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Trevor D. Price, PhD

Trevor Price is a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution. His main research interests are on Himalayan biodiversity, of birds and trees especially, the evolution of color vision in birds, and speciation processes, again largely focusing on birds as a model.



Orcid ID: 0000-0002-4423-8999

NIH Commons ID: TREVORPRICE

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Ph.D. - Quantitative genetics
1984

University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
BA (hons) - Natural Sciences
1975

Evolution of species recognition when ecology and sexual selection favor signal stasis.
Evolution of species recognition when ecology and sexual selection favor signal stasis. Evolution. 2024 Oct 01; 78(10):1647-1660.
PMID: 38915289

Ant impacts on global patterns of bird elevational diversity.
Ant impacts on global patterns of bird elevational diversity. Ecol Lett. 2024 Aug; 27(8):e14497.
PMID: 39169636

Better to Divorce than Be Widowed: The Role of Mortality and Environmental Heterogeneity in the Evolution of Divorce.
Better to Divorce than Be Widowed: The Role of Mortality and Environmental Heterogeneity in the Evolution of Divorce. Am Nat. 2022 10; 200(4):518-531.
PMID: 36150205

Effects of Plasticity on Elevational Range Size and Species Richness.
Effects of Plasticity on Elevational Range Size and Species Richness. Am Nat. 2022 09; 200(3):316-329.
PMID: 35977783

Rapid evolutionary divergence of a songbird population following recent colonization of an urban area.
Rapid evolutionary divergence of a songbird population following recent colonization of an urban area. Mol Ecol. 2022 05; 31(9):2625-2643.
PMID: 35253305

Urban birdsongs: higher minimum song frequency of an urban colonist persists in a common garden experiment.
Urban birdsongs: higher minimum song frequency of an urban colonist persists in a common garden experiment. Anim Behav. 2020 Dec; 170:33-41.
PMID: 33208979

Predictors of pressure injury development in critically ill adults: A retrospective cohort study.
Sala JJ, Mayampurath A, Solmos S, Vonderheid SC, Banas M, D'Souza A, LaFond C. Predictors of pressure injury development in critically ill adults: A retrospective cohort study. Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2021 Feb; 62:102924.
PMID: 28568205

Competition with insectivorous ants as a contributor to low songbird diversity at low elevations in the eastern Himalaya.
Competition with insectivorous ants as a contributor to low songbird diversity at low elevations in the eastern Himalaya. Ecol Evol. 2020 May; 10(10):4280-4290.
PMID: 32489596

Ecological Limits as the Driver of Bird Species Richness Patterns along the East Himalayan Elevational Gradient.
Ecological Limits as the Driver of Bird Species Richness Patterns along the East Himalayan Elevational Gradient. Am Nat. 2020 05; 195(5):802-817.
PMID: 32364787

Three thousand years in Tibet.
Three thousand years in Tibet. Natl Sci Rev. 2020 Jan; 7(1):129-130.
PMID: 34692024

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Fellow
Royal Society of London
2021

Cooper Ornithological Society Miller
2013

Elected fellow
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2011

E. O. Wilson award American Society of Naturalists
2007

Guggenheim Fellowship
2005

Mercator Fellow
2005

American Society of Naturalists Young Investigator’s Award
1984

Leverhulme overseas scholarship
1976 - 1977