# positions[].organizations[].label
Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# overview
As a behavioral ecophysiologist, I am broadly interested phenotype-environment matching at the proximate and ultimate levels, and especially, the role of hormones in mediating behavioral and physiological plasticity. The big questions of my research are:

(1) How do animals perceive potentially informative cues?

(2) What are the physiological mechanisms that mediate between these cues and phenotypic change?

(3) What are the long-term fitness consequences of these changes?

My research utilizes avian systems to answer these questions, with recent study species including house sparrows, Nazca boobies, and Caspian terns. At Texas A&M I am expanding this research to include wetland systems where habitat change and pollution may be cues that induce phenotypic change.

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Abuse, Cycle Of Violence, Nazca Booby, Seabird

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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Physical Injury - Accidents And Adverse Effects

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Wake Forest University - (Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States)

# publications[].label
Long-term Effects of Early-life Stress on the HPA Axis in a Short- and Long-lived Bird

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Personality correlates with contextual plasticity in a free-living, long-lived seabird

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No evidence for an effect of traffic noise on the development of the corticosterone stress response in an urban exploiter.

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Slowing down the metabolic engine: impact of early-life corticosterone exposure on adult metabolism in house sparrows (Passer domesticus).

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Data for Early-life maltreatment predicts adult stress response in a long-lived wild bird (Biology Letters)

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Post-natal glucocorticoid elevation affects GnRH-induced luteinizing hormone concentration in female house sparrows.

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Secondhand homes: Woodpecker cavity location and structure influences secondary nesters success

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Early-life maltreatment predicts adult stress response in a long-lived wild bird.

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Post-natal corticosterone exposure affects ornaments in adult male house sparrows (Passer domesticus).

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House sparrows mitigate growth effects of post-natal glucocorticoid exposure at the expense of longevity.

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Leucistic Adult Large Cactus-Finch (Geospiza conirostris) on Espaola Island, Galpagos: A Potential Continuation of Nestling Beak Color

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Maltreated Nestlings Exhibit Correlated Maltreatment as Adults: Evidence of a Cycle of Violence in Nazca Boobies (Sula granti)

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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The development and lateralization of prey delivery in a bill load-holding bird

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Avian stress hormones along an elevation gradient in west Texas

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Interactions between stress hormones and blood parasites along elevation gradients

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Corticosterone stress response shows long-term repeatability and links to personality in free-living Nazca boobies.

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Stress, Death and the "Silver Spoon": Effects of Early-Life Stress on Growth and Immunity across Life Stages in a Wild Bird

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Delayed effect of early-life corticosterone treatment on adult anti-predator behavior and breeding readiness in a common passerine

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Secondhand homes: The multilayered influence of woodpeckers as ecosystem engineers.

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Population status of the Critically Endangered waved albatross Phoebastria irrorata, 1999 to 2007

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Corrigendum to "House sparrows mitigate growth effects of post-natal glucocorticoid exposure at the expense of longevity" [Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 253 (2017) 1-12].

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Yawning, acute stressors, and arousal reduction in Nazca booby adults and nestlings.

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Microplastics in the Gulf of Mexico: A Bird's Eye View

# publications[].label
Post-natal corticosterone exposure downregulates the HPA axis through adulthood in a common passerine.

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Delayed effect of early-life corticosterone treatment on adult anti-predator behavior in a common passerine.

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Hormonal effects of maltreatment in Nazca booby nestlings: implications for the "cycle of violence".

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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No trans-generational maternal effects of early-life corticosterone exposure on neophobia and antipredator behaviour in the house sparrow

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Post-natal Glucocorticoids Negatively Affect Adult Anti-predator Behavior in House Sparrows

# researcherOn[].label
Investigation of wild bird response to disturbance

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Institute of Food and Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences; 2258 TAMU

# organizations[]
Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# schools[]
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences