JEFF BREEDEN

Associate Professor
Department of Wildlife, Sustainability and Ecosystem Science
Tarleton State University
United States of America

Biography

Jeff Breeden is an Associate Professor in WSES at Tarleton. While an undergraduate, he was an intern in the Lower Rio Grande Valley at the Las Palomas Wildlife Management area for three summers assisting with management of white-winged dove. In addition, both his masters and doctoral research focused on Columbids. He has experience in habitat evaluation, abundance estimation, productivity, behavior, trapping, and radio tracking doves and pigeons. His current research focus includes the evaluation of habitat quality for threatened ungulate populations at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center. He has GIS applications experience and teaches the introductory GIS course at Tarleton.

Research Intrest

Habitat evaluation, Abundance estimation, Productivity, Behavior, Trapping, and Radio Tracking Doves and Pigeons.

List of Publications
Breeden JB, Hernandez F, Bingham RL, Silvy NJ, Waggerman GL (2017) Effects of traffic noise on auditory surveys of white-winged doves. To appear in Wilson Journal of Ornithology.
Breeden Jb, Small MF, Baccus JT, Eitniear JC(2009) Vegetative composition of areas with and without breeding red-billed pigeons (Patagioenas. To appear in Southwestern Naturalist:54 (1),6.
Eitniear JC, Breeden JB (2003) Variation in red-billed pigeon clutch size. Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society, 36, 6-8.