Cheryl B. Schultz

Cheryl B. Schultz
Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Washington State University Vancouver

I am a conservation biologist. I use field and quantitative methods to address questions concerning the recovery of rare species and restoration of their habitats. I bring these approaches to conservation by working at the intersection of research, management and education. My primary research goal is to understand the relative contributions of individual, population and landscape-level processes to the population viability of endangered species as these processes interface with realistic conservation interventions. Questions which motivate my current research include: (1) How can we understand behavioral responses to landscape change to enhance success of conservation programs? (2) How can we use individual and population-level responses to conservation tools such as herbicides and fire to augment populations of rare species? (3) What is the role of captive propagation in enhancing endangered species populations? (4) What key attributes of the biology of rare butterflies influence conservation design? and (5) How do we restore habitat to meet the life history needs of endangered species?

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schultzc[at]vancouver.wsu.edu