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Name: Lisa Shipley
Department: Natural Resource Sciences
Credentials: 1993~Ph.D. Texas A&M University – Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Office: Johnson 105
Phone: 509-335-9182
Fax: 509-335-7862
Mailing Address: Natural Resource Sciences
PO Box 646410
Pullman, WA 99164-6410
E-mail: shipley@wsu.edu

Research Interests

Foraging ecology, nutrition and diet selection of vertebrates,
morphological and physiological adaptations of plants and animals
for herbivory, behavior and habitat requirements of free-ranging
mammals, links between nutrition and reproduction in mammals,
reproductive behavior and captive breeding of endangered
species

Research Summary

Dr. Shipley's current work centers on theoretical and applied aspects of mammalian nutritional and reproductive ecology. Both free-ranging and captive wild herbivores are used in these studies

Research Publications

2005-2009

DeGabriel, J.L., B.D. Moore, L.A. Shipley, A.K. Krockenberger, I.R. Wallis, C.N. Johnson, and W.J. Foley, Inter-population differences in the tolerance of a marsupial folivore to plant secondary metabolites. Oecologia, 2009. 161(3): p. 539-48.

McClure, M. F., and L. A. Shipley.  2009. Animal response to nested self-similar patches: A test with woolly bears.  Oikos 118:653-662.

Johnstone-Yellin, T. L., L. A. Shipley, W. L. Myers, and H. S. Robinson.  2009.  To twin or not to twin? Tradeoffs in litter size and fawn survival in mule deer.  Journal of Mammalogy 90:435-460.

Shipley, L. A., J. S. Forbey, and B. D. Moore.  2009.  Revisiting the dietary niche: when is a mammalian herbivore a specialist?  Integrative and Comparative Biology 49:274-.290.  

Kendrick, E., L. A. Shipley, A. E. Hagerman, and L. M. Kelly.  2009. Fruit and fibre: The nutritional value of figs for a small tropical ruminant, the blue duiker (Cephalophus monticola).  Journal of African Ecology. Early Access published online 20 August 2009.

Thines, N.J., L.A. Shipley, J.H. Bassman, J.R. Slusser, and W. Gao, UV-B effects on the nutritional chemistry of plants and the responses of a mammalian herbivore. Oecologia, 2008. 156(1): p. 125-35.

Williams, J.A., T. Andersson, T.B. Andersson, R. Blanchard, M.O. Behm, N. Cohen, T. Edeki, M. Franc, K.M. Hillgren, K.J. Johnson, D.A. Katz, M.N. Milton, B.P. Murray, J.W. Polli, D. Ricci, L.A. Shipley, S. Vangala, and S.A. Wrighton, PhRMA white paper on ADME pharmacogenomics. J Clin Pharmacol, 2008. 48(7): p. 849-89.

Thines, N.J., L.A. Shipley, J.H. Bassman, J.K. Fellman, D.S. Mattison, J.R. Slusser, and W. Gao, Effects of enhanced UV-B radiation on plant chemistry: nutritional consequences for a specialist and generalist lagomorph. J Chem Ecol, 2007. 33(5): p. 1025-39.

Shipley, L. A.  2007.  The influence of bite size on foraging at larger spatial and temporal scales by mammalian herbivores.  Oikos 116:1964-1974.

Shipley, L.A., T.B. Davila, N.J. Thines, and B.A. Elias, Nutritional requirements and diet choices of the pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis): a sagebrush specialist. J Chem Ecol, 2006. 32(11): p. 2455-74.

Elias, B. A., L. A. Shipley, R. D. Sayler and R. S. Lamson.  2006. Mating behavior and parental care in captive pygmy rabbits. Journal of Mammalogy  87:921-928

Searle, K., N. T. Hobbs, B. A. Wunder, and L. A. Shipley. 2006. Are lemmings risky foragers? The influence of scale-specific intake rates and variance in reward on patch preference. Behavioral Ecology 17:315-323.


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