Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies

Josh Van Buskirk

Research interests
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Publications

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Research interests

Population and community ecology; evolution of plasticity; conservation genetics

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Education and professional positions

2006 - present Research Associate, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2003 - 2006 Lecturer, Zoology Department, University of Melbourne, Australia
1996 - 2003 Oberassistent, Institute of Zoology, University of Zürich
1994 - 1996 Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University
1994 - 1996 Research Fellow, University of Michigan
1992 - 1994 Cary Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Ecosystem Studies
1991 - 1992 Research Associate, North Carolina State University
1989 - 1991 Lecturer, Duke University
1984 - 1991 PhD, Zoology Department, Duke University

Publications

Van Buskirk, J., R. S. Mulvihill, and R. C. Leberman (2010) Declining body sizes in North American birds associated with climate change. Oikos 119: 1047-1055.

Van Buskirk, J. (2009) Getting in shape: adaptation and phylogenetic inertia in morphology of Australian anuran larvae. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 1326-1337.

Van Buskirk, J. (2009) Natural variation in morphology of larval amphibians: phenotypic plasticity in nature? Ecological Monographs 79: 681-705.

Van Buskirk, J., and U. K. Steiner (2009) The fitness costs of developmental canalization and plasticity. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 852-860.

Van Buskirk, J; Mulvihill, R S; Leberman, R C (2009) Variable shifts in spring and autumn migration phenology in North American songbirds associated with climate change. Global Change Biology,15:760-771.

Steiner, U K; Van Buskirk, J (2009) Predator-induced changes in metabolism cannot explain the growth/predation risk tradeoff. PLoSONE, 4(7):1-4.

Steiner, U K; Van Buskirk, J. (2008) Environmental stress and the costs of whole-organism phenotypic plasticity in tadpoles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 97-103.

Josh Van Buskirk

Josh Van Buskirk

Research Associate

Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zurich

Office 13 J 74
Phone: +41 (0)44 635 49 83
email

BBC EARTH News

12 March 2010
Climate change 'makes birds shrink' in North America

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