Saeideh Esmaeili (former PhD student, UW)

Saeideh Esmaeili (former PhD student, UW)

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Biography

Saeideh Esmaeili truly is a rennaissance woman of southwest Asian mammals, working on goitered gazelle, Indian gazelle, sand cat, and Asiatic cheetah before completing a superb dissertation on the ecological and socio-economic correlates surrounding the migrations of a globally-endangered equid, the onager.

Channeling John Wayne (or Jeff Bridges, if you prefer), Saeideh personified true grit: she once navigated a financial transfer between five(!) countries to support the first GPS collaring effort of an ungulate in her home country of Iran. At a postdoc at Colorado State University, she now partners with the IUCN Equid Specialist Group, employing her talents in movement modeling to conserve equids across the globe.

Current position: Postdoctoral Assistant, Colorado State University

Recent Publications

Esmaeili, S. and M-R Hemami. 2013. Utilization of harvester ant nest sites by Persian goitered gazelle in steppes of central Iran. Basic and Applied Ecology 14:702-711. PDF

Esmaeili, S., M-R Hemami, and J.R. Goheen. 2019. Human dimensions of wildlife conservation in Iran: assessment of human-wildlife conflict in restoring a wide-ranging endangered species. PLOS One 14:e0220702. PDF

Esmaeili, S. and 48 coauthors. 2021. Body size and digestive system shape resource selection by ungulates: a cross-taxa test of the Forage Maturation Hypothesis. Ecology Letters 24:2178-2191. PDF