The BEER Lab

Researchers
Jane M. Waterman, Ph.D.

Selective factors that influence the evolution of sociality and mating systems.
James D. Roth, Ph.D.

Population dynamics and food webs, especially how interactions between consumers and their resources (i.e., predator-prey) affect other species in the community, and vice versa.

Graduate Students
Mary Beth Manjerovic, M.S.

Selective factors that influence male mating stategies and population genetics in Cape ground squirrels.

Former Graduate Students

Danielle A. Munim (2008): Status survey of Big Cypress fox squirrel in order to evaluate the conservation status of this species. (UCF Website)

Melissa Hillegass (2007): Importance of parasitism on social structure and behavior of Cape ground squirrels. (UCF Website)

Carlos J. R. Anderson (2007): Computational and mathematical approaches to biological problems: automated identification of individual polar bears and network analysis of world rivers. (UCF Website)

Beth Pettitt (2006): Reproductive suppression and hormone cycles of Cape ground squirrels (UCF Website; New lab website)

Doug Skurski (2006): Monitoring a potentially stressful situation in captive western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) through analysis of behavior and urinary cortisol

Brandon Barton (2005): Cascading effects of predator removal on the ecology of sea turtle nesting beaches

Gillian Eckhardt (2005): The effects of ecotourism on polar bear behavior

Corey Maggiano (2005): Confocal laser scanning microscopy as a tool for the investigation of tetracycline labels in archaeological human bone

Lynette Bouchie (2004): Ovulation in the Cape ground squirrel (Xerus inauris)

Barbara Fields (2004): Behavior of captive Florida manatees, Trichechus manatus latirostris

Carolyn Unck (University of Pretoria, 2004): Does kin selection influence anti predator vigilance in Cape ground squirrels (Xerus inauris)?

Laura Plog (2004): Sea turtle nutrient input to dune vegetation: a stable isotope analysis

Ali Rabatsky (2003): Caudal luring and defensive tail display in the dusky pigmy rattlesnake, Sistrurus miliarius barbouri, with comments on ontogeny and evolution

Rebecca Sellin (2003): Influence of hormones and sexual swellings on social interactions in female mandrills (Mandrillus spinx)