{"id":99,"date":"2019-04-01T21:38:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T21:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/boutin\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2019-04-02T18:01:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T18:01:54","slug":"ally-menzies-phd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/boutin\/ally-menzies-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Allyson Menzies, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_136\" style=\"width: 316px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136\" class=\" wp-image-136\" src=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/04\/AMenzies_ally.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"230\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: A. Menzies<\/p><\/div>\n<p>PhD research using biologging technology to investigate temporal and spatial variation in energy expenditure of free-ranging mammals (co-supervised by Murray Humphries, McGill University)<\/p>\n<p>To date, our understanding of the link between individual energy expenditure and broad-scale ecological phenomena is limited, likely due to the challenge of monitoring the energetic status of free-ranging animals over ecologically-relevant temporal or spatial scales. Traditionally, energetic studies have employed methods that are limited in their capacity to measure metabolism and energy expenditure over broad spatial and temporal scales; however, recent advances in biologging technology (i.e., miniaturized animal-borne data loggers that relay information about an animal\u2019s behaviour, physiology, and environment) have opened up new possibilities for studying behaviour and energetics in the field. For my PhD, I am combining traditional methods (i.e., respirometry and doubly-labeled water) with\u00a0more recent biologging methods (accelerometers, heart rate and body temperature loggers, VHF\/GPS collars) to obtain estimates of energy expenditure of Canada lynx, snowshoe hares, and North American red squirrels in the northern boreal forest. With these data I aim to verify relationships among activity-time budgets, heart rate, body temperature and daily energy expenditure in order to predict overall energy requirements of free-ranging animals outfitted with these dataloggers. Continuous sampling of behavioural, spatial, energetic and environmental data, over multi-seasonal and multi-annual time periods will allow me to estimate energetic status of these three species over ecologically-relevant spacial and temporal scales and gain a better understanding of how the energetic status of a free-ranging mammal changes in their highly variable environment.<br \/>\nMy field work is based at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/redsquirrel.biology.ualberta.ca\/\">Squirrel Camp<\/a>\u00a0in southwestern Yukon, between the town of Haines Junction and Kluane Lake (one of the most beautiful places to visit; see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/allysonmenzies.weebly.com\/photos.html\">Photos<\/a>). Ecological monitoring and research has occurred in this area for decades and I am fortunate to be part of the extensive team of professors and graduate students that have done work there.\u00a0Thank you to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cafn.ca\/\">Champagne and Aishihik<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfn.ca\/\">Kluane<\/a>\u00a0First Nations for allowing us to be guests and conduct field work on their traditional territory, and to the community members of Haines Junction for their hospitality and support.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Webpage:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/allysonmenzies.weebly.com\/\">http:\/\/allysonmenzies.weebly.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD research using biologging technology to investigate temporal and spatial variation in energy expenditure of free-ranging mammals (co-supervised by Murray Humphries, McGill University) To date, our understanding of the link between individual energy expenditure and broad-scale ecological phenomena is limited,&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/boutin\/ally-menzies-phd\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-99","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/boutin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/boutin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/boutin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/boutin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/boutin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/boutin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/boutin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/boutin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}