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Research Interests

· Non-game mammals with emphasis on bats and rodents

· Diet of insectivorous bats in western North America

· Ectoparasites of bats in western North America

· Environmental effects and geographic variation of morphology in small mammals

· Taxonomy and systematics

· Ecological relationships between sympatric and syntopic insectivorous birds and bats

Current Projects

· Habitat use of bats at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, using radio-telemetry

· Feeding ecology of bats at Mesa Verde National Park

· Ectoparasites of bats in western North America

· Diet of the California myotis (Myotis californicus) and small-footed myotis (M. ciliolabrum) from Chaco Culture National Historic Site and El Mal Pais National Monument, New Mexico

· Variation in the diet of the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) in Fort Collins, Colorado

· Comparison of diet between the common nighthawk and bats in New Mexico