Northern climates and the ecological interactions of interacting species

我的研究小组使用实验室，现场和建模方法相结合，以确定动物能量学的生态和进化后果（动物从环境中获取和同化能量的过程，并在维持，生长和繁殖之间分配同化的能量）。在这里，我建议我们最近的进展，在生物记录（使用小型化的动物附加标签记录和/或中继有关动物的运动，行为，生理和/或环境的数据），以记录全年充满活力和活动状态的自由放养的野生动物在加拿大北方。我将把这些生物记录器部署在加拿大北部四个著名的野生动物群落中，以更好地了解气候如何影响它们的活力状态。这项拟议中的研究将有助于新的生物能量数据和模型，这将有助于我们记录和预测北方环境变化将如何改变野生动物的丰度，分布和共存。在这项提议中，我请求提供资金，以抵消与北方研究有关的高昂后勤和社区外联费用。特别是，我要求旅行资金，聘请当地社区协调员，并与长者和猎人协商，以确保成功部署生物记录器所需的社区支持，知识和研究许可，以及将结果反馈给社区。

My research group uses a combination of laboratory, field, and modeling approaches to identify the ecological and evolutionary consequences of animal energetics (the process by which animals acquire and assimilate energy from the environment, and allocate assimilated energy between maintenance, growth, and reproduction). Here I propose to us recent advances in biologging (the use of miniaturized animal-attached tags for logging and/or relaying of data about an animal's movements, behaviour, physiology and/or environment) to document the year-round energetic and activity states of free-ranging wildlife in northern Canada. I will deploy these biologgers on four prominent wildlife assemblages across the Canadian North to better understand how climate affects the energetic status. This proposed research will contribute to new bioenergetic data and models that will help us document and predict how northern environmental change will alter wildlife abundance, distribution and coexistence. In this proposal, I request funding to offset the high logistical and community outreach costs associated with research in the North. In particular, I request funds for travel, hiring local community coordinators, and consulting with elders and hunters, to secure the community support, knowledge, and research licensing required for successful deployment of biologgers, as well as communicating the results back to the community.