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Carol Boggs
Academic Appointments
- Professor (Teaching), Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)
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Administrative Appointments
- Bing Director, Program in Human Biology (2006 - 2012)
Professional Education
| PhD: | University of Texas at Austin, Zoology (1979) |
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Scientific Focus
Research Interests
We are exploring how environmental variation affects life history traits, population structure and dynamics, and species interactions in ecological and evolutionary time, using Lepidoptera. Current interests include (1) how resource allocation strategies interact with foraging and life history in variable environments to affect fitness and population dynamics; (2) the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of small populations, including population re-introductions; and (3) invasion biology, particularly the evolutionary and ecological effects of non-native species' invasion into co-evolved systems.
Publications
- Does dietary restriction reduce life span in male fruit-feeding butterflies? Exp Gerontol. 2009; (9): 601-6
- Longevity can buffer plant and animal populations against changing climatic variability. Ecology. 2008; (1): 19-25
- Egg maturation strategy and survival trade-offs in holometabolous insects: A comparative approach Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2007: 293-302
- When agendas collide: human welfare and biological conservation. Conserv Biol. 2007; (1): 59-68
- Delayed population explosion of an introduced butterfly. J Anim Ecol. 2006; (2): 466-75
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