| |
|
|
| |
Dr. Kathreen Ruckstuhl |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
Position: |
Assistant Professor |
Qualifications: |
Postdocs: 1999-2004 University of Cambridge
Ph.D.: 1994-1998 University of Sherbrooke
MSc: 1990-1992 University of Berne
BSc: 1986-1989 University of Berne
|
Room: |
BI 258 |
Phone: |
- 403-220-8776
|
Email: |
kruckstu@ucalgary.ca |
| Web: |
Personal web page |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Research Interests
I am particularly interested in what drives gregariousness, the social organization within groups, affinities and associations between group members, cost and benefits of group living, such as competition for food and mates, parasite and disease transmission, and cooperation, to name but a few aspects. I mainly study different ungulate species in the field, mostly bighorn sheep and elk (or red deer). Current topics under investigation include among others: Sociality: costs and benefits of group living and decision-making; dominance hierarchies and hormones in bighorn sheep; red deer and bighorn sheep social networks and disease dynamics; sociality, mate choice and parasites in bighorns; effect of urbanization on coyotes and elk, and effects of stress hormones on offspring sex ratio in humans and Columbian ground squirrels.
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Courses Taught
Biol 205 |
The Organization and Diversity of Life |
| Biol 313 |
An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution |
| Ecol 429 |
Ecology of Individuals |
| Ecol 507 |
Special Problems in Ecology |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Graduate Students
Name |
Degree |
Topic |
| Dr. Jack Hogg |
Senior Research Associate |
breeding migrations in Rocky Mountain bighorn
sheep |
| |
|
|
| Andres, Daniel |
M.Sc. |
Mate choice in bighorn sheep |
| Edwards, Benn |
MSc |
Implications of anthropomorphic disturbance on elk behaviour and ecology |
| Hoar, Bryanne |
Ph.D. |
( co-supervised with Dr. Susan Kutz, UCVD): Ecology of caribou gastrointestinal parasites |
| Liccioli, Stefano |
MSc |
(co-supervised with Dr. Alessandro Massolo, UCVD). : Effects of landscape structure on urban coyote gastro-intestinal parasite communities. |
| McDougall, Petra |
Ph.D. |
|
| Patterson, Jesse |
Ph.D. |
Parasites, hormones, and behaviour of red squirrels. |
| Sherwood, Melissa |
M.Sc. |
Correlates of female dominance in bighorns |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Awards
2010 – Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK.
2007 - Alberta ingenuity New Faculty Award 2007
2008 - The Eppley Foundation for Research and National Geographic Society Awards (jointly with Dr. J.T. Hogg, MOSCI)
2003 - Canada-UK Millenium Research Award
2003 - Visiting Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK.
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Selected publications
- Ruckstuhl, K. E., Coljin, G., Vinish, E. and Amiot, V. 2010: Job stress and offspring sex in humans. BiomedCentral Public Health. BMC Public Health, 10:269 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-10-269.
- Ferrari, N., Rosà, R., Lanfranchi, P. and Ruckstuhl, K.E. 2010: Effect of sexual segregation on host-parasite interaction: model simulation for abomasal parasites dynamics in alpine Ibex (Capra ibex). International Journal for Parasitology 40: 1285-1293.
- Moquin P, Curry, B., Pelletier, F, and Ruckstuhl K.E. 2010: Plasticity in the rumination behaviour of bighorn sheep: contrasting strategies between the sexes? Animal Behaviour 79:1047–1053.
- Brown, N. A., Ruckstuhl, K. E., Donelon. S. and Corbett, C. 2010: Changes in vigilance, grazing behaviour and spatial distribution of bighorn sheep due to cattle presence in Sheep River Provincial Park, Alberta. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 135: 226-231.
- Ruckstuhl, K. E. & Neuhaus, P. 2009. Activity budgets and sociality in a monomorphic ungulate: the African oryx (Oryx gazella). Canadian Journal of Zoology 87 (2): 165-174.
- Meldrum G. E. & Ruckstuhl K. E. 2009. Mixed-sex group formation by bighorn sheep in winter: trading costs of synchrony for benefits of group living. Animal Behaviour 77: 919-929. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.12.023.
- Ruckstuhl, K. E., Johnson, E. A., & Myianishi, K. 2008. The boreal forest and global change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 363 (1501): 2245-2249. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2196.
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Books
- Ruckstuhl, K. E. & Neuhaus, P. (2005):
Sexual segregation in vertebrates: ecology of the two sexes.
Editors: K. E.
Ruckstuhl & P. Neuhaus. Cambridge University Press.
488 pages
- Ruckstuhl, K. E. & Clutton-Brock, T. H. (2005): Sexual
segregation and the ecology of the two Sexes. Editors: K.
E. Ruckstuhl & P. Neuhaus. Cambridge University Press.
Pp: 3-7.
- Ruckstuhl, K. E.& Neuhaus, P. (2005):
Activity asynchrony and social segregation. In: Sexual segregation
in vertebrates:
ecology of the two sexes. Editors: K. E. Ruckstuhl & P.
Neuhaus. Cambridge University Press. Pp: 165-179.
- Neuhaus, P., Ruckstuhl, K. E.& Conradt,
L. (2005): Sexual segregation in vertebrates: Conclusions
and future
directions for research. Editors: K. E. Ruckstuhl & P.
Neuhaus. Cambridge University Press. Pp: 395-402
|
|
|
