Deb Hawkshaw
@dhawkshaw.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ UAlberta studying torpor and foraging behaviour in chickadees 🐦 ● previously studied hibernation expression in prairie dogs 🐿 and sexual weaponry in turtles 🐢 curler 🥌 cat mom 🐱 and outdoor lover 🏕
Starting off my first post with some good news! Passed my PhD. candidacy ✅️ this past week, so officially a PhD. candidate now 🤓🍾 excited to continue on, learn more, and wrap up the rest of this degree!
March 31, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Starting off my first post with some good news! Passed my PhD. candidacy ✅️ this past week, so officially a PhD. candidate now 🤓🍾 excited to continue on, learn more, and wrap up the rest of this degree!
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Grateful for the ResearchGate recommendations on our body condition article in Oecologia! Hope it's a useful one.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Co-authored by @dhawkshaw.bsky.social and several BlueSky-less others
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Co-authored by @dhawkshaw.bsky.social and several BlueSky-less others
Inferring condition in wild mammals: body condition indices confer no benefit over measuring body mass across ecological contexts - Oecologia
Many studies assume that it is beneficial for individuals of a species to be heavier, or have a higher body condition index (BCI), without accounting for the physiological relevance of variation in th...
link.springer.com
March 2, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Grateful for the ResearchGate recommendations on our body condition article in Oecologia! Hope it's a useful one.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Co-authored by @dhawkshaw.bsky.social and several BlueSky-less others
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Co-authored by @dhawkshaw.bsky.social and several BlueSky-less others