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Education

Ph.D. Florida State University (1983). Biological Sciences
MSc. Louisiana State University (1980). Zoology
BSc. University of Arkansas, Little Rock (1976). Biology

Research Interests

My primary interests center on the ecology, biogeography, and evolution of birds. I am unapologetically curious about natural history and the pathways by which natural history observations catalyze significant ecological and evolutionary discoveries. My research program currently focuses on multi-scale patterns of species diversity, the stable isotope ecology of wood warblers, the evolutionary consequences of hybridization in hummingbirds, and the conservation biology of rare and declining bird species. Fieldwork plays an important role in most of my research objectives. I am currently conducting field studies in Jamaica, the bottomland forests in the southeastern United States, the Appalachian Mountains, and in the Sonoran Desert. I am one of the co-organizers of the Bird 10K genome project which seeks to obtain whole genome sequences of the 10,400+ species of living birds.

Recent Publications

Holt, Ben G., Lessard, Jean-Philippe, Borregaard, Michael K., Fritz, Susanne A., Araujo, Miguel B., Dimitrov, Dimitar, Fabre, Pierre-Henri, Graham, Catherine H., Graves, Gary R., Jonsson, Knud A., Nogues-Bravo, David, Wang, Zhiheng, Whittaker, Robert J., Fjeldsa, Jon and Rahbek, Carsten 2013. An Update of Wallace's Zoogeographic Regions of the World. Science, 339(6115): 74-78. doi:10.1126/science.1228282

McCormack, John E., Maley, James M., Hird, Sarah M., Derryberry, Elizabeth P., Graves, Gary R. and Brumfield, Robb T. 2013. Corrigendum to "Next-generation sequencing reveals phylogeographic structure and a species tree for recent bird divergences" [Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 62 (2012) 397–406]. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 66(1): 440 doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.009

Graves, Gary R., Newsome, Seth D., Willard, David E., Grosshuesch, David A., Wurzel, William W. and Fogel, Marilyn L. 2012. Nutritional stress and body condition in the Great Gray Owl (Strix nebulosa) during winter irruptive migrations. Canadian journal of zoology, 90(7): 787-797. doi:10.1139/z2012-047

Gotelli, Nicholas J., Chao, Anne, Colwell, Robert K., Hwang, Wen-han and Graves, Gary R. 2012. Specimen-Based Modeling, Stopping Rules, and the Extinction of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. Conservation Biology, 26(1): 47-56. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01715.x

Schirtzinger, Erin E., Tavares, Erika S., Gonzales, Lauren A., Eberhard, Jessica R., Miyaki, Cristina Y., Sanchez, Juan J., Hernandez, Alexis, Müeller, Heinrich, Graves, Gary R., Fleischer, Robert C. and Wright, Timothy F. 2012. Multiple Independent Origins of Mitochondrial Control Region Duplications in the Order Psittaciformes. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 64(2): 342-356. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.04.009

McCormack, John E., Maley, James M., Hird, Sarah M., Derryberry, Elizabeth P., Graves, Gary R. and Brumfield, Robb T. 2012. Next-generation sequencing reveals phylogeographic structure and a species tree for recent bird divergences. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 62(1): 397-406. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.10.012

Cibois, Alice, Beadell, Jon S., Graves, Gary R., Pasquet, Eric, Slikas, Beth, Sonsthagen, Sarah A., Thibault, Jean-Claude and Fleischer, Robert C. 2011. Charting the course of reed-warblers across the Pacific islands. Journal of Biogeography, 38(10): 1963-1975. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02542.x

Graves, Gary R., Lane, Daniel F., O'Neill, John P. and Valqui, Thomas 2011. A distinctive new subspecies of the Royal Sunangel (Aves: Trochiliformes; Heliangelus regalis) from the Cordillera Azul, northern Peru. Zootaxa, 3002: 52-58.

Schindel, David E., Stoeckle, Mark, Milensky, Chris, Trizna, Michael, Schmidt, Brian, Gebhard, Christina and Graves, Gary R. 2011. Project Description: DNA Barcodes of Bird Species in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA. ZooKeys, 152: 87-91. doi:10.3897/zookeys.152.2473

Graves, Gary,R. 2011. Status of wood rails (Aramides) in north-west Peru. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, 131(1): 210-212.

Graves, Gary R. and Prys-Jones, Robert P. 2011. Rediscovery of the holotype of Trochilus maria Gosse, 1849 (Aves: Apodiformes: Trochilidae). Zootaxa, 2929: 59-63.

Kirchman, Jeremy J., Witt, Christopher C., McGuire, Jimmy A. and Graves, Gary R. 2010. DNA from a 100-year-old holotype confirms the validity of a potentially extinct hummingbird species. Biology Letters, 6(1): 112-115.

Graves, Gary R. 2010. Late ground nesting of Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) on Assateague Island, Virginia. Banisteria, 36: 39-40.

Gotelli, N. J., Graves, Gary R. and Rahbek, C. 2010. Macroecological signals of species interactions in the Danish avifauna. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(11): 5030-5035.

Graves, Gary R. 2010. Late 19th Century Abundance Trends of the Eskimo Curlew on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Waterbirds, 33(2): 236-241.

Graves, Gary R. 2009. Photographic documentation of blue-morph ross's goose (Chen rossii) on Assateague Island, Virginia. Banisteria, 34: 47-49.

Graves, Gary R. 2009. Communal roosting of the Jamaican crow (Corvus jamaicensis). Journal of Caribbean Ornithology, 22(1): 48-51.

Grus, Wendy E., Graves, Gary R. and Glenn, Travis C. 2009. Geographic Variation in the Mitochondrial Control Region of Black-Throated Blue Warblers (Dendroica Caerulescens). The Auk, 126(1): 198-210. doi:10.1525/auk.2009.07159

Graves, Gary R. and Romanek, Christopher S. 2009. Mesoscale patterns of altitudinal tenancy in migratory wood warblers inferred from stable carbon isotopes. Ecological Applications, 19(5): 1264-1273.

Graves, Gary R. 2009. Skeletal correlates of body weight in the Black-billed Streamertail (Trochilus scitulus) of Jamaica. Caribbean Journal of Science, 45(1): 69-72.

Colwell, Robert K., Gotelli, Nicholas J., Rahbek, Carsten, Entsminger, Gary L., Farrell, Catherine and Graves, Gary R. 2009. Peaks, plateaus, canyons, and craters: the complex geometry of simple mid-domain effect models. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 11(3): 355-370.

Gotelli, Nicholas J., Anderson, Marti J., Arita, Hector T., Chao, Anne, Colwell, Robert K., Connolly, Sean R., Currie, David J., Dunn, Robert R., Graves, Gary R., Green, Jessica L., Grytnes, John-Arvid, Jiang, Yi-Huei, Jetz, Walter, Lyons, Sara K., McCain, Christy M., Magurran, Anne E., Rahbek, Carsten, Rangel, Thiago F. L. V. B., Soberón, Jorge, Webb, Campbell O. and Willig, Michael R. 2009. Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology. Ecology Letters, 12(9): 873-886.

Beadell, Jon S., Covas, Rita, Gebhard, Christina, Ishtiaq, Farah, Melo, Martim, Schmidt, Brian K., Perkins, Susan L., Graves, Gary R. and Fleischer, Robert C. 2009. Host associations and evolutionary relationships of avian blood parasites from West Africa. International journal for parasitology, 39(2): 257-266.

Lance, Stacey L., Hagen, Cris, Glenn, Travis C., Brumfield, Robb T., Stryjewski, Katherine Faust and Graves, Gary R. 2009. Fifteen polymorphic microsatellite loci from Jamaican streamertail hummingbirds (Trochilus). Conservation Genetics, 10(4): 1195-1198. doi:10.1007/s10592-008-9748-1

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