Corey Tarwater
Zoology & Physiology
Associate Professor, Robert B. Berry Chair
Education:
- B.S. 1999 - Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis
- M.S. 2006 - Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Ph.D. 2010 - Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Postdoctoral
- 2010-2012 - University of California, Berkeley
- 2013-2014 - University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Research Interests:
My research interests are broadly focused on the links between ecology, evolution,
and behavior of year-round resident birds and using individual-based studies to understand
variation in individual fitness and population demography. My work examines reproductive
and dispersal strategies, life history trade-offs, demography, and seed dispersal
and how the changing environment impacts these processes. My projects include: effects
of rainfall and fragmentation on demography in understory birds in Panama, causes
of variation in fitness and demography of birds in central Panama, the role of invasive
vertebrates in seed dispersal in Hawaii, and life histories and demography of song
sparrows in British Columbia.
