Lab News & Publications

We are excited to welcome postdoctoral Research Associate, Dr. Andrew Richards, to the lab. Dr. Richards is an evolutionary biologist and ethologist, with prior experience working with taxa as varied as bottlenose dolphins, periodical cicadas, chimpanzees, and house finches. Dr. Richards joins our lab to work with the JP Chickadee Project, but his broad training and interests make him available for assisting and advising varied research endeavors.

Undergraduate researcher, Zach Dykema, wins the Outstanding Graduating Senior (Male) award from NMU for 2017 for his independent research in Brazil (and soon Zambia), his research on chickadees and owls, and his impressive extra-curricular engagement with music and much more. Congrats, Zach!

Masters student, Katie Bjornen, wins a competitive research grant from the Wilson Ornithological Society for her work looking at the potential Avian Foraging Response to Plant Volatile Organic Chemical Release. Congrats, Katie!

Undergraduate researcher, Emily Bertucci (headed to University of Georgia for PhD program) won the outstanding graduating Biology Undergraduate Student award, in part for her work on owls and on juncos, and also her research in Zambia and Brazil. Congrats Emily!

Graduate students James VanOrman, Samantha Phillips, and Katie Bjornen were selected as winners for the 2017 Excellence in Education grant awards. This will be a great help to each of their graduate thesis research projects. Congrats gang!

Undergraduate researcher Cody Selewski lands a job in Tennessee chasing Bobolinks and Dickcissels. Congrats, Cody! See you again in the fall!

Gayk, Z. G., D. Le Duc, J. Horn, and A. R. Lindsay. 2018. Genomic insights into natural selection in the common loon (Gavia immer): evidence for aquatic adaptation. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 18(1), 64.

Neri, C.M., N. Mackentley, Z. Dykema, E. Bertucci, and A. R. Lindsay. 2018 Different audiolures lead to different sex-biases in capture of northern saw-whet owls. Journal of Raptor Research, 52(2): 245-249

Cerchio, S., B. Andrianantenaina, A.R. Lindsay, M. Rekdahl, N. Andrianarivelo, and T. Rasoloarijao. 2015. Omura’s whales (Balaenoptera omurai) off northwest Madagascar: ecology, behaviour and conservation needs. Royal Society Open Science 2: 150301.

Debiak, A.L., D.L. McCormick, J.D. Kaplan, K.B. Tischler and A.R. Lindsay. 2014. A Molecular Genetic Assessment of Sex Ratios from Pre-fledged Juvenile and Migrating Adult Common Loons (Gavia immer). Waterbirds 37: 6–15.

Lindsay, A.R. and S.C.G. Haas. 2013. DNA from Feces and Museum Specimens Confirms a First State Record Bird. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. 742: 1-9

Gayk, Z.G. and A.R. Lindsay. 2012. Winter Microhabitat Foraging Preferences of Sympatric Boreal and Black-capped chickadees in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 124: 820–824.

Weinandt, M.L., M. Meyer, M. Strand and A.R. Lindsay. 2012. Cues used by the black fly, Simulium annulus, for attraction to the common loon (Gavia immer). Journal of Vector Ecology 37: 359–364.

Lerner, H.R.L., J.A. Johnson, A.R. Lindsay, L.F. Kiff and D.P. Mindell. 2009. It's not too Late for the Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja): High Levels Of Genetic Diversity and Differentiation Can Fuel Conservation Programs. PLoS ONE 4: e7336.

Lindsay, A.R. and J.L. Belant. 2007. A simple and improved PCR-based technique for white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) sex identification. Conservation Genetics 9: 443–447.

Graves, B.M., M. Strand and A.R. Lindsay. 2006. A reassessment of sexual dimorphism in human senescence: Theory, evidence, and causation. American Journal of Human Biology 18: 161–168.

Lindsay, A.R., S.S. Gillum and E. al. 2002. Influence of lakeshore development on breeding bird communities in a mixed northern forest. Biological Conservation 107: 1–11. Elsevier.