Nancy E. McIntyre

Curator of Birds, Natural Science Research Laboratory, Museum of TTU

Professor, Landscape and Community Ecology, Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University

 

 

Ph.D., Zoology, Colorado State University, 1998
M.S., Zoology, University of Georgia, 1993
B.S., Magna cum laude, Zoology, University of Georgia, 1991

Dr. McIntyre's Curriculum vitae | Dr. McIntyre's Publications | Dr. McIntyre's Laboratory

Research Interests

Broadly speaking, my research interests include landscape ecology and community ecology in grasslands and urban ecosystems. More specific interests focus on the effects of anthropogenic changes to the environment (especially agriculture and urbanization, the two dominant forms of human land use) on the abundance, diversity, and long-term viability of animals. The research projects conducted by me and my students typically focus on arthropods and birds, but the organism used is not as important as the research question being asked.

Web Links

Biology Faculty Page

NSRL Bird Collection Home

Google Scholar Profile

Contact Information

Office Phone: (806)834-7977
Lab Phone: (806)742-2729
Email: nancy.mcintyre@ttu.edu

Selected Publications

Auerbach, E.S., W.P. Johnson, J.R. Smith, and N.E. McIntyre. 2019. Wildlife refuges support high bee diversity on the Southern Great Plains. Environmental Entomology 49:968-976.

Biddy, A.R., and N.E. McIntyre. 2022. Parasitism of Enallagma civile Hagen in Selys, 1853 (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae) by Arrenurus water mites. International Journal of Odonatology 25:89-98.

de la Sancha, N.U., J.F. González-Maya, S.A. Boyle, P.E. Pérez-Estigarribia, J.N. Urbina-Cardona, and N.E. McIntyre. 2023. Bioindicators of edge effects within Atlantic Forest remnants: Conservation implications in a threatened biodiversity hotspot. Diversity & Distributions 29:349-363.                            

de la Sancha, N.U., S.A. Boyle, and N.E. McIntyre. 2021. Using graph theory on the highly fragmented Atlantic Forest of eastern Paraguay to identify structural connectivity. Scientific Reports 11:16129.

de la Sancha, N.U., S.A. Boyle, N.E. McIntyre, D.M. Brooks, A. Yanosky, E. Cuellar Soto, F. Mereles, M. Camino, and R.D. Stevens. 2021. The disappearing Dry Chaco, one of the last dry forest systems on Earth. Landscape Ecology 36:2997-3012.

Gary, D., K. Mougey, N.E. McIntyre, and K. Griffis-Kyle. 2019. Identification of hotspots of at-risk terrestrial vertebrate species in the south-central Great Plains of North America. Journal for Nature Conservation 50:125684.

Gary, D.M., K. Mougey, N.E. McIntyre, and K. Griffis-Kyle. 2022. Species as conservation umbrellas: a case study with lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) in the southern Great Plains of North America. Global Ecology and Conservation 38:e02256.

Girgente, H.E. and N.E. McIntyre. 2024. Evaluation of speculated reproductive habitat for Somatochlora calverti (Corduliidae), a rare and range-restricted dragonfly. International Journal of Odonatology 27:85-92. 

Girgente, J.S., and N.E. McIntyre. 2023. Watershed-mediated ecomorphological variation: a case study with the Twin-striped Clubtail dragonfly (Hylogomphus geminatus). Insects 14:754.                                   

Heintzman, L.J., and N.E. McIntyre. 2019. Quantifying the effects of projected urban growth on connectivity among wetlands in the Great Plains (USA). Landscape and Urban Planning 186:1-12.

Heintzman, L.J., and N.E. McIntyre. 2021. Assessment of playa wetland network connectivity for amphibians of the south-central Great Plains (USA) using Euclidean, least-cost path, and landscape resistance modelling. Landscape Ecology 36:1117-1135.

Heintzman, L.J., N.E. McIntyre, E.J. Langendoen, and Q.D. Read. 2024. Cultivation and dynamic cropping processes impart land-cover heterogeneity within industrial agroecosystems: A metrics-based case study in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta (USA). Landscape Ecology 39:29. 

Heintzman, L.J., E.S. Auerbach, D.H. Kilborn, S.M. Starr, K.R. Mulligan, L.S. Barbato, and N.E. McIntyre. 2020. Identifying areas of wetland and wind turbine overlap in the south-central Great Plains of North America. Landscape Ecology 35:1995-2011.

Husband, D.M., and N.E. McIntyre. 2021. Urban areas create refugia for odonates in a semi-arid region. Insects 12:431.

Johnston, C.A., and N.E. McIntyre. 2019. Effects of cropland encroachment on prairie pothole wetlands: Numbers, density, size, shape, and structural connectivity. Landscape Ecology 34:827-841.             

Longing, S.D., E.M. Peterson, C.T. Jewett, B.M. Rendon, S.A. Discua, K.J. Wooten, S. Subbiah, P.N. Smith, and N.E. McIntyre. 2020. Exposure of foraging wild bees to neonicotinoids in the U.S. Southern High Plains. Environmental Entomology 49:528-535.

McIntyre, N.E., G. Liu, J. Gorzo, C.K. Wright, G.R. Guntenspergen, and F. Schwartz. 2019. Simulating the effects of climate variability on waterbodies and wetland-dependent birds in the Prairie Pothole Region. Ecosphere 10(4):e02711.

Schilder, L.J., L.J. Heintzman, N.E. McIntyre, S. Harryman, C.A. Hagen, R. Martin, C.W. Boal, and B.A. Grisham. 2022. Structural and functional landscape connectivity for lesser prairie-chickens in the Sand Shinnery Oak Prairie Ecoregion. Journal of Wildlife Management 86:e22146.

Starr, S.M., and N.E. McIntyre. 2020. Land-cover changes and influences on playa wetland inundation on the Southern High Plains. Journal of Arid Environments 175:104096.

Starr, S.M., and N.E. McIntyre. 2020. Effects of water temperature under projected climate change on the development and survival of the Familiar Bluet Damselfly (Enallagma civile). Environmental Entomology 49:230-237. 

Subedi, M.R., C. Portillo-Quintero, S.S. Kahl, N.E. McIntyre, R.D. Cox, and G. Perry. 2023. Leveraging NAIP imagery for accurate large-area land use/land cover mapping: A case study in central Texas. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 89:547-560.

Sutor, S., N.E. McIntyre, and K. Griffis-Kyle. 2023. Characterizing range-wide impacts of anthropogenic barriers on structural connectivity for the Sonoran desert tortoise (Gopherus morafkai). Landscape Ecology 38:1729-1746.