Integrative Ecology

种群和生态系统的健康是由个体在不断变化的环境条件下最大化其适应性的能力所驱动的。本研究项目探讨了个体在生理上管理环境压力源的方式的变化和可塑性如何驱动适应性投资策略、母亲和后代的成功和生存。研究包括多种多样但集中一致的项目，包括母亲压力作为后代环境质量的翻译，压力生理学在介导人类引起的濒危物种栖息地改变中的作用，以及在敏感的极地生态系统中，能量生理学的可塑性是否具有缓冲个体免受气候变化影响的能力。

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.