Nicholas C Collins

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus:
  • U of T Mississauga
• Department:
  • Biology

Expertise

• Contrast between how much variance we believe we can explain in and how much is actually explainable
• Difficulties in managing fisheries resources
• Effects of predation risk on activity patterns and habitat use by littoral fishes
• Evolution of effect sizes in nature
• Facilitating warmwater temperature regimes for fish in shallow Great Lakes embayments
• Freshwater fish behaviour
• Human development of lake shorelines
• Implementing Open Science initiatives in ecology and evolutionary biology
• Importance of activity costs in determining fish growth differences among lakes
• Managing false discovery rates in ecology and evolutionary biology
• Utility of habitat characteristics in determining the growth and abundance of nearshore fishes