Dr. Stephen Ferguson
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Profile
Dr. Stephen Ferguson is a physiobehavioral ecologist who studies the mechanistic and fitness outcomes of responses to stress. Most of his work has involved wild and captive birds. Recent projects have investigated the effects of the social environment during development, the flexibility and consistency of glucocorticoid stress responses, and the effects of artificial light at night. Dr. Ferguson is also interested in the regulation of biological timing, including seasonal timing and circadian clocks, which he studies in both birds and blind cave beetles.
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Publications
Journal Articles
Wolf, S.E., Woodruff, M.J., Chang van Oordt, D.A., Clotfelter, E.D., Cristol, D.A., Derryberry, E.P., Ferguson, S.M., Stanback, M.T., Taff, C.C., Vitousek, M.N., Westneat, D.F., Rosvall, K.A., 2024. Among‐population variation in telomere regulatory proteins and their potential role as hidden drivers of intraspecific variation in life history. Journal of Animal Ecology 1365-2656.14071. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14071
Alaasam, V.J., Hui, C., Lomas, J., Ferguson, S.M., Zhang, Y., Yim, W.C., Ouyang, J.Q., 2024. What happens when the lights are left on? Transcriptomic and phenotypic habituation to light pollution. iScience 27, 108864. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.108864