{"id":6,"date":"2015-10-18T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-09-04T22:49:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T22:49:59","slug":"christie-morrison","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/lab-members\/christie-morrison\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie Morrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">I am interested in fisheries ecology in <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">northern ecosystems. My current research focuses on life history strategies of northern <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">form Dolly Varden char (<em>Salvelinus malma<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">) in the western Canadian arctic. In these northern systems, individual <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Dolly Varden within a population have the ability to adopt anadromous <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">(migratory) or resident (non-migratory) life histories. Resident individuals <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">are largely unstudied within these systems and the underlying factors <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">associated with different life history trajectories are currently unknown.&nbsp; Therefore, the aim of my research is to <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">identify biological\/environmental factors that contribute to life history <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">selection. Specifically, I am interested in how growth rates and metabolism in <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">early life-stages affects life history trajectories. &nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am interested in fisheries ecology in northern ecosystems. My current research focuses on life history strategies of northern form Dolly Varden char (Salvelinus malma) in the western Canadian arctic. In these northern systems, individual Dolly Varden within a population have the ability to adopt anadromous (migratory) or resident (non-migratory) life histories. Resident individuals are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2146,"featured_media":0,"parent":3,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/552"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}