Bullock is a globally leading expert in the spatial dynamics and management of biodiversity. He has particular renown in dispersal research, developing novel methods to measure dispersal and analysing general patterns in dispersal data to aid generalization. In particular he has used species’ traits and dispersal in models of biodiversity responses to environmental drivers such as climate change. Bullock is also has a lead role in: a new large grant examining how to restore complex, resilient ecosystems in degraded landscapes; several projects on habitat loss and fragmentation and its impacts on spatial processes and biodiversity; a UKCEH project providing new projections of climate and societal change and how these will affect future biodiversity and environments; several projects on how we might transform our farming systems to become less environmentally damaging. While he generally works on plants, he is very excited to be working on mammals for this project! Google Scholar HERE.

Beier specializes in science-based design and implementation of wildlife corridors. He has produced 33 papers and chapters related to wildlife corridor design, and has co-produced (with managers, NGOs and other stakeholders) 72 corridor conservation plans, all of which are being implemented, with over 100,000 ha of land transferred to conservation ownership and six wildlife crossing structures built over highways. His 1988-1992 research, documenting that dispersing cougars find and use remnant habitat corridors among mountain ranges in urbanizing southern California, is a landmark study that helped catalyse interest in corridors. He wrote the first systematic review of corridor effectiveness (cited >1,000 times), the first systematic review of linkage design procedures, and the first systematic review of regional connectivity maps. In addition to the 72 corridor conservation plans, he has co-produced four regional connectivity maps (for Arizona in 2006, California in 2010, the Western US in 2008, and Bhutan in 2010). He has supervised four PhD theses that made inferences about connectivity from genetic data, including one that gave birth to circuit theory. He serves on US Fish and Wildlife Service recovery teams for two species (ocelot and jaguar). He is a founding board member of Science & Collaboration for Wildlands (www.scwildlands.org), which specializes in science-based corridor designs. See his Google Scholar HERE.

Travis has 20 years of expertise in developing ecological and evolutionary models for fundamental and applied research questions. In recent years, an increasing focus has been on forecasting species’ responses to environmental change and on potential management interventions. In 2014 he published the state-of-the-art ecological software, RangeShifter, that provides a simulation platform for addressing questions concerning the response of species to multiple environmental drivers. It has already been applied on four continents, with 21 publications arising, including one in Science. As a result, Travis is in high demand to run workshops on RangeShifter and to guide academics and conservation practitioners about its use. Travis has been PI/CoI on six NERC funded grants, including: a recent grant using simulation models to design a strategy for habitat creation that will work for most species in most landscapes; one current grant linking demographic theory and data to forecast the dynamics of spatially-structured seasonally-mobile populations; and another focused on developing adaptive management approaches to contain invasive species in South America. Travis leads a research group of three PDRAs and four PhD students. With a WoS h-index of 39, Travis has published >120 papers in top international journals (e.g., Science, PNAS and Ecology Letters). Google Scholar HERE.

Gregory’s dissertation focused on spatial genetic impacts of wind energy development on Greater Prairie-Chicken populations. He has published >30 papers on how landscape structure affects gene flow and population genetics, how management activities alter individual breeding behaviour and space use, and how such changes scale up to population level consequences. Recent work with the US Fish and Wildlife Service has resulted in new assay techniques to screen for cryptic and rare species using eDNA approaches. He is a technical reviewer of the US Fish and Wildlife Service 2016 Lesser Prairie-Chicken Endangered Species Act listing decision and a member of the IUCN Rangeland Specialists, Galliformes Specialists, and Connectivity working groups. As part of his post-doctoral work with Beier, Gregory developed relationships with collaborators around the World, and was invited to the EU Greenbelt Working Group and BUND WildKatz Conservation Initiative. Dr. Gregory has visited each landscape and confirmed the presence of focal species via site interviews, camera trapping, or track and scat surveys. Gregory has won BGSU's Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship undergraduate research mentor of the year award. In 2017, he won the BGSU Master Teacher Award, and was named to the College of Arts and Sciences List of outstanding graduate faculty. Google Scholar HERE.