Teri J. Orr
	Ph.D. student, EEOB University of California- Riverside Email: teri.orr@email.ucr.edu

General

Background	-Ph.D., Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology, enrolled fall 2006, University of California Riverside. Initial advisory committee: Dr. Kim Hammond, Dr. Marlene Zuk, and Dr. Mark Chappell. -Master’s of Science, University of New Mexico awarded 2007 with Dr. Blair O. Wolf (Committee: B.O. Wolf, E.L. Charnov and J.H. Brown) Thesis title: “Rodents and Cacti, a stable isotopic investigation of a key plant functional group and its consumers.” -Bachelor’s of Science, Biology and Anthropology , University of New Mexico 2003
Research Interests	As I conclude my first year as a student at UCR I am broadly interested in behavioral ecology and ecological physiology of small mammals in reference to reproduction and sexual selection. Because we live in a complex and multivariate world my research goals are to maintain an integrative and broad scale approach to answering questions of biological relevance. In turn I hope to obtain a solid picture of what organisms are doing from a physiological system level (reproductive physiology- such as reproductive delays in mammals), individual decision making (mate choice), to landscape level (biographic trends of breeding site and other movements) and phylogenetic (evolutionary) patterns. Given their unique life-histories, diverse mating systems and ecologies as well as specious and highly cosmopolitan nature I have been focusing my current inquires on sexual selection and evolutionary physiology of bats.
Current projects	Reproductive delays and sexual selection: By performing a meta- analysis I am investigating the potential role of reproductive delays in facilitating post-coplulatroy sexual selection in bats. Specifically, together with Dr. Marlene Zuk I am asking: what evidence for post-copulatory selection do we see in species with delays, and how often are the decisions being made by females? Reproductive allometries of bats: Using museum specimens I am assessing the allometries of reproductive organs for both male and female bats with and without delayed implantation. Do we see relationships between delays and morphology? Stable isotopic analyses of bat and bird communities in the Sonoran desert of Arizona with Blair Wolf and Theressa Hyde. I am currently assisting Dr. Blair Wolf and his Master’s student Theressa Hyde in an extensive assessment of water usage by two disparate communities of the Sonoran desert: volant diurnal and volant nocturnal. Community assembly patterns across varying levels of marine influence in the Sea of Cortez of Mexico: as part of an on-going project I am assessing several predictors of rodent community assembly across a gradient from marine to upper Sonoran desert.
Curriculum Vitae	(link)
Contact	teri.orr@email.ucr.edu
Links	-the Zuk lab -University of California Biology Department -University of California, EEOB -University of New Mexico Biology Department -Wolf lab (UNM) -The American Society of Mammalogists

Field Work

Preparing rodent plasma for stable isotope analyses (Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona)	Kayrotyping rodents in Panama	Mammal trapping field site in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico.