Native Bird HabitatLogan Maxwell
2018 The Frances M. Peacock Scholarship for Native Bird Habitat
Logan Maxwell is a master’s student at the University of New Hampshire. Her project is titled “Fitness Consequences of Hybridization in Saltmarsh and Nelson’s Sparrows.” Maxwell’s research will use field-collected demographic data in combination with molecular genetic tools to study outcomes of hybridization in these two tidal marsh birds, which are threatened by sea-level rise. She will evaluate their drivers and patterns of hybridization in the center of the hybrid zone through a lens of local adaptation within a changing environment. The results will help enable predictions about adaptive capacity and population viability into the future.
The Frances M. Peacock Scholarship for Native Bird Habitat
To provide financial aid to study areas in the United States that provide seasonal habitat for threatened or endangered native birds and to tend useful information for land-management decisions.
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