Dr. Russell D. Dawson - Students

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Female American Kestrel

 
Current Students
  • Leah Hurrell (BSc): Influence of dietary quality on reproductive output and offspring quality in burying beetles
Leah Hurrell
  • Chelsea Coady (MSc): The influence of quality and age on plumage variation and life-history decisions of female tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)
Chelsea Coady
  • Jennifer Greenwood (MSc): Breeding site fidelity and its effects on reproductive decisions of American kestrels
Jennifer Greenwood
  • Vanessa Harriman (PhD): Mechanisms underlying changes in recruitment probabilities of avian offspring with variation in timing of breeding (co-supervised with Dr. R.G. Clark)
Vanessa Harriman
  • Erin L. O'Brien (PhD): Avian life-history evolution: the influence of proximate trade-offs and constraints on development and reproductive investment of mountain bluebirds
Erin O'Brien

 
Former Students
  • Theo Mlynowski (BSc): The functional significance of feathers lining the nests of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)
Theo Mlynowski
  • Cory Ochs (BSc): Changes in heterophil to lymphocyte ratios of individual female tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) across multiple breeding seasons
Cory Ochs
  • Alicia Goddard (MSc): Reproductive success and habitat use of sharp-tailed grouse in the Peace River Region, British Columbia
Alicia Goddard
  • Pierre-Paul Bitton (MSc): Plumage characteristics in tree swallows Tachycineta bicolor: honest signals of condition, reproductive investment and mating strategies
Pierre-Paul Bitton
  • Brett A. Boukall (MSc): The influence of environmental factors on the reproductive output of peregrine factors in the Yukon
Brett Boukall
  • Erin L. O'Brien (MSc): Social and extra-pair mate choice by female tree swallows: the importance of male and nest site quality, and consequences for offspring performance
Erin O'Brien
  • Kristy K. Hillen (BSc): Effects of experimental variation in temperature on larval densities of parasitic Protocalliphora in nests of tree swallows
  • Pierre-Paul Bitton (BSc): Causes and consequences of egg mass variation among clutches of tree swallows
Pierre-Paul Bitton
  • Cheyenne C. Lawrie (BSc): Influence of microclimate on energy allocation strategies of nestling birds
Cheyenne Lawrie
  • Mark T. Bidwell (BSc): Effects of calcium supplementation on the reproductive output of an insectivorous bird, the tree swallow
Mark Bidwell
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Last Updated 16 January 2009