Russ Dawson
Professor
Wildlife & Fisheries
University of Northern British Columbia
Canada
Biography
Dr. Dawson is an avian ecologist whose interests include determining the important proximate and ultimate factors influencing reproductive effort and success in birds
Research Interest
Specific areas of interest include mate choice, sexual selection, parasitology, and the mediating role that variation in environmental conditions has for the evolution of life-history traits
Publications
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O'Brien E.L., Dawson R.D. (2016) Life-history and phenotypic traits of insectivorous songbirds breeding on reclaimed mine lands reveal ecological constraints. Science of the Total Environment 553: 450-457.
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Berzins L.L, Dawson R.D. (2016) Experimentally altered plumage brightness of female tree swallows: a test of the differential allocation hypothesis. Behaviour 153: in press.
