Morgan Tingley (Post-doctoral Researcher)

Morgan joined IBP in 2011 after completing his Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley studying the changes to bird communities in the Sierra Nevada over the last century. He comes to IBP to study the ecology of bird communities in burned forests of the Sierra Nevada, with a focus on black-backed woodpecker occurrence and distribution. His post-doctoral research will study the dynamics of these burned forest bird communities and is a result of a collaboration between IBP and Princeton University, where Morgan will be based. His research interests include climate change impacts, long-term disturbance to forest bird communities, and mathematical models of species distributions.

Selected Publications:

Tingley, M.W., W.B. Monahan, S.R. Beissinger, and C. Moritz. 2009. Birds track their Grinnellian niche through a century of climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 106(suppl. 2):19637-19643.

Tingley, M.W., and S.R. Beissinger. 2009. Detecting range shifts from historical species occurrences: new perspectives on old data. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24(11):625-633.

Tingley, M.W., D.A. Orwig, R. Field, and G. Motzkin. 2002. Avian response to removal of a forest dominant: consequences of hemlock woolly adelgid infestations. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1505-1516.

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