Colin Garroway
Assistant Professor
Colin.Garroway@umanitoba.ca
Canada
Biography
My research integrates population genomic, evolutionary, and ecological analyses to explore the ways that population structures form, persist, collapse, and change through time. This involves both intensive field-based work on wild animal populations and computer-based data modelling and analysis. I have only recently (Dec 2015) arrived at the University of Manitoba and so I’m in the process of starting projects and looking for students and assistants. This summer (2016) we will start fieldwork to monitor behavioural, demographic, and genomic variation among squirrel populations within and outside of Winnipeg to explore local adaptation to urban environments. We will sample additional city and forest populations more broadly to try to generalize our population genomic findings. I am also building a multi-species database to explore relationships between life history traits and population structure.
Research Interest
Landscape and population genetics, evolutionary ecology, local adaptation, gene flow and genetic drift, conservation and management, behaviour.
Publications
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Crates, Ross A, Sheldon, Ben C and Garroway, Colin J (2015). Causes and consequences of individual variation in the extent of post-juvenile moult in the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus (Passeriformes: Paridae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 116 (2), 341–351.
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Bouwhuis, Sandra, Vedder, Oscar, Garroway, Colin J and Sheldon, Ben C (2015). Ecological causes of multilevel covariance between size and first-year survival in a wild bird population. Journal of Animal Ecology 84, 208–218.
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Aplin, LM, Firth, JA, Farine, DR, Voelkl, B, Crates, RA, Culina, A, Garroway, CJ, Hinde, CA, Kidd, LR, Psorakis, I and et al. (2015). Consistent individual differences in the social phenotypes of wild great tits, Parus major. Animal behaviour 108, 117–127.
