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Contact Us For information about the Highlands Nature Center please contact:
M. Patrick Brannon, Head Naturalist Highlands Nature Center P.O. Box 580 930 Horse Cove Road Highlands, NC 28741 Phone: 828-526-2623 Fax: 828-526-2797 Email: pbrannon@email.wcu.edu
Education: M.S. in Biology (Ecology), Appalachian State University 1997 B.A. in Biology, University of North Carolina - Asheville 1992
Publications: Brannon, M.P., and M.A. Burt. 2008. Discarded bottles as a source of small mammal distributional data along an elevational gradient in the southern Appalachians. (in manuscript). Brannon, M.P., and B.A. Purvis. 2008. Effects of sedimentation on the diversity of salamanders in a southern Appalachian headwater stream. Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science 124 (1):18-22. (pdf) Brannon, M.P. 2006. Natural history notes: Bufo a. americanus (Eastern American Toad) leucism. Herpetological Review 37(3):333-334. Brannon, M.P. 2005. Distribution and microhabitat of the woodland jumping mouse, Napaeozapus insignis, and the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus, in the southern Appalachians. Southeastern Naturalist 4 (3):479-486. (pdf)Brannon, M.P., and S.R. Rogers. 2005. Effects of canopy thinning by hemlock woolly adelgids on the local abundance of terrestrial salamanders. Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science 121 (4):151-156. (pdf) Brannon, M.P. 2002. Distribution of Sorex cinereus and S. fumeus on north- and south-facing slopes in the southern Appalachian mountains. Southeastern Naturalist 1(3): 299-306. Brannon, M.P. 2002. Epigeal movement of the smoky shrew (Sorex fumeus) following precipitation in ridgetop and streamside habitats. Acta Theriologica 47 (3): 363-368. Brannon, M.P., N.D. Moncrief, and R.D. Dueser. 2001. New records of reptiles from the Virginia barrier islands. Banisteria 18:42-43. Brannon, M.P. 2000. Niche relationships of two syntopic species of shrews, Sorex fumeus and S. cinereus, in the southern Appalachian mountains. Journal of Mammalogy 81(4): 1053-1061. Petranka, J.W., M.P. Brannon, M.E. Hopey, and C.K. Smith. 1994. Effects of timber harvesting on low elevation populations of southern Appalachian salamanders. Forest Ecology and Management 67:135-147.
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