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Nicolette Cagle

Nicolette Cagle

Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science and Policy
Environmental Sciences and Policy
nicolette.cagle@duke.edu
Box 90328, Grainger Hall, Durham, NC 27708
9 Circuit Drive, Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Saving Snakes Snakes and the Evolution of a Field Naturalist

Book · 2022 "This book explores stories of snakes as animals to be both revered and reviled, weaving together histories and ecological research from around the globe. ... Cite

Identifying resilient restoration targets: Mapping and forecasting habitat suitability for Castanea dentata in Eastern USA under different climate-change scenarios

Journal Article Climate Change Ecology · December 1, 2021 Following the near-eradication of the American chestnut (Castanea dentata) over the last century by an invasive fungal pathogen, progress has been made in recent decades towards generating blight-resistant varieties for restoration in its former native ran ... Full text Cite

Correlates of bird collisions with buildings across three North American countries.

Journal Article Conservation biology. · April 2021 Collisions with buildings cause up to 1 billion bird fatalities annually in the United States and Canada. However, efforts to reduce collisions would benefit from studies conducted at large spatial scales across multiple study sites with standardized metho ... Full text Cite

The role of gender, race, and ethnicity in environmental identity development in undergraduate student narratives

Journal Article Environmental Education Research · February 1, 2020 Recent work in environmental psychology and education emphasizes environmental identity as important in predicting a broad array of environmental behaviors. However, there are gaps in understanding how other social identities interact with environmental id ... Full text Cite

Changes in experiences with nature through the lives of environmentally committed university faculty

Journal Article Environmental Education Research · June 3, 2018 Previous work has identified time spent in nature as a child as a precursor to active care for the natural world (i.e. environmental commitment), but a paucity of data exists on what happens to environmentally committed people’s relationship to nature over ... Full text Cite

Geo-referencing bird-window collisions for targeted mitigation

Journal Article PeerJ · January 1, 2018 Bird collisions with windows are an important conservation concern. Efficient mitigation efforts should prioritize retrofitting sections of glass exhibiting the highest mortality of birds. Most collision studies, however, record location meta-data at a spa ... Full text Cite

Continent-wide analysis of how urbanization affects bird-window collision mortality in North America

Journal Article Biological Conservation · August 1, 2017 Characteristics of buildings and land cover surrounding buildings influence the number of bird-window collisions, yet little is known about whether bird-window collisions are associated with urbanization at large spatial scales. We initiated a continent-wi ... Full text Cite

The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project.

Journal Article Ecol Evol · January 2017 The PREDICTS project-Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)-has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple site ... Full text Link to item Cite

Species traits and local abundance affect bird-window collision frequency

Journal Article Avian Conservation and Ecology · January 1, 2017 Studies on bird-window collisions have generally drawn inferences about species’ differential vulnerability from collision tallies. However, this common methodology is potentially biased because the number of collisions may simply reflect prevalence of spe ... Full text Cite

Point of View: Science Classrooms as a Gateway to Comprehensive Pedagogy

Journal Article Journal of College Science Teaching · January 2017 Full text Cite

Patterns of bird-window collisions inform mitigation on a university campus

Journal Article PeerJ · January 1, 2016 Bird-window collisions cause an estimated one billion bird deaths annually in the United States. Building characteristics and surrounding habitat affect collision frequency. Given the importance of collisions as an anthropogenic threat to birds, mitigation ... Full text Cite

Quantifying the Presence of Written Materials and the Use of Outside Texts in Nature Centers for Environmental Education

Journal Article Applied Environmental Education and Communication · April 1, 2013 Despite widespread distribution of nature centers across North America and Europe, the written materials available to their visitors have yet to be enumerated. To address this gap, this study quantifies the types of written materials available in 563 Ameri ... Full text Cite

Snake species distributions and temperate grasslands: A case study from the American tallgrass prairie

Journal Article Biological Conservation · March 1, 2008 Many snake species are declining globally, yet data unavailability in temperate grasslands hinders snake conservation in one of the world's most endangered biomes. To encourage and inform the conservation of snakes in these regions, I examined snake specie ... Full text Cite

John Madson's Where the Sky Began: Land of the Tallgrass Prairie

Other The Journal of Natural History Education and Experience Link to item Cite