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Tracey K. Brown

             

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Ph.D. Biology 1999: University of California, Los Angeles.  Dr. Brown joined the Biology faculty at CSUSM in Fall 2002 after conducting postdoctoral work at the center for Conservation and Research for Endangered Species at the San Diego Zoo.  Dr. Brown’s current research involves various aspects of conservation, restoration and physiological ecology of vertebrates, with a focus on native reptiles.

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Brown, T.K., J.M. Lemm, J. Montagne, J.A. Tracey and A.C. Alberts. In-press.  Spatial ecology, habitat use, and survivorship of resident and translocated Red Diamond Rattlesnakes (Crotalus ruber). In The Biology of Rattlesnakes, ed. W.K. Hayes, K. R. Beaman, M. D. Cardwell, and S. P. Bush.  Loma Linda University Press, Loma Linda, California. 

Brown, T.K. and K.A. Nagy.  2007. Lizard energetics and the sit-and-wait vs. wide-foraging paradigm.  In Lizard Ecology.  The Evolutionary Consequences of Foraging Mode, ed. S.M. Reilly, L.B. McBrayer and D.B. Miles, pp. 120-140. Cambridge University Press, New York. 

Brown, T.K., Nagy, K.A. and D.J. Morafka.  Costs of growth in tortoises.  Journal of Herpetology, March 2005.

Diffendorfer, J., Fisher, R.J., C. Rochester, and T.K. Brown.  Movement and space use by rosy boas (Charina trivirgata) in coastal Southern California. Journal of Herpetology, March 2005.

Brown, T.K., Nagy, K.A. and D. J. Morafka.  Not so negative effects of habitat disturbance on desert horned lizards (Phrynosoma platyrhinos). In prep.

Brown, T.K.  Energetic consequences of foraging mode in lizards: an analysis involving the myrmecophagous desert horned lizard, Phrynosoma platyrhinos.  In prep.

Brown, T.K.  Energetics and food requirements of free-ranging desert horned lizards, Phrynosoma platyrhinos.  In prep.

 Bott, K., Brown, T.K. and D. Eifler.  2001.  Phrynosoma cornutum (Texas horned lizard).  Diet.    Herpetological Review 32(1):41 

 Nagy, K.A., Girard, I.A., and T.K. Brown.  1999.  Energetics of free-ranging mammals, reptiles and birds.  Annual Reviews of Nutrition.  19:247-77.