Kluane Red Squirrel Project
Kluane Red Squirrel Project
News
Eryn McFarlane interviewed on CBC’s As it Happens. Her recent paper found that red squirrel promiscuity is largely due to their environment and not their genetics. (paper) (interview)
Quinn Flecther’s paper on the functional response of red squirrels to spruce cone availability makes the cover of Ecology.
The 2010 KRSP Workshop was held in Guelph on November 13 and 14, 2010.
An interdisciplinary study of the ecology, evolution and energetics of red squirrels
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KRSP Hiring Paperwork (private)
Recent Publications
Dantzer, B., A. G. McAdam, R. Palme, M. M. Humphries, S. Boutin, and R. Boonstra. 2011. Maternal androgens and behaviour in free-ranging North American red squirrels. Animal Behaviour, 81: 469-479. (link)
McFarlane, S. E., J. E. Lane, R. W. Taylor, J. C. Gorrell, D. W. Coltman, M. M. Humphries, S. Boutin, and A. G. McAdam. 2011. The heritability of multiple male mating in a promiscuous mammal. Biology Letters, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2010.1003 (link)
This project is supported by funds from the National Science Foundation and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.