Mammalian physiology, physiological ecology, maternal effects particularly those occurring during lactation, lactocrine programming of offspring phenotype, and the evolution of lactation strategies.

1. Skibiel, A. L., J. R. Speakman, and W. R. Hood. (in press) Testing the prediction of energy allocation decisions in the evolution of life history tradeoffs. Functional Ecology.
2. Skibiel, A. L., L. M. Downing, T. J. Orr, and W. R. Hood. (in press) The evolution of the nutrient composition of mammalian milks. Journal of Animal Ecology.
3. Skibiel, A. L. and W. R. Hood. 2013. Milk composition in a hibernating rodent, the Columbian ground squirrel,Urocitellus columbianus. Journal of Mammalogy 94(1): 146-154. 
4. T. J. Karels, F. S. Dobson, H. S. Trevino, A. L. Skibiel. 2009. Testing causal structure in the biogeography of avian extinctions on oceanic islands. Journal of Biogeography 36: 1614-1617.
5. Skibiel, A. L., F. S. Dobson, J. O. Murie. 2009. Maternal influences on reproduction in two populations of Columbian ground squirrels. Ecological Monographs 79(2): 325-341.
6. T. J. Karels, F. S. Dobson, H. S. Trevino, A. L. Skibiel. 2008. The biogeography of avian extinctions on oceanic islands. Journal of Biogeography 35: 1106-1111.
7. Trevino, H. S., A. L. Skibiel, T. J. Karels, F. S. Dobson. 2007. Threats to avifauna on oceanic islands. Conservation Biology 21(1): 125-132.