Jake Harvey

Jake Harvey

  • Contact Information
  • My Story
  • Publications
  • Background
  • Interests
  • Grants

Contact Information

DegreeDoctorate of Philosophy in Natural Resource Sciences with a specialization in Applied Ecology
Address249 North Hardin Hall
3310 Holdrege Street
Lincoln NE
68583–0962

East Campus
Phone
  • office: 814-706-5994
E-mailjharvey32@unl.edu
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Advisor(s)John Benson

 

Contact Preference

Cell phone and/or email

My Story

Jake Harvey grew up in Russell, Pennsylvania, and earned his B.S. in Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences from Paul Smith's College in 2020. He joined the Benson Lab in 2022, where he studied mountain lion spatial ecology and predator-prey interactions in California's human-dominated San Francisco North Bay. After completing his M.Sc. in Natural Resource Sciences in 2025, Jake remained in the Benson Lab to pursue his Ph.D. His dissertation focuses on multi-scale resource selection by wolves, quantifying predator-prey interactions in a multi-predator, multi-prey system, examining movement decisions of dispersing wolves across protected and unprotected landscapes, and identifying spatial variation in wolf mortality within Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska.

Jake with capture cage
Jake with lion
Jake with lion
Jake at computer

Feature Stories

Selected Publications

Harvey, J. A., Q. Martins, K. D. Dougherty, A. M. Hettena, D. K. Garcelon, and J. F. Benson. 2025. Functional habitat characteristics influencing spatial variation in mountain lion predation in a human-dominated landscape. Biological Conservation 302:110975.
Harvey, Jacob A. 2025. Spatial Ecology and Predator-Prey Interactions of Mountain Lions in California's San Francisco North Bay. (M.S. Thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln). pp. 209Online
Harvey, J. A., Q. E. Martins, and J. F. Benson. 2024. Impact of sublethal injuries on mountain lion predation and spatial ecology. Canadian Wildlife Biology and Management 13:82-101.

Background

Education

DegreeMajorInstitutionYear Awarded
Master of ScienceNatural Resource Sciences (Applied Ecology)University of Nebraska-Lincoln2025
Bachelor of ScienceFisheries and Wildlife Sciences Paul Smith's College, New York2020

 

Awards

TitleAwarded byYear Awarded
Meritorious Graduate StudentSchool of Natural Resources | UNL2025
Othmer FellowshipSchool of Natural Resources | UNL2025
NFS Graduate Research Fellowship National Science Foundation2022
Life Member Fund Scholarship Wild Sheep Foundation2020
Provost AwardPaul Smith's College2020
Sterling Tomkins Endowment for International Study2018

 

Professional Organizations

NamePosition
The Wild Felid Research and Management Association
The Wild Sheep Foundation
The Wildlife Society

 

Websites

Areas of Interest/Expertise

  • Human-wildlife conflict
  • Predator-prey interactions
  • Large carnivore ecology

Grants

Currently this page only displays grants that were awarded on 1/1/ 2009 to the present. If a grant was awarded prior to 1/1/ 2009 and is still active, it will not be displayed on this page.

Grant TitleGraduate Research Fellowship
Starting Date01/01/2024

Investigator(s)

Ending Date05/31/2024
Funding Level$49,000.00
Funding AgencyNational Science Foundation