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975 W. 6th Street
Moscow, Idaho

Mailing Address:
875 Perimeter Drive MS 1138
Moscow, ID 83844-1138

Phone: 208-885-8981

Fax: 208-885-5534

Email: cnr@uidaho.edu

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Bryan Stevens

Bryan Stevens, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Office

CNR 104b

Mailing Address

Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
University of Idaho
875 Perimeter Drive MS 1141
Moscow ID 83844-1141

Degrees

  • 2016 Ph.D., Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University
  • 2012 M.S., Statistics, University of Idaho
  • 2011 M.S., Wildlife Resources, University of Idaho
  • 2008 B.S., Wildlife Resources, University of Idaho

Research Interests

  • Wildlife ecology and management
  • Applied population ecology
  • Structured decision making
  • Statistical ecology

Publications

  • Stevens, B. S., J. R. Bence, W. F. Porter, and M. L. Jones. 2017. Identifying target reference points for harvesting assessment-limited wildlife populations: a case study. Ecological Applications 27:1916-1931.
  • Stevens, B. S., J. R. Bence, W. F. Porter, and C. J. Parent. 2017. Structural uncertainty limits generality of fall harvest strategies for wild turkeys. Journal of Wildlife Management 81:617-628.
  • Herbst, S. J., B. S. Stevens, D. B. Hayes, and P. A. Hanchin. 2017. Influence of movement dynamics on walleye harvest management in intermixed fisheries in a chain of lakes. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 37:467-479.
  • Herbst, S. J., B. S. Stevens, D. B. Hayes, and P. A. Hanchin. 2016. Estimating walleye (Sander vitreus) movement and fishing mortality using state-space models: implications for management of spatially structured populations. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 73:330–348.
  • Stevens, B. S., J. R. Bence, W. F. Porter, and C. J. Parent. 2016. Ecology matters: robustness and management tradeoffs for maximum harvests of wild turkeys. Proceedings of the National Wild Turkey Symposium 11:189–210.
  • Parent, C. J., B. S. Stevens, A. C. Bowling, and W. F. Porter. 2016. Wild turkey harvest trends across the Midwest in the 21st century. Proceedings of the National Wild Turkey Symposium 11:211–223.
  • Watkins, C. J., B. S. Stevens, M. C. Quist, B. B. Shepard, and S. C. Ireland. 2015. Patterns of fish assemblage structure and habitat use among main- and side-channel environments in the lower Kootenai River, Idaho. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 144:1340–1355.
  • Stevens, B. S., and B. Dennis. 2013. Wildlife mortality from infrastructure collisions: statistical modeling of count data from carcass surveys. Ecology 94:2087–2096.
  • Stevens, B. S., D. Naugle, B. Dennis, J. W. Connelly, T. Griffiths, and K. P. Reese. 2013. Mapping sage-grouse fence collision risk: spatially explicit models to target conservation implementation. Wildlife Society Bulletin 37:409–415.
  • Stevens, B. S., J. W. Connelly, and K. P. Reese. 2012. Multi-scale assessment of greater sage-grouse fence collision risk as a function of site and broad scale factors. Journal of Wildlife Management 76:1370–1380.
  • Stevens, B. S., K. P. Reese, J. W. Connelly, and D. D. Musil. 2012. Greater sage-grouse and fences: does marking reduce collisions? Wildlife Society Bulletin 36:297–303.
  • Stevens, B. S., K. P. Reese, and J. W. Connelly. 2011. Survival and detectability bias of avian fence collision surveys in sagebrush steppe. Journal of Wildlife Management 75:437–449.
  • Stevens, B. S., and J. M. DuPont. 2011. Summer use of side-channel thermal refugia by salmonids in the North Fork Coeur d’Alene River, Idaho. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 31:683–692.

Selected Awards

  • Best Student Paper Award at the 2017 meeting of the Michigan chapter of The Wildlife Society (co-author with undergraduate student S. Manning)
  • Best Student Paper Award at the 2014 meeting of the Michigan chapter of the American Fisheries Society (co-author with graduate student S. Herbst)
  • 2012 Travel Award from the Biometrics Working Group of The Wildlife Society
  • Ted Trueblood Communication Award for best student presentation at the 2011 meeting of the Idaho Chapter of The Wildlife Society
  • 2011 Dale Everson Statistical Fellowship from the Department of Statistics at the University of Idaho

Outreach

Workshops:

  • Michigan Wild Turkey Structured Decision Making Project (2015 – 2017)
    • Co-facilitator of 5 structured decision making workshops aimed at clarifying fundamental objectives of wild turkey management, identifying management options for wild turkeys, and building models to forecast consequences of possible management options.
    • Member of stakeholder group representing 12 organizations and 2 research centers with interests in wild turkey conservation, management, and research in Michigan.
    • Leader of modeling team tasked with building integrated population models to forecast consequences of wild turkey management options.
  • Midwest Wild Turkey Consortium (2014)
    • Co-facilitator of half-day workshop discussing regional turkey monitoring methods with representatives from 12 state wildlife agencies.

Presentations:

  • Stevens, B. S., W. F. Porter, M. L. Jones, J. R. Bence, D. Luukkonen, and A. Stewart. Dynamics and management of wild turkeys in Michigan. Oral testimony to the Michigan Natural Resources Commission. October 2016, Lansing, Michigan.
  • Parent, C. J., B. S. Stevens, and W. F. Porter. Status and management of wild turkeys in Michigan. Oral presentation to the Kalamazoo Audubon Chapter, February 2015, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Contact Us

College of Natural Resources

Physical Address:
975 W. 6th Street
Moscow, Idaho

Mailing Address:
875 Perimeter Drive MS 1138
Moscow, ID 83844-1138

Phone: 208-885-8981

Fax: 208-885-5534

Email: cnr@uidaho.edu

Web: College of Natural Resources

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