Background:

B.S., University of Michigan
M.A., Southern Illinois University
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts

NCSU Courses taught:

• FW/FOR 310 = Fisheries & Wildlife Inventory & Management
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• FW/FOR 404 = Forest Wildlife Management
• FW/FOR 585 = Wildlife Management Seminar

Research on forest wildlife habitat, ecology, and management, particularly landbirds in an intensively-managed, industrial forest landscape.

view slide presentation given at Fragmentation 2000 Symposium
http://www.srs.fs.fed.us/sustain/conf/abs/wigley.htm
Avian diversity and productivity on an intensively managed, industrial forest in South Carolina:  The Westvaco example
Catch per Unit Effort invited paper presented January 2001 in St Benoist, France

Deer population dynamics, management, and behavior - 20 years of research on Chesapeake Farms, MD (previously Remington Farms)

Professional Organizations:

• The Wildlife Society
• American Society of Mammalogists
• American Ornithologists' Union
• Sigma Xi

• Lancia, R.A., J.D. Nichols, and K.H. Pollock. 1994. Estimating the number of animals in wildlife populations. In T.A. Bookhout (Ed.) Research and Management Techniques for Wildlife and Habitats. pp. 215-253. 5th Edition, The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, MD.
• Mitchell, M.S., E.J. Jones, K.S. Karrider, and R.A. Lancia. 1995. Effects on intensive forest management on small mammals of pocosin wetlands. J. Wildlife Management 59: 875-881.
• Bishir, J.W., and R.A. Lancia. 1996. On catch-effort methods of estimating animal abundance. Biometrics 52: 352-361.
• Lancia, R.A., and J.W. Bishir. 1996. Removal methods. In D. E. Wilson et al. (Eds.) Measuring and monitoring biological diversity standard methods for mammals. pp. 210-217. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
• Lancia, R.A., J.W. Bishir, M.C. Conner, and C.S. Rosenberry. 1996. Use of catch-effort to estimate population size. Wildlife Society Bull. 24: 731-737.
• Wigley, T. B., and R. A. Lancia.  1998.  Wildlife communities  Pages 205-236 in M. G. Messina and W. H. Conner, eds.  Southern forested wetlands:  ecology and management.  CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
• Peine, J. D.,and  R. A. Lancia.  1999.  Control of exotic species:  European wild boars.  Pages 267-290  in Ecosystem management for sustainability:  Principles and practices illustrated by a regional biosphere reserve cooperative.  Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL.
• Lancia, R. A., C. S. Rosenberry, and M. C. Conner.  1999.  Population parameters and their estimation.  Pages 64-83 in Ecology and management of large mammals in North America.  S. Demarais and P. R. Krausman, editors.  Prentice Hall, NJ  778pp.
• Davenport, D. E., R. A. Lancia, J. R. Walters, P. D. Doerr.  1999.  Red-cockaded woodpeckers:  A relationship between reproductive fitness and habitat.  Wildlife Society Bulletin.  28:426-434.
• Rosenberry, C. S., R. A. Lancia, and M. C. Conner.  1999.  Population effects of white-tailed deer dispersal.  Wildlife Society Bulletin.  27:858-864.
• Tardiff, J., R. A. Lancia, and M. C. Conner.  1999.  White-tailed deer use of clover patches and soybean fields in an agricultural area. Proc. Southeast. Assoc. Fish Wildl. Agencies.  In Press.
• Rosenberry, C. S., R. A. Lancia, and M. C. Conner.  2000.  Behavior and dispersal of whiye-tailed deer during the breeding season.  Canadian Journal of Zoology.  Accepted.
• Lancia, R. A., J. A. Gerwin, M. S. Mitchell, W. M. Baughman, T. B. Wigley.  2000.  Avian diversity and productivity on an intensively-managed, industrial forest in South Carolina:  The Westvaco example. Fragmentation 2000:  A conference on sustaining private forests in the 21st century.  Annapolis, MD.

• Melchoirs, T, B. Chapman, C. Hunter, P. Tappe, R. Thill, B. Wigley, M. Wilson, J. Gerwin.  Birds in managed pine forests.  Partners in Flight Symposium, Beloxi, MS
• Hazler, K. R. and R. A. Lancia.  Productivity of hooded woardlers and acadian flycatchers in managed pine stands.  J. Wildl. Manage.  In preparation.
• M. S. Mitchell, R. A. Lancia, and J. A. Gerwin.  Using landscape to predict the distribution of birds on a managed forest:  effects of scale.  Ecological Applications.  Submitted.
• Turner, J. C., R. A. Lancia, and J. A. Gerwin.  Influences of Hardwood Stand Size and Adjacency on Breeding Bird Communities in an Intensively Managed Forest Landscape in the Lower Coastal Plain of South Carolina. Forest Science.  Submitted.

 

• The Wildlife Society
National
Chairman, Technical Review Committee on Wildlife Research, 1992-95
Chairman, Position Statements Committee, 1980-82,1982-84
Member, Position Statements Committee, 1978-79, 1985-86
 Southeast Section
President, 1998-99
Section Representative to TWS Council 2000-2003
North Carolina Chapter
President, 1986-87
• Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society - North Carolina State University Chapter
President, 1990-91
• North Carolina State University:
Director of Undergraduate Programs, Dept. of Forestry, NCSU, 1994-1997
Interim Director (and first Director), Teaching and Learning Center, 1996-1997
Chairman, Academy of Outstanding Teachers Executive Council, NCSU, 1995-96
Director, The University Honors Council, NCSU, 1991-92
• Editorial Duties:
Editor, Brimleyana, 1992-1998(a zoological journal of the SE U.S. published by the   North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences)
Editor in Chief, The Journal of Wildlife Management, 1990-91
Associate Editor, The Journal of Wildlife Management, 1986-87

Summer Camp 1999

Summer Camp 2000

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