Department of Zoology and Physiology
1000 E. University Ave
Biological Sciences, 428
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307-766-4208
Email: zprequest@uwyo.edu
Patrick Kelley
patrick.kelley@uwyo.edu
Office: BS-404 | Laboratories: BS-437/438
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Research Interests: Animal Behavior, Behavioral Ecology, Ecological Statistics
Research Summary: The Behavioral Complexity Lab is broadly interested in how environments shape individual behavior and how these behaviors impact vulnerability to selective agents (such as climate or predation). Focusing mainly on tropical birds in Panama and Hawaii (but branching out into other taxa such as jumping spiders too), our lab research integrates intensive field-based studies of multiple taxa, quantitative behavioral analysis (especially bioacoustics), physiology (primarily stress hormones), artificial intelligence, and traditional ecological modeling to explore the interplay between natural selection and complex phenotypes. To this end, the lab explores novel ways (causal AI, deep-learning) to detect and measure complex behaviors that form the basis of fundamental ecological phenomena such as competition and predation.
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Department of Zoology and Physiology
1000 E. University Ave
Biological Sciences, 428
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307-766-4208
Email: zprequest@uwyo.edu