Adrienne Kovach

Adrienne Kovach
Nationality	American
Occupation	Professor
Website	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6791-0610

Adrienne Kovach is a professor at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, where she works in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment. Her research addresses landscape genetics and the population biology of wildlife species including Atlantic cod, black bears, New England cottontails, and pond-breeding amphibians.

Career

Kovach holds a position as Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of New Hampshire.

Research

According to Semantic Scholar, Kovach has published 87 papers that have accumulated 1,532 citations, giving her an h-index of 24. Her work has examined the genetic structure of Atlantic cod populations along the Atlantic coast of the United States, mating tactics and paternity in black bears, and the distribution and gene flow of the New England cottontail across fragmented landscapes.

She has received funding from the National Science Foundation for two awards totaling $4,073,678. The larger award, "RII Track-2 FEC: Genomic Ecology of Coastal Organisms (GECO): A Systems-Based Research and Training Program in Genome-Phenome Relationships in the Wild," was granted to the University of New Hampshire on August 15, 2018, for $3,998,680. An earlier award, "Using Spatial and Genetic Tools to Understand Functional Connectivity in a Patchy Landscape," was granted to the University of New Hampshire on July 16, 2013, for $74,998.

Selected publications

• "Effects of body size on male mating tactics and paternity in black bears, Ursus americanus" (2003)
• "Fine-scale spatial and temporal genetic structure of Atlantic cod off the Atlantic coast of the USA" (2010)
• "Spatiotemporal landscape genetics: Investigating ecology and evolution through space and time," Molecular Ecology (2019)
• "A Range-Wide Survey to Determine the Current Distribution of New England Cottontails" (2006)
• "Stock Identification of Atlantic Cod in U.S. Waters Using Microsatellite and Single Nucleotide Polymorphism DNA Analyses" (2007)
• "Evaluation of fecal mtDNA analysis as a method to determine the geographic distribution of a rare lagomorph" (2003)
• "Consequences of a mismatch between biological and management units on our perception of Atlantic cod off New England" (2014)
• "A multiscale analysis of gene flow for the New England cottontail, an imperiled habitat specialist in a fragmented landscape," Ecology and Evolution (2014)
• "Limited influence of local and landscape factors on fine-scale gene flow in two pond-breeding amphibians," Molecular Ecology (2015)
• "Understanding climate impacts on recruitment and spatial dynamics of Atlantic cod in the Gulf of Maine: Integration of observations and modeling" (2010)

External links

• ORCID profile