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Education : Ph.D. Stony Brook University, Ecology & Evolution (2003) B.A. Connecticut College, Zoology (1995) Postdoctoral positions : 2006-2007 Smithsonian Institution, Department of Conservation Biology 2005-2006 Harvard University, Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Fellow in Conservation Biology, Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Academic Positions : 2009-pres Assistant Professor, Rice University 2007-2009 Research Faculty Fellow, Rice University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 2004-2005 Visiting Assistant Professor, College of William & Mary, Department of Biology
Some Representative Publications :
Books
Shultz, S., A. E. Dunham, K. Root, S. Soucy, S. Carroll, & L. Ginzburg. 1999/02/06/08. Conservation Biology with RAMAS Ecolab. Sinaur Associates, Mass. 251pp. (Undergraduate text/lab book teaches students quantitative conservation biology and wildlife management) Latest release in digital form available from Web School of Science. Click here for reviews.
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Amy Dunham Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Rice University MS-170, 6100 Main St. Houston, TX 77005 |
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Contact Information: |
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Phone: (713) 348-2792 E-mail: aed4(at)rice.edu |
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Research Interests : Effects of altered functional diversity and habitat structure on species interactions and ecosystem functioning
Impacts of climate change on species interactions and wildlife demography
Quantitative tools for decision making in conservation, endangered species recovery, and reserve design
Evolutionary and behavioral ecology of mammals and birds |
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Amy Bridges, an under-graduate EEB major, and independent research student was awarded a Sigma Xi Research Grant, the Clara Carter Summer Environmental Studies Award, and an Explorers Club Award to support her work to extract a record of cyclone landfall in Madagascar’s eastern rainforest using historical records and radio-isotopic analysis of tree cores. This data will be combined with lemur population data to explore effects of changing cyclone frequencies on past, present and future lemur demography. |
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Margie Diddams, an undergraduate EEB major, was awarded The Joan K. Hunt & Rachel M. Hunt Summer Scholarship in Field Botany from the Garden Club of America and a grant from the Explorer’s club for her independently designed research project to use tree cores to look at the impacts of climatic variability on native vs invasive tree growth. |
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Recent Journal Publications
Dunham A. E, Erhart, E. M., Wright, P. C. (accepted) Global climate cycles and cyclones; consequences for rainfall patterns and lemur reproduction in southeastern Madagascar. Global Change Biology
Dunham, A. E., Mikheyev, A. S. 2010. Influence of an invasive ant on grazing and detrital communities and nutrient fluxes in a tropical forest. Diversity and Distributions 16 (1) 33-42 **[PDF]**
Dunham, A. E., Rudolf, V. H. W. 2009. Evolution of sexual size-monomorphism; the influence of passive mate-guarding. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 22(7), 1376-1386. Press Release **[PDF]** Supplementary data: Appendix A, Appendix B
Dunham, A. E. 2008. Battle of the sexes: Cost asymmetry explains female dominance in lemurs. Animal Behaviour. 76 (4): 1435-1439 Press Release **[PDF]**
Dunham, A. E. 2008. Above and below ground impacts of terrestrial mammals and birds in a tropical forest. Oikos. 117 (4), 571-579 **[PDF]**
Dunham, A. E., Erhart, E., Overdorff, D. Wright, P. C. 2008. Evaluating effects of habitat loss, hunting, and El Niño on a threatened lemur. Biological Conservation. 141:287-297. **[PDF]** Media citation- UNESCO
Bagdassarian, C., Dunham, A., Raucher, D. and Brown, C. 2007. Biodiversity maintenance in food webs with regulatory environmental feedbacks. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 4:705-14 **[PDF]**
Dunham, A. E., & Akçakaya, R. H. 2006. Using scalar models for precautionary assessments of threatened species. Conservation Biology. 20 (5), 1499–1506 **[PDF]**
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Onja Razafindratsima, a first year graduate student was elected “International Peace Fellow” from the Philanthropic Educational Organization for 2009-2010. |
