MIKE LACKI
Professor – Wildlife Ecology and Management
Contact
me:
214 Thomas Poe Cooper Building (Office: 207)
Lexington, KY 40546-0073
Phone: (859) 257-8571
Fax: (859) 323-1031
Email: mlacki@uky.edu
Employment History:
2006 Professor, Dept. Forestry, Univ. Kentucky
2000 – 2005 Assoc. Professor, Dept. Forestry, Univ. Kentucky
1996 - 1999 Assoc. Prof. & Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. Forestry, Univ. Kentucky
1995 - 1995 Assist. Prof. & Acting Dir. of Graduate Studies, Dept. Forestry, Univ. Kentucky
1990 - 1994 Assist. Professor, Dept. Forestry, Univ. Kentucky
1986 - 1989 Assist. Prof. & Program Leader, Wildlife Technology Program, The Pennsylvania State Univ.
1984 - 1986 Visiting Assist. Prof., Center for Earth & Environ. Sci., SUNY at Plattsburgh
1984 - 1984 Instructor, Dept. Zoology, North Carolina State Univ.
Education:
1981 - 1984 North Carolina State Univ. - Ph.D. in Zoology
Dissertation: The effects of rooting by wild boar on tree growth and nutrient cycling in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
1978 - 1980 The Ohio State Univ. - M.S. in Zoology
Thesis: A survey of bats in Wayne National Forest
1974 - 1978 Univ. of Dayton - B.S. in Biology
(Graduated Magna Cum Laude)
Selected Publications:
Lacki, M. J., J. P. Hayes, and A. Kurta. 2007. Bats in forests: conservation and management. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.
Lacki, M. J., S. K. Amelon, and M. D. Baker. 2007. Foraging ecology of bats in forests. Pages xxx-xxx in M. J. Lacki, J. P. Hayes, and A. Kurta, editors. Bats in forests: conservation and management. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.
Carter, K. M., M. R. Dzialak, and M. J. Lacki. 2007. Perch site selection by post-fledgling peregrine falcons. Wildlife Biology (in press).
Baker, M. D., and M. J. Lacki. 2006. Day-roosting habitat of female long-legged myotis in ponderosa pine forests. Journal of Wildlife Management 70:207-215.
Dzialak, M. R., M. J. Lacki, K. M. Carter, K. Huie, and J. J. Cox. 2006. An assessment of raptor hacking during a reintroduction. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34:542-547.
Maehr, D. S., P. Crowley, J. J. Cox, M. J. Lacki, J. L. Larkin, T. S. Hoctor, L. D. Harris, and P. M. Hall. 2006. Of cats and Haruspices: genetic intervention in the Florida panther. Response to Pimm et al. (2006). Animal Conservation 9:127-132.
Lacki, M. J., J. W. Hummer, and J. L. Fitzgerald. 2005. Population patterns of copperbelly water snakes (Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta) in a riparian corridor impacted by mining and reclamation. American Midland Naturalist 153:357-369.
Dzialak, M. R., M. J. Lacki, J. L. Larkin, K. M. Carter, and S. Vorisek. 2005. Corridors affect dispersal initiation in reintroduced peregrine falcons. Animal Conservation
8:421-430.
Dzialak, M. R., L. S. Burford, S. Vorisek, M. J. Lacki, and B. L. Palmer-Ball, Jr. 2005. The peregrine falcon and its recovery in Kentucky. Kentucky Warbler 81:39-46.
Dzialak, M. R., M. J. Lacki, and K. M. Carter. 2005. Characterization of potential release sites for peregrine falcon reintroduction. Natural Areas Journal 25:188-196.
Lacki, M. J., J. L. Fitzgerald, and J. W. Hummer. 2004. Changes in avian species composition following surface mining and reclamation along a riparian forest corridor in southern Indiana. Wetlands Ecology and Management 12:447-457.
Lacki, M. J., H. F. Yacek, Jr., and M. D. Baker. 2004. Nesting success of forest songbirds in mixed mesophytic forests in eastern Kentucky. Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science 65:21-26.
Baker, M. D., and M. J. Lacki. 2004. Forest bat communities in the east Cascade Range, Washington. Northwest Science 78:234-241.
Secrist, D. E., D. S. Maehr, J. L. Larkin, and M. J. Lacki. 2004. Potential impacts of reintroduced elk on amphibian distribution and abundance in eastern Kentucky, U.S.A. Natural Areas Journal 24:65-68.
Lacki, M. J. 2004. Searching for the long-legged myotis in southern Oregon. Bats 22:8-9.
Lacki, M. J., and M. D. Baker. 2003. A prospective power analysis and review of habitat characteristics used in studies of tree-roosting bats. Acta Chiropterologica 5:199-208.
Miller, D. A., E. B. Arnett, and M. J. Lacki. 2003. Habitat management for
forest-roosting bats of North America: a critical review of habitat studies. Wildlife Society Bulletin 31:30-44.
LaDeur, K. M., M. J. Lacki, M. R. Dzialak, L. S. Burford, and R. E. Bethany. 2003. Food habits of peregrine falcons in Kentucky. Journal of Raptor Research 37:344-349.
Dzialak, M. R., M. J. Lacki, D. S. Maehr, and K. M. LaDeur. 2003. Demographic influences on peregrine falcon reintroduction in Kentucky. Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science 64:21-28.
Krupa, J. J., and M. J. Lacki. 2002. Mammals of Robinson Forest: species composition of an isolated, mixed-mesophytic forest on the Cumberland Plateau in southeastern Kentucky. Special Publications, Museum of Texas Tech University 45:1-44.
Current Research Projects:
Status, distribution, and reproductive characteristics of river otters in Kentucky.
Diet and prey abundance of the Ozark big-eared bat in northwest Arkansas.
Injury and mortality risks from wildland fire smoke and heat exposures for endangered Indiana bats in maternity roosts.