Robinson Research Lab

Lab alumnus, Will Jarvis was the primary author on a science journalism piece about Katie Black's work on plasticity in self-amputation in damselflies. See the conversation,

The extreme tactic of self-amputation means survival in the animal kingdom Why do some animals amputate their own limbs? Turns out, there's a whole bunch of reasons why this strategy has evolved.

There are some excellent graduate scholarships particularly for aquatic research available through the CBS here at Guelph. If you have a strong academic background and are interested in graduate research contact me for more information at [email protected]!

You can download a free (until Nov. 9) copy of our Behavioural Interference between species TREE article now!
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Vld6cZ3WcXGj
The photo of an interaction between a lioness and hyenas is by Brittany Gunther.

Causes and Consequences of Behavioral Interference between Species

You can find a free copy (until Nov. 9, 2017) of our Behavioral interference between species TREE article here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Vld6cZ3WcXGj
The wonderful picture of interference between a lion and hyenas below is by Brittany Gunther.

Causes and Consequences of Behavioral Interference between Species

Three years ago I met Greg Grether for the first time at the 2014 ISBEE meeting in NYC through Kathryn Peiman. From there we three put together a symposium on Interference interactions at the ISBEE meeting in Exeter UK in 2016 where I met a diverse group of researchers that had studied interference interactions from behavioral, ecological and evolutionary perspectives. Then we wrote a paper - now out in TREE! Causes and consequences of Behavioural Interference between species. Kudos to all of the co-authors who moved this forwards and to the stimulation by all at the symposium!
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.07.004

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It's alive! The covariation trait paper by Peiman and Robinson is finally out! Here we analyze how the type of trait relationship influences the expression of phenotypic trait covariation within and among populations and how all that evolves under selection. Man, we learned a lot making this come about!
http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctPeiman.html

- “Comparative analyses of phenotypic trait covariation within and among populations” Kathryn S. Peiman and Beren W. Robinson (Oct 2017)Reconsidering phenotypic covariation and evolution through the lens of different trait relationships

Will Jarvis and Shevon Comeau's paper on flexible mate choice in sunfish is now published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Students rock! (DOI) - 10.1111/jeb.13127

Dr. Who? Dr. Gislason, newly minted June 2017! Congratulations!

Congratulations to William Jarvis and Shevon Comeau, two prior undergraduate research students who now have co-authored a paper accepted for publication! Jarvis, W, S Comeau, SF Colborne, BW Robinson. Evidence that weak mate choice may contribute to reproductive barriers to gene flow in a polyphenic sunfish population. J. Evolutionary Biology, XX: x-y. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13127

Kuddos to David Gislason for his paper 'Rapid changes in age and size at maturity in Lake Erie yellow perch (Perca flavescens) are not explained by harvest' being accepted for publication by the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences! This is great news coming ahead of his PhD defense in May!

Some awesome video of diving with charismatic mega-fauna. But our micro-fauna videos below are special too!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUfFqjAFKcI

Scuba diving with sea lions at Vivian Island & Hornby Island, British Columbia! Seaproof.tv and Becky Kagan Schott of Liquid Productions dive with Pacific Pro Dive and Marine Adventures to visit the incredibly cute and curious sea lions ...