Members of the Adams Lab
Chelsea Berns
I am in the second year of my PhD in the Adams lab. I am interested in bill morphology of hummingbirds (Apodiforms: Trochilidae). Generally, I am interested in the evolution of sexual dimorphism in bill size and shape, as related to behavior and foraging strategies. I am particularly interested in quantifying the evolution of phenoytpic changes and sexual shape dimorphism in bill shape within several wide-ranging species in North America, and relating these biogeographic patterns in sexual dimorphism to evolutionary trends across the Trochilids.
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