Beren Robinson

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Retired
Email: 
berenrob@uoguelph.ca

Aquatic Evolutionary Ecology

  • Axelrod CJ, F Laberge, BW Robinson. 2018. Intraspecific brain size variation between coexisting sunfish ecotypes. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 285: 20181971. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1971
  • Jarvis, WMC, S Comeau, SF Colborne, BW Robinson. 2017. Evidence that weak mate choice may contribute to reproductive barriers to gene flow in a polyphenic sunfish population. J. Evolutionary Biology, 30: 1810-1820.DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13127
  • Gleason J, D Fudge and BW Robinson. 2014. Eco-mechanics of lamellar autotomy in larval damselflies. Journal of Experimental Biology 217: 185 - 191. doi:10.1242/jeb.091827
  • Küttner E, K Parsons, BW Robinson, S Skúlason, R Danzmann, MM Ferguson. 2013. Effects of population, family and feeding orientation on craniofacial morphology in Icelandic Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Biol. J. Linnean Soc. 108: 702-714 (DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.02038.x)
  • Weese D, MM Ferguson and BW Robinson. 2012. Contemporary and historic evolutionary processes interact to shape patterns of within-lake phenotypic divergences in polyphenic pumpkinseed sunfish, Lepomis gibbosus. Ecology and Evolution 2:574-592. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.72
  • Bose APH, and BW Robinson. 2012. Invertebrate predation predicts variation in an autotomy-related trait in larval damselfly. Evolutionary Ecology 27: 27-38.
  • DOI 10.1007/s10682-012-9581-3
  • Peiman KS, and BW Robinson. 2012. Diversifying and correlational selection on behaviour towards conspecific and heterospecific competitors in brook stickleback (Culaea inconstans). Ecology and Evolution, 2: 2141-2154. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.339

 

Phenotypic plasticity and Evolution

  • Black KL, D Fudge, WMC Jarvis and BW Robinson. 2019 Functional plasticity in lamellar autotomy by larval damselflies in response to predatory larval dragonfly cues. Evolutionary Ecology 33: 257-272. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-019-09979-y
  • Gíslason D, M Heino, R McLaughlin, BW Robinson, ES Dunlop. 2019. Reaction norm analysis reveals rapid shifts towards delayed maturation in harvested Lake Erie yellow perch (Perca flavescens). Evolutionary Applications 12:888-901. DOI: 10.1111/eva.12764
  • Brown A and BW Robinson. 2016. Variation in behavioural plasticity regulates consistent individual differences in Enallagma damselfly larvae. Animal Behaviour 112: 63-73. doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.11.018
  • Robinson BW. 2013. Evolution of growth by genetic accommodation in Icelandic freshwater stickleback. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B Biological Sciences. 280: 2197-2206. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2197
  • Robinson, BW and DW Pfennig. 2013. Inducible competitors and adaptive diversification. Current Zoology 59: 537-552.

 

Other research interests

  • Gislason D, RL McLaughlin, BW Robinson, A Cook, ES Dunlop. 2018. Rapid changes in age and size at maturity in Lake Erie yellow perch (Perca flavescens) are not explained by harvest. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75: 211-223. doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2016-0211
  • Grether GF, KS Peiman KS, JA Tobias, BW Robinson. 2017. Causes and consequences of behavioral interference between species. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 32: 760-772. doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.07.004
  • Buse AJ, MA Douglas, T Giguère, BW Robinson. 2017. Adult Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina) feeding on goldeneye embryos of Pumpkinseed Sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) in defended nests. The Canadian Field Naturalist 131: 248-251 https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v131i3.1859
  • Peiman, K and BW Robinson. 2017. Comparative analyses of phenotypic trait covariation within and among populations. The American Naturalist 190: 451-468. DOI: 10.1086/693482
  • Lumsden HG, VG Thomas, BW Robinson. 2015. Response of wild Trumpeter Swans, Cygnus buccinator, broods to wetland drawdown and changes in food abundance. The Canadian Field Naturalist 129: 374-378
  • Colborne S and BW Robinson. 2012. Effect of nutritional condition on variation in δ13C and δ15N stable isotope values in Pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) fed different diets. Environmental Biology of Fishes 96: 543-554 DOI 10.1007/s10641-012-0040-3