Steven M. Aquilani

Sherry B. Surrette, S. M. Aquilani, and J. S. Brewer. 2007. Current and historical composition and size structure of upland forests across a soil gradient in North Mississippi. Southeastern Naturalist. in press.

Aquilani, S. M. 2006. Bird communities in silvicultural fragments of Holly Springs National Forest, Mississippi. Southeastern Naturalist. 5(1): 135-148.

Salpistidis, A. (former DCCC student) and S.M. Aquilani. 2005. Termitaria characteristics of Nasutitermes costalis in a northern Belizean rainforest. Florida Scientist 68(3):140-143.

Aquilani, S. M., and J. S. Brewer. 2004. Area effects on forest-obligate species in a non-agricultural upland landscape in northern Mississippi, USA. Natural Areas Journal. 24:326-335.

Aquilani, S.M., T.E. Morrell, and D.C. LeBlanc. 2003. Breeding bird communities in prescribed burned and unburned sites in a mature Indiana oak forest. Journal of the Indiana Academy of Science 112(2):186-191.

Aquilani, S.M., and B. Dadhich. 2003. Laboratory exercises for Introductory Biology II. DCCC College Bookstore, Media PA.

Aquilani, S.M., and B. Dadhich. 2002. Laboratory exercises for Introductory Biology I. DCCC College Bookstore, Media PA.

Aquilani, S. M., T. E. Morrell, and D. C. LeBlanc. 2000. Effects of prescribed surface fire on ground- and shrub-nesting Neotropical migratory bird species in a mature Indiana oak forest, USA. Natural Areas Journal 20(4):317-324.

Morrell, T. E., and S. M. Aquilani. 2000 Nest-site selection of Red-tailed Tropicbirds on Rose Atoll, American Samoa. Journal of Field Ornithology 71(3):455-459.

Reports:

Hohman, D.S., J.S. Brewer, and S.M. Aquilani. 2002. An investigation of bird species of concern in three climax upland communities in northern mississippi: implications for management of second-growth upland forests. Mississippi Museum of Natural History, Jackson, Mississippi.

Brewer, J.S., S.M. Aquilani, and M.L. Warren. 2000. A review of research on upland oak-pine communities in the Little Tallahatchie Experimental Forest and adjacent Holly Springs National Forest. U.S.F.S. Forest Hydrology Laboratory Southern Forest Experiment Station Oxford, Mississippi. 143 pp.

Aquilani, S.M., and J.S. Brewer. 2000. A landscape-scale approach to determining the effects of forest fragmentation on forest obligate migrant bird species of concern in Little Tallahatchie Experimental Forest and adjacent Holly Springs National Forest. Mississippi Museum of Natural History, Jackson, Mississippi.

Aquilani, S.M., and J.S. Brewer. 1999. An investigation of the effects of current and presettlement fire regimes on tree and bird communities in Holly Springs National Forest, Mississippi. Mississippi Museum of Natural History, Jackson, Mississippi.

Aquilani, S. M., T. E. Morrell, and D. C. LeBlanc. 1998. Effects of prescribed surface fire on bird communities at Fork Ridge, Hoosier National Forest, IN. U.S.F.S., Brownsville, IN.

Abstracts:

Salpistidis, A. (DCCC undergraduate), and S.M. Aquilani (Faculty sponsor). 2004. Termitaria characteristics of Nasutitermes costalis in a northern Belizean rainforest. Butler University Undergraduate Research Conference. Indianapolis, IN.

Aquilani, S.M. 2002. Area and edge effects on forest songbirds in a nonagricultural landscape of north Mississippi. American Ornithologists Union Conference. New Orleans, LA.

Aquilani, S.M., and J.S. Brewer. 2002. Current and presettlement location of closed-canopy forest habitat in Holly Springs National Forest: Implications for songbird conservation and fire management. American Ornithologists Union Conference. New Orleans, LA.

Hohman, D.S., and S.M. Aquilani. 2002. An investigation of bird species of concern in three climax upland communities in northern mississippi: implications for management of second-growth upland forests. American Ornithologists Union Conference. New Orleans, LA.

Aquilani, S.M., and J.S. Brewer. 2001. A description of avian communities of upland forests of northern Mississippi: implications for oak-pine woodland restoration. Ecological Society of America Conference. Madison, WI.

Morrell, T.E., and S.M. Aquilani. 2001. Nest-site selection of Red-tailed Tropicbirds on Rose Atoll, American Samoa. Western Section of The Wildlife Society Conference. Sacramento, CA.

Aquilani, S.M. and J.S. Brewer. 2000. Effects of fire management practices on neotropical migrant, forest. Obligate bird species in Holly Springs National Forest, MS USA. Ecological Society of America Conference. Snowbird, UT.

Aquilani, S.M., T. E. Morrell, and D. C. LeBlanc. 1999. Effects of prescribed surface fires on ground- and shrub- nesting neotropical migratory bird species in a mature Indiana oak forest. American Ornithologists Union Conference. Ithaca, NY.

Aquilani, S.M., T. E. Morrell, and D. C. LeBlanc. 1998. Effects of prescribed fire on the abundance and nesting success of Nearctic migrant songbirds in Hoosier National Forest. Indiana Academy of Science Conference. Bloomington, IN.

Nastase, A. J., J. Deppe, D. A. Sherry, and S. M. Aquilani. 1998. The relative effects of nest-site characteristics on the fledgling success of a population of Mourning Doves. Ecological Society of America Conference. Providence, RI.

Aquilani, S.M., T. E. Morrell, and D. C. LeBlanc. 1997. Effects of prescribed fire on the abundance and nesting success of Nearctic migrant songbirds in Hoosier National Forest, Preliminary results. Indiana Wildlife Society Meeting. Brownsville, IN.

Aquilani, S. M., and D. C. LeBlanc. 1996. Effects of prescribed surface fire on understory vegetation structure in Fork Ridge, Hoosier National Forest. Indiana Academy of Science Conference. Bloomington, IN.

Aquilani, S. M., and D. A. Sherry. 1996. Nest-site selection and orientation of Mourning Doves in Southwestern Pennsylvania. American Ornithologists Union Conference. Cincinnatti, OH.

Academic Membership

American Ornithologists Union

Ecological Society of America

Wilson Ornithological Society

Cooper Ornithological Society

Natural Areas Association

Association of Field Ornithologists

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor of Biology, Delaware County Community College, Fall 2000-present.

Instructor for Summer English Program, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, Summer 2004

Adjunct Course Instructor for General Botany (majors), University of Mississippi, Summer 2001.

Adjunct Course Instructor for General Biology (majors), University of Mississippi, Summer 2000.

Laboratory Instructor for Life Sciences (non-majors); General Biology (majors); Ecology (majors), University of Mississippi. Fall 1998-Spring 2000.

Laboratory Instructor for General Biology (non-majors); Wildlife Biology; Ecology; Population Ecology, Ball State University. Fall 1996-Spring 1998.

Laboratory Assistant for Field Zoology, Ornithology, Advanced Ornithology and Ecology courses. Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Fall 1994-Fall 1995.

Academic Activities/Awards

Gould Award (2003)

CCID Professional Development Activity - British Culture and American Heritage in the British Midlands (Summer 2003)

Marcia Brady Tucker Award for outstanding abstract (2002 North American Ornithological Conference)

Mississippi Natural History Museum/Mississippi Wildlife Heritage Fund Grant (2001), coauthors: J. Stephen Brewer and Douglas Hohman ($4000)

Mississippi Natural History Museum/Mississippi Wildlife Heritage Fund Grant (2000), coauthor: J. Stephen Brewer ($4000)

Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Mississippi (2000)

Mississippi Natural History Museum/Mississippi Wildlife Heritage Fund (1999), coauthor: J. Stephen Brewer ($4000)

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research Southern Research Station, Cost-Share Agreement, PI: J. Stephen Brewer ($11,907)

Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Mississippi (1999)

Independent contract work with U.S. Forest Service, Southern Research Station, to conduct research on bird-habitat relationships within Holly Springs National Forest (S