BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:EventsCalendar PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T053451Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:College of Arts and Sciences,Thesis/Dissertations DESCRIPTION:Advisor: Dr. Michael Sheriff Committee Members: Dr. Sarah Don elan (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) Dr. Mark Silby (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) Dr. John Buck (University of Massachusetts Dartm outh) Dr. John Orrock (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Abstract: Noise p ollution is a widespread environmental stressor that introduces anthropoge nic disturbance to animals’ acoustic environment. Traffic noise is one o f the most spatially extensive sources of noise pollution, with traffic on US roads nearly tripling in the last few decades. This noise has the pote ntial to disrupt wildlife by interfering with their ability to perceive an d interpret information in their environment, masking important acoustic c ues - such as the calls of predators. Such disruptions may alter how prey respond to the risk of predation, reshaping predator-prey interactions and having cascading consequences to population and community dynamics. While previous research has explored the direct effects of noise on behavior an d physiology, there is less known regarding how chronic noise exposure inf luences prey response to predation risk in free-living animal populations. In my PhD, I will test the hypothesis that chronic exposure to traffic no ise alters prey risk-responses in free-living small mammals, Peromyscus le ucopus. To test this hypothesis, I will conduct an experimental study near a major interstate and a common-garden experiment using predator calls an d traffic noise.\nEvent page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/phd-propos al-defense-integrative-biology-by-haleigh-nogueira.php X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

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Dr. Michael Sh eriff
 
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Noise pollution is a widespread envi ronmental stressor that introduces anthropogenic disturbance to animals’ acoustic environment. Traffic noise is one of the most spatially extensiv e sources of noise pollution\, with traffic on US roads nearly tripling in the last few decades. This noise has the potential to disrupt wildlife by interfering with their ability to perceive and interpret information in t heir environment\, masking important acoustic cues - such as the calls of predators. Such disruptions may alter how prey respond to the risk of pred ation\, reshaping predator-prey interactions and having cascading conseque nces to population and community dynamics. While previous research has exp lored the direct effects of noise on behavior and physiology\, there is le ss known regarding how chronic noise exposure influences prey response to predation risk in free-living animal populations. In my PhD\, I will test the hypothesis that chronic exposure to traffic noise alters prey risk-res ponses in free-living small mammals\, Peromyscus leucopus. To test this hy pothesis\, I will conduct an experimental study near a major interstate an d a common-garden experiment using predator calls and traffic noise.

Event page: https://www.umassd.edu/eve nts/cms/phd-proposal-defense-integrative-biology-by-haleigh-nogueira.php

DTSTAMP:20260528T144232 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260602T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260602T130000 LOCATION:CCB-340 SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:PhD Proposal Defense: Integrative Biology by Haleigh Nogueira UID:03aaa2279abc29891c744a12a13377f1@www.umassd.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR