(Auston) Marm Kilpatrick
amkilpatrick@wisc.edu
Office phone (608) 262-0029
Office 211 (or 206 - computer lab) Zoology research
1117 W. Johnson St.
Madison, WI 53706
Research Interests:
My research interests are extremely broad, and include population and
community ecology, conservation biology, evolutionary ecology, and patterns
of species diversity. I have done field work with trees in Yellowstone,
small mammals and birds in New Mexico, birds in Hawaii, squirrels and crows
in Wisconsin, and Killer whales in Puget Sound (off the coast of Washington).
My current work includes: (1) examining the effects of malaria infections
on Hawaii Amakihi demographics; (2) modeling the evolution of resistance
to malaria in Hawaiian honeycreepers (Drepanidinae); (3) using time series
analysis to examine species interactions in communities of plants and small
mammals in Portal AZ (with Tony Ives and Jim Brown); (4) examining the
allometric scaling and seasonal variation of metabolic scope (the ratio
of field metabolic rate to basal metabolic rate- FMR/BMR).
PDF’s of publications