Rate My Professor Wendy Tori

Tori actively involves Earlham undergraduates in her fieldwork across diverse locations, including the Amazon Rainforest, U.S. Midwest grasslands, Peru, Ecuador, Borneo, Galapagos, New Zealand, Tanzania, Nebraska, and the Bahamas. Collaborative projects include grassland ecology and habitat restoration with Dr. Jaime Coon in Iowa and Missouri, focusing on impacts on birds, and painted turtle mating systems with Dr. John Iverson. She leads off-campus study programs on tropical ecology, conservation, natural history, evolution, primate conservation, environment and sustainability, and animal behavior. Key publications include 'Invasive prey impacts the abundance and distribution of native predators' (Barber, Marquis, & Tori, Ecology, 2008), 'Environmental and spatial segregation of leks among six co-occurring species of manakins (Pipridae) in eastern Ecuador' (Loiselle et al., The Auk, 2007), 'Mate choice for genetic quality: a test of the heterozygosity and compatibility hypotheses in a lek-breeding bird' (Ryder et al., Behavioral Ecology, 2010), and 'Olfaction as a cue for nest-site choice in turtles' (Iverson et al., Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 2016). Tori serves on the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and Campus Life Advisory Committee at Earlham College.