Melanie Flamme - Wildlife Biologist

Melanie documents a Peregrine Falcon nest along the Yukon River.

Melanie Flamme
Wildlife Biologist
Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve and
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
National Park Service
4175 Geist Road
Fairbanks, AK 99709
907-455-0627
[e-mail]

NPS Projects
Arctic Network Yellow-billed Loon vital sign
Central Alaska Network Small Mammals vital sign
Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve/Central Alaska Network American Peregrine Falcon vital sign
Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve Taylor Highway Breeding Bird Survey Route
National Park Service Youth Outreach

Education
B.S. Biological Sciences, 1993, University of Alaska Fairbanks
M.S. Genetics, 1998, Texas A&M University

Journal Publications
Sonsthagen, S. A., T. Swem, S. Ambrose, M. J. Flamme, C. M. White, G. K. Sage, and S. L. Talbot. 2022. The DDT-induced decline influenced genetic diversity in naturally recovered Peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) nesting within the Alaska Arctic and eastern interior. IBIS: e13095.

Payer, D. and M. Flamme. 2022. The Recovery of the American Peregrine Falcon in Alaska. Frontiers for Young Minds 10:714834. doi: 10.3389/frym.2022.714834

Schmidt, J. H., E. A. Rexstad, C. A. Roland, C. L. McIntyre, M. C. MacCluskie, M. J. Flamme. 2018. Bottom-up Processes Drive Reproductive Success in an Apex Predator. Ecol and Evol. 2018;00:1-9. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3800

Schmidt, J. H., E. A. Rexstad, C. A. Roland, C. L. McIntyre, M. C. MacCluskie, M. J. Flamme. 2017. Weather-driven change in primary productivity explains variation in the amplitude of two herbivore population cycles in a boreal system. Oecologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-017-4004-3

Talbot, S. L., G. K. Sage, S. A. Sonsthagen, C. White, T. Swem, J. Williams, J. Longmire, S. Ambrose, M. J. Flamme, S. Lewis, L. Phillips, C. Anderson. 2017. Intraspecific Evolutionary Relationships among Peregrine Falcons in Northwestern Northern Hemisphere High Latitudes. PloS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188185

Hope, A. G., E. Walteri, N. R. Morse, J. A. Cook, M. J. Flamme, S. L. Talbot. 2017. Small Mammals as Indicators of Climate, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Change. Alaska Park Science, Volume 16, Issue 1, pp. 70-77. https://www.nps.gov/articles/aps-16-1-16.htm

Sawyer, Y. E., Flamme, M. J., Jung, T. S., MacDonald, S. O. and Cook, J. A. 2017. Diversification of deermice (Rodentia: genus Peromyscus) at their north-western range limit: genetic consequences of refugial and island isolation. Journal of Biogeography 44: 1572–1585. doi:10.1111/jbi.12995.

Flamme, M. J., and S. Backensto. 2017. Collaborative Conservation of the Rare Alaskan Yellow-billed Loon. Alaska Park Science, Volume 16, Issue 1, pp. 51-55. https://www.nps.gov/articles/aps-16-1-17.htm

Backensto, S. D. Khalsa, M. Flamme. 2016. Connecting Youth to Coastal Resources in Western Arctic Parks. Alaska Park Science, Volume 15, Issue 1, pp. 51-55. https://www.nps.gov/articles/aps-15-1-6.htm

Schmidt, J. H., M. J. Flamme, J. Walker. 2014. Habitat Use and Population Status of Yellow-billed and Pacific Loons in Western Alaska, USA. Condor: Ornithological Applications Volume 16, pp. 483-492.

Weckworth, B. V., N. G. Dawson, S. L. Talbot, M. J. Flamme, J. A. Cook. 2011. Going Coastal: Shared Evolutionary History between Coastal British Columbia and Southeast Alaska Wolves (Canis lupus). PloS ONE 6(5): e19582. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019582.

Flamme, M. J. 2010. Aerial Yellow-billed Loon Surveys in Cape Krustern National Monument and Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska. Alaska Park Science Volume 9, Issue 1.

MacCluskie, M., S. Ambrose, C. Florian, M. Flamme. 2010. The American Peregrine Falcons of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska. Alaska Park Science Volume 9, Issue 1.