Field Vehicle in Support of Research on Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Biology of Fishes

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The equipment requested in the current grant proposal will replace a previous field vehicle that is: (i) almost 15 years old; (ii) no longer considered to provide a safe means of transporting graduate students and student field assistants; and (iii) inadequate for research transportation demands. The equipment will support research on brook trout, Atlantic salmon, and Atlantic cod. The salmon work is in Nova Scotia and involves studies of alternative male reproductive strategies in the species. The trout work, being undertaken on more than 20 populations in southeastern Newfoundland, involves the extension of a long-term (25 years) study on life history, dispersal, phenotypic plasticity, and conservation biology. The cod work involves the catching, transportation, and husbandry of fish from throughout eastern Canada that are required for behavioural work, studies of the spatial scale of local adaptation and stock structure, and work on the causes of slow recovery in this species.