Adam M. Fudickar
Curriculum Vitae
2006-2008 M.Sc. in Zoology, University of Oklahoma, USA
2003-2006 B.Sc. in Zoology, University of Oklahoma, USA
Research Interests & Goals
I am fascinated with understanding how animals adapt to seasonal variations in temperate environments. For my doctoral thesis I am attempting to understand, through observation and experimentation, what ecological factors determine individual migratory strategies in a partial migrant population of European blackbirds (partial migrant populations contain both migratory and sedentary individuals) and what life history tradeoffs accompany these extremely different strategies. By identifying the proximate environmental cues for individual annual movement behavior and the tradeoffs made to migrate or remain sedentary, we will gain a greater understanding of selective pressures favoring the evolution of both migratory and sedentary life histories.
Publications
Fudickar AM, Wikelski M and Partecke J. 2011. Tracking migratory songbirds: accuracy of light level loggers (Geolocators) in forest habitats. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. abstract
Bridge ES, Fudickar AM, Kelly JF, Contina A and Rohwer S. 2011. Causes of bimodal stable istotope signatures in the feathers of a molt-migrant songbird. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 89: 951-959. abstract
Kelly JF, Bridge ES, Fudickar AM, Wassenaar LI. 2009. A test of comparative equilibration for determining non-exchangeable stabe hydrogen isotope values in complex organic materials. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 23: 2316-2320. abstract
Scobell SK, Fudickar AM, Knapp R. 2009. Potential reproductive rate in a sex-role reversed pipefish over several bouts of mating. Animal Behaviour 78: 747-753. abstract
Awards & Scholarships
2011 IMPRS for Organismal Biology Best Student Paper Award (1st)
2010 Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Charlotte Mangum Student Support Award
2007-2008 George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Award
2007-2008 M. Blanche Adams and M. Frances Adams Academic Year Research Award
2007 M. Blanche Adams and M. Frances Adams Summer Research Award
2007 MIGRATE Travel and Tuition Award
2006 University of Oklahoma Graduate Student Senate Research and Creativity Award
Hometown
Oklahoma City, USA
Address
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Migration and Immuno-Ecology
Fon: +49 1745 678 017
E-mail: afudickar(at)orn.mpg.de
