Lori Randall

GENERAL BIOLOGIST

Short Biography

Lori Randall is a biologist at the National Wetlands Reasearch Center in Lafayette, LA. Randall's current research focuses on studies of bird-habitat relations that include the use of weather radar to determine landscape-scale habitat needs of migrating and wintering birds. Previous research focused on the effects of nutria herbivory on primary production and plant stand structure in coastal wetlands.

Publications

Randall, L.A., R. H. Diehl, B. C. Wilson, W. C. Barrow, Jr., and C. W. Jeske. 2011. Potential Use of Weather Radar to Study Movements of Wintering Waterfowl. Journal of Wildlife Management 75(6):1324-1329.

White, Joseph D., Kevin J. Gutzwiller, Wylie C. Barrow, Jr., Lori A. Johnson-Randall, Lisa Zygo, and Pamela Swint. 2011. Understanding interaction effects of climate change and fire management on bird distributions through combined process and habitat models. Conservation Biology 25(3):536-546.

Buler, Jeffrey J., Wylie C. Barrow, Jr., and Lori Randall. 2011. An Assessment of Wintering Waterfowl Use of Wetland Reserve Program Restored Wetlands in California Using NEXRAD Weather Radar: Final Report. Report submitted to Natural Resources Conservation Services.

Gutzwiller, K. J., W. C. Barrow, Jr., J. D. White, L. Johnson Randall, B. S. Cade, and L. M. Zygo. 2010. Assessing conservation relevance of organism-environment relations using redicted changes in response variables. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 1:351-358.

Randall, L.A. and W. C. Barrow, Jr. 2010. NEXRAD tracks wintering waterfowl. Gulf Crossings 14(1):9.

White, Joseph D., Kevin J. Gutzwiller, Wylie C. Barrow, Jr., Lori A. Johnson Randall, and Pamela Swint. 2008. Modeling mechanisms of vegetation change in a semi-arid ecosystem. Ecological Modeling 214:181-200.

Barrow, Jr., W., P. Chadwick, B. Couvillion, T. Doyle, S. Faulkner, C. Jeske, T. Michot, L. Randall, C. Wells, and S. Wilson. 2007. Cheniere Forest as Stopover Habitat for Migrant Landbirds, Immediate Effects of Hurricane Rita. Pp 147-158 in Farris, G.S., G. J. Smith, M.P. Crane, C.R. Demas, L.L. Robbins, and D.L. LaVoie (eds). Science and the storms - the USGS response to the hurricanes of 2005: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1306, 283p.

Faulkner, S., W. Barrow, B. Couvillion, W. Conner, L. Randall, and M. Baldwin. 2007. Impacts of Hurricane Katrina on Floodplain Forests of the Pearl River. In Science and Storms, Pp 125-130 in Farris, G.S., G. J. Smith, M.P. Crane, C.R. Demas, L.L. Robbins, and D.L. LaVoie (eds). Science and the storms - the USGS response to the hurricanes of 2005: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1306, 283p.

Barrow, Jr., W.C. and L. Johnson Randall. 2007. Broad-scale Habitat Relations for Birds. Pp. 21-22 in Ruth, J.M. (ed). Applying radar technology to migratory bird conservation and management: strengthening and expanding a collaborative: Fort Collins, CO, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Discipline, Open-File Report 2007-1361, 84p.

Barrow, Jr., W., J. Buler, B. Couvillion, R. Diehl, S. Faulkner, F. Moore, and L. Randall. 2007. Broadscale response of landbird migration to the immediate effects of Hurricane Katrina. Pp 131-136 in Farris, G.S., G. J. Smith, M.P. Crane, C.R. Demas, L.L. Robbins, and D.L. LaVoie (eds). Science and the storms - the USGS response to the hurricanes of 2005: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1306, 283p.

Melcher, C.P., S.K. Skagen, and L. Randall. 2006. Use of NEXRAD to study shorebird migration in the prairie pothole region; A feasibility study: U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Discipline, Open-File Report 2006-1033.

Barrow Jr.,W. B., L. A. Johnson Randall, M. S. Woodrey, J. Cox, E. Ruelas I., C. M. Riley, R. B. Hamilton, and C. Eberly. 2005. Coastal forests of the Gulf of Mexico: A description and some thoughts on their conservation. Pp. 450-464 in C.J. Ralph and T.D. Rich, eds. Bird Conservation Implementation and Integration in the Americas; Proceedings of the Third International Partners in Flight Conference. 2002 March 20 – 24; Asilomar, California, Volume 1. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-191. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 651 .

Johnson Randall, L. A. and A. Lee Foote. 2005. Effects of impoundment management and herbivory on wetland production and plant stand structure. Wetlands 25(1):38-50.

Renne, I. J., W. C. Barrow, Jr., L. A. Johnson Randall, and W. C. Bridges, Jr. 2002. Generalized avian dispersal syndrome contributes to Chinese tallow tree (Sapium sebiferum, Euphorbiaceae) invasiveness. Diversity and Distributions 8(5):285-296.

Carter, J., A. L. Foote, and L. A. Johnson-Randall. 1999. Modeling the effects of nutria (Myocastor coypus) on wetland loss. Wetlands 19(1):209-219.

Johnson, L. A. and A. L. Foote. 1997. Vertebrate herbivory in managed coastal wetlands: a manipulative experiment. Aquatic Botany 59:17-32.