Journal of Community & Public Health Nursing
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Marcella Kelly

School of Nursing and Midwifery, National University of Ireland, Aras Moyola Building, Galway, Ireland

Biography

Marcella Kelly research focuses primarily on carnivore population ecology, management, and conservation. I use emerging and evolving techniques such as camera trapping combined with advances in population modeling to estimate population sizes and densities for elusive, hard-to-track, carnivores; non-invasive genetic sampling and molecular scatology to determine carnivore abundance, growth rates, genetic diversity, and gene flow across fragmented landscapes; Global Positioning System (GPS) collaring combined with landscape modeling to investigate carnivore habitat selection and fine scale movement across multi-use landscapes; and finally conservation physiology of captive black bears to better understand hibernation/torpor ecology and its potential link to human-wildlife conflict.

Publications

Exploring Adolescence and Parenthood: A Transitional Life Stage and Abrupt Life Change

This explorative discussion of the literature explores transitional and developmental theory focusing on adolescence and the transition to parenthood. The concept of the emergent adult is explored in the context of teenage parenthood transition. Similar to the emergent adult the teenage parent proactively choose their life course options that incor... Read More»

Marcella Kelly and Michelle Millar

Review Article: J Comm Pub Health Nurs 2017, 3:1

DOI: 10.4172/2471-9846.1000162

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