I am an integrative ecologist working to understand the causes and consequences of phenotypic variation at the individual, population, and community levels . I use a suite of eco-physiological tools to address broad questions, including how early life experiences shape the adult phenotype, what factors influence wildlife health, and how species respond to natural and novel environmental stressors. Ultimately, my work seeks to identify the physiological mechanisms underlying a species' capacity to persist across changing environments.
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Loren Merrill is a research affiliate
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |