M.A. & M.S. in Biology

Charles Peterson

I take an integrative, field-based evolutionary approach to studying the physiology and ecology of vertebrates, especially reptiles and amphibians. Research interests concern a wide variety of interactions between animals and their physical and biotic environments, including ecological energetics, thermoregulatory physiology and thermal ecology, water balance and osmoregulatory physiology, digestive physiology, and nutritional ecology, often with emphasis on the interfaces among these traditional categories. Work in the lab centers on potentially adaptive integrated, whole-animal performance as expressed in the context of natural habitats and environmental stressors, but it overlaps both organ-level physiology and population ecology, with applications to conservation biology.

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