USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Staff Profile

Kenneth J. Reinecke USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center 2524 South Frontage Road, Suite C Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180-5269
Telephone: 601-629-6606 Fax: 601-636-9541 Email: kreinecke@usgs.gov Research Wildlife Biologist
Primary Responsibilities: As a Principal Investigator, conducts applied studies of waterfowl population and habitat dynamics in the Lower Mississippi River Valley; as Leader of the Mississippi Valley Research Field Station, has administrative responsibility for 4-5 permanent staff; and as technical consultant to the Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture, provides advice regarding biological evaluations, research needs, and development of ~~shared~~ statistical and spatial databases.
Education/Training: A.B., Ripon College, 1966, Mathematics and Philosophy Ph.D., University of Maine, 1978, Wildlife Ecology
Areas of Expertise/Interest: Areas of interest and expertise include: (1) various aspects of the feeding ecology of waterfowl, such as food use, nutrition, energetics, and more recently large scale studies of the extent of food depletion by waterfowl wintering in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley; (2) design of stratified and multi-stage population and habitat surveys at spatial scales matching the landscape perspective of current bird conservation plans and use of double sampling designs to assess biases associated with population and habitat surveys; and (3) estimating survival rates, identifying mortality sources, and exploring strategies to use adaptive experiments to learn about effects of managing winter habitat on population dynamics of mallards.
Accomplishments/Awards/Achievements: Ducks Unlimited Conservation Award for Technical Achievement (1994) Associate Editor of The Journal of Wildlife Management (1997-98) Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Mississippi State University, 1986-present Publication Awards, Southeastern Section of The Wildlife Society, 1984 and 1988
Active Projects: Evaluating rice fields as foraging habitat for waterfowl to improve delivery of the Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture Food production and avian use of moist-soil impoundments in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley Maintaining and serving a bibliographic database to North American waterfowl and their wetland habitats Technical assistance to the Fish and Wildlife Service, Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture Use of aerial transect surveys to determine if the number of mallards wintering in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley has decreased
Publications/Products: Eadie, J. M., C. S. Elphick, K. J. Reinecke, and M. R. Miller. 2007. Wildlife values of North American ricelands. In S. W. Manley, M. J. Petrie, and B. D. J. Batt, editors. Conservation in ricelands of North America. Ducks Unlimited, Memphis, TN. In Press. Baxter, C. K., J. W. Nelson, K. J. Reinecke, and S. E. Stephens. 2007. Coherence between harvest and habitat management – Joint Venture perspectives. Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference. 71:In Press. Stafford, J. D., R. M. Kaminski, and K. J. Reinecke. 2006. Waste rice for waterfowl in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Journal of Wildlife Management 70:61-69. Reinecke, K. J., and K. M. Hartke. 2005. Estimating moist-soil seeds available to waterfowl with double sampling for stratification. Journal of Wildlife Management 69:794-799. Manley, S. W., R. M. Kaminski, K. J. Reinecke, and P. D. Gerard. 2005. Agronomic implications of waterfowl management in Mississippi ricefields. Wildlife Society Bulletin 33:981-992. Stafford, J. D., K. J. Reinecke, R. M. Kaminski, and P. D. Gerard. 2005. Multi-stage sampling for large-scale natural resources surveys: a case study of rice and waterfowl. Journal of Environmental Management 78:353-361. Manley, S. W., R. M. Kaminski, K. J. Reinecke, and P. D. Gerard. 2004. Waterbird foods in winter-managed rice fields in Mississippi. Journal of Wildlife Management 68:74-83. Reinecke, K. J., and C. R. Loesch. 1996. Integrating research and management to conserve wildfowl (Anatidae) in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley, U.S.A. Gibier Faune Sauvage, Game and Wildlife 13:927-940. Krapu, G. L., K. J. Reinecke, D. G. Jorde, and S. S. G. Simpson. 1995. Spring-staging ecology of midcontinent greater white-fronted geese. Journal of Wildlife Management 59:736-746. Smith, D. R., K. J. Reinecke, M. J. Conroy, M. W. Brown, and J. R. Nassar. 1995. Factors affecting visibility rate in aerial surveys of waterfowl wintering in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Journal of Wildlife Management 59:515-527. Dugger, B. D., K. J. Reinecke, and L. H. Fredrickson. 1994. Late winter survival of female mallards in Arkansas. Journal of Wildlife Management 58:94-99. Krapu, G. L., and K. J. Reinecke. 1992. Foraging ecology and nutrition. Pages 1-29 in B. D. J. Batt et al., editors. The ecology and management of breeding waterfowl. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Reinecke, K. J., M. W. Brown, and J. R. Nassar. 1992. Evaluation of aerial transect surveys for mallards wintering in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Journal of Wildlife Management 56:515-525. Reinecke, K. J., R. M. Kaminski, D. J. Moorhead, J. D. Hodges, and J. R. Nassar. 1989. Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Pages 203-247 in L. M. Smith, R. L. Pederson, and R. M. Kaminski, editors. Habitat management for migrating and wintering waterfowl in North America. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock. Reinecke, K. J., C. W. Shaiffer, and D. Delnicki. 1987. Winter survival of female mallards in the lower Mississippi Valley. Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 52:258‑263.

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