Amanda Cheeseman

Title

Assistant Professor

Office Building

Edgar S. McFadden Biostress Lab

Office

139C

Mailing Address

McFadden Biostress Laboratory 139C
Natural Resource Management-Box 2140B
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Social Media Links

• X (Twitter)

Education

• Ph.D. in fish and wildlife biology and management | SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
• M.S. in biology | Fort Hays State University
• B.S. in zoology | Michigan State University

Academic Interests

• Wildlife management
• Population ecology and genetics
• Spatial ecology
• Mammalogy

Academic Responsibilities

• NRM 230: Natural Resource Management Techniques
• WL 355/355L: Mammalogy/Mammalogy Lab
• RANG 374/374L: Habitat Conservation and Management/Habitat Conservation and Management Lab
• WL 496: Field Experience
• WL 498: Undergraduate Research Experience
• NRM 792: Ecological Modelling
• NRM 792: Ecological Modelling
• NRM 791: Independent Study: Wildlife Bayesian Statistics
• WL 798: Thesis
• WL 898: Dissertation

Committees and Professional Memberships

• American Society of Mammalogists
• The Wildlife Society
• Ecological Society of America
• World Lagomorph Society

Publications

1. D.V. Eline, J.B. Cohen, T.J. McGreevy Jr., C.M. Whipps, and A.E. Cheeseman. 2023. Behavior as a rapid indicator of reintroduction and translocation success for a cryptic species. Journal of Mammalogy. DOI:10.1093/jmammal/gyad023. 
2. D.V. Eline, J.B. Cohen, C.M. Whipps, A.E. Cheeseman. 2023. Habitat management to reduce competitive interactions: Case study of native and invading cottontails. Journal of Wildlife Management. 70:710-729. DOI:10.1002/jwmg.22327.
3. A.I. Kovach, A.E. Cheeseman, J.B. Cohen, C.D. Rittenhouse, C.M. Whipps. 2022. Separating proactive conservation from species listing decisions. Environmental Management. DOI:10.1007/s00267-022-01713-9.
4. A.E. Cheeseman, B.P. Tanis, E.J. Finck. 2021. Temporal assessment of Eastern Spotted Skunk geographic distribution. Southeastern Naturalist 20(sp11):24-28. DOI:10.1656/058.020.0sp1104.
5. A.E. Cheeseman, B.P. Tanis, E.J. Finck. 2021. Quantifying temporal variation in dietary niche to reveal drivers of past population declines. Functional Ecology 35:930-941. DOI:10.1111/1365-2435.13765.
6. A.E. Cheeseman, J.B. Cohen, S.J. Ryan, C.M. Whipps. 2021. Is conservation based on best available science creating an ecological trap for an imperiled lagomorph? Ecology and Evolution 11:912-930. DOI:10.1002/ece3.7104.
7. Whipps C.M., A.E. Cheeseman, K.A. Fox, J.B. Cohen. 2020. Evaluation of cottontail pellets collected in suboptimal conditions for DNA analysis. Wildlife Society Bulletin 44: 182-190. DOI:10.1002/wsb.1073.
8. A.E. Cheeseman, J.B. Cohen, C.M. Whipps, A.I. Kovach, SJ Ryan. 2019. Hierarchical population structure of a rare lagomorph indicates recent fragmentation has disrupted metapopulation function. Conservation Genetics 20: 1237-1249. DOI:10.1007/s10592-019-01206-z.
9. A.E. Cheeseman, J.B. Cohen, S.J. Ryan, C.M. Whipps. 2019. Determinants of home range size of imperiled New England and introduced eastern cottontails. Canadian Journal of Zoology 97: 516-523. DOI:10.1139/cjz-2018-0277.
10. A.E. Cheeseman, S.J. Ryan, C.M. Whipps, J.B. Cohen. 2018. Competition alters seasonal resource selection and promotes use of invasive shrubs by an imperiled native cottontail. Ecology and Evolution 8: 11122-11133. DOI:10.1002/ece3.4580.
11. Ryan S.J., E.J. Gavard, A.E. Cheeseman, J.B. Cohen, C.M. Whipps. 2016. Reference and baseline hematocrit measures for the threatened New England cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis) and comparison with sympatric eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) rabbits. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 47: 659-662. DOI:10.1638/2015-0157.1.