John Fitzpatrick, Cornell University
Professor
Ithaca, New York
jwf7@cornell.edu
Office:
(607) 254-2449
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I mainly work on the ecology, conservation biology, landscape genetics, and regional land management of endangered species, with emphasis on the cooperative-breeding Florida Scrub-Jay. This is Florida's only endemic bird, and is restricted to widely scattered patches of fire-maintained oak scrub....
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Bio/Research
I mainly work on the ecology, conservation biology, landscape genetics, and regional land management of endangered species, with emphasis on the cooperative-breeding Florida Scrub-Jay. This is Florida's only endemic bird, and is restricted to widely scattered patches of fire-maintained oak scrub. I remain closely involved in an intensive, long-term demographic study (42 years and counting) of the color-marked jay population at the Archbold Biological Station. In earlier decades of this study, our emphasis was on how demographic constraints resulted in the evolution of cooperative-breeding. While we continue to work on aspects of social behavior, more recent focuses include: evolution of dispersal behavior; demographic and territorial dynamics of specialization on post-fire successional habitat; epizootic disease as an agent of population control and selection; genetic population structure from local to range-wide scales, and the implications for preserve design and conservation management; recovery planning, in concert with public agencies and private landowners; the genetic bases of fitness using long-term pedigree data and next generation genomic sequencing analyses.
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