Birds & Brains
How do animals respond to a rapidly changing environment?
We study how human-induced changes in the environment affect animal behavior, neurobiology, and reproductive endocrinology. The results of our studies can inform measures to assess, strategize, and potentially circumvent the negative impacts of environmental contaminants on human and wildlife communities.
We study how human-induced changes in the environment affect animal behavior, neurobiology, and reproductive endocrinology. The results of our studies can inform measures to assess, strategize, and potentially circumvent the negative impacts of environmental contaminants on human and wildlife communities.
Select publications
- Ligocki, I.Y., Munson, A., Farrar, V., Viernes, R., Sih, A., Connon, R.E., Calisi, R.M. 2019. Ecologically relevant concentrations of bifenthrin affect the expression of estrogen and glucocorticoid receptors in brains of female western mosquitofish. Aquatic Toxicology. 209:121-131. (pdf).
- Ondrasek, N.R., Freeman, S.M., Saldana, E., Orellana Bonilla, I., Bales, K.L. and Calisi, R.M. 2018. Nonapeptide receptor distributions in promising avian models for social neuroecology. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00713 (pdf).
- Pollack, L.*, Ondrasek, N., Calisi, R.M. 2017. Urban health and ecology: the promise of an avian biomonitoring tool. Current Zoology. 63:205-212. (pdf)
- Calisi, R.M., Chintamen, S.*, Ennin, E.*, Kriegsfeld, L.J., Rosenblum, E.B. 2017. Neuroanatomical evolution in response to a changing environment. Journal of Herpetology. 51:258-262. (pdf)
- Cai, F.* and Calisi, R.M. 2016. Seasons and neighborhoods of high lead toxicity in New York City: the feral pigeon as a bioindicator. Chemosphere, 161: 274-279. (pdf)
- Wingfield, J.C., Krause, J.S., Perez, J.H., Chmura, H.E., Németh, Z., Word, K.R., Calisi, R.M., Meddle, SL. 2015. A mechanistic approach to understanding range shifts in a changing world: What makes a pioneer? General and Comparative Endocrinology, 222: 44-53. (pdf)
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