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Dr. Caroline Dingle

Lecturers

Email:  cdingle@hku.hk
Tel:  

2219 4170

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Location:  

JL403A

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Address:

Room JL403A
James Lee Science Building
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong


Education

PhD University of Cambridge (UK)
Thesis: Function and Evolution of Song in a Duetting Neotropical Passerine

MA Ecology & Evolution, San Francisco State University (USA)
Thesis: Elevational Speciation and the Phylogenetic Relationships of the Henicorhina Wood-Wrens

BA Biology (Highest Honors), University of California, Santa Cruz (USA)

Teaching

CCST 9013 Our Living Environment
ENVS0001/1401 Introduction to Environmental Science
ENVS2004 Environment and Society
ENVS2012/3020 Global Change Ecology
ENVS3016 Environmental Science in Practice

Course Coordinator

ENVS2011 Directed Studies in Environmental Science
ENVS3015 Environmental Science Projects
ENVS3988 Environmental Science Internship

Research Projects

The Role of Learning in the Development of Secondary Sexual Traits

Environmental Change and Evolution

Culturally Inherited Traits and Speciation

Sexual Selection and Female Song

Selected Publications

Madden JR, Dingle C, Isden J, Sparfeld J, Goldizen A and Endler J. (2012) Cultivating a sexual display.  Current Biology 22: R264-R265.

Madden JR, Isden J & Dingle C. (2011) Commentary on review by Boogert et al.: some problems facing females. Behavioral Ecology 22:461-462.

Dingle C, Poelstra J, Halfwerk W, Brinkhuizen D & Slabbekoorn H. (2010) Asymmetric response patterns to subspecies-specific song differences in allopatry and parapatry in the gray-breasted wood-wren. Evolution 64:3537-48.

Dingle C & Greeney HF. (2009) Nesting of the Tropical Parula (Parula pitiayumi) in eastern Ecuador. Cotinga 31:47-49.

Collar NJ, Dingle C, Gabremichael MN & Spottiswoode CN. (2009) Taxonomic status of the Degodi lark Mirafra degodiensis, with notes on the voice of Gillett’s lark M. gilletti. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 129:49-62.

Dingle C, Halfwerk W & Slabbekoorn H. (2008) Habitat-dependent song divergence at subspecies level in the grey-breasted wood-wren. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21(4):1079-1089.

Dingle C, Lovette IJ, Canaday C & Smith TB. (2006) Elevational zonation and the phylogenetic relationships of the Henicorhina wood-wrens. Auk 123:119-134.

Greeney HF, Dingle C, Dobbs RC & Martin PR. (2006) The natural history of the streak-necked flycatcher Mionectes striaticollis in north-east Ecuador. Cotinga 25:59-64.

Gelis RA, Dingle C & Greeney HF. (2006) Cooperative breeding at a nest of the golden tanager Tangara arthus. Cotinga 26:79-81.

Greeney HF, Gelis RA, Dingle C, Vaca FJB, Krabbe N & Tidwell M. (2006) The nest and eggs of the plain-backed antpitta (Grallaria haplonota) from eastern Ecuador. Ornitologia Neotropical 17:601-604.

Vaca JFV, Greeney HF, Gelis RA, Dingle C, Krabbe, N & Tidwell, M. (2006) The nest and eggs of the red-winged wood-rail Aramides calopterus from the foothills of north-east Ecuador. Cotinga 26:13-14.

Gelis RA, Greeney HF, Cooper M & Dingle C. (2006) The nest, eggs, nestlings and fledglings of fiery-throated fruiteater Pipreola chlorolepidota in north-east Ecuador. Cotinga 26:10-12.

Hobson KA, Wassenaar LI, Milá B, Lovette IJ, Dingle C & Smith TB. (2003) Stable isotopes as indicators of altitudinal distributions and movements in an Ecuadorean hummingbird community. Oecologia 136:302-308.