Maria Stager

Research Interests: 

My research program focuses on determining the mechanisms that enable organisms to mount responses to changing environmental conditions. This work integrates tools from physiology, ecology, and genomics, as well as combines laboratory experiments and field studies using natural populations -- usually small songbirds. Taken together, this approach targets the causes and consequences of variation in physiological responses to broaden our understanding of individuals’ capacities to cope with accelerating global change and develop realistic projections of species’ viabilities in the future.