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 a population’s dynamics and evolutionary trajectory. ​

Breaking News

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  • One of the most consistent patterns across species of birds is that egg size can vary within a clutch and across individuals. But why? In our latest article in Ardea, Mo Verhoeven explores this question in Black-tailed Godwits and finds that most variation in egg size is determined by heritable differences, but does not appear to drive fitness differences among individuals. While the mystery thus remains unsolved, our results do suggest that egg size is a poor proxy for reproductive investment..
  • 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.
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Department of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina​
Coker Life Sciences 406
Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.A.