Biography
Dr. Brawn investigates how climate change and land use affect biodiversity. With an emphasis on birds in Illinois and tropical ecosystems, he is advancing understanding of how we can conserve populations and communities of wildlife. He also studies the role of wildlife in the dynamics of infectious diseases such as West Nile Virus.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emeritus, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Recent Publications
Pollock, H. S., Toms, J. D., Tarwater, C. E., Benson, T. J., Karr, J. R., & Brawn, J. D. (2022). Long-term monitoring reveals widespread and severe declines of understory birds in a protected Neotropical forest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(16), [2108731119]. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108731119
Tobias, J. A., Sheard, C., Pigot, A. L., Devenish, A. J. M., Yang, J., Sayol, F., Neate-Clegg, M. H. C., Alioravainen, N., Weeks, T. L., Barber, R. A., Walkden, P. A., MacGregor, H. E. A., Jones, S. E. I., Vincent, C., Phillips, A. G., Marples, N. M., Montaño-Centellas, F. A., Leandro-Silva, V., Claramunt, S., ... Schleuning, M. (2022). AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters, 25(3), 581-597. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898
Hauber, M. E., Taylor, D. M., & Brawn, J. D. (2021). Variable or atypical? Comparing unusual songs of the Tufted Titmouse with a citizen-science database. Journal of Ornithology, 162(1), 313-316. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-020-01839-9
Merrill, L., Jones, T. M., Brawn, J. D., & Ward, M. P. (2021). Early-life patterns of growth are linked to levels of phenotypic trait covariance and postfledging mortality across avian species. Ecology and Evolution, 11(22), 15695-15707. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8231
Nishikawa, E. T., Pollock, H. S., & Brawn, J. D. (2021). Dry season intensity has equivocal effects on the nutritional condition of understory birds in a Neotropical forest. Ornithology, 138(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukaa085