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HOLLY ERNEST DVM MS PHD
Consultant with expertise in wildlife conservation, population health, and management for the disciplines wildlife population health, conservation biology, wildlife genetics, and disease ecology.
Wildlife Conservation Biology. Population Health, and Disease Ecology 
Our publications have focused on research using ecological tools including whole genome analysis for wild animals and their disease pathogens, analysis of population genetics, epidemiology, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at landscape-level, to understand how diseases affect wildlife populations. Special programs have included Wildlife Population Health, and Hummingbird Health Programs.
Ruminants
- Pronghorn, Bighorn Sheep, Deer and others.
- Landscape-level studies, population genomics, genetics for migration ecology, and disease ecology.
- Collaborative research, toward conserving and managing populations across migration corridors and habitats
Birds
- Hummingbird Health Program.
- Hummingbird Conservation Genomics and Disease Ecology
- Raptors: Great Gray Owls and others.
- Genetic diversity, population structure, small threatened populations, migration ecology.
- Identifying and monitoring threats to bird populations.
- Citizen science.
Carnivores
- Mountain lion, Bear, Sea Otter, and others.
- Non-invasive and trace DNA, population size estimates, bottlenecks, source-sink dynamics.
- Molecular kinship reconstruction, genetic diversity, genomics, landscape genetics.
- Assessing impacts of disease on populations
