Research

Over the past few decades, the quintessential biological paradigm “form means function” has been reconfigured to address how variation in form translates into an organism’s physical ability to perform its ecological role. Our research runs the gamut from evolutionary morphology to applied wildlife ecology. Our research questions revolve around understanding how animals (mostly birds and small mammals) are “built” to do what they do in nature (mostly feeding and locomotion), through measurements of their morphology and performance.