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Michaela Hau | My
main research interest is to understand the ways in which animals have evolutionarily
adapted their physiological setup to the environment in which they live.
I focus on tropical birds as model systems and am especially interested
in finding out how the physiological system of tropical birds is organized
to function optimally at low latitudes. I compare physiological patterns
found in tropical birds to temperate zone species to study the evolution
of complex physiological systems. My research integrates physiology, ecology
and evolution and is aimed at a functional understanding of short- and long-term
animal-environment interactions. In my lab, we conduct field work in Panama, the Galápagos, and the US to learn about patterns in nature. We combine these data with laboratory experiments to unravel the underlying physiological mechanisms. We observe the birds' behavior, use field endocrinological techniques to analyze physiological processes such as hormonal responses to environmental changes, and conduct experiments in the field or under controlled conditions in the lab to investigate causal relationships between physiology and behavior. |
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| Tel 609.258.3508 Fax 609.258.1682 Email: hau 'at' princeton [dot] edu |
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