Trevor Price    

Professor of Biology

Department of Ecology and Evolution

The University of Chicago

1101 E 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637

pricet@uchicago.edu

773-702-5176

 

 

 

Lab Members Research Publications

Courses

 

Lab Members

Thomas Tietze, Post-doctoral fellow

Jason Weir, Post-doctoral fellow

Natasha Bloch, Graduate student

Elizabeth Scordato, Graduate student email

David Wheatcroft, Graduate student email

 

Research

For a general overview of the research in my lab, see the departmental website. The current focus of my research is on the determinants of bird species diversity along the Himalayas, notably the question of why there are twice as many species in the eastern Himalayas as the west. This work is being done in collaboration with Dhananjai Mohan (email) and Pratap Singh (email) at the Wildlife Institute of India, as well as my long term (25 years!) collaborator Nitin Jamdar and his wife Kartika (email) . We are conducting extensive field studies of the ecology, abundance, elevational, and latitudinal distributions of passerine birds. We are working in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, mostly in the months April-July. Together with Bettina Harr of the Max Planck Institue in Ploen, Germany, we are generating mitochondrial DNA based phylogenies. The combination of phylogenetic and ecological work will be used to distinguish so-called ecological and historical explanations for the gradient in species diversity.

 
Graduate student Mousumi Ghosh conducting a census in rhododendron forest Pratap Singh compiling song recordings for use in identifying species during the censuses. Pteruthius rufiventer.The nest of this species was apparently undescribed until our study in Kanchenjunga National Park, Sikkim, in 2007. Photo by collaborator Nitin Jamdar (email). Cettia acanthizoides and its spectacular song. Photo by Ritesh Bagu (email) song recorded by Pratap Singh.

Selected publications (full list in pdf format)

FOR SUPPLEMENTS TO PUBLISHED PAPERS PLEASE GO HERE

  1. Price, T., J. Zee, K. Jamdar and N. Jamdar (2003) Bird species diversity along the Himalayas: a comparison of Himachal Pradesh with Kashmir. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 100: 394-409 pdf
  2. Irwin, D. E., S. Bensch, J. H. Irwin and T. Price. (2005) Speciation by distance in a ring species. Science 307:414-415.pdf
  3. Johansson, U. S., P. Alström, U. Olsson, P. Ericson, P. Lundberg and T. D. Price. (2007) Build-up of the Himalayan avifauna through immigration: a biogeographical analysis of the Phylloscopus and Seicercus warblers. Evolution 61: 324-333 pdf
  4. Phillimore, A. B., and T. D. Price (2008) Density-dependent cladogenesis in birds. PLOS Biology. 6: e71 pdf
  5. Price, T. D., and M. Kirkpatrick. (2009). Evolutionarily stable range limits set by interspecific competition. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 276: 1429-1434. pdf
  6. Price, T. D. (2010). The roles of time and ecology in the continental radiation of the Old World Leaf Warblers (Phylloscopus and Seicercus). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. pdf

 

Courses

 

Graduate class in Ecological Genetics. Offered in alternate years, next will be Fall 2010. Most recent syllabus

Undergraduate class in Environmental Ecology (BIOS13107). Offered Spring 2010, then Winter 2011. Most recent syllabus