GRADUATE STUDY IN ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

INCLUDING

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, NEUROETHOLOGY, AND ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY
CURRICULUM IN ECOLOGY
CURRICULUM IN NEUROBIOLOGY

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL

FACULTY

Sabrina Burmeister, Ph. D. (University of Texas)
email sburmeister@unc.edu
web site

Behavioral regulation of reproductive physiology in frogs; animal communication from behavioral, mechanistic, and evolutionary perspectives

Kenneth Lohmann, Ph. D. (University of Washington)
email ken_lohmann@unc.edu
web site

Geomagnetic orientation in hatchling sea turtle, molluscs, and spiny lobsters; neuroethology of magnetic orientation; orientation of hatchling sea turtles to magnetic fields and waves; geomagnetic navigation of sea turtles

David Pfennig, Ph. D. (University of Texas)
email dpfennig@email.unc.edu
web site

Recognition systems; evolution of social behavior; ecology and evolution of disease transmission; development and evolution of phenotypic plasticity in anuran larvae

Karin Pfennig, Ph. D. (University of Illinois)
email kpfennig@email.unc.edu
web site

Evolution of mating behavior in spadefoot toads and its role in ecological and evolutionary processes

Keith Sockman, Ph. D. (Washington State University)
email kws@unc.edu
web site

Neuroendocrine basis for reproductive decisions in birds and neuroethology of birdsong

Maria Servedio, Ph. D. (University of Texas)
email servedio@email.unc.edu
web site

Mathematical models of the evolution of reproductive isolation and mimicry

Haven Wiley, Ph. D. (Rockefeller University)
email haven_wiley@unc.edu
web site

Evolution of acoustic communication and signal detection in birds, frogs, and primates; dominance hierarchies and spatial relationships; evolution of mating systems in birds; demography of cooperatively breeding tropical wrens; populations and behavioral ecology of birds in tropical and temperate forests

Helmut Mueller, Ph. D. (University of Wisconsin), Emeritus [no longer supervises graduate student research]
email hmueller@email.unc.edu

Evolution of reversed sexual dimorphism in birds; aerodynamic and behavioral correlates of age and sex differences in sizes of hawks; avian populations in old-growth forests; bird migration; predatory behavior of hawks

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