Want to know what stresses out juvenile spotted owls? Check out this paper by former grad student Ashlee Mikkelsen: Feather corticosterone reveals developmental challenges in a longโterm study of juvenile northern spotted owls besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13โฆ
. Valeria Marasco reports on Ashlee Mikkelsen's Functional Ecology paper showing that feather corticosterone can be an indicator of stress responses to life challenges that could help ecologists predict how #climatechange stress might affect bird populations
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CREEM_cake I don't know if it's possible to have a crush on a research group as an entity, but I adore the research community you have created. ๐
Chris Sutherland My name is Ashlee Mikkelsen. I am a PhD student at the University of South-Eastern Norway currently working on diet, physiology and life history evolution in brown bears, but have training in demographic and occupancy modeling other systems. I will be on the job market 2024
Dr. Natalya Gallo Moved from the US and started a PhD in Norway in January. LOVE IT! Absolutely recommend applying.
Abby (she/her) Working for the University of Montana snowshoe hare crew. I spent about a decade as a field biologist and it is still the most fun, challenging, and formative job I ever had.
Trevor Branch Ashlee Mikkelsen The Stacks We designed the entire review process to make it easier on both reviewers and authors. All of the review happens in a single document, so authors get one file with everything in one place. And, because review is collaborative, you often see reviewers coming to consensus.