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Graduate Advising 

Major Advisor for Ph.D. Dissertations

Annette Sauter. anticipated 2005. Anthropogenic food availability, parental activity, nestling behavior and predation risk in a suburban population of Florida Scrub-Jays. Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Major Advisor for Master's Theses:

Arthur L. Fleischer, Jr. 2000. The influence of time budget and rate of food handling and consumption on the timing of breeding of female Florida scrub-jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens): A comparison between populations in natural and suburban habitats. Department of Biology, University of South Florida. 82 pp. Currently Head Chef at the River Inn, Plainfield, VT.

Matthew D. Shawkey. 2001. Proximate causes of brood reduction in Florida scrub-jays. Department of Biology, University of South Florida. 75 pp. Currently a Ph.D. Candidate in GEoff Hill's lab at Auburn University.

Michelle L. Dent. anticipated 2005. Vegetation structure and post-fledging survival of Florida Scrub-Jays in suburban and natural habitats. MS degree. Environmental Studies Department, Antioch New England Graduate School.

Sonya LeClair. anticipated 2005. Comparison of hatching failure in a wildland and suburban population of the Florida Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens): Are demographic differences or human disturbance to blame? Department of Biology, University of South Florida.

Committee Member: 

Lee M. Walton. 1997. Florida scrub-jay nest-site selectivity in unfragmented, periodically burned vs. fragmented, overgrown habitat. MS degree. Department of Biology, Villanova University. 72 pp. Currently a Senior Ecology with Biological Research Associates, Tampa, FL.

William J. Keating. 1999. Nocturnal roosting behavior of the Florida scrub-jay. MS degree. Department of Biology, University of South Florida. 67 pp.

Tina L. Fleischer. 2000. Reactions of Florida scrub-jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens) to eggs and shams added to their nests. MS degree. Department of Biology, University of South Florida. 40 pp.

Kimberly B. Brand. 2001. Body mass variation in the Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens). MS degree. Department of Biology, University of South Florida. 55 pp.

Raoul Boughton. anticipated 2005. Interactions of physiological processes and the avian immune system: investigations at the proximate and ultimate levels. Ph.D. candidate. Department of Biology, University of Memphis.

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