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B R I A N T. K L I N G B E I L
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Saltmarsh Habitat & Avian Research Program
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut
75 North Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT, 06269-3043
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut, Michael R Willig, Advisor
Dissertation Title: Biodiversity Dynamics of Forest Birds in Fragmented
Landscapes: A Multidimensional Approach for Ecology and Conservation.
2015
M.S. in Biological Sciences
Texas Tech University, Michael R. Willig, Advisor
Thesis title: Response of Bats to Landscape Structure in Amazonian Forest:
An Analysis at Multiple Scales.
2007
B.S. in Biological Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2001
B.S. in Philosophy
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2001
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
June 2015-present
Research:
Avian Saltmarsh Conservation Planning: Developing region-wide conservation
priorities for saltmarsh birds and their habitats across northeastern United States.
Research incorporates data on species distributions, abundance and demography
in combination with remote sensing and associated spatial data to prioritize
locations for conservation. Results of prioritization are compared among
alternative sea level rise scenarios to evaluate vulnerability of sites to climate
change. Additional project details at: http://www.tidalmarshbirds.org/
Teaching:
Current Topics in Conservation Biology (1cr. seminar-Co-Instructor)
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Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
August 2006 -December 2014
Research:
Avian Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology: Developed an acoustic monitoring
program to investigate relationships between forest bird biodiversity and
landscape structure. Research included avian point count surveys, habitat
assessments, analysis of acoustic recordings with ARUs and use of spatial and
statistical analyses.
Population Dynamics of Tropical Gastropods: Coordinated travel and research
logistics, recruited and trained field assistants, and led field data collection for biannual research expeditions to investigate community dynamics of tropical forest
invertebrates in the El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico. Field research
occurred for 2 weeks in the spring and 4-6 weeks in the summer.
Teaching:
Dimensions of Biodiversity Distributed Graduate Seminar (3 cr. seminar - TA)
Introduction to Conservation Biology (3 cr. lecture - TA)
Principles of Biology I (majors lab sections -TA)
Foundations of Biology (non-majors lab sections - TA)
Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant
Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX
August 2003 –August 2006
Research:
Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology of Tropical Bats: Organized and led surveys of
bat, rodent, and marsupial biodiversity in lowland amazon rainforest near Iquitos,
Peru. Field research entailed 8 months of continuous data collection and included
preparation of museum specimens of bats, rodents, and marsupials as well as
collection of blood and tissue samples. Spatial analyses were used to evaluate the
effects of tropical forest fragmentation on bat communities.
Teaching:
Ecology and Environmental Problems (non-majors lab sections - TA)
Biology of Animals (non-majors lab sections - TA)
Introduction to Biology I (majors lab sections - TA)
RESEARCH GRANTS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
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2014 UCONN Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Summer Research
Fellowship. $3,000
2013 UCONN Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Summer Research
Fellowship. $1,000
2012 UCONN Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and CT Museum of
Natural History, Ralph M. Wetzel Vertebrate Research Award. $525
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2011 Audubon Connecticut (with M.R. Willig and S.J. Presley). $18,554
2011 National Science Foundation, University of Connecticut, Northeast Alliance for
Graduate Education and the Professoriate Mentoring Fellowship. $3,000
2010 UCONN Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and CT Museum of
Natural History, Ralph M. Wetzel Vertebrate Research Award. $900
2010 UCONN Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Environmental Research Award. $7,000
2009 American Society of Mammalogists, Elizabeth Horner Award. $500
2009 American Society of Mammalogists, Grants-in-Aid of Research. $1,000
2006 The Graduate School, Texas Tech University, Summer Research Award $2,300
PUBLICATIONS
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Klingbeil, B.T. and M.R. Willig. 2016. Matrix composition and landscape heterogeneity
structure multiple dimensions of temperate forest bird biodiversity. Biodiversity and
Conservation Accepted.
Klingbeil, B.T. and M.R. Willig. 2016. Community assembly in temperate forest birds:
habitat filtering, interspecific interactions and priority effects. Evolutionary Ecology
30:703-722.
Bloch, C.P. and B.T. Klingbeil. 2016. Anthropogenic factors and habitat complexity
influence biodiversity but wave exposure drives species turnover of a subtropical rocky
intertidal metacommunity. Marine Ecology 37: 67-76.
Klingbeil, B.T. and M.R. Willig. 2015. Bird biodiversity assessments in temperate forest:
the value of point count versus acoustic monitoring protocols. PeerJ 3:e973.
Presley, S.J., T. Dallas, B.T. Klingbeil, and M.R. Willig. 2015. Phylogenetic signals in hostparasite associations for Neotropical bats and Nearctic desert rodents. Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society 116: 312-347.
Dreiss, L.M., K.R. Burgio, L.M. Cisneros, B.T. Klingbeil, B.D. Patterson, S.J. Presley, & M.R.
Willig. 2015. Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic dimensions of rodent biodiversity
along an extensive tropical elevational gradient. Ecography 38:1-13.
Pfeifer, M., V. Lefebvre, L. Baeten, C. Banks-Leite, J. Barlow, M.G. Betts, J. Brunet, A.
Cerezo, L.M. Cisneros, S. Collard, N. D’Cruze, C. da Silva Motta, S. Duguay, H. Eggermont,
F. Eigenbrod, T.A. Gardner, A.S. Hadley, T.R. Hanson, J.E. Hawes, T. Heartsill Scalley, B.T.
Klingbeil, A. Kolb, U. Kormann, S. Kumar, T. Lachat, P. Lakeman Fraser, V. Lantschner,
W.F. Laurance, L. Lens, C.J. Marsh, G.F. Medina-Rangel, S. Melles, D. Mezger, W.L. Overal,
C. Owen, C.A. Peres, B. Phalan, A.M. Pidgeon, O. Pilia, H.P. Possingham, M.L. Possingham,
D.C. Raheem, D.B Ribeiro, R. Robinson, W.D. Robinson, T. Rytwinski, C. Scherber, E.M.
Slade, E. Somarriba, P.C. Stouffer, M.J. Struebig, J.M. Tylianakis, T. Tscharntke, A.J. Tyre,
J.N. Urbina Cardona, H.L. Vasconcelos, K. Wells, M.R. Willig, E. Wood, R.P. Young, A.V.
Bradley, and R.M. Ewers. 2014. BIOFRAG – A new database for analysing BIOdiversity
responses to forest FRAGmentation. Ecology and Evolution 4:1524-1537.
Cisneros, L.M., K.R. Burgio, L.M. Dreiss, B.T. Klingbeil, B.D. Patterson, S.J. Presley, and
M.R. Willig. 2014. Multiple dimensions of bat biodiversity along an extensive tropical
elevational gradient. Journal of Animal Ecology 83: 1124-1136.
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Willig, M.R., S.J. Presley, C.P. Bloch, I. Castro-Arellano, L.M. Cisneros, C.L. Higgins, and
B.T. Klingbeil. 2011. Tropical metacommunities and elevational gradients:
disentangling effects of forest type from other elevational factors. Oikos 120:1497-1508.
Presley, S.J., M.R. Willig, C.P. Bloch, I. Castro-Arellano, C.L. Higgins, and B.T. Klingbeil.
2010. A complex metacommunity structure for gastropods along an elevational
gradient: axes of specialization and environmental variation. Biotropica 43:480-488.
Klingbeil, B.T. & M.R. Willig. 2010. Seasonal differences in population-, ensemble-, and
community-level responses of bats to landscape structure in Amazonia. Oikos
119:1654-1664.
Klingbeil, B.T. and M.R. Willig. 2009. Guild-specific responses of bats to landscape
composition and configuration in fragmented Amazonian rainforest. Journal of Applied
Ecology 46:203-13.
MANUSCRIPTS (in review)
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Burgio, K.R., L.M. Cisneros, K.E. Davis, L.M. Dreiss, B.T. Klingbeil, B.D. Patterson, S.J.
Presley, and M.R. Willig. Dimensions of passerine biodiversity along a tropical
elevational gradient: a nexus for historical biogeography and contemporary ecology.
Ecography.
Presley, S.J., L.M. Cisneros, C.L. Higgins, B.T. Klingbeil, S.M. Scheiner, and M.R. Willig.
Human-modified landscapes filter functional and phylogenetic biodiversity of bat
communities. Biotropica.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
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(* indicates undergraduate or ^ indicates graduate student mentored)
Klingbeil,B.T., J.B. Cohen, M.D. Correll, C.R. Field, T.P. Hodgman, A.I. Kovach, B.J. Olsen,
W.G. Shriver, W.A. Wiest, and C.S. Elphick. 2016. Trade-offs in Tidal Marsh Bird
Conservation Planning for Northeastern North America. North American Congress for
Conservation Biology, Madison, Wisconsin.
Burgio, K.R., K.E. Davis, L.M. Dreiss, L.M. Cisneros, B.T. Klingbeil, S.J. Presley, and M.R.
Willig. 2016. Integrating multiple dimensions of biodiversity and considerations of
climate change for parrot conservation. North American Ornithological Conference,
Washington, D.C.
Klingbeil, B.T. 2016. Valuing the Trade-off Among Saltmarsh Obligates. Invited
Presentation at the Atlantic Coast Joint Venture Game and Nongame Technical
Committee Meeting, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Klingbeil, B.T. 2015. Saltmarsh Conservation Planning. Invited presentation at the
Coordination of American Black Duck Habitat Modeling Efforts Workshop, Franklin,
Connecticut.
Serhiyenko, V., N. Ravishanker, M.R. Willig, and B.T. Klingbeil. 2015. Multivariate
Temporal Dynamics of Gastropod Abundance in a Puerto Rican Tropical Forest. New
England Statistics Symposium, Storrs, Connecticut.
Hathaway, N., C.P. Bloch, K. Bouley, B.T. Klingbeil, S. Sawyer, and J. Silva. 2015. A
Comparison of Biodiversity and Community Structure Between Temperate and
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Subtropical Rocky Shores. Northeast Natural History Conference, Springfield,
Massachusetts.
Morozova*, E., B.T. Klingbeil, and M.R. Willig. 2013. Relationships Between Two
Northeastern Bats, Myotis lucifugus and Eptesicus fuscus, and Landscape Structure.
Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Willig, M.R., K.R. Burgio, L.M. Cisneros, L.M. Dreiss, B.T. Klingbeil, B.D. Patterson, and
S.J. Presley. 2013. Comparative Biodiversity of Bats and Rodents Along an Extensive
Tropical Elevational Gradient: Taxonomic, Functional, and Phylogenetic Dimensions.
Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Klingbeil, B.T., K.R. Burgio, L.M. Cisneros, L.M. Dreiss, B.D. Patterson, S.J. Presley, and
M.R. Willig. 2012. Variation in Multiple Dimensions of Biodiversity Along a Tropical
Elevation Gradient: Inter-taxon Comparisons. Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society
of America, Portland, Oregon.
Abbott*, K.M., B.T. Klingbeil, and M.R. Willig. 2012. Statistical Modeling of Seasonal
Differences in Habitat Selection of Three Species of Terrestrial Gastropods. University
of Connecticut Frontiers in Undergraduate Research, Storrs, Connecticut.
McComb^, J.M., B.T. Klingbeil, and M.R.Willig. 2011. A Comparison of Forest-Edge and
Forest-Interior Bird Species Using Acoustic Monitoring. Northeast Alliance for Graduate
Education and the Professoriate Summer Research Symposium, Storrs, Connecticut.
Klingbeil, B.T. 2010. Seasonal Variation in Responses of Bats to Landscape Structure in
Amazonia. University of Connecticut EEB Graduate Research Symposium, Storrs,
Connecticut.
Willig, M. R., C. P. Bloch, I. Castro-Arellano, L. M. Cisneros, B. T. Klingbeil, and S. J.
Presley. 2009. Metacommunity Structure of Gastropods Along an Elevational Gradient
in the Luquillo Mountains. LTER All Scientists Meeting Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado..
Klingbeil, B.T., C. P. Bloch, I. Castro-Arellano, L. M. Cisneros, S. J. Presley, and M. R.
Willig. 2009. Metacommunity Structure of Gastropods Along an Elevational Gradient in
the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico. Luquillo LTER Annual Meeting, Rio Piedras, Puerto
Rico.
Klingbeil, B.T. and M.R. Willig. 2008. Multi-scale Responses of Phyllostomids to
Landscape Structure. American Society of Mammalogists, Brookings, South Dakota.
MENTORING
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2012-2013 Ekaterina Morozova. Independent research project: Using autonomous
recording units to evaluate relationships between Myotis lucifugus and
Eptesicus fuscus, and landscape structure in Connecticut forests.
2012-2013 Christopher Roberts. Research assistant: Biodiversity dynamics of forest
birds in fragmented landscapes: a multidimensional approach for ecology
and conservation.
2011-2012 Katherine Abbott (co-advised with M. Willig). Independent research
project: Statistical modeling of seasonal differences in habitat selection of
three species of terrestrial gastropods.
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Scott Adamson. Research assistant: Biodiversity dynamics of forest birds
in fragmented landscapes: a multidimensional approach for ecology and
conservation.
Ryan Hall. Research assistant: Biodiversity dynamics of forest birds in
fragmented landscapes: a multidimensional approach for ecology and
conservation.
Jacqueline McComb, NSF NEAGEP Fellow (co-advised with M. Willig).
Independent research project: A comparison of forest-edge and forestinterior bird species using acoustic monitoring.
Jason Lech. Research assistant: Biodiversity dynamics of forest birds in
fragmented landscapes: a multidimensional approach for ecology and
conservation.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
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Guest Editor of forthcoming special issue in Avian Conservation and Ecology entitled:
“Advancing bird population monitoring with acoustic recording technologies” to be
published in winter 2016-17.
External Scientific Reviewer of research proposals for BiodivERsA (a network of 32
agencies and ministries from 19 European countries) on the theme: Understanding
and managing biodiversity dynamics to improve ecosystem functioning and delivery
of ecosystem services in a global change context.
Reviewer: Basic and Applied Ecology, Biological Conservation, Ecography, Ecology
and Evolution, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of
Mammalogy, Landscape Ecology.
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