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Alexander (Sasha) Kitaysky
Research Interests:
The main focus of my current research program is on the fundamental question:
Can we predict population responses (range shift, adaptation or extinction) to an environmental change based on current phenotypic and biological age structures of natural populations of marine top-predators?
Specifically, I am interested in (A) how climate- and human induced environmental changes affect physiology, reproduction and survival of different phenotypes in wild seabird populations; and (B) the consequences of such differential selection pressure on individuals for the spatial and temporal dynamics of their populations.
Sasha
Kitaysky
Professor of Integrative Physiology
Office:
413 Irving 1
907-474-5179
Lab:
110 Irving 1
907-474-5753
Postal Address:
Institute of Arctic Biology
PO Box 757000
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000
- 1992-1996 Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, USA
- 1986 MS, Irkutsk State University, Russia
- 2013-current Professor of Integrative Physiology, Department of Biology and Wildlife, IAB, UAF
- 2007-2013 Associate Professor of Integrative Physiology, Department of Biology and Wildlife, IAB, UAF
- 2003-2007 Assistant Professor of Integrative Physiology, Department of Biology and Wildlife, IAB, UAF
- 2000-2003 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, UW
- 1997-2000 Research Associate, Department of Zoology, UW, Seattle
2010
Ito, M. et al., 2010. Foraging behavior of incubating and chick-rearing thick-billed murres Uria lomvia. Aquatic Biology, 8, pp.279–287.
Kitaysky, A.S. et al., 2010. Food availability and population processes: severity of nutritional stress during reproduction predicts survival of long-lived seabirds. Functional Ecology, 24, pp.625–637.
Kokubun, N. et al., 2010. Annual variation in the foraging behaviour of thick-billed murres in relation to upper-ocean thermal structure around St. George Island, Bering Sea. Aquatic Biology, 8, pp.289–298.
Satterthwaite, W.H. et al., 2010. Unifying quantitative life-history theory and field endocrinology to assess prudent parenthood in a long-lived seabird. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 12, pp.779–792.
2009
Dot, T.Jeanniard et al., 2009. Changes in glucocorticoids, IGF-I and thyroid hormones as indicators of nutritional stress and subsequent refeeding in Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A152, pp.524–534.
Harding, A.M.A. et al., 2009. Impacts of experimentally increased foraging effort on the family: Offspring sex matters. Animal Behavior, 78, pp.321–328.
Harding, A.M.A. et al., 2009. Flexibility in the parental effort of an Arctic-breeding seabird. Functional Ecology, 23, pp.348–358.
III, H.D.Douglas et al., 2009. Size of ornament is negatively correlated with baseline corticosterone in males of a socially monogamous colonial seabird. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 179.
Welcker, J. et al., 2009. Daily energy expenditure increases in response to low nutritional stress in an Arctic-breeding seabird with no effect on mortality. Functional Ecology, 23, pp.1081–1090.
2008
Addison, B.A., Kitaysky, A.S. & J. Hipfner, M., 2008. Sex allocation in a monomorphic seabird with a single-egg clutch: test of the environment, mate quality, and female condition hypotheses. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 63, pp.135–141.
Pages
- The Bering Sea’s Regime Shifts: Using a century of data to examine dynamics of nutritional stress and trophic linkages in fish-eating seabirds. - NPRB 1410
- Early breeding season responses of red-legged kittiwakes to changes of prey availability and linkages to the non-breeding stage - NPRB 1409
- Forage Patch Dynamics I - NPRB, NSF
- Forage Patch Dynamics II - NPRB, NSF
- Effects of Physical Forcing in the Bering Sea Ecosystem - NPRB
- BIOL 441 Animal Behavior
Past Graduate Students
Advised
- Rebecca Young (Ph.D.)
- Chris Barger (M.S.)
- Ine Dorresteijn (M.S.)
- T. Morgan (M.S.)
- J. Sears (M.S.)
- Michael Shultz (M.S.)
- Tom Dempsey (M.S.)
Co-Advised
- Jannik Schultner (Ph.D.)
- Morgan Benowitz-Fredericks (Ph.D.)