Stan Boutin

Contact

Faculty of Science - Biological Sciences
Email
sboutin@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-1297
Address
1-273 Centennial Ctr For Interdisciplinary SCS II
11335 Saskatchewan Drive NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2H5

Overview

Research

I am a mammalian ecologist who studies the regulating influence of bottom up and top down forces in boreal systems.  I focus on dominant ecological phenomena that create wide variation in food resources (conifer mast seeding) and predation pressure (snowshoe hare-lynx cycle).  I link fundamental research to contemporary issues like climate change and human land-use.  My long-term objective is to make significant advances in our fundamental understanding of how ecological variation affects phenotypic plasticity, evolution and population dynamics.  My applied research works to provide the information and tools necessary to make ecologically-informed land-use decisions.