McGill University
M.Sc. candidate
Supervisor: Lauren Chapman
Start: 2020-09-01
End: 2023-08-15

Project

Interactive effects of elevated water temperature and turbidity on behaviour of the threatened Pugnose Shiner (Notropis anogenus)
Freshwater fish species are highly vulnerable to local perturbations to their environment given that their distribution is often restricted to landlocked aquatic ecosystems (Woodward et al., 2010). Additionally, these systems are often exposed to multiple stressors that can interact together. The combination of multiple stressors, and in some cases, limited options for dispersal has led to extraordinarily high extinction risks in freshwater systems (WWF, 2018). Therefore, the overall goal of my M.Sc. research is to study the independent and interactive effects of elevated water temperature and turbidity on the activity level and the thermal and hypoxia tolerance of the threatened Pugnose Shiner, a threatened cyprinid species in Canada.

Keywords

fish behaviour, multiple stressors, Endangered/threatened species, Aquatic conservation, aquatic ecology, eco-physiology

Publications

1- Maternal gastrointestinal nematode infection enhances spatial memory of uninfected juvenile mouse pups
Noel, Sophia C., Liana Fortin-Hamel, Manjurul Haque, Marilyn E. Scott
2022 Scientific Reports