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About Me:

I recently received my PhD in Biology from Kansas State University while working in the Laboratory for Landscape and Conservation Biology under the the direction of Dr. Kimberly With. My research focuses on the interactions between grassland birds and their snake predators. My approach involves a novel synthesis of technologies derived from landscape ecology and population genetics to elucidate the landscape ecology of a predator-prey interaction that may be exacerbating declines in grassland birds.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth is the floor of the sky. -Willa Cather

Education:

Ph.D. Biology Kansas State University 2009
Dissertation: Interactions between grassland birds and their snake predators: the potential for conservation conflicts in the tallgrass prairie

MS Biology University of Nebraska at Omaha 2005
Thesis: The effects of local grassland habitat and surrounding landscape composition on the predators of grassland birds

BS Environmental Science and Policy Drake University 2001

Certificates:
Graduate Certificate in Applied Statistics Kansas State University 2007

Publications:

Klug, P.E., S.L. Jackrel, K.A. With. (In press) Linking snake habitat use to nest predation risk in grassland birds: the dangers of shrub cover. Oecologia.

Klug, P.E., L.L. Wolfenbarger, and J.P. McCarty. 2009. The nest predator community of grassland birds responds to agroecosystem habitat at multiple scales. Ecography
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.05857.x Early View: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/eco/0/0.

Klug, P.E., S.M Wisely, and K.A. With. 2009. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in the Eastern Yellowbelly Racer (Coluber constrictor flaviventris) for use in landscape genetic studies. (Molecular Ecology Resources database accessions 37758–37769). http://tomato.biol.trinity.edu/. Cited as: Molecular Ecology Resources Primer Development Consortium et al. 2009. Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 May 2009–31 July 2009. Molecular Ecology Resources DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02759.x