Texas Tech University

Dr. Brad C. Dabbert

Burnett Foundation Endowed Professor of Quail Ecology

Email: brad.dabbert@ttu.edu

Phone: (806) 834-1248

Office: PSS 254

Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 1995

Quail Research Site

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Research Interests

My research focuses on the influence of environmental factors on the population dynamics of quail and includes both applied and theoretical approaches. I currently supervise a large scale quail research program called the Quail-Tech Alliance.  Information about this program (including newsletter archives) can be found at www.quail-tech.org.

Service

I am a member of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Upland Game Bird Advisory Committee.

Courses Taught

  1. NRM 2406 Wildlife Anatomy and Physiology
  2. NRM 4306 Upland Game Ecology
  3. NRM 4408 Wildlife Population Dynamics and Analysis
  4. NRM 5309 Population Estimation and Dynamics
  5. NRM 5314 Advanced Upland Game Ecology and Management

Recent Publications

Buckley, B. R., A. K. Andes, B. A. Grisham, and C. B. Dabbert.  2015.  Effects of broadcasting supplemental feed into roadside vegetation on home range and survival of female Northern Bobwhite.  Wildlife Society Bulletin in press.

Urban, K. N., Gibson, A. G., Dabbert, C., Presley, S. (2013). Preliminary Disease Surveillance in West Texas Quail (Galliformes: Odontophoridae) Populations. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 49, 427-431.

Treadway, Jr., J. H., Dabbert, C., Mitchell, R. B., Buckley, B. R. (2012). Exclosures: an experimental technique for protection. Proceedings of the 7th National Quail Symposium (vol. 7). University of Tennessee: Proceedings of the National Quail Symposium.

Warren, T. L., Yancey, S. R., Dabbert, C. (2012). Invertebrate abundance at northern bobwhite brood locations in the Rolling Plains of Texas. Proceedings of the 7th National Quail Symposium (vol. 7). University of Tennessee: Proceedings of the National Quail Symposium.

Abbott, C. W., Dabbert, C., Lucia, D. R., Mitchell, R. B., Andes, A. K. (2012). Nest-site characteristics of northern bobwhites translocated into weeping lovegrass CRP. Proceedings of the 7th National Quail Symposium (vol. 7, pp. 59-62). University of Tennessee: Proceedings of the National Quail Symposium.

Andes, A. K., Buckley, B. R., Warren, T. L., Woods, P. C., Yancey, S. R., Dabbert, C. (2012). Use of a thermal camera to aid in capturing northern bobwhite quail chicks. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 36(2), 371-375.

Pleasant, G. D., Dabbert, C., Mitchell, R. B., Buckley, B. R. (2012). Clinical Variables of Scaled Quail (Callipepla squamata) in the Southern High Plains of Texas. The Southwestern Naturalist, 57(2), 154-156.

Norton-Johnson, A. A., Dabbert, C., Mitchell, R. B., Thorvilson, H. G. (2009). Integrating prescribed burning and insecticide to reduce fire ant impacts on bobwhite chicks (vol. 6, pp. 78-87). Proceedings of the National Quail Symposium.