NESB B227
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
Campus Mail 1499
Fort Collins , CO 80523-1499

Phone: (970) 491-5738
Fax:
Email: nthobbs@nrel.colostate.edu

Areas of Interest:

• ecological modeling
• ecology of large herbivores
• linkages between human and natural systems

Current Projects and Links:

• Curriculum Vitae
• Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Prion Disease in Wildlife: Responses to Changing Land Use
• An Integrated Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Rocky Mountain National Park and its Gateway Community
• Biocomplexity, Spatial Scale, and Fragmentation: Implications for Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems (SCALE)
• Colorado Wildlife Habitat Assessment Project
• PRIMES (Program in Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Ecology, and Statistics)
• Systems Ecology (NR 575) class website

Biography: N. Thompson Hobbs is Professor, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, and is a Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University. His work focuses on understanding reciprocal relationships between large herbivores and ecosystems. Current projects include studies of dynamics of chronic wasting disease in populations of mule deer, effects of fragmentation on arid land grazing systems worldwide, and the role of pastoralists in shaping the distribution of wildlife in East African grasslands. Hobbs is an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow and has won numerous awards for his work including the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Conservation Biology.