Areas of Interest
I am an Associate Research Scientist and Group Leader in the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University.
I study how individual animals dynamically interact with their environments and how such processes scale up to produce emergent ecological phenomena. I'm particularly interested in migrations - how and why they emerge, how being a migrant changes life history strategies, and how migratory species contribute to global patterns of biodiversity.
Birding, Hiking, Fishing, Skiing, Reading, Gardening
Yanco SW, AK Pierce, MB Wunder. 2022. Life history diversity in terrestrial animals is associated with metabolic response to seasonally fluctuating resources. Ecography. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05900
Yanco SW, BD Linkhart, PP Marra, M Mika, M Ciaglo, A Carver, MB Wunder. 2021. Niche dynamics suggest ecological factors influencing migration in an insectivorous owl. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3617
Yanco SW, A McDevitt, C Trueman, L Hartley, and MB Wunder. 2020. A modern method of multiple working hypotheses to improve inference in ecology. Royal Society of Open Science. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200231