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Contact Information

1816 S. Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820

Principal Research Scientist, Wildlife Ecology

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

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