University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. Hankyu Kim’s broad research interest is understanding ecological processes that affect wild animal populations, especially the effects of climate and land-use changes on bird populations in space and time. He takes quantitative approaches like hierarchical modeling to analyze relationships and patterns in observed data to test ecological hypotheses. He is also an avid field ecologist enjoying working with wildlife in their habitat to collect primary datasets. 

Hankyu works with Dr. Benjamin Zuckerberg at UW-Madison and Nick Anich from the Wisconsin DNR to analyze the distribution of breeding bird abundance and occurrence across Wisconsin. His work is a part of the second Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas project. In addition, he is investigating how the biological environment (community composition, potential competition) can affect species range limits, interacting with abiotic limiting factors, and investigating ways to use the repeated breeding bird atlas data for informing protected area management and designation under climate change.