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Colin Garroway

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Name: Dr. Colin Garroway
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Email: colin.garroway@zoo.ox.ac.uk

Autobiography

During my undergraduate (2004) and master's degrees (2006) at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, I studied various aspects of bat sociality and habitat use with Dr. Hugh Broders. I then moved to Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, for my PhD. There, with Dr Jeff Bowman, I studied the interplay between climate change, range expansion and sociality in flying squirrels. I joined the EGI in January 2011.

Research Activities

Generally, I am interested in understanding how aspects of population ecology are affected by interactions among individuals, populations, species and environments. At the EGI I am focusing on questions about the ecology and evolution of sociality in Great Tits. Among other things, this involves experimental manipulations of Great Tit social networks to examine the influence of social environments on dispersal and the strength of selection on social network positions.

Selected Papers

Garroway CJ, Bowman J, Holloway GL, Malcolm JR, Wilson PJ (2011) The genetic signature of rapid range expansion by flying squirrels in response to contemporary climate warming Global Change Biology 17: 1760-1769. | Read abstract/paper online

Rutledge LY, Garroway CJ, Loveless KM, Patterson BR (2010) Genetic differentiation of eastern wolves in Algonquin Park despite bridging gene flow between coyotes and grey wolvesHeredity 105: 520-331. | Read abstract/paper online

Coombs AB, Bowman J, Garroway CJ (2010) Thermal properties of tree cavities during winter in a northern hardwood forest Journal of Wildlife Management 74: 1894-1903 | Read abstract/paper online

Patriquin KJ, Leonard ML, Broders HG , Garroway CJ (2010) Do social networks of female northern long-eared bats vary with reproductive period and age? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64: 899-913 | Read abstract/paper online

Garroway CJ, Bowman J, Cascaden TJ, Holloway GL, Mahan CG, Malcolm JR, Steele MA, Turner G, Wilson PJ (2010) Climate change induced hybridization in flying squirrels. Global Change Biology 16: 113-121. | Read abstract/paper online

Garroway CJ, Bowman J, Carr D, Wilson PJ (2008) Evolutionary Applications 1: 620-630 | Read abstract/paper online

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