Biographical Information about Andrew B. Carey

Andrew Carey is Chief Research Biologist and leader of the Ecological Foundations of Biodiversity Team of the Pacific Northwest Research Station. Dr. Carey has a B.S. in Forestry and Wildlife, an M.S. in Wildlife Management, an M.S. in Organization Development, and a Ph.D. in Zoology and Entomology. He has conducted research in a variety of ecosystems: (1) old field and forest ecosystems harboring the Lyme Disease-tick-mammal complex in Connecticut, (2) landscape and land use effects on rabies epizootics and maintenance in red foxes and gray foxes in Virginia, (3) Appalachian oak-hickory and northern hardwood ecosystems maintaining cavity-using wildlife in West Virginia, (4) cave ecosystems harboring rabies virus in Mexican free-tailed bat populations in Texas, (7) landscapes and vertebrate populations supporting on rabies epizootics in Arizona, (8) montane ecosystems maintaining Colorado tick fever and bubonic plague in complexes of ground squirrels, ticks, and fleas in Colorado, and (6) old-growth and managed forest ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest.

Since 1982, Dr. Carey has been coordinating and conducting research on the forests of the Pacific Northwest and the biotic communities they maintain. He designed and coordinated the Old-Growth Forests Wildlife Habitats R&D Program from 1982-1985, which emphasized replicated studies of plant, fungal, amphibian, reptile, and mammal communities in young, mature, and old-growth forests in northern California and western Oregon and Washington. Then he designed and initiated the Spotted Owl RD&A Program, which emphasized replicated conjoint studies of owl habitat use, prey ecology, and owl demography in western Oregon and Washington. He personally conducted studies of plant and spring bird communities in young, mature and old-growth forests in the Oregon Coast Ranges; the effects of landscape composition, forest structure, and prey bases on spotted owls in southwestern Oregon; comparative ecological studies of natural and managed forests and the plant, fungal, small mammal, and arboreal rodent communities they contain in southwestern Oregon, the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, and the Northern Cascade Range in Washington. Since 1991, Dr. Carey has been leading the Forest Ecosystem Study, which emphasizes the effects of management history, biological legacies, and induced canopy heterogeneity on vascular plants, fungi, soil food webs, litter invertebrate communities, small mammal communities, arboreal rodent communities, winter bird communities, and spring bird communities in second-growth forests in the Puget Trough of Washington. In addition, he conducted research on the native prairies and oak woodlands of the Puget Trough.

Dr. Carey has published his research widely in major journals including the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Ecological Applications, Ecology, Ecological Monographs, Forest Ecology and Management, Forest Science, Forestry, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Forestry, Journal of Mammalogy, Journal of Medical Entomology, Journal of Raptor Research, Journal of Sustainable Forestry, Journal of Wildlife Diseases, Journal of Wildlife Management, Natural Areas Journal, Northwest Science, Northwestern Naturalist, Renewable Resources Journal, Southwestern Naturalist, Wildlife Monographs, Wildlife Society Bulletin, books, station research papers and general technical reports, and various proceedings.