Environmental Control of Seasonal Breeding in Diverse Habitats

温菲尔德9631350 环境因素，如日照长度、温度和湿度，在野生动物繁殖成功的调节中起着重要的作用。 这些因素影响神经和内分泌功能，促进动物对环境的适应行为。 温菲尔德博士正在进行实验室和实地研究，以确定环境信号如何与社会线索相互作用，以调节神经内分泌和内分泌，协调生殖发育和成功。 环境信息影响大脑的感觉方式和神经通路的识别也在调查中。 这些研究代表了实地调查与自然历史数据的数学处理的高度集成的混合，然后将直接与生理，细胞和分子机制相结合。 研究结果将提供关于生物体如何解释环境信息的重要新信息，这些信息反过来可能对动物，特别是脊椎动物在不久的将来如何应对全球变化具有实际应用价值。

Wingfield 9631350 The environmental factors, such as daylength, temperature and humidity, play an important role in the regulation of reproductive success in animals in the wild. These factors affect neural and endocrine function that facilitate adaptive behaviors of animals to their environment. Dr. Wingfield is conducting laboratory and field studies to determine how environmental signals interact with social cues to regulate neuroendocrine and endocrine secretions that orchestrate reproductive development and success. Identification of sensory modalities and neural pathways by which environmental information impinges upon the brain are also under investigation. These studies represent a highly integrated blend of field investigations coupled with mathematical treatment of natural history data that will then interface directly with physiological, cell and molecular mechanisms. The results will provide crucial new information on how organisms interpret environmental information which in turn could have practical application as to how animals, particularly vertebrates, may respond to global change in the near future.