If you are interested in undertaking a PhD on connectivity research, please get in touch. We have opportunities to study connectivity in a variety of contexts, including assessing disease spread and cross-border conservation.
New pre-prints describing SARS-CoV-2 wildlife surveillance
Pan-Canadian Connectivity Map!
Welcome!
We are happy to welcome new researchers to our group this autumn! Dr. Simon Tapper is a new postdoctoral researcher with the group. Meghan Ward, Laurelie Menelon, and Bryan Hughes are new M.Sc. students, and Rosemary Minns and Jason Smyrlis are new undergraduate researchers. A warm welcome to all!
New research from the lab!
Brown, M.G.C., J. Bowman, and P.J. Wilson. 2021. Data on the first functionally-annotated de novo transcriptome assembly for North American flying squirrels (genus Glaucomys). Data in Brief 37: 107267.
Marrotte, R. R., and J. Bowman. 2021. Seven decades of southern range dynamics of Canada lynx. Ecology and Evolution 11:4644-4655. doi:10.1002/ece3.7364.
O’Brien, P. P., J. Bowman, Andrea B. Coombs, Sasha L. Newar, and Colin J. Garroway. 2021. Winter nest trees of sympatric northern and southern flying squirrels: a test of reinforcement in a hybrid zone. Canadian Journal of Zoology. doi: 10.1139/cjz-2021-0086.
Phillips, P., M. M. Clark, S. Baral, E. L. Koen, and J. Bowman. 2021. Comparison of methods for estimating omnidirectional landscape connectivity. Landscape Ecology 36:1647-1661. doi:10.1007/s10980-021-01254-2.
Sadowski, C., and J. Bowman. 2021. Historical surveys reveal a long-term declines in muskrat populations. Ecology and Evolution 11:7557-7568. doi:10.1002/ece3.7588.
Welcome new lab members!
This spring we welcome several new members to our team. We are overdue welcoming Sam Stead, who has been working on the flying squirrel project all winter for her PhD research at U of T. We also welcome several students to summer research positions, including Mark Maddox, Nick Paroshy, Elizabeth Gallant, Shane White, and Bryan Hughes. We have a busy summer planned, and look forward to being out in the field on a variety of different projects.
Our flying squirrel project on The Nature of Things!
We had the great privilege of contributing to the Wild Canadian Weather series on The Nature of Things. Check out the ‘Cold’ episode, and also the behind the scenes episode to see how we got the footage:
https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/wild-canadian-weather-cold
Our research was also featured in the behind the scenes episode. Here is the first footage of fluorescent squirrels gliding:
Welcome new graduate students!
Welcome to new graduate students Rebekah Persad @RebekahPersad and Greg Melvin @_GregMelvin! We are looking forward to starting these fun new projects!
New papers this summer
Recent papers from Robby Marrotte in Facets about lynx and bobcat distributions and Jasmine Veitch in International Journal for Parasitology about parasites in deer mice, and Sasha Newar, who published a review article about vocalizations in the squirrel family. Check ’em out!
Recent papers from the lab!
This winter we have published 3 new papers in landscape ecology and landscape genetics in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Current Landscape Ecology Reports, and Ecology and Evolution. From bobcats to loons, to polar bears, to songbirds! We end one paper with warm wishes to a beaver in Seattle. You’ll have to read on to learn more!
Wildlife Ecology & Evolution 