995 to the present to inform the development of forest management guidelines.
  • Data is collected by conducting bird surveys in the Chippewa and Superior National Forests every summer in June.
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