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Phone:  662-325-2219
Email:  jjones@cfr.msstate.edu

address:

Berryman Institute Cabin
Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture
Box 9690
Mississippi State, MS 39762-9690

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Education:

• Mississippi State University Ph.D., Wildlife Ecology
• Mississippi State University M.S., Major - Wildlife Ecology
• University of Southern Mississippi B.S., Major - Biology
• University of Arizona Illustration Training, Scientific Illustration/Photography

Research Interests:

• Habitat evaluation and management
• Reclamation and vegetative succession on ecologically-disturbed lands
• Ecological impacts of agronomic plant species on native plant diversity and community development
• Management and restoration of ecosystems with emphasis on conservation of native biological diversity, including protected and listed species
• Ecotourism and economic values of game and nongame wildlife and "un-perturbed" ecosystems

Teaching Areas:

• Wildlife Habitat Management

Honors / Professional Activities:

• 2006 Mississippi Wildlife Federation Wildlife Conservationist of the Year
• 2005 Integrated Natural Resources Management Team Group Achievement Award, John C. Stennis Space Center
• 2004 Mississippi CASE professor of the year

Research / Extension Websites:

• Agro-wildlife ecology and management
• Forest and Wildlife Management
• Non-game Management
• Waterfowl and Wetland Ecology and Management
• Wildlife Habitat Restoration/Monitoring

Graduate Students

• Heather Fleming
• Aaron Posner
• Clinton Smith
• Nathan Stukey

2011
Fogarty, J.H., J.C. Jones, K.E. Edwards, C.M. Dacus. 2011. Hurricane Katrina impacts to white-tailed deer on John C. Stennis Space Center. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 64:50-55. Download

2010
Grebner, D.L., G.S. Amacher, J.D. Prevost, S.C. Grado, J.C. Jones. 2010. Economics of cogongrass control for non-industrial private landowners in Mississippi. Chapter 7 in J. Gan, S.C. Grado, I.A. Munn, editors, Global Change and Forestry: Economic and Policy Impacts and Responses. Nova Science, NY. 332 p.

2010
Prevost, J.D., D.L. Grebner, J.C. Jones, S.C. Grado, K.L. Belli, J.D. Byrd. 2010. Influencing factors on vegetative cogongrass spread into pine forests on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Pages 107-108 in John A. Stanturf, editor, Proceedings of the 14th Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-121. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 614 p. Download

2010
Sumerall, D.C., D.L. Grebner, J.C. Jones, S.C. Grado, R.P. Maiers, K.L. Belli. 2010. Determining the factors associated with seedling herbivory on afforested carbon sequestration sites in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley: Preliminary results. Pages 171-174 in John A. Stanturf, editor, Proceedings of the 14th Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-121. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 614 p. Download

2009
Yager, L., J.C. Jones, D.L. Miller. 2009. Military training and road effects on Imperata cylindrica (L.) Beauv. (Cogongrass). Southeastern Naturalist 8(4):695-708. Download