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Additional Campus Affiliations
Principal Research Scientist, Wildlife Ecology, Illinois Natural History Survey
Research Associate Professor, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Recent Publications
Skinner, A. A., Korpach, A. M., Åkesson, S., Bakermans, M. H., Bayne, E. M., Benson, T. J., Boano, G., Brigham, R. M., Christiansen, S. S., Conway, G. J., Davy, C. M., Evens, R., Fraser, K. C., Harrison, A. L., Hedenström, A., Henderson, I. G., Honkala, J., Jacobsen, L. B., Lathouwers, M., ... Knight, E. (2025). Environmental and Geographic Conditions on the Breeding Grounds Drive Bergmannian Clines in Nightjars. Journal of Biogeography, 52(10), Article e15176. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15176
Winnicki, S. K., Hauber, M. E., Paitz, R. T., Schelsky, W. M., & Benson, T. J. (2025). Elevating Testosterone and Androstenedione Produces Temporary Sex-Dependent Variation in Japanese Quail (Coturnix japonica) Embryonic Development. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, 343(9), 1103-1116. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.70024
Alexander, N., Dickinson, A., Benson, T. J., Ford, T. W., Mateus-Pinilla, N., Arneson, J., & Davis, M. A. (Accepted/In press). Waterbird disease in the United States Laurentian Great Lakes under climate change. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 50(6), Article 102450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2024.102450
Di Giovanni, A. J., Jones, T. M., Benson, T. J., & Ward, M. P. (2024). Embryonic heart rate is higher in species that experience greater nest predation risk during incubation. Ecology and Evolution, 14(6), Article e11460. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11460
Johnson, C. A., & Benson, T. J. (2024). Dynamic, multi-scale analyses indicate site- and landscape-level forest cover drive Yellow-billed and Black-billed Cuckoo interannual turnover. Ecology and Evolution, 14(2), Article e10938. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10938