Individual variation in behavior and reproduction: Influence of ecological, social, and physiological factors

我对影响个体行为和繁殖差异并受其影响的生态、社会和生理因素感兴趣。我正在进行的研究项目主要集中在野生马尾猴(Chlorocbus Pygerythus)的行为生态学和生活史方面。马鞭草的特征是生活史节奏相对较快，性别特有的优势等级和性别二色性，在阴囊和阴茎的颜色上有明显的雄性间差异。生活在乌干达西南部纳布加博湖的马鞭草研究种群生活在人性化的景观中，与马鞭草的半陆地性质相结合，使它们相对容易观察。Nabugabo马鞭草种群提供了一个相对独特的机会，可以研究获取富含能量的人类食物如何影响发育和生殖。目前的研究组(自2011年开始跟踪)将由另外两个相邻的小组补充，我从2015年7月开始适应这两个小组。因此，在接下来的五年里，我将以我在分析雄性生殖策略的社会内分泌学方面的经验和我现有的合作为基础，研究1)雄性优势等级的出现、维持和信号，2)生态对繁殖季节性的影响，以及这些影响如何影响雄性生活史事件的时间。

I am interested in the ecological, social, and physiological factors that influence, and are influenced by, individual variation in behavior and reproduction. My developing research program focuses on the behavioural ecology and life-history of wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus). Vervets are characterized by a relatively rapid life history pace, sex-specific dominance hierarchies, and sexual dichromatism, with pronounced intermale variation in scrotal and penile coloration. The vervet study population at Lake Nabugabo in southwestern Uganda, lives in a humanized landscape that when combined with the vervets’ semi-terrestrial nature, makes them relatively easy to observe. The Nabugabo vervet population offers a relatively unique opportunity to investigate how access to energy-rich human foods influences development and reproduction. The current study group (followed since 2011) will be supplemented by two additional neighboring groups that I began habituating in July 2015. Thus, over the next five years, I will build on my experience in the analysis of the socioendocrinology of male reproductive strategies and my existing collaborations to examine 1) the emergence, maintenance, and signaling of male dominance rank, and 2) the ecological influences on breeding seasonality and how these influence the timing of male life-history events.