Tyus Williams
Ph.D. StudentView all Current Group Members, Graduate Students
Contact
Email: tyusdwilliams@berkeley.edu
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Education
Research Interests
My primary research interests revolve around carnivore ecology, species interactions, predator and prey dynamics, movement ecology, spatial analysis, human-wildlife conflict, and trophic systems. On a broad scale I’m particularly interested in understanding how large predators navigate through a rapidly changing world and how they compete with each other under those stressful circumstances. I plan on investigating this by taking a multi-scale approach to studying large predators in proximity or within human-dominated landscapes internationally or domestically and including local communities in the process of science.
Prior to joining the Brashares Lab, I worked as a community field ecologist for the University of Nevada-Reno for several months performing research on small mammals and herpetofauna in the Great Basin area. I also completed my B.S.F.R. in Fisheries and Wildlife Science at the University of Georgia where I performed my undergraduate thesis on jaguars in Belize, Central America.