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Current Lab Members |
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Brett Gandy (MSc) Effects of variable air quality on foraging and activity patterns of aerial insectivorous birds and bats (co-supervised with Erin Baerwald)
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Shaye Hill (MSc) Nest architecture and its role in the reproductive ecology of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor). |
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Hannah Tench (MSc) Factors constraining egg viability in an aerial insectivore, the tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor). |
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Emily Bornestig (MSc) Movement of microplastics through food webs and and impacts on higher trophic level organisms. |
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Jeannine Randall
(PhD)
Effects of enviornmental conditions on life-history strategies
of an insectivorous bird. |
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Former Lab Members |
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Aija White (PhD) Resource acquisition and allocation
in mountain bluebirds (Sialia currucoides). |
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Andrew Mitchell (BSc)
Diversity of Calliphorid flies in north-central
British Columbia. |
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Michael Minard (BSc)
Landscape and nest box characteristics influence
patterns of nest-site use and reproductive success in a cavity nesting bird,
the tree swallow
(Tachycineta bicolor). |
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Emily Bornestig (BSc)
Mass change over time in a growing population of
adult tree swallows
(Tachycineta bicolor). |
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Kenna Sweet (BSc) Does perceived paternity influence paternal investment decisions of a socially monogamous passerines? An experiment with tree swallows. |
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Ilsa Griebel (MSc) Variability in susceptibility of nestling passerines
to parasites. |
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Sara
Sparks (MSc)
Avian hatching patterns
in response to low-quality environments and
ecological stochasticity: adaptation or constraint? |
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Daniel
Williams (MSc) Parasite-host
interactions between Protocalliphora
(Diptera: Calliphoridae)
and tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor). |
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Determinants of mating success in female tree
swallows
(Tachycineta bicolor). |
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Jeannine
Randall (MSc) Causes and consequences of blue-green eggshell
colour variation in mountain bluebirds (Sialia currucoides). |
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Sophie
Unger (MSc) Trade-offs
in the early development of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor): offspring characteristics, offspring quality, and
parental care. |
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Erin
O'Brien (Postdoctoral Researcher) Performance of cavity nesting birds breeding on
reclaimed mine tailings: an individual life-history approach. |
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Vanessa
Harriman (PhD) Seasonal variation in quality and
survival of nestling tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor): tests of alternate
hypotheses.
(co-supervised with Dr.
R.G. Clark, Environment Canada / University of Saskatchewan). |
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Eleanor
Duifhuis (BSc) Effects of hatching asynchrony on reproductive
performance of
mountain
bluebirds (Sialia currucoides) in a disturbed site. |
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Daniel
McClair (BSc) Do parent mountain bluebirds (Sialia currucoides) adjust provisioning rate
in response to environmental disturbance? |
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Kourtney
Scott (BSc) The
intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting age at fledging in cavity nesting
birds. |
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Ryan
Foster (BSc) Invertebrate diversity and abundance in an anthropogenically disturbed landscape. |
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Sara
Sparks (BSc) Provisioning rates of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)
breeding on reclaimed tailings at Highland Valley Copper mine. |
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Chanel
Lewis (BSc) Effects of environmental disturbance from industrial
resource extraction activities on levels of parasitism in cavity nesting
birds. |
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Jennifer
Salokannel (BSc) Sex ratio variation within avian broods and its
influence on infestation rates by parasitic blow flies. |
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Chelsea
Coady (MSc) The signaling function of plumage
characteristics in female tree swallows and implications for reproductive
success and life-history decisions. |
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Jennifer
Greenwood (MSc) breeding settlement and dispersal in a
northern population of American
kestrels. |
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Jessica
Milko (BSc) Growth and development of the parasitic blow fly Protocalliphora
spp. (Diptera: Calliphoridae). |
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Erin
O'Brien (PhD) Individual variation and
environmental context in avian life history evolution: an experimental
approach using mountain bluebirds (Sialia
currucoides). |
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Leah
Hurrell (BSc) Influences of carcass quality on elytra pigmentation,
body condition, and reproductive success in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus defodiens. |
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Theo
Mlynowski (BSc) The functional significance of feathers lining the
nests of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor). |
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Courtney
Ochs (BSc) Changes in heterophil to
lymphocyte ratios of individual female tree swallows (Tachycineta
bicolor) across multiple breeding seasons. |
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Pierre-Paul
Bitton (MSc) Plumage characteristics in tree swallows Tachycineta bicolor: honest signals of condition, reproductive
investment and mating strategies. |
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Alicia
Goddard (MSc) Reproductive success and habitat selection of sharp-tailed
grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus)
in the Peace River Region, Northeast British Columbia. |
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Brett
Boukall (MSc) The influence of environmental factors on the
reproductive output of peregrine falcons in the Yukon. |
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Erin
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. |
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Kristy
Hillen (BSc) Experimental variation in temperature and its
influence on population densities of parasitic flies, Protocalliphora
Hough. |
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Pierre-Paul
Bitton (BSc) Causes and consequences of egg mass variation among
clutches of tree swallows (Tachycineta
bicolor). |
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Cheyenne
Lawrie (BSc) Influence of variation in microclimate on energy
allocation strategies of nestling birds. |
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Mark
Bidwell (BSc) Effects of calcium
supplementation on the reproductive
output of an insectivorous bird, the tree swallow (Tachycineta
bicolor). |
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