Kluane Red Squirrel Project
News
Former graduate student, Ben Dantzer, publishes paper in Science on effects of population density on red squirrel stress hormones and pup growth rates. [Media]
The 2013 season is now underway!
An interdisciplinary study of the ecology, evolution and energetics of red squirrels
Recent Publications
Dantzer, B., A. E. M. Newman, R. Boonstra, R. Palme, S. Boutin, M. M. Humphries, and A. G. McAdam. in press. Density triggers maternal hormones that increase adaptive offspring growth in a wild mammal. Science. [article]
Fletcher, Q. E., Colin Selman, Stan Boutin, Andrew G. McAdam, Sarah B. Woods, Arnold Y. Seo, Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, Rachel Sinclair, John R. Speakman, and Murray M. Humphries. 2013. Oxidative damage increases with reproductive energy expenditure and is reduced by food-supplementation. Evolution 67: 1527-1536. [article]
Fletcher, Q. E., Speakman, J. R., Boutin, S., McAdam, A. G., Woods, S. B. and Humphries, M. M. 2012. Seasonal stage differences overwhelm environmental and individual factors as determinants of energy expenditure in free-ranging red squirrels. Functional Ecology, 26: 677–687. [article]
This project is supported by funds from the National Science Foundation and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
