Area of Research Specialization:
Ecology, behavior and conservation of
mammalian carnivores.

EDUCATION:

CURRENT STUDENTS:

Doctoral Students:

• Thornton, D. Multipe-scale response of tropical forest mammals to habitat fragmentation.

• Vongkhamheng, C. Ecology and conservation status of tigers in LAO PDR.

 Master’s Students:

• Neils, A.  Ecology of Florida black bears at the urban-wildland interface.

   

FORMER STUDENTS:

Doctoral Students:

• Crawshaw, P. G., Jr.  1995. Comparative ecology of ocelot (Felis pardalis) and jaguar (Panthera onca) in a protected subtropical forest in Brazil and Argentina.  Ph.D. disseration, Univ. Florida.

• Kawanishi, K.  2002.  Population ecology of the tiger (Panthera tigris) in Taman Negara Natiional Park, Malaysia.

• Miththapala, S.  1992.  Genetic and morphological variation in the leopard (Panthera pardus): a geographically widespread species.  PhD dissertation, Univ. Floridal.

• Ray, J. C.  1996.  Resource use patterns among mongooses and other carnivores in a Central African rainforest. Ph.D. dissertation. Univ. Florida.

• Edgaonkar, A. The ecology of the leopard, Panthera pardus, in Satpura National Park and Bori Wildlife Sanctuary, India.

Master’s Students:

• Bisbal, F.  1987. Conservation, status, and distribution of the Carnivora of Venezuela.  Master’s thesis, Univ. Florida. 

• Chandrasekar, A.  1989.  Small mammal ecology in moist tropical forests, south India.  Master’s thesis, Univ. Florida.

• Evans, M. M. 2004. Land use and prey density changes in the Nakuru Wildlife
  Conservancy, Kenya: implications for cheetah conservation. Master’s thesis, Univ. Florida.

• Farrell, L. E.  1999.  The ecology of the puma and the jaguar in the Venezuelan llanos.  Masters thesis, Univ. Florida.

• Freedman, A. H.  2000.  Black bear population ecology in Eglin Air Force Base, Floira and life-stage simulation models for black bear conservation on the southeastern coastal plain.  Master’s thesis.  Univ. Florida.

• Hoogesteijn, R.  1996. Body mass and skull measurements in four jaguar populations, and observations of their prey base.  Master’s thesis, Univ. Florida.

• Karanth, K. K.  1988.  Population structure, density and biomass of large herbivores in a south Indian tropical forest.  Master’s thesis, Univ. Florida.

• Long, C. 2004. Current nuisance bear management policy in Florida. Technical
  Paper, Master’s degree, Univ. Florida.

• Ludlow, M. E.  1986.  Home range, activity patterns, and food habits of the ocelot (Felis pardalis)  in Venezuela.  Master’s thesis, Univ. Florida.

• Masters, D. 2001. Fine-scale habitat use, activity, and movements of female
  black bears in north-central Florida. Master’s thesis, Univ. Florida.

• Maxit, I. E.  2001.  Prey use by sympatric puma and jaguar in the Venezuelan llanos.  Master’s thesis, Univ. Florida.

• Molloy, L. M.  1997.  Forest buffalo, Syncerus caffer nanus, and burning of savannas at Lope Reserve, Gabon.  Master’s thesis. Univ. Florida.

• Novack, A. J. 2003. Impacts of subsistence hunting on the foraging ecology of
  jaguar and puma in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala. Master’s thesis, Univ. Florida.

• Oliveira, T. G.  1992.  Ecology and conservation of Neotropical felids  Technical paper, Master’s Forest Resources and Conservation.  Univ. Florida.

• Payne, J. C.  1992.  A field study of techniques for estimating densities of duikers in Korup National Park, Cameroon.  Master’s thesis, Univ. Florida.

• Scheick, B. K. 1999.  Black bear diet, movements, and habitat selection in north Florida and south Georgia.  Master’s thesis, Univ. Florida.

• Scognamillo, D.G.  2001.  Ecological separation between jaguar and puma in a mosaic landscape in the Venezuelan llanos.  Master’s thesis, Univ. Florida.

• Thornton, D. H. 2003. Ecological separation within newly sympatric
  populations of coyotes and bobcats in south-central Florida. Master’s
  thesis, Univ. Florida.

• Walker, R. S. 1993. Habitat use, movement, and density of the raccoon (Procyon lotor) in a wetland/sandhill mosaic of north-central Florida. Master’s thesis, Univ. Florida.

• Annis, K.  Determining the impact of relocation of nuisance black bears in central Florida.

• Gopalaswamy, A.  Density estimation of sloth bears in a south Indian tropical Forest.

• Olson, J.  Evaluation of remote, infrared-triggered cameras as a population survey technique for wild turkeys.

Books

• Sunquist, M. E. and F. C. Sunquist. 2002. Wild Cats of the World.
  Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press. 452 pp.
• Sunquist, F. C., M. E. Sunquist & L. Beletsky. 2002.
  Florida: The Ecotravelers’ Wildlife Guide. London: Academic Press. 532 pp.
• Sunquist, F. C. and M. E. Sunquist. 1988. Tiger Moon.
  Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press. 187 pp.

Selected Journal, Book Chapters and Symposium Publications

• Thornton, D. H., M. E. Sunquist and M. B. Main. 2004. Ecological separation within newly sympatric populations of coyotes and bobcats in south-central Florida. Journal of Mammalogy 85: 973-982.
• Kawanishi, K. and M. E. Sunquist. 2004. Conservation status of tigers in a primary rainforest of Peninsular Malaysia. Biological Conservation 120: 329-344.
• Freedman, A. H., K. M. Portier and M. E. Sunquist. 2003. Life history analysis for black bears (Ursus americanus) in a changing demographic landscape. Ecological Modeling 167: 47-64.
• Polisar, J., I. Maxit, D. Scognamillo, L. Farrell, M. Sunquist and J. Eisenberg. 2003. Jaguars, pumas, their prey base, and cattle ranching: ecological interpretations of a management problem. Biological Conservation 109: 297-310.
• Scognamillo, D., I. Maxit, M. E. Sunquist and J. Polisar. 2003. Coexistence of jaguar (Panthera onca) and puma (Puma concolor) in a mosaic landscape in the Venezuelan llanos. Journal Zoology, London 259: 269-279.
• Sanderson, J., M. Sunquist and A. Iriarte. 2002. Natural history and landscape-use of guignas (Oncifelis guigna) on Isla Grande Chiloe, Chile. Journal Mammalogy 83: 608-613.
• Carbone, C., S. Christie, K. Conforti, T. Coulson, N. Franklin, J. Ginsberg, M. Griffiths, J. Holden, K. Kawanishi, M. Kinnarid, R. Laidlaw, A. Lynam, D. W. Macdonald, D. Martyr, C. McDougal, L. Nath, T. O‘Brien, J. Seidensticker, J. L. D. Smith, M. Sunquist, R. Tilson, and W. Wan Shahruddin. 2001. The use of photographic rates to estimate densities of tigers and other cryptic mammals. Animal Conservation 4: 75-79.
• Ray, J. and M. E. Sunquist. 2001. Ecological separation within an African forest carnivore community. Oecologia 127: 395-408.
• Stratman, M. R., C. D. Alden, M. E. Pelton and M. E. Sunquist. 2001. Habitat use by American black bears in the sandhills of Florida. Ursus 12: 109-114.
• Stratman, M. R., C. D. Alden, M. E. Pelton and M. E. Sunquist. 2001. Long distance movement of a Florida black bear in the southeastern Coastal Plain. Ursus 12: 55-58.
• Farrell, L.E., J. Roman, and M. E. Sunquist. 2000. Dietary separation of sympatric carnivores identified by molecular analysis of scats. Molecular Ecology 9: 1583-1590.
• Karanth, K. U., and M. Sunquist. 2000. Behavioural correlates of predation by tiger (Panthera tigris), leopard (Panthera pardus) and dhole (Cuon alpinus) in Nagarahole, India. J. Zoology 250: 255-265
• Walker, R. S., and M. E. Sunquist. 1997. Movement and spatial organization of raccoons in north-central Florida. Florida Field Naturalist 25: 11-21.
• Chandrasekar-Rao, A., and M. E. Sunquist. 1996. Ecology of small mammals in tropical forest habitats of southern India. Journal Tropical Ecology 12: 561-571.
• Smith,, T. R., C. G. Hunter, J. F. Eisenberg, and M. E. Sunquist. 1996. Ecology of white-tailed deer in eastern Everglades National Park: An overview. Bull. Fl. Museum Natural History 39: 141-172.
• Karanth, K. U., and M. E. Sunquist. 1995. Prey selection by tiger, leopard, and dhole in tropical forests. Journal Animal Ecology 64: 439-450.
• Sunquist, M. E., C. Leh, F. C. Sunquist, D. M. Hills, and R. Rajaratnam. 1994. Rediscovery of the Bornean bay cat. Oryx 28: 67-70.
• Sunquist, M. E., and J. F. Eisenberg. 1993. Reproductive strategies of female Didelphis. Bull. Fl. Museum Nat. History 36: 109-140.
• Karanth, K. U., and M. E. Sunquist. 1992. Population structure, density and biomass of large herbivores in tropical forests of Nagarahole, India. Journal Tropical Ecology 8: 21-35.
• Sunquist, M. E. 1989. Comparison of spatial and temporal activity of red foxes and gray foxes in north-central Florida. Florida Field Naturalist 17: 11-18.
• Ludlow, M. E., and M. E. Sunquist. 1987. Ecology and behavior of ocelots in Venezuela. National Geographic Research 3: 447-461.
• Sunquist, M. E., S. N. Austad, and F. C. Sunquist. 1987. Movement patterns and home range in the common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis). Journal Mammalogy 68: 173-176.
• Austad, S. N., and M. E. Sunquist. 1986. Sex-ratio manipulation in the common opossum. Nature 324: 58-60.
• Daneke, D., M. E. Sunquist, and S. Berwick. 1984. Notes on kit fox biology in Utah. The Southwestern Naturalist 29: 361-362.
• Sunquist, M. E. 1983. Dispersal of three radio-tagged leopards. Journal Mammalogy 64: 337-341.
• Smith, J. L. D., M. E. Sunquist, K. M. Tamang, and P. B. Rai. 1983. A
  technique for capturing and immobilizing tigers. Journal of Wildlife Management 47: 255-259.
• Sunquist, M. E. and F. C. Sunquist. Changing landscapes: Consequences for carnivores. 2001. Pages 399-418 in Carnivore Conservation (eds. J.L. Gittleman, S. M. Funk, D. W. Macdonald, and R. K. Wayne). Cambridge University Press.
• Farrell, L. and M. Sunquist. 1999. La ecologia del puma el jaguar en los llanos Venezolanos [The ecology of the puma and the jaguar in the llanos of Venezuela]. Pages 391-396 in Manejo y conservacion de fauna sillvestre en America Latina (eds. T. G. Fany, O. L. Montenegro y R. E. Bodmer). Instituto de Ecologia, NDP/GEF/UNAP and the University of Florida.
• Sunquist, M. E., K. U. Karanth and F. C. Sunquist. 1999. Ecology, behaviour and resilience of the tiger and its conservation needs. Pages 5-18 in Riding the Tiger: Tiger conservation in human-dominated landscapes (eds. J. Seidensticker, S. Christie, and P. Jackson). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Karanth, K. U., M. E. Sunquist, and K. M. Chinnappa. 1999. Long-term monitoring of Indian tigers: Lessons from Nagarahole. Pages 114-122 in Riding the Tiger: Tiger conservation in human-dominated landscapes (eds. J. Seidensticker, S. Christie, and P. Jackson). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Wentzel, J., J. C. Stephens, W. Johnson, M. Menotti-Raymond, J. Pecon Slattery, N. Yuhki, M. Carrington, H. B. Quigley, D. G. Miguelle, R. Tilson, J. Manansang, G. Brady, L. Zhi, P. Wenshi, H. Shi-Qiang, L. Johnston, M. Sunquist, K. U. Karanth, and S. J. O’Brien. 1999. Subspecies of tigers: Molecular genetic assessment using “voucher specimens” of geographically traceable individuals. Pages 40-49 in Riding the Tiger: Tiger conservation in human-dominated landscapes (eds. J. Seidensticker, S. Christie, and P. Jackson). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Johnson, W. E., F. Shinyashiki, M. Menotti Raymond,C. Driscoll,C. Leh, M. Sunquist, L. Johnston, M. Bush, D. Wildt, N. Yuhki, and S. J. O’Brien. 1999. Molecular genetic characterization of two insular Asian cat species, Bornean bay cat and Iriomote cat. Pages 223-248 in Evolutionary Theory and Process: Modern Perspectives, Papers in Honour of Eviatar Nevo (ed. S. P. Wasser). Kulwer Academic Publishers.
• Seidensticker, J., M. E. Sunquist, and C. McDougal. 1990. Leopards living at the edge of Royal Chitwan National Park. Pages 415-423 in Conservation in Developing Countries: Problems and Prospects (eds. J. C. Daniel and J. S. Serrao). Bombay Natural History Society, Bombay.
• Sunquist, M. E., F. C. Sunquist, and D. E. Daneke. 1989. Ecological separation in a Venezuelan llanos carnivore community. Pages 197-232 in Advances in Neotropical Mammalogy (eds. K. H. Redford and J. F. Eisenberg). Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, Florida.
• Sunquist, M. E., and F. C. Sunquist. 1989. Ecological constraints on predation by large felids. Pages 283-301 in Carnivore Behavior, Ecology and Evolution (ed. J. L. Gittleman). Cornell University Press, Ithaca.
• Wemmer, C., and M. E. Sunquist. 1988. Snow leopard reintroduction: Economic and energetic considerations. Pages 193-205 in Proceedings of 5th International Snow Leopard Symposium (ed. H. Freeman). Srinigar, India: International Snow Leopard Trust and Wildlife Institute of India.
• Smith, J. L. D., C. McDougal, and M. E. Sunquist. 1987. Land tenure system in female tigers. Pages 97-109 in Tigers of the World: The Biology, Biopolitics, Management and Conservation of an Endangered Species (eds. R. L. Tilson and U. S. Seal). Noyes Publications, Park Ridge, New Jersey.
• Montgomery, G. G., and M. E. Sunquist. 1978. Habitat selection and use by two-toed and three-toed sloths. Pages 329-359 in The Ecology of Arboreal Folivores (ed. G. G. Montgomery). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C.
• Montgomery, G. G., and M. E. Sunquist. 1975. Impact of sloths on neotropical forest energy flow and nutrient cycling. Pages 69-98 in Tropical Ecological Systems: Trends in Terrestrial and Aquatic Research (eds. F. B. Golley and E. Medina). Springer-Verlag, New York.
• Gardner, A. and M.E. Sunquist. 2003. Opossums. Pages 3-29 in Wild Mammals of North America, 2nd ed. (eds. G.A. Feldhammer, B.C. Thompson, and J.A. Chapman). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Sunquist, M. E. 2002. The history of jaguar research in the Americas. Pages 535-549 in The jaguar in the new milennium: An evaluation of the status, priority setting and recommendations for the conservation of the jaguar in the Americas (eds. R. Medellin, C. Chetkiewicz, A. Rabinowitz, K. Redford, J. Robinsoni, E. Sanderson, A. Taber). Mexico City, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and Wildlife Conservation Society.
• Scognamillo, D., I. Maxit, M. Sunquist and L. Farrell. 2002. Ecology of the jaguar and the problem of depredation on livestock at Hato Piñero, Venezuela. Pages 139-150 in The jaguar in the new milennium: An evaluation of the status, priority setting and recommendations for the conservation of the jaguar in the Americas (eds. R. Medellin, C. Chetkiewicz, A. Rabinowitz, K. Redford, J. Robinsoni, E. Sanderson, A. Taber). Mexico City, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and Wildlife Conservation Society.
• Sunquist, M. E. 1992. The ecology of the ocelot: The importance of incorporating life history traits into conservation plans. Pages 117-128 in Felids of Venezuela: Biology, Ecology, and Conservation. Foundation for the Study of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Caracas, Venezuela.