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Kamal Islam

Associate Professor of Biology

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CL 231A
(765) 285-8847

Fax: 285-8804

Department of Biology
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306

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Research Interests

General: Ornithology, Wildlife Biology and Management, Taxonomy
Specific: 

  • Conservation of rare and endangered species
  • Comparative field-based studies that investigate the evolution of mating systems particularly sexually selected traits such as courtship displays and vocalizations
  • Gamebird biology and management
  • Demographic studies
  • Landscape ecology (habitat fragmentation)
  • Habitat selection
  • Effects of cowbird parasitism on neotropical migrant songbirds


Recent Publications

Jones, K. and K. Islam.  2006.  Selection of song perches by Cerulean Warblers. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 115 (1):37-43.

Jones, K.C., K Roth, K. Islam, P .B. Hamel, and C.G. Smith, III. Incidents of nest material kleptoparasitism involving Cerulean Warblers. Wilson Journal of Ornithology. In Press

Roth, K., and K. Islam. Do Cerulean Warblers (Dendroica cerulea) exhibit clustered territoriality? American Midland Naturalist. In press