Project

Ecology and management of wildlife in human-dominated landscapes

I am a curious animal ecologist and committed lecturer, who is eager to discover and teach about the ecology and management of wildlife in today’s increasingly human-dominated landscape.

Description

My teaching and research evolves around the common themes:

Genetic and phenotypic variation of wild mammal populations, and how that is affected by human activities
Understanding causes of increase and decline of wild mammal populations
And, management of mammal populations in human-dominated landscapes

Publications

De Jong & Prins (2023) Why There Are No Modern Equids Living in Tropical Lowland Rainforests
De Jong et al. (2023) Spatial genetic structure of European wild boar, with inferences on late-Pleistocene and Holocene demographic history
Thapa, De Jong et al. (2022) Integration of the landscape of fear concept in terrain management – an experimental study on deer in Bardia National Park, Nepal.
Prins, Liefting & De Jong (2021) Marginal farmers carry the burden of damage caused by Asian elephants Elephas maximus in Bardiya National Park, Nepal
De Jong et al. (2020) Fragmentation and Translocation Distort the Genetic Landscape of Ungulates: Red Deer in the Netherlands