Nick Russo

Nick Russo

PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles

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Publications

Russo, N.R., A.B. Davies, R.V. Blakey, E.M. Ordway, and T.B. Smith. 2022. Feedback loops between 3D vegetation structure and ecological roles of animals. Authorea Preprints.

Valenti, V.L., E.C. Carcelen, K. Lange, N.J. Russo, and B. Chapman. 2020. Leveraging Google Earth Engine user interface for semi-automated wetland classification in the Great Lakes Basin at 10 m with optical and radar geospatial datasets. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 13:6008-6018

Robertson, M.W., N.J. Russo, S.J. McInnes, B. Goffinet, and J.E. Jiménez. 2020. Potential dispersal of tardigrades by birds through endozoochory: evidence from sub-Antarctic White-bellied Seedsnipe (Attagis malouinus). Polar Biology 43:899–902. *Shared first authorship

Russo, N.J., M. Robertson, R. MacKenzie, B. Goffinet, and J.E. Jiménez. 2020. Evidence of targeted consumption of mosses by birds in sub-Antarctic South America. Austral Ecology 45:399-403.

Russo, N.J., C.S. Elphick, N.P. Havill, and M.W. Tingley. 2019. Spring bird migration as a dispersal mechanism for the hemlock woolly adelgid. Biological Invasions 5:1585-1599.

Invited Seminars and Symposia

Internet of Animals Symposium, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. 2022. Movements of Congo Basin seed dispersers in relation to vegetation structure, phenology, and forest degradation. All-Biology Undergraduate Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. 2018. Spring bird migration as a dispersal mechanism for a forest insect invasion. Yale-Myers Forest Summer Seminar Series: Eastford, CT, USA. 2017. Spring bird migration as a dispersal mechanism for an invasive insect pest. Northeast Natural History Conference, Cromwell, CT, USA. 2017. Spring bird migration as a dispersal mechanism for an invasive insect pest. Holster Scholar Project Summer Research Presentations, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. 2015. Avian dispersal of the hemlock woolly adelgid.

Contributed Presentations

American Geophysical Union Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA. 2022. Effects of 3D canopy structure on seed dispersal by hornbills in Cameroon. Oral presentation. Wilson Ornithological Society Meeting, Remote. 2021. Movement ecology of hornbills and spatial patterns of seed dispersal in Cameroon. Oral presentation. Wilson Ornithological Society Meeting, Cape May, NJ, USA. 2019. Spring bird migration as a dispersal mechanism for a forest insect invasion. Oral presentation. International Ornithological Congress, Vancouver, BC, CA. 2018. Consumption of bryophytes by montane, sub-Antarctic birds. Oral presentation and e-Poster. American Ornithological Society Meeting, Tucson, AZ, USA. 2018. Spring bird migration as a dispersal mechanism for a forest insect invasion. Oral presentation. Connecticut Entomological Society Meeting, Storrs, CT, USA. 2017. Avian spring migration as a dispersal mechanism for the hemlock woolly adelgid. Oral presentation. Wilson Ornithological Society Meeting, Ft. Myers, FL, USA. 2017. Avian spring migration as a dispersal mechanism for an invasive insect pest. Oral presentation. Fall Frontiers Undergraduate Research Exhibition, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. 2016. Temporal differences in avian dispersal of Adelgidae crawlers. Poster. Fall Frontiers Undergraduate Research Exhibition, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. 2015. Avian dispersal of the hemlock woolly adelgid. Poster.

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