Areas of Expertise
- Animal migrations, environmental resilience, hormones and behavior, movement ecology, animal behavior, conservation, ecology, biodiversity, birds
Ellen Ketterson is an evolutionary biologist whose research focuses on natural populations of birds and their responses to environmental change.
She studies interdisciplinary solutions to challenges related to plant, animal and microbial adjustments to alterations in climate and associated changes in the geographic distributions of species with the goal of supporting resilient ecosystems and healthy people.
Our studies of migration have focused on factors that promote site fidelity, the role of experience in regulating onset and termination of migration, and the relative importance of a series of selective factors in shaping the distance an individual migrates.
We are also investigating constraints on testosterone, including correlated responses in females and effects of testosterone on males during the non-breeding season.
Our studies of migration have focused on factors that promote site fidelity, the role of experience in regulating onset and termination of migration, and the relative importance of a series of selective factors in shaping the distance an individual migrates
Research areas:
- Behavior
- Ecology
- Evolution
- Genomics and Bioinformatics
Most recently my focus has returned to animal migrations and addressing limits to adaptive capacity and the role of seasonal timing in the generation and loss of biodiversity.
Our lab conducts research in integrative evolutionary biology by studying organismal biology (behavior and physiology) to better understand how vertebrate animals, birds in particular, adapt to changing environments and form new species.
We are currently studying animal migration.
Our study system is a songbird, the dark-eyed junco, which is an abundant sparrow-like bird that breeds throughout North America from California to Alaska to Newfoundland and down the Appalachians in the east.
Research: Animal migrations; Avian biology; Behavioral ecology; Phenotypic integration; Physiological ecology
Research Area:
Research Interests: behavior; ecology; evolution
Research Interests:
- behavioral, physiological, and evolutionary ecology; hormones and behavior; avian biology, mating systems and parental care; physiological basis of trade-offs in life histories; adaptation and constraint; avian migration
Research Interests
- behavior; ecology; evolution
Research Interests
- behavior; ecology; evolution
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