Curator of Birds

John.Gerwin@ncmail.net
(919) 715-2600

B.S., University of Minnesota, 1985
M.S., Louisiana State University, 1987

Currently working on breeding bird distributions across North Carolina and breeding bird communities within managed landscapes in North and South Carolina. Focal species include Swainson’s warbler and yellow-bellied sapsucker. Grants from USFWS and private industry support much of the field work. Also manages the bird collection and associated data.

Peer-reviewed

In Press. Using landscape to predict the distribution of birds on a managed forest: effects of scale. Ecological Applications. (With M.S. Mitchell and R. A. Lancia.)

1998. Phylogenetic Patterns in the Trochilidae. Auk 115(1): 105-118. (With R. M. Zink)

Non-peer-reviewed

2000. Testing a spatial model for bird habitat assessment at large scales. International Association of Landscape Ecologists, 2000 Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL. (With H. Li, R. A. Lancia, and M. Mitchell.)

1999. Birds in managed pine forests. Partners in Flight Symposium, Buloxi, MS. (With T. Melchoirs, B. Chapman, C. Hunter, P. Tappe, R. Thill, B. Wigley, M. Wilson, and R. A. Lancia.)

2000. Bird diversity and productivity in a landscape with corridors. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Nashville, TN. Poster. (With A.. J. Amacher, K. R. Hazler, and R. A. Lancia.)

2000. Relative abundance of selected land birds in an intensively managed forest landscape in the upper coastal plain of South Carolina. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Nashville, TN. Poster (With R. A. Lancia, K. A. Peters, M. S. Mitchell, and J L. Thompson.)

2000. Avian diversity and productivity on an intensively-managed, industrial forest in South Carolina: The Westvaco example. Fragmentation 2000: A conference on sustaining private forests in the 21st century. Annapolis, MD. (With R.A. Lancia, M. S. Mitchell, W. M. Baughman, and T. B. Wigley.)