Our research focuses on gaining a mechanistic understanding of how individuals and populations respond to changes in their environment in order to project how future change may alter both a population’s dynamics and evolutionary trajectory. ​

Breaking News

  • Our article by Eunbi Kwon on the distribution of phenological mismatches among shorebirds breeding across the Arctic made the cover of Ecological Monographs! Eunbi's work shows that mismatches are more prevalent in the Eastern Canadian Arctic and may be contributing to the significant declines being suffered by shorebirds along the Atlantic Flyway. 
  • Congrats to Luke Wilde and Fernando Faria! Luke won the best talk award and Fernando the best poster award at the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Group conference this past weekend.
  • Flying over the Sahara Desert sounds difficult--and it is! Our latest paper by Jelle Loonstra in Ecology Letters shows that black-tailed godwits flying over the Sahara that encounter strong headwinds during northward migration are more likely to die than those not encountering headwinds. Given that northward flights over the Sahara have the lowest survival rates of any annual cycle event, this means that winds are especially important for godwit population dynamics.
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Department of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina​
Coker Life Sciences 406
Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.A.