Welcome to KEI, where science meets conservation. Our co-founders, Dr. Shane Oberloier and Dr. Jared Wolfe, are dedicated to applying cutting-edge research and innovative solutions to address today’s environmental challenges. With expertise ranging from wildlife conservation to open-source scientific hardware design, our team brings decades of research experience to guide sustainable management practices. Explore some of their groundbreaking work that shapes the way we approach environmental stewardship and biodiversity protection.

To view the full list of scholarly work, click here to visit Dr. Jared Wolfe’s and Dr. Shane Oberloier’s Google Scholar pages.

  1. Wolfe, J. D., Luther, D. A., Jirinec, V., Collings, J., E. I. Johnson, E. I., Bierregaard Jr., R. O., & Stouffer, P. C. (2024). Climate change aggravates bird mortality in pristine tropical forests. Science Advances, in press.
  2. Long, L. L., Lake, F. K., Stephens, J. L., Alexander, J. D., Ralph, C. J., & Wolfe, J. D. (2023). Using culturally significant birds to guide the timing of prescribed fires in the Klamath Siskiyou Bioregion. Ecosphere, 14(6), e4541.
  3. Jirinec, V., Burner, R. C., Amaral, B. R., Bierregaard Jr, R. O., Fernández-Arellano, G., Hernández-Palma, A., … & Stouffer, P. C. (2021). Morphological consequences of climate change for resident birds in intact Amazonian rainforest. Science Advances, 7(46), eabk1743.
  4. Stouffer, P. C., Jirinec, V., Rutt, C. L., Bierregaard Jr, R. O., Hernández‐Palma, A., Johnson, E. I., … & Lovejoy, T. E. (2021). Long‐term change in the avifauna of undisturbed Amazonian rainforest: ground‐foraging birds disappear and the baseline shifts. Ecology Letters, 24(2), 186-195.
  5. Luther, D. A., Cooper, W. J., Wolfe, J. D., Bierregaard Jr, R. O., Gonzalez, A., & Lovejoy, T. E. (2020). Tropical forest fragmentation and isolation: Is community decay a random process?. Global Ecology and Conservation, 23, e01168.
  6. Wolfe, J. D., Stouffer, P. C., Bierregaard, R. O., Luther, D. A., & Lovejoy, T. E. (2020). Effects of a regenerating matrix on the survival of birds in tropical forest fragments. Avian Research, 11, 1-9.
  7. Wolfe, J. D., & Elizondo, P. (2020). Integrating wildlife conservation into ecosystem service payments and carbon offsets: A case study from Costa Rica. Conservation Science and Practice, 2(4), e173.
  8. Long, L. L., & Wolfe, J. D. (2019). Review of the effects of barred owls on spotted owls. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 83(6), 1281-1296.
  9. Oberloier, S., & Pearce, J. M. (2018). Open source low-cost power monitoring system. HardwareX, 4, e00044.
  10. Oberloier, S., & Pearce, J. M. (2017). General design procedure for free and open-source hardware for scientific equipment. Designs, 2(1), 2.
  11. West, C. J., Wolfe, J. D., Wiegardt, A., & Williams-Claussen, T. (2017). Feasibility of California Condor recovery in northern California, USA: contaminants in surrogate Turkey vultures and Common Ravens. The Condor: Ornithological Applications, 119(4), 720-731.
  12. Wolfe, J. D., Ralph, C. J., & Wiegardt, A. (2017). Bottom‐up processes influence the demography and life‐cycle phenology of Hawaiian bird communities. Ecology, 98(11), 2885-2894.