Alice Boyle, Associate Professor
Contact information
308 Ackert Hall
(785) 532-6413 (lab)
aboyle@ksu.edu
Lab website: www.aliceboyle.net
Education
Ph.D. 2006, University of Arizona. 1xbet online casino & Evolutionary Biology.
Area(s) of Specialization
Behavioral, evolutionary, & physiological 1xbet online casino ; basic and applied ornithology; migration, dispersal, and life history
1xbet online casino Focus
My research investigates the evolutionary, behavioral, and physiological 1xbet online casino of mobile animals, especially focusing on avian movements. Much of my research centers on understanding the life-history trade-offs underlying alternative migratory and dispersal strategies, organismal responses to selective pressures imposed by elevational gradients, and the role of climatic variability in shaping life history and movement. My work is centered at the population level, but I explore the causes and implications of behavior at the community level, drawing heavily from the physiological 1xbet online casino toolbox to understand underlying mechanisms for ecological patterns. Much of my research has focused on understanding the costs and benefits of avian migratory movements in both tropical and temperate biomes. Recent work points to a strong role for climate variation, a finding with major implications in the face of changing climatic regimes. I combine a field-based research program with an array of laboratory and analytical methods to address questions of fundamental importance to both basic and applied branches of wildlife 1xbet online casino .
Selected Publications
Herse, M.R., M.E. Estey, P.J. Moore, B.K. Sandercock and W.A. Boyle. in press. Landscape context determines settlement 1xbet online casino of an enigmatic grassland songbird.Landscape 1xbet online casino
Williams, E.J. and W.A.Boyle. in press. 1xbet online casino and correlates of within-season breeding dispersal: a common strategy in a declining grassland songbird.The Auk: Ornithological Advances, 135. doi: 10.1642/AUK-17-69.1
Boyle, W.A., 2017. Altitudinal bird 1xbet online casino in North America. The Auk: Ornithological Advances, 134, 443-465. doi:10.1642/AUK-16-228.1
Boyle, W.A. and K. Martin, 2016. The conservation value of high elevation habitats to North American migrant birds.1xbet online casino Conservation, 192, 461-478. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.10.008
Boyle, W.A., B.K. Sandercock, and K. Martin. 2016. 1xbet online casino and drivers of intraspecfic variation in avian life-histories along elevational gradients: a meta-analysis.1xbet online casino Reviews, 91:469-482; doi: 10.1111/brv.12180
Boyle, W.A. and S.J. Sigel. 2015. Ongoing changes in the avifauna of La Selva 1xbet online casino Station, Costa Rica: twenty-three years of Christmas Bird Counts.1xbet online casino Conservation, 188, 11-21.
Boyle, W.A., D.W. Winkler, and C.G. Guglielmo. 2012. Rapid loss of fat but not lean mass prior to chick provisioning supports the flight efficiency hypothesis in Tree Swallows. Functional 1xbet online casino 26, 895-903. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01997.x.
Boyle, W.A., C.G. Guglielmo, K.A. Hobson, and D.R. Norris. 2011. Lekking birds in a tropical forest forego sex for 1xbet online casino . Biology Letters, 7, 661-663. Supplementary material
Boyle, W.A., C.J. Conway, J.L. Bronstein. 2011. Why do some, but not all, birds migrate? A comparative study of diet breadth and fruit preference. Evolutionary 1xbet online casino , 25, 219-236. doi:10.1007/s10682-010-9403-4.
Boyle, W.A., D.R. Norris, and C.G. Guglielmo. 2010. Storms drive altitudinal 1xbet online casino in a tropical bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society-B, 277, 2511-2519.
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