Anna Hargreaves

Assistant Professor,
McGill University
Department of Biology
E-mail: anna.hargreaves@mcgill.ca
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Education

Biodiversity Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia. 2016
PhD, Queen's University. 2014
MSc, University of Calgary. 2007
BSc, Trent University. 2003


Research

My research focuses on interactions among species (biotic interactions) and the dynamics of species range limits. Much of my research is field-based; I conduct large- and small-scale experiments in natural environments to test and refine theoretical ideas in ecology and evolution that have practical conservation relevance. I am especially interested in adaptation in range-edge populations, interactions among flowers and their visitors, and the role biotic interactions play in shaping species’ geographic distributions.

QCBS students

Shannon Meadley Dunphy

Ph.D.
(Start: 2018)
Love/hate thy neighbour: neighbour shifts from hosts to competitors across the ranges of hemi-parasitic plants

Cole Larsen

M.Sc.
(Start: 2018)
Dispersal evolution across temporally & spatially variable landscapes

Joshua Persi

M.Sc.
(Start: 2018)
Non-temperature determinants of species' range limits

Examples of species studied

Aloe maculata


Publications

19- Narrow entrance of short-tubed Aloe flowers facilitates pollen transfer on long sunbird bills
Hargreaves A , Langston G , Johnson S ,
2019 South African Journal of Botany (Date Added: 2019-05-20)

18- Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations
Hargreaves A L , Suárez E , Mehltreter K , Myers-Smith I , Vanderplank S E , Slinn H L , Vargas-Rodriguez Y L , Haeussler S , David S , Muñoz J , Carlos Almazán-Núñez R , Loughnan D , Benning J W , Moeller D A , Brodie J F , Thomas H J , Morales M P A ,
2019 Science Advances (Date Added: 2019-03-04)

17- Local adaptation primes cold-edge populations for range expansion but not warming-induced range shifts
Hargreaves A L , Eckert C G ,
2018 Ecology Letters (Date Added: 2018-11-21)

16- Expanding, shifting and shrinking: The impact of global warming on species’ elevational distributions
Freeman B G , Lee-Yaw J A , Sunday J M , Hargreaves A L ,
2018 Global Ecology and Biogeography (Date Added: 2018-09-23)

15- Local adaptation interacts with expansion load during range expansion: Maladaptation reduces expansion load
Gilbert, KJ, Sharp, NP, Angert, AL, Conte, GL, Draghi, JA, Guillaume, F, Hargreaves, AL, Matthey-Doret, R, Whitlock, MC
2017 American Naturalist (Date Added: 2018-01-19)

14- Adaptation to fragmentation: Evolutionarydynamics driven by human influences
Cheptou, PO, Hargreaves, AL, Bonte, D, Jacquemyn, H
2017 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (Date Added: 2018-01-19)

13- Fitness declines towards range limits and local adaptation to climate affect dispersal evolution during climate-induced range shifts
Hargreaves, AL, Bailey, SF, Laird, RA
2015 Journal of Evolutionary Biology (Date Added: 2018-01-19)

12- High-elevation range limit of an annual herb is neither caused nor reinforced by declining pollinator service
Hargreaves, AL, Weiner, JL, Eckert, CG
2015 Journal of Ecology (Date Added: 2018-01-19)

11- Evolution of dispersal and mating systems along geographic gradients: Implications for shifting ranges
Hargreaves, AL, Eckert, CG
2014 Functional Ecology (Date Added: 2018-01-19)

10- Are species' range limits simply niche limits writ large? A review of transplant experiments beyond the range
Hargreaves, AL, Samis, KE, Eckert, CG
2014 American Naturalist (Date Added: 2018-01-19)

9- Floral traits mediate the vulnerability of aloes to pollen theft and inefficient pollination by bees
Hargreaves, AL, Harder, LD, Johnson, SD
2012 Annals of Botany (Date Added: 2018-01-19)

8- Concentrations of 17 elements, including mercury, in the tissues, food and abiotic environment of arctic shorebirds
Hargreaves, AL, Whiteside, DP, Gilchrist, G
2011 Science of the Total Environment (Date Added: 2018-01-19)

7- Concentrations of 17 elements, including mercury, and their relationship to fitness measures in arctic shorebirds and their eggs
Hargreaves, AL, Whiteside, DP, Gilchrist, G
2010 Science of the Total Environment (Date Added: 2018-01-19)

6- Native pollen thieves reduce the reproductive success of a hermaphroditic plant, Aloe maculata
Hargreaves, AL, Harder, LD, Johnson, SD
2010 Ecology (Date Added: 2018-01-19)

5- Consumptive emasculation: The ecological and evolutionary consequences of pollen theft
Hargreaves, AL, Harder, LD, Johnson, SD
2009 Biological Reviews (Date Added: 2018-01-19)

4- Aloe inconspicua: The first record of an exclusively insect-pollinated aloe
Hargreaves, AL, Harder, LD, Johnson, SD
2008 South African Journal of Botany (Date Added: 2018-01-19)

3- Empty flowers as a pollination-enhancement strategy
Bailey, SF, Hargreaves, AL, Hechtenthal, SD, Laird, RA, Latty, TM, Reid, TG, Teucher, AC, Tindall, JR
2007 Evolutionary Ecology Research (Date Added: 2018-01-19)

2- Dark, bitter-tasting nectar functions as a filter of flower visitors in a bird-pollinated plant
Johnson, SD, Hargreaves, AL, Brown, M
2006 Ecology (Date Added: 2018-01-19)

1- Do floral syndromes predict specialization in plant pollination systems? An experimental test in an "ornithophilous" African Protea
Hargreaves, AL, Johnson, SD, Nol, E
2004 Oecologia (Date Added: 2018-01-19)