College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Fisheries and Wildlife

Areas of Expertise:

Wildlife population dynamics; quantitative ecology; disturbance ecology; research software development

Education:

• Ph.D., Ecology, Purdue University, 2015
• M.S., Ecology, Purdue University, 2012
• B.S., Biology, Wheaton College, 2009

Research Interests:

• Improving estimates of wildlife abundance and occurrence
• Development of statistical software for researchers
• Conservation and management of mammals and birds
• Reproducible research and metascience

Website:

https://kenkellner.com

Book:

Kéry M, Kellner KF (2024). Applied Statistical Modelling for Ecologists. Elsevier.

Selected Publications:

Kéry M, Royle JA, Hallman T, Robinson WD, Strebel N, Kellner KF (2024). Integrated distance sampling models for simple point counts. Ecology 105, e4292.

Kellner KF, Smith AD, Royle JA, Kéry M, Belant JL, Chandler RB (2023). The unmarked R package: Twelve years of advances in occurrence and abundance modelling in ecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14, 1408-1415.

Kellner KF, Parsons AW, Kays R, Millspaugh JJ, Rota CT (2022). A Two-Species Occupancy Model with a Continuous-Time Detection Process Reveals Spatial and Temporal Interactions. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics 27, 321–338.

Brüniche-Olsen A, Kellner KF, Belant JL, DeWoody A (2021). Life-history traits and habitat availability shape genomic diversity in birds: implications for conservation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288, 20211441.

Kellner KF, Fowler NL, Petroelje TR, Kautz TM, Beyer DE, Belant, JL (2021). ubms: An R package for fitting hierarchical occupancy and N-mixture abundance models in a Bayesian framework. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13, 577–584.

Strebel N, Fiss CJ, Kellner KF, Larkin JL, Kéry M, Cohen J (2021). Estimating abundance based on time-to-detection data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12, 909–920.