Sara Ryding

Evolutionary ecologist

Research projects


My research career thus far has seen me involved with animal behaviour, avian morphology, and population dynamics, involving a broad variety of methods including 3D scanning, gene expression analysis, and lots and lots of R-based data analysis.
 
During my undergraduate degree, I was involved in multiple animal behaviour projects during my time in the Løvlie group at Linköping University, Sweden. My PhD project focused on morphological responses to climate change, primarily in birds, at Deakin University, Australia. My current research fellowship involves investigating changes in juvenile proportions (an indicator of breeding success) in response to climate in migratory shorebirds, and modelling changes in migratory behaviour in response to global change processes (with important implications for disease risk) in shorebirds.

Shorebird migration changes and disease risk


Understanding changes in migration behaviour of shorebirds in response to global change, and the impacts of this on disease incursion risk


Juvenile proportions


How do juvenile proportions (an indicator of breeding success) change in response to climate?


Shape-shifting


Morphological responses to climate change


Animal behaviour


Causes and consequences of animal personality

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