She completed a Ph.D. this year with Jessica Metcalf, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs.
Rice will be advised by Jessica Metcalf, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs, Woodrow Wilson School.
This is especially crucial in a time of growing political polarization and misinformation," said Wilcove, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute.
What's emerging more recently is the recognition that this state of affairs confers evolutionary advantages; it isn't only some byproduct phase to be endured.
The researchers hope to expand their project to other cities. C. Jessica Metcalf, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs, is examining the intersection of food security and disease in Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo.
The findings provide strong evidence that competition and other factors are not uniformly important across all regions of the world, said co-author David Wilcove, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute.
But this paper suggests that immune suppression lasts much longer than previously suspected," said C. Jessica Metcalf, co-author and assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs, who is affiliated with Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Panelist David Wilcove, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute, highlighted Audubon's "vibrant, lifelike and biologically accurate" painting and two others of Carolina parakeets by 18th-century naturalist Mark Catesby and contemporary artist Walton Ford.
One important function of the study is to highlight the pet trade as an emerging threat facing many birds and other wildlife, one that can act independently from other drivers of extinction such as habitat loss, said senior author David Wilcove, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs in the Wilson School.
"Around the world, people are leaving rural areas and moving into cities, potentially creating new opportunities to restore forests on abandoned farmland," said co-author David Wilcove, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute.
