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Phone:  662-325-2618
Email:  sdemarais@cfr.msstate.edu

address:

Rm# 247, Thompson Hall
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Box 9690
Mississippi State, MS 39762-9690

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Education:

• Mississippi State University Ph.D., Forest Resources
• Mississippi State University M.S., Wildlife Ecology
• University of Massachusetts B.A., Wildlife Biology

Research Interests:

• Ecology and management of white-tailed deer
• Impacts of land management decisions on wildlife populations

Teaching Areas:

• Wildlife Nutrition and Physiology

Honors / Professional Activities:

• The Wildlife Society's 2004 Publication Award for Outstanding Article: DeYoung, R.W., S. Demarais, R.L. Honeycutt, A.P. Rooney, R.A. Gonzales, K.L. Gee. 2003. Genetic consequences of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) restoration in Mississippi. Molecular Ecology 12:3237-3252.
• The Wildlife Society's "Best Edited Book" award for the book Ecology and Management of Large Mammals in North America.

Research / Extension Websites:

• Forest and Wildlife Management
• Small- and Big-Game Management

Graduate Students

• Tamara Campbell
• Emily Clemons
• Virginia "Amber" Dunn
• Jeremy Flinn
• Andrew Little
• Melinda Mixon

2009
DeYoung, R.W., S. Demarais, K.L. Gee, R.L. Honeycutt, M.W. Hellickson, R.A. Gonzales. 2009. Molecular evaluation of the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) mating system. Journal of Mammalogy 90(4):946-953. Download

2009
Jones, P.D., S.L. Edwards, S. Demarais. 2009. White-tailed deer foraging habitat in intensively established loblolly pine plantations. Journal of Wildlife Management 73(4):488-496.Download

2009
Webb, S.L., K. Gee, S. Demarais, B.K. Strickland, R.W. DeYoung. 2009. Efficacy of a 15-strand high-tensile electric fence to control white-tailed deer movements. Wildlife Biology in Practice 5(1):45-57. Download

2009
Webb, S.L., S.K. Riffell, K.L. Gee, S. Demarais. 2009. Using fractal analyses to characterize movement paths of white-tailed deer and response to spatial scale. Journal of Mammalogy 90(5):1210-1217. Download

2008
Demarais, S. 2008. Improving deer forage: food plots versus managed understory. Timberlines (Spring):25-26.