Research/Interests:
- Behavioral and population ecology, conservation biology, evolutionary ecology, macroecology, and population genetics. My major field work is on ground-dwelling squirrels in alpine environments in western Canada . I also collaborate on international cooperative research programs with colleagues in Europe , including study of the life histories and mating systems of austral seabirds.
Professor F. Stephen Dobson is an evolutionary biologist with a broad understanding of ecology and genetics at the population level. He has a long career of studying the evolutionary biology of behaviours, particularly social behaviours.
Project:
- Alleviating social stress: effects of social buffers on ageing in wild mammals.
Keywords:
- Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, Mammalogy, Ornithology.
His work in France has included ethological studies of mice (at the Paris 13 University), research on sexual selection of king penguins in the Southern Antarctic Territories of France (from CNRS Montpellier, as a Director of Research) and, most recently, on ageing and stress in ground-dwelling squirrels in Canada (with the University of Strasbourg).
Research and Teaching Interests:
- Behavioral, historical, and population ecology; population genetics; mammalogy; seabird behavior and ecology.
