The plight of wild birds is becoming critical due to exposure to environmental contaminants.
Although laboratory studies have provided insights into the developmental effects of …

13C breath testing is increasingly used in physiology and ecology research because of what
it reveals about the different fuels that animals oxidize to meet their energetic demands …

Triazole compounds are among the most widely used fungicides in agroecosystems to
protect crops from potential fungal diseases. Triazoles are suspected to have an impact on …

Heatwaves and droughts are becoming more intense and frequent with climate change.
These extreme weather events often occur simultaneously and may alter organismal …

How the accelerating pace of global warming will affect animal populations depends on the
effects of increasing temperature across the life cycle. Developing young are sensitive to …

A historic debate in biology is the question of nature vs. nurture. Although it is now known
that most traits are a product of both heredity (“nature”) and the environment (“nurture”) …

Environmental pollution is a global phenomenon that affects all continents and dozens of
types of pollutants with highly different properties can be found on Earth. These pollutants …

In ecology and evolution, parental effects refer to the influence parents have on their
offspring's traits beyond just genetics. These effects come from factors like parental behavior …

Songbirds are one of a few examples of animals (including humans) that require hearing a
model of species-typical vocalizations in order to accurately learn to sing themselves. To …

The goal of this dissertation was to identify behavioral and physiological differences
between urban and non-urban populations of wild birds, and to determine whether …