Trevor D. Price

About

Trevor D. Price is a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. His main research interests include Himalayan biodiversity, particularly focusing on birds and trees, the evolution of color vision in birds, and speciation processes, primarily using birds as a model. He has contributed to understanding the dispersal and distribution of large haploblocks in superspecies, the role of sexual selection in the origin of species, and the evolution of species recognition when ecological and sexual selection pressures favor signal stasis. His work also encompasses broader ecological and evolutionary topics such as the impact of ants on bird elevational diversity, the structuring of diversity in the Himalayas through alien plant databases, and the effects of plasticity on elevational range size and species richness. Price's research has advanced knowledge in macroecology, evolutionary biology, and biodiversity, with a particular emphasis on avian species and their evolutionary mechanisms.

Research topics

• Ecology
• Biology
• Sociology
• Demography
• Geography
• Evolutionary biology
• Genetics
• Zoology
• Acoustics

Selected publications

• 200 Years of Research on Himalayan Biodiversity: Trends, Gaps, and Policy Implications

  Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · 2021 · 40 citations

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  Global mountains, including the Himalaya, are highly vulnerable ecosystems, especially given climate and land-use changes. Here, we compile the literature on Himalayan biodiversity in order to assess spatial and taxonomic trends in research during the past 200 years. We identified 35,316 research outputs, including 28,120 journal articles, 3,725 doctoral theses, and 3,471 books. Nepal contributes the largest volume of published literature, followed by west Himalayan Indian states, with relativel…

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• Urban birdsongs: higher minimum song frequency of an urban colonist persists in a common garden experiment

  Animal Behaviour · 2020 · 33 citations

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• Dispersal syndromes drive the formation of biogeographical regions, illustrated by the case of Wallace’s Line

  Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2021 · 30 citations

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  AIM: Biogeographical regions (realms) reflect patterns of co-distributed species (biotas) across space. Their boundaries are set by dispersal barriers and difficulties of establishment in new locations. We extend new methods to assess these two contributions by quantifying the degree to which realms intergrade across geographical space and the contributions of individual species to the delineation of those realms. As our example, we focus on Wallace's Line, the most enigmatic partitioning of the…

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• Rapid evolutionary divergence of a songbird population following recent colonization of an urban area

  Molecular Ecology · 2022 · 15 citations

  Colonization of a novel environment by a few individuals can lead to rapid evolutionary change, yet there is scarce evidence of the relative contributions of neutral and selective factors in promoting divergence during the early stages of colonization. Here we explore the role of neutral and selective forces in the divergence of a unique urban population of the dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis), which became established on the campus of the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) in the earl…

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• Constructing a database of alien plants in the Himalaya to test patterns structuring diversity

  Ecology and Evolution · 2024-02-01 · 4 citations

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  Differences in the number of alien plant species in different locations may reflect climatic and other controls that similarly affect native species and/or propagule pressure accompanied with delayed spread from the point of introduction. We set out to examine these alternatives for Himalayan plants, in a phylogenetic framework. We build a database of alien plant distributions for the Himalaya. Focusing on the well-documented regions of Jammu & Kashmir (west) and Bhutan (east) we compare alien a…

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Recent grants

• DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Evolution of Avian Photopigments: From Opsin Sequences to Color Vision

  NSF · $15k · 2012–2014

• Analysis of regional variation in bird species diversity along the Himalayas

  NSF · $365k · 2007–2010

Frequent coauthors

• Darren E. Irwin

  University of British Columbia

  19 shared

• Per Alström

  Uppsala University

  14 shared

• Jessica H. Irwin

  University of British Columbia

  12 shared

• K. Supriya

  12 shared

• Staffan Bensch

  Lund University

  12 shared

• Alexander E. White

  Smithsonian Institution

  11 shared

• Suresh K. Rana

  G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development

  11 shared

• Pamela J. Yeh

  University of California, Los Angeles

  11 shared

Labs

• Price LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Quantitative genetics

  University of Michigan

  1984

• B.A., Natural Sciences

  University of Cambridge

  1975

Awards & honors

• Royal Society of London (2021)
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011)
• E. O. Wilson award American Society of Naturalists (2007)
• Guggenheim Fellowship (2005)
• Mercator Fellow (2005)

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