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Additional Campus Affiliations
Principal Research Scientist, Wildlife Ecology, Illinois Natural History Survey
Coordinator, Critical Trends Assessment Program (CTAP), Illinois Natural History Survey
Research Associate Professor, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Recent Publications
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
Jones, T. M., Chiavacci, S. J., Benson, T. J., & Ward, M. P. (2024). Nesting and post-fledging predation risk influence diel patterns of songbird fledging. Ibis, 166(2), 411-423. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13119
Metz, E., Pease, B. S., Benson, T. J., Beveroth, T. A., Esker, T., Sierzega, K., & Ward, M. P. (2024). Long-term occurrence of Chuck-will's-widow (Antrostomus carolinensis) beyond contemporary IUCN range. Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 136(3), 364-369. https://doi.org/10.1676/23-00071