Joseph Drew Lanham is an American author, poet, and wildlife biologist who was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022 for his work "combining conservation science with personal, historical, and cultural narratives of nature.
My past work has focused on the impacts of forest management and other human activities on songbirds, herpetofauna, small mammals and butterflies.
Lanham is a Board member of the National Audubon Society; in 2019 he was awarded its Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership, recognizing "individuals who have dedicated their entire lives to the environment".
[19] In 2021, Lanham wrote an essay for the Autumn 2021 issue of Living Bird, entitled "Wildness on A Whim: Reflections On Whimbrel In The South Carolina Lowcountry.
Breeding bird assemblages of hurricane-created gaps and adjacent closed canopy forest in the southern Appalachians CH Greenberg, JD Lanham Habitat specificity and home‐range size as attributes of species vulnerability to extinction: a case study using sympatric rattlesnakes JL Waldron, SH Bennett, SM Welch, ME Dorcas, JD Lanham, ...
Evaluation of herpetofaunal communities on upland streams and beaver-impounded streams in the Upper Piedmont of South Carolina BS Metts, JD Lanham, KR Russell Using behaviorally-based seasons to investigate canebrake rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) movement patterns and habitat selection JL Waldron, JD Lanham, SH Bennett Macrohabitat factors affect day roost selection by eastern red bats and eastern pipistrelles in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA JM O'Keefe, SC Loeb, JD Lanham, HS Hill Jr Short‐term effects of fire and other fuel reduction treatments on breeding birds in a southern Appalachian upland hardwood forest CH Greenberg, AL Tomcho, JD Lanham, TA Waldrop, J Tomcho, ...