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Thomas H. Kunz, Ph. D.
Professor of Biology
 Director of the Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology (CECB)
Boston University, Biology Department, 5 Cummington St., Boston, MA 02215, USA 
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CURRENT STUDENTS

Graduate Students - Ph. D. Candidates
(Funding sources)



Jonathan Reichard Thermal energetics and climate space of Brazilian free-tailed bats, Tadarida brasiliensis (NSF, Research Assistantship).





Marianne Moore Interactions between immune function, stress physiology, pathogen exposure and environmental contaminants in temperate bat species (NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, Bat Conservation International, BioDiversity Research Institute).


Elizabeth Braun de Torrez Ecology, roosting and foraging behavior, and ecosystem services of North American bats in a pecan agroecosystem. (Dean's Assistantship, BU, Bat Conservation International, NSF)

 

Nathan Fuller Bioaccumulation of heavy metals in the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus); Insect responses to climate change.

 

 

Susan W. Murray  Ecology and behavior of cryptic species of Rhinolophidae in Malaysia (BU's CECB and Bat Conservation International, NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant.)



Pablo Jarrin Phylogeography and ecology of neotropical cloud forest bats (Fulbright Foundation, ASM (Latin American Fund and Grant-in-Aid of Research, and BU's CECB).



Aryn Wilder Gene flow in little brown myotis (Myotis lucifigus); geographic spread of White-nose Syndrome among little brown myotis and overlapping species.



 

 

Current Post Doctoral Scholars

Winifred Frick (2008-present). Oregon State University. (NSF) Currently conducting research on demographic and population trends of bat species.

 


Robert Hodgkison (2003-present). University of Aberdeen (Lubee Bat Conservancy). Currently conducting research on conservation biology of bats in Malaysia.




Christopher S. Richardson (2006-present). Boston University. Currently investigating the energetics of stress and immune function of bats.

Recently graduated

Louise Allen 2009. Stress, reproduction and immunity in bridge- and cave-roosting Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis): Implications for conservation (National Science Foundation, American Society of Mammalogists).


Mariana Muñoz-Romo. 2008. The importance of chemical signals in the mating strategies of bats (Fulbright Foundation, BU's CECB Assistantship).





John Benjamin Rinehart. 2007. Roosting ecology of Neotropical tent-making bats (BU's CECB).




 

Jason W. Horn. 2007.  Nigtly and seasonal behavior of bats in the aerosphere assessed with thermal imaging and NEXRAD Doppler RADAR.



FORMER STUDENTS (1974 - 2008)

Former Post-Doctoral Scholars
(Funding sources)


David Byman (1981-1982). Colorado State University (Department of Energy).





Edward S. Stashko (1984-1985). Northwestern University (World Wildlife Fund).





Gary P. Bell (1985-1987). Carleton University (Boston University Graduate School).





Allen Kurta (1986-1988) Boston University (Boston University Graduate School).






Tolibjon Khabilov (1997-1998)  University of Moscow (Fulbright Foundation).





Noga Kronfeld-Schor (1998-1999) Leptin during pregnancy and pre-hibernation in litle brown myotis. TelAviv University (Fulbright and Rothchild Foundations).



Christian Voigt (1998-2000). Erlangan University, Germany (DAAD).



 

 DeeAnn Reeder (2001-2004). University of California, Davis (National Institutes of Health).

 

 

Nick Hristov (2004-2008). Wake Forest University (Department of Interior, NSF).

 

 


Daniel Riskin (2006-2008). Cornell University.



 

 

Jason W. Horn. (2007-2008). Boston University.

 








Former Ph. D. Students. Research Topic
(Funding sources)


Peter V. August 1981. Population and community ecology of small mammals in northern Venezuela (Smithsonian Institution Graduate Fellowship).




Christopher D. Burnett 1981. Ecogeographic variation in the morphology of the big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus (National Science Foundation--Dissertation Improvement Grant).


Edythe L.P. Anthony 1982. Pituitary cytology of the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus (National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship).

 

Holly M. Stack. 1985. Energetics of reproduction in the big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus (National Science Foundation, Sigma Xi).




Marty S. Fujita. 1986.  A latitudinal comparison of growth and development in the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus, with implications for geographic variation in adult morphology (NSF--Dissertation Improvement Grant, ASM, and AMNH).

 Allen Kurta 1986. Insulation, thermoregulation, and metabolic rates of the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) under simulated roost conditions (Sigma Xi, Theodore Roosevelt Fund, ASM, NSF).



Armando Rodríguez-Durán 1990. Physiological ecology of three species of neotropical bats living in hot caves (Puerto Rican Minority Scholarship Grant).

April A. Stern 1995. Maternal investment in the greater spear-nosed bat, Phyllostomus hastatus (NSF Graduate Fellowship, Dissertation Improvement Grant, and The Lubee Foundation, Inc.).

Ruth C.B. Utzurrum 1998. Feeding ecology and energetics of three pteropodid bats in the Philippines. (World-Wildlife Fund--U.S., Chicago Zoological Society, MacArthur Foundation, and The Lubee Foundation, Inc.).

D. Scott Reynolds 1998.  Variation in life-history traits in the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) (ASM, Bat Conservation International, and Theodore Roosevelt Fund).


Johanna M. Bloss 2000.  Chemical ecology of bats (National Institutes of Health, The Lubee Foundation, Inc., Theodore Roosevelt Fund, and NSF--Dissertation Improvement Grant; AAUW Fellowship).


Tigga Kingston 2000.  Community structure of bats in dipterocarp forests of Malaysia (The Lubee Foundation, Inc.).




Jay F. Storz 2000.  Genetic structure and social evolution in an Old-World tent-making bat, Cynopterus sphinx  (AMNH, Theodore Roosevelt Fund, The Lubee Foundation, ASM, and National Geographic Society, and NSF).


Wendy R. Hood 2000.  Maternal investment in the big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus (Lubee Foundation, Inc., ASM, Smithsonian Institution, Sigma Xi, and AMNH--Theodore Roosevelt Fund).


Robert Hodgkison  2001 (University of Aberdeen, Scotland).  Roosting and feeding ecology of an Old-World plant-visiting bat, Balionycteris maculata (Lubee Foundation, Inc. and Bat Conservation International).


Suzanne L. Nelson 2002 (University of Florida). Nutritional ecology of Old-World fruit bats: A test of the calcium-constraint hypothesis (Luis F. Bacardi Graduate Fellowship, The Lubee Foundation, Inc., and the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund).

Lizabeth Southworth 2004. Calcium metabolism and vitamin-D in cave-dwelling bats (Sigma Xi; BU's CECB, Boston).




 

Polly Campbell 2005. Evolution and Ecology of Southeast Asian fruit bats in the genus, Cynopterus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) (The Lubee Bat Conservancy, Inc, and the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund, National Geographic Society).

 

Gloriana Chaverri 2006. Ecological correlates of social strategies in the Neotropical tent-making bat Artibeus watsoni. (ASM, The Conservation Food and Health Foundation, and BU's Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology).


Christopher S. Richardson 2006.  Intraspecific variation in metabolism and thermoregulation in Eptesicus fuscus (AMNH--Theodore Roosevelt Fund, American Society of Mammalogists, and Sigma Xi).

 

 


M. A. Students  (Research)
Ralph Hamill. 1974. Uptake of radionuclides by a population of woodchucks in the vicinity of a nuclear reactor.

Jamed G. Hallett. 1976. Space utilization in two sympatric murid rodents, Peromyscus leucopus and Clethrionomys gapperi.

Edythe L.P. Anthony. 1976. Feeding strategies of the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus in New Hampshire.

Elizabeth M. Howell. 1977. Potential biases in small mammal density estimates caused by differential trappability and chemical signals.

William T. Rumage, III. 1978. Food consumption and nightly dispersal of little brown bats, Myotis lucifugus.

Marylou A. Tracy. 1978. Ecology and life history of the bat flea Mysodopsylla insignis.

Robin F.  Bernath. 1978. Structure and dynamics of arthropod communities of bat guano deposits in buildings.

Karen M. Hoying. 1983. Growth and development of the eastern pipistrelle bat, Pipistrellus subflavus.

Carlos Díaz. 1986. Folivory in the Jamaican fruit bat, Artibeus jamaicensis.

Anne P. Brooke. 1988. Natural history of the Honduran white bat, Ectophylla alba, in Costa Rica.

Janey Winchell. 1990. Roosting ecology and time-budgets of the eastern pipistrelle, Pipistrellus subflavus.

Helen M. Papadimitrou. 1994. Ontogenetic changes in mineralization of the wing skeleton in the Mexican free-tailed bat, Tadarida brasiliensis.

Jennifer Newmark. 1998. Isolation calls of young Pteropus vampyrus facilitate mother-infant reunions (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae).

Jason W. Horn.  1998.  Individual variation in nightly time budgets of the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus.

Jamie Bender. 2000. Effects of ectoparasite loads on metabolic rates in Phyllostomus elongatus.

Pablo Jarrín. 2004. Geographical and interespecific variation of highland and lowland species of the Genus Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in Ecuador: A morphometric approach.


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