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  • 1980 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Martin L. Morton is affiliated with Occidental College in the United States. Their academic work includes research contributions primarily in the field of biology, with a focus on avian species behavior.

Morton's recent publication is titled FACULTATIVE ALTITUDINAL MOVEMENTS BY MOUNTAIN WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS (ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS ORIANTHA) IN THE SIERRA NEVADA, published in 2021 through UNC Libraries.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Thomas P. Hahn
  • Keith W. Sockman
  • Creagh W. Breuner

Their research has appeared in the following publication venue:

  • UNC Libraries

Martin L. Morton has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1980.

Best Publications

  • Demography of Belding's ground squirrels

    Paul W. Sherman;Martin L. Morton

  • Extra-pair fertilizations in mountain white-crowned sparrows

    Paul W. Sherman;Martin L. Morton

  • Effects of temperature on photoperiodically induced reproductive development, circulating plasma luteinizing hormone and thyroid hormones, body mass, fat deposition and molt in mountain white-crowned sparrows, Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha.

    John C. Wingfield;Thomas P. Hahn;Donna L. Maney;Stephan J. Schoech

  • Hatching asynchrony in the mountain white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha): a selected or incidental trait?

    Paul S. Mead;Martin L. Morton

  • Effects of a spring snowstorm on behavior, reproduction, and survival of Belding's ground squirrels

    Martin L. Morton;Paul W. Sherman

  • Song dialects and mate selection in montane White-crowned Sparrows.

    Luis F. Baptista;Martin L. Morton

  • Annual Gonadal Cycles and Pituitary Gonadotropins in Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii

    James R. King;Brian K. Follett;Donald S. Farner;Martin L. Morton

  • Song learning in montane white-crowned sparrows: from whom and when

    Luis F. Baptista;Martin L. Morton

  • The Regulation of Egg Temperatures and Attentiveness Patterns in the Dusky Flycatcher (Empidonax oberholseri)

    Martin L. Morton;Maria E. Pereyra

  • Hematocrits in Montane Sparrows in Relation to Reproductive Schedule

    Martin L. Morton

  • Aspects of circulatory physiology of montane and lowland birds.

    Cynthia Carey;Martin L. Morton

  • Postfledging Dispersal, Habitat Imprinting, and Philopatry in a Montane, Migratory Sparrow

    M. L. Morton;M. W. Wakamatsu;M. E. Pereyra;G. A. Morton

  • Effects of sex and birth date on premigration biology, migration schedules, return rates and natal dispersal in the Mountain white-crowned sparrow

    Martin L. Morton

  • Photoperiodically induced ovarian growth in the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii) and its augmentation by song

    Martin L Morton;Maria E Pereyra;Luis F Baptista

  • Stimulatory effects on the reproductive axis in female songbirds by conspecific and heterospecific male song.

    George E. Bentley;John C. Wingfield;Martin L. Morton;Gregory F. Ball

  • Population declines of Yosemite toads in the eastern Sierra Nevada of California

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  • Singing and its functions in female white-crowned sparrows

    Luis F. Baptista;Pepper W. Trail;Barbara B. DeWolfe;Martin L. Morton

  • Dynamics of postnuptial molt in free-living mountain white-crowned sparrows

    Galen A. Morton;Martin L. Morton

  • Sexual Dimorphism in Egg Size and Implications regarding Facultative Manipulation of Sex in Mountain White-Crowned Sparrows

    Paul S. Mead;Martin L. Morton;Brian E. Fish

  • Reproductive Cycle and Nesting Success of the Mountain White-Crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha) in the Central Sierra Nevada

    Martin L. Morton;Judith L. Horstmann;Janet M. Osborn

  • A quantitiative examination of ovarian growth in the white-crowned sparrow.

    Donald S. Farner;Brian K. Follett;James R King;Martin L. Morton

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas P. Hahn
Thomas P. Hahn University of California, Davis
Paul W. Sherman
Paul W. Sherman Cornell University
John C. Wingfield
John C. Wingfield University of California, Davis
Wesley W. Weathers
Wesley W. Weathers University of California, Davis
Peter Marler
Peter Marler University of California, Davis
Gregory F. Ball
Gregory F. Ball University of Maryland, College Park
George E. Bentley
George E. Bentley University of California, Berkeley
Nadav Nur
Nadav Nur Point Blue Conservation Science
Creagh W. Breuner
Creagh W. Breuner University of Montana

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