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Personal:
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Department of Biology |
phone: 704 894 2325 |
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Davidson College |
fax: 704 894 2512 |
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PO Box 7040 |
e-mail: mastanback@davidson.edu |
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Davidson, NC 28035-7040 |
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http://www.bio.davidson.edu/Biology/mastanback/mastanback.html |
Education:
| 1984
-1990 |
PhD
(1991) Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Zoology
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
Thesis title: Causes and consequences of nestling size variation
in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker Melanerpes
formicivorus.
Thesis advisor: Dr. Walter D. Koenig. |
| 1980
-1984 |
BS
(1984) cum laude, Biology, 1984.
Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina. |
Academic
Appointments:
| 2001
- present |
Associate
Professor, Department of Biology, Davidson College, Davidson,
NC |
| 1995
- 2001 |
Assistant
Professor, Department of Biology, Davidson College, Davidson,
NC |
| 1994-1995 |
Fulbright
Scholar, Namibia, Africa |
| 1991-1994 |
Research
Associate, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
Research
Interests:
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Nest site competition among cavity nesting birds
Nest site competition between wasps and cavity nesting birds
Urban heat island effects on eastern bluebirds and tree swallows
Nest site selection and nest site fidelity in eastern bluebirds
Bluebirds as bio-indicators on golf courses
Hatching asynchrony in purple martins
Nest spacing in barn swallows
Mate choice in eastern bluebirds
Breeding synchrony and extrapair paternity in eastern bluebirds
Behavioral endocrinology of cooperative breeding in acorn
woodpeckers
Causes and consequences of nestling size variation in acorn
woodpeckers
Sperm storage and sperm competition in African hornbills
Hatching asynchrony in African hornbills
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Awards,
Grants, Honors:
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2005
Associated Colleges of the South grant (nest site competition:
a town/gown collaboration) with Krista Heiner
2003 Associated Colleges of the South grant (vertebrate survey
of the Brackett Preserve) with Mike Dorcas
2003 Associated Colleges of the South grant (spatial ecology
of screech owls)
2002
NSF REU Site Grant (Co-PI with Mike Dorcas)
2002 Associated Colleges of the South Grant (golf course
predation)
2002 Davidson College Faculty Study and Research Grant
(barn swallow nesting)
2002 Carolina Bird Club Research Grant (Ana Gabela ’02),
(barn swallow nesting)
2002 Stone Environmental Research Grant (Ned Conway ’04,
golf course predation)
2001 Davidson College Faculty Study and Research Grant
(bluebirds as bioindicators)
2001
Stone Environmental Research Grant (Carrie Riley '02 bioinvasions)
2000
Purple Martin Conservation Association Research Grant
2000 Davidson College Abernethy Faculty-Student Research Grant
(Jenny Roberts '01, DNA fingerprinting)
1999
Davidson College Abernethy Faculty-Student Research Grant
(Ana Gabela '02)
1999
Davidson College Faculty Study Research Grant (bluebird nest
site fidelity)
1999
Bat Conservation Int'l Bat Conservation and Management Workshop
Scholarship
1997 Who's Who Among America's Teachers
1996 American Men and Women in Science
1996 Elective Member, American Ornithologists' Union
1996
Davidson College Faculty Study and Research Grant (bluebird
nest site selection
1995 National Science Foundation International Postdoctoral
Fellowship (Namibia)
1994-1995 Fulbright Scholar Award (Namibia)
1994 Chicago Zoological Society, Conservation Biology Research
Grant (Namibia)
1994 American Philosophical Society, Research Grant (Namibia)
1994
National Science Foundation / AOU Travel Award
1992-1994 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
(UW-Seattle)
1993 Who's Who in Science and Engineering
1991-1992 National Institutes of Health, National Research
Service Award (UW-Seattle)
1991 National Geographic Society, Research Grant
1991 North American Bluebird Society, Betty McIlwain Research
Award
1989 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Betty S. Davis Fellowship
1989 Marcia Brady Tucker Award, American Ornithologists' Union
1988 Participant, Organization for Tropical Studies 88-1,
Costa Rica
1985-1988 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
(UC-Berkeley)
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Publications:
Koenig, W.D., M.T. Stanback, and J. Haydock. Abbreviated inner
primaries: a sex-linked dimorphism in acorn woodpeckers. Submitted
to Auk.
Koenig, W.D., M.T. Stanback, and J. Haydock. Egg size variation
in the acorn woodpecker. Submitted to Auk.
Stanback, M.T. and M.L. Seifert. Do eastern bluebirds pair assortatively
with respect to condition? Submitted to Auk.
Stanback, M.T., J.C. Wingfield, and W.D. Koenig. Reproductive competence,
reproductive quiescence, and cooperative breeding in the acorn
woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus). In revision, Behavioral Ecology
and Sociobiology.
Stanback, M.T. and M.L. Seifert. 2005. A comparison of eastern
bluebird reproductive parameters in golf and rural habitats. Wildlife
Society Bulletin 33:471-482.
Stanback, M.T. and E.K. Rockwell 2003. Breeding dispersal in eastern
bluebirds depends on the quality of alternate cavities. Auk 120:1029-1032.
Stanback, M.T., D.R. Richardson, C. Boix-Hinzen, and J.M. Mendelsohn.
2002. Genetic monogamy in Monteiro's hornbill, Tockus monteiri.
Animal Behaviour 63:787-793.
Haydock, J., W.D. Koenig, and M.T. Stanback. 2001. Shared parentage
and incest avoidance in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker.
Molecular Ecology 10: 1515-1525.
Koenig, W.D., M.T. Stanback, J. Haydock, and F. Kraaijeveld-Smit.
2001. Nestling sex-ratio variation in the cooperatively breeding
acorn woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus). Behavioral Ecology
and Sociobiology 49: 357-365.
Stanback, M.T. and A.A. Dervan. 2001. Within-season nest site fidelity
in eastern bluebirds: disentangling the effects of nest success
and parasite avoidance. Auk 118: 743-745.
Boix-Hinzen, C., M.T. Stanback, and J.M. Mendelsohn. 2000. Plugging
the gap: monitoring Monteiro’s hornbills. Africa Birds and
Birding 5: 56-59.
Koenig, W.D., P.N. Hooge, M.T. Stanback, and J. Haydock. 2000.
Natal dispersal in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker.
Condor 102:492-502.
Stanback, M.T. 2000. “Why” Questions in Biology. North
American Biology Teacher.
Hooge, P.N., M.T. Stanback, and W.D. Koenig. 1999. Nest site selection
in the acorn woodpecker. Auk 116: 45-54.
Koenig, W.D., J.M.H. Knops, W.J. Carmen, and M.T. Stanback. 1999.
Spatial dynamics in the absence of dispersal: acorn production
by oaks in central coastal California. Ecography 22: 499-506.
Koenig, W.D., M.T. Stanback, and J. Haydock. 1999. Demographic
consequences of incest avoidance in the cooperatively breeding
acorn woodpecker. Animal Behaviour 57: 1287-1293.
Stanback, M.T., C. Boix-Hinzen, T.R. Birkhead, F. Fletcher, D.
Richardson, and J. Mendelsohn. 1999. Sperm storage and pair bondage:
reproductive conflict in hornbills. In: Proceedings of the 22nd
International Ornithological Congress, Durban RSA, August 1998
(Adams, N.J. and R.H. Slotow, eds.). Johannesburg: Birdlife South
Africa; 2657-2665.
Koenig, W.D., J. Haydock, and M.T. Stanback. 1998. Reproductive
roles in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker: incest avoidance
vs. reproductive competition. American Naturalist 151: 243-255.
Stanback, M.T. 1998. Getting stuck: a cost of communal cavity roosting.
Wilson Bulletin 110: 421-423.
Koenig, W.D., J.M.H. Knops, W.J. Carmen, M.T. Stanback, and R.L.
Mumme. 1996. Acorn production by oaks in central coastal California:
influence of weather at three levels. Canadian Journal of Forest
Research 26: 1677-1683.
Dickinson, J.L., J. Haydock, W.D. Koenig, M.T. Stanback, and F.A.
Pitelka. 1995. Genetic monogamy in single-male groups of acorn
woodpeckers. Molecular Ecology 4: 765-770.
Koenig, W.D., R.L. Mumme, M.T. Stanback, and F.A. Pitelka. 1995.
Patterns and consequences of egg destruction among joint-nesting
acorn woodpeckers. Animal Behaviour 50: 607-621.
Koenig, W.D., P.B. Stacey, M.T. Stanback, and R.L. Mumme. 1995.
Acorn woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus). In The Birds of North
America., No. 194 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.) Academy of Natural
Sciences, Philadelphia; American Ornithologists' Union, Washington,
D.C.
Koenig, W.D., J.M.H. Knops, W.J. Carmen, M.T. Stanback, and R.L.
Mumme. 1994. Estimating acorn crops using visual surveys. Canadian
Journal of Forest Research 24: 2105-2112.
Koenig, W.D., R.L. Mumme, W.J. Carmen, and M.T. Stanback. 1994.
Acorn production by oaks in central coastal California: variation
within and among years. Ecology 75: 99-109.
Stanback, M.T. 1994. Dominance within broods of the cooperatively
breeding acorn woodpecker. Animal Behaviour 47: 1121-1126.
Stanback, M.T. 1994. Wildlife rehabilitation, conservation biology,
and complex avian social systems. Wildlife Rehabilitation 11: 135-153.
Stanback, M.T. and W.D. Koenig. 1994. Techniques for capturing
birds inside natural cavities. Journal of Field Ornithology 65:
70-75.
Birkhead, T.R., M.T. Stanback, and R. Simmons. 1993. The phalloid
organ of buffalo weavers Bubalornis. Ibis 135: 326-331.
Stanback, M.T. 1993. A simple field storage tube for spring scales.
North American Bird Bander 18: 29.
Koenig, W.D., F.A. Pitelka, W.A. Carmen, R.L. Mumme, and M.T. Stanback.
1992. The evolution of delayed dispersal in cooperative breeders.
Quarterly Review of Biology 67: 111-150.
Stanback, M.T. and W.D. Koenig. 1992. Cannibalism in birds. In
Cannibalism: ecology and evolution among diverse taxa (M. Elgar
and B. Crespi, eds.). Pp. 277-288. Oxford University Press.
Koenig, W.D., W.J. Carmen, M.T. Stanback, and R.L. Mumme. 1991.
Determinants of acorn productivity among five species of oaks in
central coastal California. In Proceedings of the symposium on
oak woodlands and hardwood rangeland management (R.B. Standiford,
technical coordinator). Pp. 136-142. Pacific Southwest Forest and
Range Exp. Station Gen. Tech. Report PSW-126.
Koenig, W.D., M.T. Stanback, P.N. Hooge, and R.L. Mumme. 1991.
Distress calls in the acorn woodpecker. Condor 93: 637-643.
Stanback, M.T. 1991. Autumnal breeding in the scrub jay. Journal
of Field Ornithology 62: 94-96.
Stanback, M.T. 1991. A reassessment of avian food caching. Bird
Behaviour 9: 1-7.
Weathers, W.W., W.D. Koenig, and M.T. Stanback. 1990. Breeding
energetics and thermal ecology of the acorn woodpecker in central
coastal California. Condor 92: 341-359.
Stanback, M.T. 1989. Observations on food habits and social organization
of acorn woodpeckers in Costa Rica. Condor 91: 1005-1007.
Stanback, M.T. 1987. Coexistence of migrant and resident birds
in the neotropics. Biologist 66: 55-69.
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