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SUNY at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY
11794-4364
631.632.9440
Fax: 631.632.7692
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Alex Dehgan
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Education:
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Post-Grad. Training in
Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bloomberg School
of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D. 2003 University
of Chicago Evolutionary Biology
M.S. 2003 University of Chicago Evolutionary Biology
J.D. 1994 University of California International Law,
Hastings College of the Law
B.S. 1991 Duke University, Zoology and Political Science
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Current
Position:
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Member,
Policy Planning Staff, Office of the Secretary,
U.S. Department of State |
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Website:
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http://www.state.gov/s/p/61224.htm
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Research Sites:
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Ranomafana National Park and Eastern
mid-elevation forest fragments, southeastern forest corridor |
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Research Project:
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The Ranomafana Fragments
Project and the Center for Extinction Research |
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Research Focus:
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My reseach focuses on
why certain animals go extinct while others are able
to survive after habitat fragmentation. I am particularly
interested in
the role of behavioral plasticity (the amount of flexibility
in behavior
as determined by constraints developed through the course
of an animal's
evolution) in predicting extinction proclivity. I also seek
to tie together biogeographic patterns with local level behavioral
and ecological processes as moderated by evolution. I tested
these ideas on lemuriformes in fragmented habitats in southeastern
Madagascar. My collaborators and I are now looking at the
genetic basis for behavioral plasticity and are looking to
replicate the promising results of this study in other areas
of Madagascar. |
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Publications:
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Ganzhorn Jorg U., Steven
M. Goodman, and Alex Dehgan. 2004 (In
press). Effects of Forest Fragmentation on Small Mammals and
Lemurs. In: Natural History of Madagascar (Steve M. Goodman
and
J. Benstead, eds., University of Chicago Press, Chicago).
Dehgan, A., R. Rundell, and B. Patterson. Forthcoming.
The Ecology and
Evolution of Extinction: Patterns, Processes and Predictions.
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Project Sponsors:
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National Science Foundation,
J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship
Board, Wildlife Conservation Society, William Rainy Harper
Fellowship of
the University of Chicago, Searle Fellowship of the University
of Chicago,
Brookfield Zoo Conservation and Research Award, Cleveland
Metroparks Zoo Conservation and Research Grant, Margot Marsh
Foundation, Conservation International, Madagascar Fauna Group,
Explorers Club Exploration Fund, Primate Society of Great
Britain, British Ecological Society, Pittsburg Zoo Conservation
Fund, American Society of Primatologists, Primate Conservation,
Inc., Coleman Burke Fellowship, Hinds Fund of the Committee
on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, among
others. |
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