Neville is interested in urban carnivore behavior, movement, and interactions with other species including humans. His PhD research focuses on urban carnivore community ecology in the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically how urban carnivore species partition time and space to thrive in human-dominated landscapes.
Admittance Semester/Year and Program
Fall 2024, PhD
Education
BS, Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, UC San Diego, CA, 2021
MS, Ecology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 2024
Research Lab
Schell Lab
Selected Publications
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Taraporevala, NF, JP Beckmann, JK Young. 2025. Citizen science project on urban canids provides different results from camera traps but generates interest and revenue. Wildlife Biology. https://doi.org/ 10.1002/wlb3.01382
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Taraporevala, NF, MP Lesoway, JA Goodheart, and DC Lyons. 2022. Precocious sperm exchange in the simultaneously hermaphroditic nudibranch, Berghia stephanieae. Integrative Organismal Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obac034
Selected Presentations
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The cost of shields: How humans mediate interactions among an apex predator and mesocarnivores. International Urban Wildlife Conference. June 2025.
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Is the canid community the community’s canids? Assessing the role of citizen science to learn about urban canids. International Urban Wildlife Conference. June 2023.
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The nudibranch Berghia stephanieae exchanges sperm weeks before egg laying, and retains sperm for months. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting. January 2022. Phoenix, AZ.
Selected Honors and Awards
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UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Fellow. 2023
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National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention. 2024
Urban ecology, human-wildlife interactions, animal behavior, carnivore community ecology
