In my research I use behavioral observations, experimental manipulations, and mathematical and molecular tools to investigate the evolutionary basis for animal behavior. In particular my research has focused on how mating strategies depend on individual condition and environmental traits. For example, I investigated the mating strategies of hermaphroditic sea slugs to determine how individuals divide resources between male and female reproduction. I am involved in a long-term study of life history strategies and nesting behavior in a closed population of smallmouth bass. I am also initiating new research on the effects of environmental predator cues on the mating behavior of Trinidadian guppies.
Ghalambor CK, Angeloni LM, Carroll SP, In press. Behavior as phenotypic plasticity. in DF Westneat, CF Fox (eds.). Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology. Oxford University Press, Chicago.
Angeloni L, Schlaepfer MA, Lawler JJ, Crooks KR, 2008. A reassessment of the interface between conservation and behaviour. Animal Behaviour 75:731-737.
Wiegmann DD, Angeloni LM, 2007. Mate choice and uncertainty in the decision process. Journal of Theoretical Biology 249:654-666.
Chaine A, Angeloni L, 2005. Size-dependent mating and gender choice in a simultaneous hermaphrodite, Bulla gouldiana. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 59: 58-68.
