Nick Green
Quantitative ecology, wildlife biology, and biological data analysis
Associate Professor of Biology at Kennesaw State University.
My research examines how environmental change affects animals, populations, and ecological communities using field studies, spatial analysis, genetics, and statistical modeling.
Research themes
Urban wildlife ecology
How urbanization affects animal morphology, physiology, abundance, population structure, and community composition.
Landscape genetics
How habitat configuration, impervious surface, and natural land cover influence movement and genetic connectivity.
Ecological modeling
Bayesian models, mark–recapture, population dynamics, and climate-linked models of biological systems.
Open course books
Applied Biological Data Analysis
Graduate-level materials covering data organization, visualization, statistical modeling, and reproducible analysis in R. These notes were developed for my course, BIOL 7410.
Topics include:
- data management and visualization;
- linear and generalized linear models;
- mixed models;
- multivariate analysis;
- reproducible scientific workflows.
Bayesian Inference for Biologists
An introduction to Bayesian inference and biological model fitting using R and JAGS. Taught as an occasional directed methods (BIOL 7950).
Topics include:
- prior, likelihood, and posterior distributions;
- Markov chain Monte Carlo;
- Bayesian linear and generalized linear models;
- hierarchical models;
- ecological applications.
Current work
Research projects
Current projects include urban small-mammal ecology, landscape genetics, mark–recapture studies, climate-linked krill population modeling, and applied quantitative methods in biology.