Integrative Ecology

人口和生态系统健康是由个人在不断变化的环境条件下最大限度地适应环境的能力推动的。这项研究项目考察了个体在生理上管理环境应激源的方式的多样性和可塑性如何推动母亲和后代的适应性投资策略、成功和生存。研究包括各种但中心连贯的项目，包括母体应激作为后代环境质量的翻译，应激生理学在调节人类引起的濒危物种栖息地改变的影响中的作用，以及能量生理学的可塑性是否有能力缓冲敏感极地生态系统中的气候变化。

Population and ecosystem health are driven by the capacity of individuals to maximize their fitness under continuously changing environmental conditions. This research program examines how variation and plasticity in the way individuals physiologically manage environmental stressors drives adaptive investment strategies, success and survival in mothers and offspring. Research encompasses diverse, but centrally-coherent, projects including maternal stress as a translator of environmental quality for offspring, the role of stress physiology in mediating the effects of human-induced habitat alteration in species at risk, and whether plasticity in energetic physiology has the capacity to buffer individuals from climate change in sensitive Polar ecosystems.