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• Ph.D. in Wildlife and Fisheries Resources, West Virginia University, 2000
• M.S. in Forest Resources, University of Georgia, 1997
• B.S. in Forest Resources, University of Georgia, 1993

Professor, Wildlife Ecology and Management, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, 2010-present
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, 2015-2018
Assistant Dean, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, 2013-2015
Associate Professor, Wildlife Ecology and Management, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, 2005-2010
Assistant Professor, Wildlife Ecology and Management, Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, 2000-2005

The Wildlife Society Fellow
Certified Wildlife Biologist

Selected Publications:

Roberson, B. J., S. Perea, D. Derose-Broeckert, and S. B. Castleberry. 2025. Glowing green: A quantitative analysis of photoluminescence in six North American bat species. Ecology and Evolution 15:e71885. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71885

Perea, S., A. Vicente-Santos, A. L. Larsen-Gray, K. J. K. Gandhi, D. U. Greene, B. F. Barnes, and S. B. Castleberry. 2025. Disentangling winter relationships: bat responses to forest stand structure, environmental conditions, and prey composition. Forest Ecology and Management 578:122484. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13269

Ferrall, E. A., S. Perea, K. M. Morris, P. E. Pattavina, B. J. Irwin, J. Hepinstall-Cymerman, and S. B. Castleberry. 2024. Disparities in Perimyotis subflavus body mass between cave and culvert hibernacula in Georgia, USA. Ecology and Evolution 14:e70634.  https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70634

Perea, S., E. A. Ferrall, K. M. Morris, P. E. Pattavina, and S. B. Castleberry. 2024. One ring does not fit all: evaluation of banding-related injuries in tricolored bats. Conservation Science and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13269

Myers, J. B., S. Perea, K. L. Johannsen, E. Rushton, L. M. Conner, S. B. Castleberry. 2024. Evaluating effects of natural and anthropogenic factors on American black bear occupancy in northern Georgia, USA. Journal of Zoology.  https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.13215

Perea S., E. A. Ferrall, K. M. Morris, P. Pattavina, N. Sharp, M. Hunt, L. Pattavina N. Castleberry, S. Castleberry. 2024. Bioblitz as a tool for uncovering changes in forest bat communities in the southeastern United States. Journal of Bat Research and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.14709/BarbJ.17.1.2024.02

Grider, J. F., J. Hepinstall-Cymerman, and S. B. Castleberry. 2024. Dynamic occupancy during disease related population declines in peripheral populations of Myotis septentrionalis. Landscape Ecology 39:173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01945-6

Perea S., C. D. Meinecke, A. L. Larsen-Gray, D. U. Greene, C. Villari, K. J. K. Gandhi, and S. B. Castleberry. 2024. Winter bat diets in working forests in the southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain. Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-63062-3

Duncan, S. I., R. A. McCleery, C. Carneiro, J. T. Pynne, E. I. Parsons, L. M. Conner, S. B. Castleberry, R. A. Gitzen, and J. D. Austin. 2024. Genetic support for discrete conservation units of the fossorial rodent Geomys pinetis. Conservation Genetics https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-024-01626-6

Perea S., G. Fandos, A. L. Larsen-Gray, D. U. Greene, R. B. Chandler, and S. B. Castleberry. 2023. Winter foraging habitat use by bats in working forest lands: a multispecies spatial occupancy approach. Animal Conservation http://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12924

Perea, S., E. A. Ferrall, K. M. Morris, P. E. Pattavina, N. Sharp, and S. B. Castleberry. 2023. A decade of hibernating bat communities along the periphery of a region of white‐nose syndrome. Journal of Wildlife Management 2023;e22506. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.22506

Pynne, J. T., S. B. Castleberry, L. M. Conner, E. I. Parsons, R. A. Gitzen, S. I. Duncan, J. D. Austin, and R. A. McCleery. 2023. Experimental translocation for restoration of an ecological engineer. Restoration Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13888

Perea, S., K. M. Morris, and S. B. Castleberry. 2022. Northern yellow bat Dasypterus intermedius activity and habitat selection on an Atlantic barrier island. Acta Chiropterologica 24:343-352. https://doi.org/10.3161/15081109ACC2022.24.2.005

Moore, L. A., J. W. Finger, Jr., D. L. Haskins, R. M. Elsey, S. B. Castleberry, T. C. Glenn, C. H. Jagoe, and I. L. Brisbin, Jr. 2022. Tissue distribution of mercury in the bodies of wild American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from a coastal marsh in Louisiana (USA). Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00244-022-00938-3

Perea, S., J. A. Yearout, E. A. Ferrall, K. M. Morris, J. T. Pynne, and S. B. Castleberry. 2022. 7-year impact of white-nose syndrome on tri-colored bat (Perimyotis subflavus) populations in Georgia, USA. Endangered Species Research. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01189

Parsons, E. I., R. A. Gitzen, J.T. Pynne, L. M. Conner, S. B. Castleberry, S. I. Duncan, J. D. Austin, and R. A. McCleery. 2022. Determining habitat requirements for the southeastern pocket gopher (Geomys pinetis) at multiple scales. Journal of Mammalogy 103:672-679. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyab144

Lombardi, J. V., M. T. Mengak, and S. B.  Castleberry. 2022. Allegheny woodrat occupancy across western Virginia, United States. Wildlife Biology 2022:e01023. https://doi.org/10.1002/wlb3.01023

Grider, J. F., S. B. Castleberry, and J. Hepinstall-Cymerman. 2021. Diurnal roost selection of northern long-eared bats on the southern edge of their range. Forest Ecology and Management 496. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119410

Pynne, J. T., C. W. Piper, S. B. Castleberry, L. M. Conner, E. I. Parsons, R. A. Gitzen, J. D. Austin, S. I. Duncan, and R. A. McCleery. 2021. Ultraviolet biofluorescence in pocket gophers. American Midland Naturalist 186:150-155.

Greene, D. U., M. T. Mengak, S. B. Castleberry, S. Sneckenberger and J. A. Gore. 2021. Effects of flooding on the endangered Key Largo cotton mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus allapaticola) in Florida. Southeastern Naturalist 20:N65-68.

Pynne, J. T., L. M. Conner, A. Whelan, S. B. Castleberry, E. I. Parsons, R. A. Gitzen, S. I. Duncan, J. D. Austin, and R. A. McCleery. 2021. Southeastern pocket gopher (Geomys pinetis) tunnels provide stable thermal refugia. American Midland Naturalist 185:218-228.

Murphy, C., L. L. Smith, J. J. O’Brien, and S. B. Castleberry. 2021. Overwintering habitat selection of the eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) in the longleaf pine ecosystem. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 16:203-210.

Murphy, C., L. L. Smith, J. J. O’Brien, and S. B. Castleberry. 2021. A comparison of vertebrate assemblages at gopher tortoise burrows and stump holes in the longleaf pine ecosystem. Forest Ecology and Management 482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118809

Bender, M. J., S. Perea, S. B. Castleberry, D. A. Miller, and T. B. Wigley. 2021. Influence of insect abundance and vegetation structure on site-occupancy of bats in managed pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management 482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118839

Greene, D. U., M. T. Mengak, S. B. Castleberry, S. Sneckenberger and J. A. Gore. 2020. Observed abnormalities of the endangered Key Largo cotton mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus allapaticola). Florida Field Naturalist 48:87-89.

Fink, S., R. Chandler, Chamberlain, M. J., S. B, Castleberry, and S. Thrasher. 2020. Carnivore-livestock interactions in a Namibian agricultural landscape. Human–Wildlife Interactions 14:287-295. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1626&context=hwi

Bennett, M. E., R. A. Gitzen, L. M. Conner, M. D. Smith, S. B. Castleberry, and E. C. Soehren. 2020. Interactions of soil and vegetation determine habitat suitability for southeastern pocket gophers (Geomys pinetis). The American Midland Naturalist 184:205-221. https://doi.org/10.1637/0003-0031-184.2.205

Potash, A. D., C. M. Murphy, J. T. Pynne, R. A. McCleery, L. M. Conner, S. B. Castleberry, and L. L. Smith. 2020. Eastern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) observed using a gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) burrow. Southeastern Naturalist 19:N14-19. https://doi.org/10.1656/058.019.0109

Castleberry, S. B., C. R. Bland, J. M. Beck, E. Kurimo-Beechuk, K. M. Morris, and J. Hepinstall-Cymerman. 2020. Multi-scale assessment of male northern yellow bat roost selection. Journal of Wildlife Management https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21843

Duncan, S. I., J. T. Pynne, E. I. Parsons, R. J. Fletcher, J. D. Austin, S. B. Castleberry, L. M. Conner, R. A. Gitzen, M. Barbour, and R. A. McCleery. 2020. Land use and cover effects on an ecosystem engineer. Forest Ecology and Management 456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117642