{"id":25,"date":"2016-01-29T15:39:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T15:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/christophersdeperno\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2025-04-16T17:53:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:53:30","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/christophersdeperno\/","title":{"rendered":"Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37\" class=\"thumbnail alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/christophersdeperno\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/01\/Cat.jpg\" alt=\"cat\" width=\"204\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/christophersdeperno\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/01\/Cat.jpg 204w, https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/christophersdeperno\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/01\/Cat-184x244.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><div class=\"caption\">Working on a bobcat as part of Aimee&#8217; Rockhill&#8217;s Ph.D. project<\/div><\/div>\n<h3><strong>Christopher S. DePerno, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;color: #333333\">Professor<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;color: #333333\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fer\/grad\/fisheries-wildlife-and-conservation-biology\/\">Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology<\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>(<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0155097\">Ranked 2nd Nationally<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;color: #333333\">North Carolina State University<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;color: #333333\">College of Natural Resources<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;color: #333333\">Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;color: #333333\">\u00a0Turner House, Box 7646<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;color: #333333\">Raleigh, NC 27695-7646<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;color: #333333\">919-513-7559 (office)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;color: #333333\">919-334-8935 (cell)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;color: #333333\">919-515-5110 (fax)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;text-align: start\"><a href=\"mailto:chris_deperno@ncsu.edu\">chris_deperno@ncsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/christophersdeperno\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/04\/DePerno-CV-4-15-25-Long.pdf\">Curriculum Vitae Long<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/christophersdeperno\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/04\/DePerno-9-page-CV-4-15-25.pdf\">Curriculum Vitae Short<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Population ecology, management, and habitat use and selection of big game species and predators, interactions of predators and prey, and sexual segregation and resource partitioning in ungulates, wildlife damage management and mitigation, integrated pest management, invasive species management, reptile and amphibian habitat requirements, wildlife and zoonotic diseases, and wildlife education.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher S. 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