McGill University
Candidat Postdoctoral fellow
superviseur(e): Andrew Gonzalez
Début: 2018-06-01
Fin: 2020-05-01
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Projet

Ecological and Evolutionary relative motion
I use math, models, and microcosms to study the interactions of biological movement across different spatial and temporal scales. I do this by identifying systems with elements that move differently when they are together than they do when they move alone and then I deconstruct those systems to describe the relative contributions each individual element was making to the greater emergent behavior of the system. At McGill, I am applying these methods to develop urban-wildlife connectivity networks where both wildlife and humans can move about the landscape in a sustainable way.

Publications

1- Hindcasting global population densities reveals forces enabling the origin of agriculture
Kavanagh, Patrick H., Bruno Vilela, Hannah J. Haynie, Ty Tuff, Matheus Lima-Ribeiro, Russell D. Gray, Carlos A. Botero, Michael C. Gavin
2018 Nature Human Behaviour

2- Reply to Wootton and Pfister: The search for general context should include synthesis with laboratory model systems
Hufbauer, Ruth A., Marianna Szűcs, Emily Kasyon, Courtney Youngberg, Michael J. Koontz, Christopher Richards, Ty Tuff, Brett A. Melbourne
2015 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

3- Genetic and demographic founder effects have long-term fitness consequences for colonising populations
Szűcs, Marianna, Brett A. Melbourne, Ty Tuff, Christopher Weiss-Lehman, Ruth A. Hufbauer,
2017 Ecology Letters

4- Statistical models for monitoring and predicting effects of climate change and invasion on the free-living insects and a spider from sub-Antarctic Heard Island
Davies, Kendi F., Brett A. Melbourne, Jeffrey L. McClenahan, Ty Tuff
2010 Polar Biology

5- Three types of rescue can avert extinction in a changing environment
Hufbauer, Ruth A., Marianna Szűcs, Emily Kasyon, Courtney Youngberg, Michael J. Koontz, Christopher Richards, Ty Tuff, Brett A. Melbourne
2015 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

6- A framework for integrating thermal biology into fragmentation research
Tuff, K. T., T. Tuff, K. F. Davies,
2016 Ecology Letters

7- The roles of demography and genetics in the early stages of colonization
Sz cs, M., B. A. Melbourne, T. Tuff, R. A. Hufbauer
2014 Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences