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Recipients of 2008 AOU Research Awards

Nicholas A. Barber, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Trophic impacts of insectivorous birds: Modification of plant defensive chemistry

Miles Becker, University of Nevada-Reno
Parental condition and resource allocation between siblings: when do parents play favorites?

Robert Bogardus, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Plumage color, immunocompetance, and extra-pair mating in Tree Swallows

Michael Butler, Arizona State University
The role of early life immune challenges and carotenoid availability on the development of adult immunocompetence and adult ornamentation

Andres M. Cuervo, Louisiana State University
The evolutionary assembly of a species rich avifauna: Avian speciation and differentiation in the Andean cloud forests

Karie Decker, University of Arizona
Examining seasonal variation in clutch size through correlative, comparative and experimental tests

Matthew B. Dugas, University of Oklahoma
Signals of quality in nestling birds

John A. Eimes, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
How do population bottlenecks affect MHC genetic variation, reproductive success and health in wild bird populations?

Jacquelyn Grace, Wake Forest University
Androgen effects on cycle of violence in non-parental chick abuse in the Nazca Booby

Kelly K. Hallinger, College of William and Mary
The effect of mercury contamination on memory in food-caching birds

Elizabeth A. Hobson, New Mexico State University
Proximate determinants and ultimate fitness consequences of social network structure

Frode Jacobsen, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Utility of nuclear introns to reconstruct species-level phylogenies: testing a well-supported mtDNA phylogeny of New World orioles (genus Icterus) using multiple z-linked introns

Jennifer Koop, University of Utah
Avian defenses against feather-degrading bacteria

Katherine Langin, Colorado State University
Food limitation along the slow-fast life history continuum in a passerine bird

Russell Ligon, Auburn University
Exploring the adaptive significance of color and pattern in juvenile Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis)

Haw Chuan Lim, Louisiana State University
The effects of Pleistocene events on phylogeographic structure of southeast Asian birds: a multi-species approach

Irene Liu, Duke University
Female eavesdropping and male song type matching in a songbird

Scott R. Loss, University of Minnesota
Effects of exotic earthworm invasions on bird communities in northern hardwood forests

Bailey Mckay, University of Minnesota
Genetic consequences of House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) introductions

Emily Morrison, Michigan State University
The influence of indirect and direct cues of predation risk on the behavior of birds in tropical forest restoration sites

Luciano Nicholas Naka, Louisiana State University
Diversification processes inferred from avian contact zones in an interfluvium in northwestern Amazonia

Karan Odom, University of Windsor
The ecology of duetting and communication networks of Barred Owls at three spatial scales

Christina Riehl, Princeton University
Egg recognition and ejection in a communally breeding neotropical cuckoo

Andrea Morales Rozo, Universidad de Los Andes
Evaluation of hypotheses explaining the origin and dynamics of hybrid zones in Ramphocelus tanagers (Thraupidae) in Colombia

Elizabeth Scordato, University of Chicago
Using an avian ring species to test the role of multi-trait selection in speciation

Stephanie A. Stickler, University of Oklahoma
Parent-offspring recognition in Cave Swallows

Christopher Tonra, University of Maine
Migratory connectivity and breeding readiness in the American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)

Jessica L. Waite, University of Utah
Linking immune response to parasite community dynamics

Maxine Zylberberg, University of California-Davis
Behavior, immune function, and disease prevalence in Darwin's Finches

Members of the 2008 AOU Research Awards Committee