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- Email Address
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- Research Description
My research program is diverse, but the overarching theme involves using the movements of animals to assess the significance that individual behaviour has for the biology of populations and communities and, ultimately, biodiversity.
- Research Summary
In one main component, my students examine changes in the biodiversity of stream fishes caused by in-stream barriers used to control sea lamprey in the Laurentian Great Lakes. In a second main component, my students use smaller scale approaches focused on diversification in the foraging and migratory movements of brook charr (Salvelinus fontinalis) to understand the role that individual differences in behaviour have in facilitating population divergence in physiology, morphology, and life history, and the creation of new biodiversity. My research program has two, additional minor components: 1) assessing the effects of agricultural practices on stream fishes and 2) examining basic research questions related to animal movement.
- Locations of international collaborators
Texas Christian University, National Marine Fisheries Service, Purdue University, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Great Lakes Fishery Commission, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (USA).
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