Carol Boggs
Academic Appointments
- Professor (Teaching), Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)
- Member, Bio-X
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Administrative Appointments
- Bing Director, Program in Human Biology (2006 - 2012)
Honors and Awards
- Stanford Friends University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Stanford University (2010-)
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2001)
- Fellow, California Academy of Sciences (2000)
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Current Research Interests
We are exploring how environmental variation affects life history traits, population structure and dynamics, and species interactions in ecological and evolutionary time, using Lepidoptera. Current interests include (1) how resource allocation strategies interact with foraging and life history in variable environments to affect fitness and population dynamics; (2) the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of small populations, including population re-introductions; and (3) invasion biology, particularly the evolutionary and ecological effects of non-native species' invasion into co-evolved systems.
Publications
- A single climate driver has direct and indirect effects on insect population dynamics. Ecol Lett. 2012; (5): 502-8
- Fitness costs of butterfly oviposition on a lethal non-native plant in a mixed native and non-native plant community. Oecologia. 2012
- Does dietary restriction reduce life span in male fruit-feeding butterflies? Exp Gerontol. 2009; (9): 601-6
- Longevity can buffer plant and animal populations against changing climatic variability. Ecology. 2008; (1): 19-25
- Egg maturation strategy and survival trade-offs in holometabolous insects: A comparative approach Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2007: 293-302
- When agendas collide: human welfare and biological conservation. Conserv Biol. 2007; (1): 59-68
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