个人简介

Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1988

研究领域

Morphology (comparative, functional and developmental) Physiological ecology Behavioral ecology Marine conservation biology

My lab’s research program addresses how organisms contend or interact with their environment. I draw upon ideas and methodology from many biological disciplines including evolutionary biology, conservation biology, functional morphology, ecology, ethology, physiology, and developmental biology. Evolutionary processes and adaptation are important considerations in my work. My broad-based training enables me to address such diverse questions as how behavioral patterns are associated with migratory swimming in sea turtles and how effective are hatcheries, a common sea turtle management technique? How sex ratios in sea turtle skewed and if so what does that imply? Other, current research stresses the implications of an animal's structure and behavior to how it functions within its environment. I examine how suites of morphological characters either constrain behavioral options or are exploited to allow behavioral plasticity. My studies are comparative and include morphological, behavioral, and physiological analyses of behavior in three sea turtle species as they undergo offshore migration, and how sea turtle visual systems differ among species, and consequences on environmental change on development. 

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Wyneken, J. and Lolavar, A. (2015). Loggerhead sea turtle environmental sex determination: Implications of moisture and temperature for climate change based predictions for species survival. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 324(3): 295-314. Mansfield, K.L., Wyneken, J., Porter, W.P. and Luo, J. (2014). First satellite tracks of neonate sea turtles redefine the ‘lost years’ oceanic niche. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 281:20133039. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.3039. Salmon, M., Hamann, M. and Wyneken, J. (2010). The development of early diving behavior by juvenile flatback sea turtles (Natator depressus) Chelonian Conservation and Biology 9(1):8-17. Wyneken, J. (2001). Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US Department of Commerce. NMFS-SEFSC-470 Tech. Memo.