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Derek Lee
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Bioinformatics
Evolutionary Studies
Zoology

Derek E. Lee

PeerJ Author

Summary

Derek E Lee is quantitative wildlife biologist with expertise in conservation demography and population ecology. Current research investigates Masai Giraffe and other large mammal populations within a fragmented landscape in Tanzania. This work examines how births, deaths, and movements of ungulates are impacted by increasingly fragmented wildlife habitat, and what conservation actions are most effective. He spent 10 years researching the impacts of climate and ocean conditions on survival, reproduction, and population growth rates of marine predators such as northern elephant seals, Common Murres, and Cassin's Auklets at the South Farallon Islands, California. His work was included in a conservation and management plan for seabirds in the California Current. He also studied migration of Black Brant in Humboldt Bay as well as fire ecology of small mammals in California's oak woodlands and California Spotted Owls in the Sierra Nevada.

Biodiversity Conservation Biology Data Mining & Machine Learning Ecology Marine Biology Population Biology Zoology

Past or current institution affiliations

Pennsylvania State University

Work details

Associate Research Professor

Pennsylvania State University
January 2018
Biology

Principal Scientist

Wild Nature Institute
March 2010

Websites

  • Google Scholar
  • Wild Nature Institute
  • Penn State University

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
October 2, 2018
Seeing spots: quantifying mother-offspring similarity and assessing fitness consequences of coat pattern traits in a wild population of giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis)
Derek E. Lee, Douglas R. Cavener, Monica L. Bond
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5690 PubMed 30310743