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Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

With a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Utah, and additional experience and training as a National Science Foundation International Research Postdoctoral Fellow in Australia and New Zealand, Dr. Jennifer Forbey joined the faculty of the Department of Biological Sciences at Boise State University in 2008. Dr. Forbey's earlier teaching experience includes a course in the Biology of Mammals at Oregon State University, and courses in Global Environmental Issues and Pharmacokinetics at the University of Utah. In addition to General Biology courses at Boise State, Dr. Forbey teaches Special Topics in Plant-Animal Interactions.
Dr. Forbey's research interests focus on two general areas related to plant-herbivore interactions employing a combination of laboratory and field-based approaches: the evolutionary diversity of plant-animal chemical interactions; and pharm-ecology, an ecological approach to natural product drug discovery.

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With a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Utah, and additional experience and training as a National Science Foundation International Research Postdoctoral Fellow in Australia and New Zealand, Dr. Jennifer Forbey joined the faculty of the Department of Biological Sciences at Boise State University in 2008. Dr. Forbey's earlier teaching experience includes a course in the Biology of Mammals at Oregon State University, and courses in Global Environmental Issues and Pharmacokinetics at the University of Utah. In addition to General Biology courses at Boise State, Dr. Forbey teaches Special Topics in Plant-Animal Interactions.
Dr. Forbey's research interests focus on two general areas related to plant-herbivore interactions employing a combination of laboratory and field-based approaches: the evolutionary diversity of plant-animal chemical interactions; and pharm-ecology, an ecological approach to natural product drug discovery.

2008 - Present	Associate Professor, Boise State University ‐ Department of Biological Sciences
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Physiological, Chemical, and Pharmacological Ecology

2018 - Present	Genomes Underlying Toxin Tolerance
	National Science Foundation
	NSF Award
	Role: Co-investigator
	Colleague(s): Eric Hayden
	$6,000,000,000
2023 - 2026	Acquisition of a Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry System for Multidisciplinary Research and Training
	National Science Foundation - 2320410
	MRI: Track 1
	Role: Co-Principal Investigator
	Colleague(s): Xinzhu Pu (PI), Julia Oxford (Co-PI), Owen McDougal (Co-PI), and Kenneth Cornell (Co-PI)
	$710,000

2022 - Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Utah

Biology 192: General Biology II
Biology 497 and 597: Special Topics in Plant-Animal Interactions

Department of Biological Sciences
Boise State University
Boise, ID 83725-1515

Office Location: Science/Nursing 105
Office Phone: 208-426-4426
Office Fax: 208-426-1040
E-Mail Address: jenniferforbey@boisestate.edu

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Articles (52)

Low Spatial Habitat Overlap of Herbivores in the High Arctic Tundra (Virve Ravolainen, Ingrid M. G. Paulsen, Isabell Eischeid, et al.) Global Ecology and Conservation (2024)

Herbivores play a crucial role in shaping tundra ecosystems through their effects on vegetation, nutrient cycling, and soil abiotic factors. Understanding their habitat use, co-occurrence, and overlap is therefore essential for informing ecosystem-based management and ...

Spatial Models Can Improve the Experimental Design of Field-Based Transplant Gardens by Preventing Bias Due to Neighborhood Crowding (Andrii Zaiats, Juan M. Raquena-Mullor, Matthew J. Germino, et al.) Ecology and Evolution (2022)

Field-based transplant gardens, including common and reciprocal garden experiments, are a powerful tool for studying genetic variation and gene-by-environment interactions. These experiments assume that individuals within the garden represent independent replicates growing in a homogenous ...

A Haploid Pseudo-Chromosome Genome Assembly for a Keystone Sagebrush Species of Western North American Rangelands (Anthony E. Melton, Richard S. Beard, Carlos Dave C. Dumaguit, et al.) G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics (2022)

Increased ecological disturbances, species invasions, and climate change are creating severe conservation problems for several plant species that are widespread and foundational. Understanding the genetic diversity of these species and how it relates to adaptation ...

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Aids Ecological Restoration by Classifying Variation of Taxonomy and Phenology of a Native Shrub (Brecken C. Robb, Peter J. Olsoy, T. Trevor Caughlin, et al.) Restoration Ecology (2022)

Plant communities are composed of complex phenotypes that not only differ among taxonomic groups and habitats but also change over time within a species. Restoration projects (e.g. translocations and reseeding) can introduce new functional variation ...

Food Quality, Security, and Thermal Refuge Influence the Use of Microsites and Patches by Pygmy Rabbits (Brachylagus idahoensis) Across Landscapes and Seasons (Peter J. Olsoy, Charlotte R. Milling, Jordan D. Nobler, et al.) Ecology and Evolution (2022)

How intensely animals use habitat features depends on their functional properties (i.e., how the feature influences fitness) and the spatial and temporal scale considered. For herbivores, habitat use is expected to reflect the competing risks ...

Mule Deer Do More with Less: Comparing Their Nutritional Requirements and Tolerances with White-Tailed Deer (Anna R. Staudenmaier, Lisa A. Shipley, Meghan J. Camp, et al.) Journal of Mammalogy (2022)

Congeneric species often share ecological niche space resulting in competitive interactions that either limit co-occurrence or lead to niche partitioning. Differences in fundamental nutritional niches mediated through character displacement or isolation during evolution are potential ...

The Nutritional Condition of Moose Co-Varies with Climate, but Not with Density, Predation Risk, or Diet Composition (Jennifer S. Forbey and Daniel P. Melody) Oikos (2022)

A fundamental question about the ecology of herbivore populations pertains to the relative influence of biotic and abiotic processes on nutritional condition. Nutritional condition is influenced in important, yet poorly understood, ways by plant secondary ...

Scaling Up Sagebrush Chemistry with Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and UAS-Acquired Hyperspectral Imagery (Peter J. Olsoy, Brecken C. Robb, Jennifer Sorenson Forbey, et al.) The International Archives of the Photogammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (2021)

Sagebrush ecosystems (Artemisia spp.) face many threats including large wildfires and conversion to invasive annuals, and thus are the focus of intense restoration efforts across the western United States. Specific attention has been given to ...

Using an Ultraviolet Light Test to Improve Sagebrush Identification and Predict Forage Quality for Wildlife (Roger Rosentreter, Brecken C. Robb and Jennifer S. Forbey) Western North American Naturalist (2021)

Sagebrush identification can be improved by using a relatively easy ultraviolet (UV) light test on specimens. Sagebrush produces a variety of water-soluble polyphenols called coumarins, which fluoresce a blue color under UV light and can ...

Unifying Community Detection Across Scales from Genomes to Landscapes (Stephanie F. Hudon, Andrii Zaiats, Anna Roser, et al.) Oikos (2021)

Biodiversity science encompasses multiple disciplines and biological scales from molecules to landscapes. Nevertheless, biodiversity data are often analyzed separately with discipline-specific methodologies, constraining resulting inferences to a single scale. To overcome this, we present a ...

Low Activities of Digestive Enzymes in the Guts of Herbivorous Grouse (Aves: Tetraoninae) (Jennifer Sorensen Forbey) Journal of Ornithology (2021)

Avian herbivores face the exceptional challenge of digesting recalcitrant plant material while under the selective pressure to reduce gut mass as an adaptation for fight. One mechanism by which avian herbivores may overcome this challenge ...

Assessing Accuracy of GAP and LANDFIRE Land Cover Datasets in Winter Habitats Used by Greater Sage-Grouse in Idaho and Wyoming, USA (Marcella R. Fremgen-Tarantino, Peter J. Olsoy, Graham G. Frye, et al.) Journal of Environmental Management (2021)

Remotely sensed land cover datasets have been increasingly employed in studies of wildlife habitat use. However, meaningful interpretation of these datasets is dependent on how accurately they estimate habitat features that are important to wildlife. ...

Primers to Highly Conserved Elements Optimized for qPCR-Based Telomere Length Measurement in Vertebrates (Stephanie F. Hudon, Esteban Palencia Hurtado, James D. Beck, et al.) Molecular Ecology Resources (2021)

Telomere length dynamics are an established biomarker of health and ageing in animals. The study of telomeres in numerous species has been facilitated by methods to measure telomere length by real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR). In ...

Winter Foraging Ecology of Greater Sage-Grouse in a Post-Fire Landscape (Marcella R. Fremgen-Tarantino, Jacqueline J. Peña, John W. Connelly, et al.) Journal of Arid Environments (2020)

In the Great Basin, changes in climate and associated fire regimes may alter the density and distribution of shrubs, changing the structure and diet quality of plants in burned areas. We evaluated how the structural ...

Mapping Foodscapes and Sagebrush Morphotypes with Unmanned Aerial Systems for Multiple Herbivores (Peter J. Olsoy, Jennifer S. Forbey, Lisa A. Shipley, et al.) Landscape Ecology (2020)

Context The amount and composition of phytochemicals in forage plants influences habitat quality for wild herbivores. However, evaluating forage quality at fine resolutions across broad spatial extents (i.e., foodscapes) is challenging. Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) ...

Multiple Dose Pharmacokinetic Models Predict Bioavailability of Toxins in Vertebrate Herbivores (Dane Patey, Jennifer Forbey, Steven Kern, et al.) Journal of Chemical Ecology (2020)

In this paper, compartmental pharmacokinetic models are built to predict the concentration of toxic phytochemical in the gastrointestinal tract and blood following oral intake by an individual vertebrate herbivore. The existing single and multiple dose ...

Where to Forage When Afraid: Does Perceived Risk Impair Use of the Foodscape? (Samantha P.H. Dwinnell, Hall Sawyer, Jill E. Randall, et al.) Ecological Applications (2019)

The availability and quality of forage on the landscape constitute the foodscape within which animals make behavioral decisions to acquire food. Novel changes to the foodscape, such as human disturbance, can alter behavioral decisions that ...

Conservation Genomics in the Sagebrush Sea: Population Divergence, Demographic History, and Local Adaptation in Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus spp.) (Kevin P. Oh, Cameron L. Aldridge, Jennifer S. Forbey, et al.) Genome Biology and Evolution (2019)

Sage-grouse are two closely related iconic species of the North American West, with historically broad distributions across sagebrush-steppe habitat. Both species are dietary specialists on sagebrush during winter, with presumed adaptations to tolerate the high ...

Trophic Interactions and Abiotic Factors Drive Functional and Phylogenetic Structure of Vertebrate Herbivore Communities Across the Arctic Tundra Biome (Jennifer Forbey) Ecography (2019)

Communities are assembled from species that evolve or colonise a given geographic region, and persist in the face of abiotic conditions and interactions with other species. The evolutionary and colonisation histories of communities are characterised ...

Preferences of Specialist and Generalist Mammalian Herbivores for Mixtures versus Individual Plant Secondary Metabolites (Jordan D. Nobler and Jennifer S. Forbey) Journal of Chemical Ecology (2019)

Herbivores that forage on chemically defended plants consume complex mixtures of plant secondary metabolites (PSMs). However, the mechanisms by which herbivores tolerate mixtures of PSMs are relatively poorly understood. As such, it remains difficult to ...

Metagenomic Sequencing Provides Insights into Microbial Detoxification in the Guts of Small Mammalian Herbivores (Neotoma spp.) (Jennifer Sorensen Forbey) FEMS Microbiology Ecology (2018)

Microbial detoxification of plant toxins influences the use of plants as food sources by herbivores. Stephen’s woodrats (Neotoma stephensi) specialize on juniper, which is defended by oxalate, phenolics and monoterpenes, while closely related N. albigula ...

Review: Using Physiologically Based Models to Predict Population Responses to Phytochemicals by Wild Vertebrate Herbivores (J. S. Forbey and T. T. Caughlin) Animal (2018)

To understand how foraging decisions impact individual fitness of herbivores, nutritional ecologists must consider the complex in vivo dynamics of nutrient–nutrient interactions and nutrient–toxin interactions associated with foraging. Mathematical modeling has long been used to ...

Effects of Mowing and Tebuthiuron on the Nutritional Quality of Wyoming Big Sagebrush (Kurt T. Smith, Jennifer S. Forbey and Jeffrey L. Black) Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations (2018)

Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt. ssp. wyomingensis Beetle & Young) is the most abundant and widely distributed subspecies of big sagebrush and has been treated through chemical application, mechanical treatments, and prescribed burning in ...

Dietary Partitioning of Toxic Leaves and Fibrous Stems Differs Between Sympatric Specialist and Generalist Mammalian Herbivores (M. M. Crowell, L. A. Shipley, J. S. Forbey, et al.) Journal of Mammalogy (2018)

Dietary specialists often reside in habitats that provide a high and predictable abundance of their primary food, which is usually difficult for other herbivores to consume because of high levels of plant toxins or structural ...

Interacting Effects of Ambient Temperature and Food Quality on the Foraging Ecology of Small Mammalian Herbivores (Meghan J. Camp, Lisa A. Shipley, Charlotte R. Milling, et al.) Journal of Thermal Biology (2018)

Both temperature and diet quality play an important role in the time and energy budgets of small mammalian herbivores. However, little is known about how temperature and diet quality interact to influence diet selection, nutrient ...