David Brown

Instructor

Department of Biological Sciences

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

 


Ph.D., Tulane University, 2006

M.S., Southeastern Louisiana University, 1999

B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1994
 

Population and Behavioral Ecology of Migratory Birds
 

dbrown5@lsu.edu

As an instructor and coordinator of the Ecology Labs (Biol 4254) I am interested in teaching students techniques and issues in ecology relevant to biologists living and working in Louisiana. In these labs, we emphasize field-based data collection, application of quantitative analyses to these data, and written and oral presentation of the results.

As a researcher, I'm interested in the non-breeding season ecology of migratory birds. My focus is population ecology, but I use behavioral and physiological studies of individual birds to better understand population processes.

Research website

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Recent Publications

Brown, D.R., and T.W. Sherry. 2006. Food supply controls body condition of a migrant bird wintering in the tropics. Oecologia. In press.

 

Brown, D.R., and T.W. Sherry. 2006. Population response of resident Jamaican birds to food supplementation: evidence of dry-season limitation. Biotropica 38:91-99.

 

Brown, D.R. 2006. Food supply and the dry-season ecology of a tropical resident bird community and an over-wintering migrant bird species. Ph.D. dissertation. Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

 

Strong, C.M., D.R. Brown, P.C. Stouffer. 2005. Winter frugivory of Hermit Thrush. Southeastern Naturalist 4: 627-638.

 

Brown, D.R., C.M. Strong, P.C. Stouffer. 2002.  Demographic effects of habitat selection on Hermit Thrushes wintering in a pine plantation landscape. Journal of Wildlife Management 66: 407-416.

 

Brown, D.R., P.C. Stouffer, and C.M. Strong. 2000. Movement and territoriality of wintering Hermit Thrushes in southeastern Louisiana. Wilson Bulletin 112:347-353.

 

Brown, D.R., and J. Long. In review. What is a non-breeding floater? Causes, consequences, and implications for habitat selection.

 

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