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3318 SPIETH HALL
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Hammond, Kimberly

Professor of Biology; Director of Natural Reserve System
Associate Dean of Graduate Division

College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

Biology


Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost

Graduate Division


Biography

 

Former Institution

UCLA

Degrees

PhD Biology 1989

Colorado State University

Awards

Visiting Professorship awarded from University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1998


Research Area

Research Specialization - evolutionary and comparative physiology.

My research interests are in the area of animal physiological ecology and evolutionary physiology.  More specifically, I am interested in how anatomical and physiological capacities meet environmental demands.  For instance: is the food intake required for a given metabolic demand (= 'load' on the animal's physiology) matched by the physiological capacity to metabolize the energy and nutrients contained in that food? Is the matching precise, or are there 'safety factors', or reserve capacity (over and above load) built into the physiological and anatomical characters, so as to buffer changes in metabolic demand? Animals often meet changes in demand with changes in the size of organs and organ capacity.  I am most interested in learning how these load/capacity relationships are reflected in an animal's life history.  This approach demands an appreciation of both mechanistic physiology and ecology, and requires both field and laboratory research.  At present I work primarily in desert and montane systems, using rodents as study species.

Publications

Hammond, K.A., J.  Roth, D.N.  Janes, and M.R.  Dohm 1999.  Morphological and physiological responses to altitude in deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 72:613-622

Hammond, K.  A.  and J.  Diamond.  1997.  Maximum sustained energy budgets in humans and animals.  Nature 386:457-462. 

Hammond KA, Konarzewski M, Torres R, Diamond JM 1994.  Metabolic ceilings under a combination of peak energy demands.  Physiological Zoology 68:1479-1506. 

Hammond KA, Diamond JM 1994.  Limits to nutrient intake and intestinal nutrient uptake capacity during extended lactation.  Physiological Zoology 67:282-303. 

Hammond KA, Diamond JM 1992.  An experimental test for a ceiling on sustainable metabolic rate in lactating mice.  Physiological Zoology 65:952-977.