Research InterestsHuman dimensions of wildlife management, wildlife behavior and habitat, human impacts on wildlife habitat, protected area management. Physiologists knew how animals’ sensory systems worked. Overcoming con... Human perception of risks related to economic damages caused by nearby wildlife can be transmitted through social networks. MSU is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer, committed to achieving excellence through a diverse workforce and inclusive culture that encourages all people to reach their full potential. We … Therefore, coexistence between humans and wildlife is more likely when adaptation strategies pr... 1. Carter hopes the information can help practitioners identify “sensory danger zones” — areas or times in which sensory pollution is especially problematic to conservation. Are We Coexisting With Carnivores in the American West? Our study (1) evaluated attitudes of local people... We thank Goswami et al. In his Master’s research, he developed an ecological model of black bear habitat suitability throughout Michigan's Lower Peninsula and combined those results with attitudinal survey data, which allowed him to map areas of potential human-bear conflict. © 2012 National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Resources & Tips for Virtual Team Science, Complexity of Improving Human Well-being & Conserving Biodiversity, Emergent conservation outcomes of shared risk perception in human‐wildlife systems, Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: a review and prospectus, A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Illegal Killing of Large Carnivores, Co-Adaptation is Key to Coexisting with Large Carnivores, Realizing Coexistence Between People & Large Carnivores in Shared Landscapes, Modeling tiger population and territory dynamics using an agent-based approach, A simple example of a socio-environmental system: coupled rabbit and farm dynamics, Impacts of people and tigers on leopard spatiotemporal activity patterns in a global biodiversity hotspot, Coupled human and natural systems approach to wildlife research and conservation, Assessing spatiotemporal changes in tiger habitat across different land management regimes, Seminar: Dr. Rachel Mason & Dr. Rachel Zuercher, Workshop: Co-Generating a System Model to Improve Opportunities for Proactive Management of the Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) Threat in North America. Prior to SEAS, Dr. Carter was an assistant professor in the Human-Environment Systems research group at Boise State University. Article published in Conservation Biology. Neil has 5 jobs listed on their profile. The American West exists in the popular imagination as a distinct region, and policies and politics often suggest that both the challenges and the opportunities for land management and human well-being across the region are relatively homogeneous. Drs. : Fine-scale interactions between tigers and people (vol 110, pg E111, 2013), Utility of a psychological framework for carnivore conservation, Coexistence between wildlife and humans at fine spatial scales, American black bear habitat selection in northern Lower Peninsula, Michigan, USA, using discrete-choice modeling, Predicting the Ecological and Social Suitability of Black Bear Habitat in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, Quantifying mammalian interactions and distributions in a forestry concession outside of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, Managing Idaho's Landscapes for Ecosystem Services (NSF Award# 11A-1301792), Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, School of Environment and Natural Resources. Article published in the October 2013 issue of Ecosphere. General research interests include: spatial ecology, landscape ecology, wildlife management and policy, wildlife ecology and conservation, human dimensions of wildlife management, complexity of coupled human and natural systems, and sustainability science. Carter grew up in San Diego, CA., and received his B.S. Neil Carter, Stella Cousins, and Paige Fischer. .hidden { Goal: To create new knowledge about relationships between ecosystem services, landscape change, and associated social ecological systems (SES), and establish the infrastructure to provide science-based decision support needed to sustainability management Idaho's resources. Due to our privacy policy, only current members can send messages to people on ResearchGate. He moved to Michigan in 2005 to conduct his Master's research in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. Carter, Neil. Tsetse flies have recently been targeted by a pan-African eradication campaign. Yet, we know relatively little about their interactions with each other, especially in human‐altered areas. Conserving threatened carnivore species increasingly depends on the capacity of local people to cohabit with University students and faculty, institute members, and independent researchers, Technology or product developers, R&D specialists, and government or NGO employees in scientific roles, Health care professionals, including clinical researchers, Journalists, citizen scientists, or anyone interested in reading and discovering research. Carter and his colleagues set out to find out whether the types and levels of artificial light and human-made sound led to specific consequences for wildlife. }; Copyright © 2010–2020, The Conversation US, Inc. Assistant Professor of Wildlife Conservation, Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan. font-size: 15px; Noisy roads can interfere with mating songbirds. As such, using combined social and environmental perspectives to understand how people and wildlife are interlinked, together with the mechanisms that may weaken or strengthen those linkages, is of utmost importance... Human-induced habitat loss and degradation are increasing the extinction probability of many wildlife species worldwide, thus protecting habitat is crucial. That information can better guide solutions, such as temporarily closing roads during important periods of the day when animals are seeking mates or building sound walls to minimize traffic noise around critical habitats, Carter said. Projects use field monitoring, social surveys, remote sensing, GIS, and spatial and simulation modeling to investigate human-wildlife coexistence in a number of contexts, such as the American West, Nepal, and eastern Africa. Territoriality, an essential characteristic of many wildlife species, plays a crucial role in the population dynamics of tigers. GNP is undergoing post-war recovery and large-scale ecological restoration under a 25-year private-governmental partnership – the “Gorongosa Project (GP),” – offering a rare oppor... An integrated understanding of both social and ecological aspects of environmental issues is essential to address pressing sustainability challenges. Predators and scavengers are frequently persecuted for their negative effects on property, livestock and human life. He completed post doctoral work as a research associate at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center in Annapolis, Md. Multi-species site-occupancy models allow the examination of distribution patterns of species while accounting for imperfect detection. “It brought together an international group of people that worked on sensory and conservation ecology as well as animal physiology,” said Neil Carter, an assistant professor at the School for Environmental and Sustainability at the University of Michigan and one of the senior authors on a study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution. species, particularly large carnivores and ungulates, cannot coexist with people at fine spatial scales (i.e., cannot regularly Misleading stimuli include things like city lights, which can confuse wildlife that depend on celestial cues for navigation. A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. display: none; 2 Human-Environment Systems Research Center, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, USA. In the version of this Review originally published, there were a number of errors that the authors wish to correct. Distracting pollutants pull an animal’s attention away from the task at hand, like a bright light distracting prey listening for an incoming predator. Jeffrey W. Dwyer, Director, MSU Extension, East Lansing, MI 48824. As a postdoc at SESYNC Neil will synthesize datasets from disparate disciplines to develop a spatially-explicit, agent-based model of the reciprocal interactions between people and the environment in Chitwan. Research Overview. Dr. Neil Carter’s interdisciplinary research examines the complex dynamics that characterize interactions between wildlife and people (e.g., provision of ecosystem services, conflicts) in a global change context. In many regions around the world, wildlife impacts on people (e.g., crop raiding, attacks on people) engender negative attitudes toward wildlife. Sorry, you need to be a researcher to join ResearchGate. ScholarWorks Dr. Neil Carter started at Boise State University in 2015 as an Assistant Professor in the Human-Environment Systems Research Center. Fostering local community tolerance for endangered carnivores, such as tigers (Panthera tigris), is a core component of many conservation strategies. Sustaining wildlife populations, which provide both ecosystem services and disservices, represents a worldwide conservation challenge. He hopes to develop a systems model characterizing tiger-human interrelationships that can be used to address similar conservation issues in other areas. He earned a Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Fisheries and Wildlife, a M.S. Masking refers to an overlap, like the sound of traffic mixing with the sounds an animal uses to find food or mates, like birdsongs. He also participated in the 2-year Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders program. Crabs and birds, for example, may not have much in common physiologically, he said, but both can be similarly distracted by lights or sound in ways that detrimentally affect their populations. Dr. Neil Carter’s interdisciplinary research examines the complex dynamics that characterize interactions between wildlife and people (e.g., … His work addresses local to global wildlife conservation issues, utilizes a multitude of spatial techniques and tools, engages different stakeholders, and informs policymaking. border-radius: 100px; School for Environment and Sustainability. His work addresses local to global wildlife conservation issues, utilizes a multitude of spatial techniques and tools, engages different stakeholders, and informs policymaking. Bright lights can confuse sea turtles heading to the coastline. “When we understand the pathway, we can do a better job at managing it,” he said. Many wildlife species face imminent extinction because of human impacts, and therefore, a prevailing belief is that some wildlife /* ----------------------------------------- */ Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Human adaptation strategies are key to cobenefits in human-wildlife systems, Artificial night light helps account for observer bias in citizen science monitoring of an expanding large mammal population, Conservation professionals' views on governing for coexistence with large carnivores, Emergent conservation outcomes of shared risk perception in human‐wildlife systems, Road development in Asia: Assessing the range-wide risks to tigers, Mammal species composition reveals new insights into Earth’s remaining wilderness, Intraguild dynamics of understudied carnivores in a human‐altered landscape, Why conservation biology can benefit from sensory ecology. Decision-making about large carnivores is complex and controversial, and processes vary from deliberation and expert analysis to ballot boxes and courtrooms. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center and Princeton University.Neil Carter seeks to identify and promote conditions that enable long-term coexistence between people and wildlife.