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Alix D. Dowling Fink, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology
B.S., Biology, Indiana University (1994)
M.S., Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University
(1996)
Ph.D., Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, University of Missouri
(2003)
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Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences |
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Longwood University |
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201 High Street |
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Farmville, VA 23909 |
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(434) 395-2576 |
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(434) 395-2652 |
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finkad@longwood.edu |
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RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY INTERESTS
My research interests center on the intersection of basic
questions of vertebrate ecology and applied questions of how
landscape change impacts habitats available to vertebrates.
This work is of interest to me because of the important links
among local habitat conditions, reproductive success of
individuals, larger scale population dynamics, habitat
management, and conservation. My graduate work focused on
habitat use and demography of Neotropical migrant songbirds in
floodplain forests in East Texas and early successional habitats
in the Missouri Ozarks. In Virginia I have continued to pursue
questions related to habitat use, habitat selection, and
reproductive success of birds in early successional habitats in
the Piedmont, and I am part of two on-going collaborations
related to these avian communities. Additionally, I have
worked on parallel research questions with other mobile migrant
vertebrates, namely bats, including a recently completed
graduate project that characterized roost sites of eastern red
bats and a developing project that will examine foraging habitat
use and insect availability under intensive forest management.
All of my research has involved students, and I encourage
interested students to contact me regarding opportunities to
become involved.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Fink, A. D., A. A. Tudor, and F. R.
Thompson, III. In press (2006). Songbird use of regenerating
forest, glade, and edge habitat types. Journal of Wildlife
Management 70(1).
Woodward, A. A., A. D. Fink, and F. R.
Thompson, III. 2001. Edge effects and ecological traps:
effects on shrubland birds in Missouri. Journal of Wildlife
Management 65:668-675.
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Biology
