Welcome to the Animal Metabolomics and & Ecology (AME) Lab. 

We study the chemical signals that drive biotic interactions.
We focus on metabolites that provide chemical information to animals such as 
with whom to mate, where to live, and where to find resources while avoiding becoming prey. 
By linking chemical information to fitness outcomes, we test theories regarding sexual communication, social information use and how animal communities assemble. 
We employ field and laboratory experiments and integrate them with state-of-the-art metabolomics.
We identify new signals, measure signal variation in natural habitats and track how anthropogenic stressors alter communication reliability in urban ecosystems.

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