Brian Wisenden, Biosciences Department, published a review paper in a special issue of the journal Diversity. The special issue is entitled “Predators as Agents of Selection and Diversification.” The review article summarizes 21 years of research at MSUM on the evolution of antipredator competence in larval convict cichlids that involved field work with MSUM undergraduates in Costa Rican streams and […]
Brian Wisenden, Biosciences Department, published a paper in the international peer-reviewed Wilson Journal of Ornithology on signal evolution in red-winged blackbirds. Collaborators on this project were Muir Eaton from Drake University and 23 undergraduates who comprised the summer field courses in Animal Behavior (Wisenden) and Field Ornithology (Eaton) at the Itasca Biological Field Station, University of Minnesota. Open-ended inquiry-based pedagogy […]
Brian Wisenden and Donna Stockrahm, Biosciences Department, attended the joint meeting of The Wildlife Society and the American Fisheries Society in Reno, NV Sept. 29 – Oct. 4. Donna Stockrahm presented a poster entitled “Does a larger body size for painted turtles in Clay County, Minnesota increase chance of survival to following years?” The poster was co-authored by MSUM undergraduates […]
Brian Wisenden, Biosciences Department, published a paper in the Journal of Animal Ecology entitled “Evidence of incipient alarm signalling in fish” (see https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.13062). The editorial board of JAE invites “In Focus” articles such as this one to highlight a particularly impactful paper (Bairos-Novak et al. 2019). Wisenden was chosen to author the In Focus because his chapter on “The cue-signal […]
Monday, Nov. 19 | 4-4:45 p.m. | Langseth 118 Students in all majors are invited to an informational meeting for the Costa Rica course, aka Tropical Conservation Biology (BIOL 335, LASC 10). The course includes a 12-day trip to Costa Rica over spring break where students learn how the country has succeeded in balancing human activity and biodiversity conservation as […]