Elphick lab Research

Most of our research projects focus on the ecology and conservation of birds, especially in wetland and agricultural settings.

Research Projects:

• Conservation and management of birds in California rice fields
• Global variation in the bird use of rice fields
• Predicting species distributions from sparsely sampled data
• Nevada Breeding Bird Atlas
• Conservation of saltmarsh sparrows in Long Island Sound
• Mute Swan demography, dispersal behavior, and impact on native species
• Effects of "light pollution" on beach-nesting birds
• Conservation, management, and population dynamics of endangered Hawaiian waterbirds