2025 Wildlife Diversity Program Annual Report
Publications by Wildlife Diversity Staff and Partners in 2025
Publications Etchison, Katherine. 2025. State Update: North Carolina. In Nightwing News – the Newsletter of the Southeastern Bat Diversity Network. 115:32-35. Etchison, Katherine. 2025. October interview in Our State Magazine by Eleanor Spicer Rice: Guardians of the Night | Our State Garrison, Gabriela. 2025. If you Build It, They Will Come. Wildlife in North Carolina. March/April. Grear, D.A., M.J. Adams, A.D. Backlin, W.J. Barichivich, A.B. Brand, G.M. Bucciarelli, D.L. Calhoun, T. Chestnut, J.M. Davenport, A.E. Dietrich, G.V. DiRenzo, R.N. Fisher, B.M. Glorioso, E.H.C. Grant, B.J. Halstead, M.P. Hayes, B.R. Hossack, M. Kain, P.M. Kleeman, J.M. Lorch, B. McCreary, D.W. Miller, B.A. Mosher, E. Muths, C.A. Pearl, C.W. Robinson, M.F. Roth, J.C. Rowe, W. Sadinski, B.H. Sigafus, I. Stasiak, S. Sweet, J.H. Waddle, S.C. Walls, G.J. Watkins-Colwell, L.A. Williams , and M.E. Winzeler. 2025. Pan-Amphibia distribution of the fungal parasite Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis varies with species and temperature. Ecological Monographs 95:e70001. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.70001 Knapp, D., S. Unger, J. Kerr, L.A. Williams , A.L. DeLoache, C.M.B. Jachowski. 2025. Using DNA metabarcoding to assess dietary selection and seasonal dietary patterns in eastern hellbenders ( Cryptobranchus alleganiensis ). Food Webs. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5201290 Wassmer, Alicia C. D. 2025. Monitoring American Alligators ( Alligator mississippiensis ) at their Northern Range Limit: Insights from Spotlight and Mark-recapture Studies in North Carolina. Thesis. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA. Awards 2025 Biologist Team of the Year for the Wildlife Management Division – Western Wildlife Diversity Team (Katherine Etchison, Gabrielle Graeter, Chris Kelly, Andrea Shipley, Lori Williams). Finn, Sarah. Terrapin Conservation Award. Diamondback Terrapin Working Group. Williams, Lori. Awarded “Champion of Conservation” by Garden & Gun Magazine . Wilson, Travis. Agency award to NCWRC for Stewardship at the 2025 International conference on Ecology and Transportation for wildlife crossing on US 64. Media Coverage about Wildlife Diversity Program Activities Staff interview: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service article by Dan Chapman; https://www.fws.gov/story/2025-04/hell- bent-survival Staff interview: Smithsonian magazine article by Alexa Robles-Gil; https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ hurricane-helene-battered-salamander-capital-world-floods-landslides-will-beloved-amphibians-survive-after- math-180985396/ Staff interview: Mother Jones magazine article by Jackie Flynn Mogensen; https://www.motherjones.com/environ- ment/2025/04/endangered-species-salamander-hurricane-helene-eastern-hellbender-bog-turtle/
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