Pete Marra

Research Scientist / Migratory Bird Center

Research Focus

isolating the factors that control population abundance in migratory and resident birds.

Most Recent Publications

Angelier, Frédéric, Vleck, Carol M., Holberton, Rebecca L. and Marra, Peter P. Telomere length, non-breeding habitat and return rate in male American redstarts, Functional Ecology, 27 (2) 342-350. 2013.

Loss, Scott R., Will, Tom and Marra, Peter P. The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States, Nature Communications, 4 . 2013.

McKellar, Ann E., Marra, Peter P., Hannon, Susan J., Studds, Colin E. and Ratcliffe, Laurene M. Winter rainfall predicts phenology in widely separated populations of a migrant songbird, Oecologia, 172 (2) 595-605. 2013.

McKinnon, Emily A., Stanley, Calandra Q., Fraser, Kevin C., MacPherson, Maggie M., Casbourn, Garth, Marra, Peter P., Studds, Colin E., Diggs, Nora and Stutchbury, Bridget J. M. Estimating geolocator accuracy for a migratory songbird using live ground-truthing in tropical forest, Animal Migration, 2 1-8. 2013.

Renfrew, Rosalind B., Kim, Daniel, Perlut, Noah, Smith, Joseph, Fox, James and Marra, Peter P. Phenological matching across hemispheres in a long-distance migratory bird, Diversity and Distributions, . 2013.

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