Jane Reid is an evolutionary ecologist from the UK, she is International Chair Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway and is also Professor of Population & Evolutionary Ecology at the

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Career

Reid was educated at the

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studying

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, she then did a

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behavioural ecology Behavioral ecology, also spelled behavioural ecology, is the study of the evolutionary basis for animal behavior due to ecological pressures. Behavioral ecology emerged from ethology after Niko Tinbergen outlined four questions to address when ...

at the

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. She did a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at the

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and then a Junior Research Fellowship at

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. In 2006 she moved to the

as a

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and was made Professor of Population & Evolutionary Ecology in 2014. In 2019 she was made International Chair Professor at NTNU. Reid looks evolutionary and population ecology, in particular of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

s, her research has included the evolutionary implications of song sparrow mating behaviours and the effect of weather on bird populations.

Books

Chapter 39 ''Don't just sit there readin''g, in ''Curious About Nature: A Passion for Fieldwork'' by Tim Burt and Des Thompson, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Honours and awards

* Awarded the

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's Scientific Medal in 2012. * Awarded the Marsh Award for Ornithology by the

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and the

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in 2013. * Awarded the University of Aberdeen Principal's Prize for Public Engagement with Research in 2013. * Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017.

External links

University of Aberdeen profile

References

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