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Biological Sciences

Jason Weir

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • biogeography
  • Evolution
  • extinction
  • latitudinal diversity gradient
  • Macroevolution
  • Ornithology
  • phylogenetics
  • speciation

Office: 416-208-5152
Website
Email: jason.weir@utoronto.ca
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Kenneth Welch

Associate Professor

Kenneth Welch Jr.

Areas of Expertise

  • Bat
  • comparative vertebrate physiology
  • energetics
  • Hovering flight
  • Hummingbird
  • metabolism
  • Metabolism and energetics
  • muscle physiology
  • Physiological ecology

Office: (416) 208-5100
Website
Email: kenneth.welchjr@utoronto.ca
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Marc Cadotte

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biodiversity conservation
  • Ecosystem services
  • Evolution and ecology
  • Exotic species invasions
  • Plant physiological ecology
  • Restoration
  • Urban environments

Office: 416-208-5105
Website
Email: marc.cadotte@utoronto.ca
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Mark Fitzpatrick

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Behaviour genetics
  • Behavioural ecology
  • Candidate gene approach
  • Complex traits
  • Epistasis
  • Evolutionary genetics
  • Frequency-dependent selection
  • Neurogenetics
  • Pleiotropy

Office: (416) 208-2703
Home: 905-239-8908
Website
Email: mark.fitzpatrick@utoronto.ca
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Maydianne Andrade

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Animal behaviour
  • Mating behaviour
  • Sexual cannibalism
  • Sexual selection
  • Spider biology

Office: 416-287-7425
Website
Email: maydianne.andrade@utoronto.ca
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