MOFEP News Announcements
• April 1, 2023- Missouri Valley College biology students participate in a MOFEP site tour and training. Students practiced MOFEP bird and woody vegetation protocols and learned navigation skills!
• October 15, 2022- Washington University biology students participate in a MOFEP site tour and training. Students practiced MOFEP botany and woody vegetation protocols and learned navigation skills!
• June 1, 2022- Dr. Knapp (Associate Professor, University of Missouri) and co-authors publish “Escaping the fire trap: Does frequent, landscape-scale burning inhibit tree recruitment in a temperate broadleaf ecosystem?” in Forest Ecology and Management.
• May 24, 2022- We held our annual MOFEP tour for the University of Missouri forestry students and the MOFEP bird crew started their field season.
• October 1, 2021- The Missouri Conservationist publishes a NatureLab article about MOFEP's contribution to MDC's new integrated planning tool. View the article here.
• August 26, 2021- Dr. Zhaofei Fan published "Scale effects on the prediction of rare events in mature second-growth oak forests: a simulation study of cavity trees" in Forestry Research. Find the publication here.
• May 25, 2021- MOFEP site tour for University of Missouri forestry students.
• May 17, 2021- The MOFEP bird crew started their field season. Crews are continuing to follow COVID-19 safety precautions.
• January 2021- Dr. Shunzhong Wang (Visiting Scholar, University of Missouri) and co-authors publish “Forest management effects on downed dead wood at stand and landscape scales in a temperate forest of the central United States” in Forest Ecology and Management.
• November 2020- David Hollie (Graduate Researcher) and co-authors publish “Avian community response to experimental forest management” in Ecosphere.
• October 2020- Dr. Benjamin Knapp (Associate Professor, University of Missouri) presented the recent downed dead wood research at the Society of American Foresters National Convention.
• September 28, 2020- MOFEP Coordinator, Shelby Timm, presents a scientific poster on her recent publication on less common herpetofauna at The Wildlife Society virtual conference.
• May 18, 2020- The MOFEP bird crew started their field season. This year will be very different for the crew due to COVID-19 safety precautions.
• January 8, 2020- Shelby Timm (MOFEP Coordinator) and co-authors publish “Assessing multi-scale habitat relationships and response to forest management for cryptic and uncommon herpetofauna in the Missouri Ozarks, USA” in Forest Ecology and Management.