Meeting Abstract BART-1  Monday, Jan. 4 19:00  Interfacing Energetics, Behavioral Ecology and Evolution to Illuminate Blind Spots and Elicit Discovery CAREAU, V; CAREAU, Vincent; University of Ottawa vcareau@uottawa.ca A long-standing goal in integrative and comparative biology is to explain variability in metabolic rate across levels of organization (species, populations, individuals). The overall objective of my research is […]

Meeting Abstract BART-1  Thursday, Jan. 5 19:00 – 20:00  Integrating physiology, behavior, and ecology to understand the mechanisms that regulate and limit animal populations SHERIFF, Michael; Penn State Univ. mjs72@psu.edu http://michaeljsheriff.weebly.com George A. Bartholomew championed the idea of a unified biology and a hierarchy of biological explanations. In 1964, he stated that ‘…each level [of biology] finds […]

Meeting Abstract BART-1  Thursday, Jan. 4 19:00 – 20:00  Cold truths: Evolutionary impacts of winter on terrestrial ectotherms WILLIAMS, Caroline M.; Univ. of California, Berkeley cmw@berkeley.edu http://cmwilliamslab.com Climate change research historically focused on summer, and winter climate change was considered mostly beneficial due to amelioration of damaging cold. It is now becoming increasingly apparent that variation in […]

Meeting Abstract BART-1  Friday, Jan. 4 19:00 – 20:00  Plasticity, hormones, behavior, and fitness: understanding the long-reach of the mother in wild animals DANTZER, B; University of Michigan dantzer@umich.edu https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/dantzerlab/ In 1930, the animal ecologist Charles Elton wrote about the “scattered state of ecology” using a macabre analogy. To Elton, ecology was “like an active worm that […]