Brown Lab @ Concordia University
Aquatic chemical and behavioural ecology
Grant E. Brown, PhD
Professor
Department of Biology
Concordia University
Email: grant.brown@concordia.ca
Phone: +1.514.848.2424, ext 4020
Associate Editor
Current Zoology
Editor
Animal Behaviour
Review Editor
Frontiers in Ethology
Mailing address:
Department of Biology
7141 Sherbrooke St. West
Montreal, QC, H4B 1R6
CANADA
I am recruiting graduate students for the Fall 2024 and Winter 2025 terms. I am looking for potential students with strong backgrounds in behavioural ecology, cognition, chemical ecology, and/or evolutionary ecology. If interested, please contact me, including:
1) A CURRENT CV,
2) LIST OF RELEVANT COURSES COMPLETED
3) A BRIEF SUMMARY OF YOUR RESEARCH INTERESTS AND RELEVANT TRAINING.
My research group deals with chemical and behavioural ecology within freshwater ecosystems. Using a combination of field experiments and controlled laboratory studies, we address questions relating to 'how prey assess and respond to variable predation threats'. Within aquatic systems, chemical cues are a major source of risk assessment information. In addition, the same publicly available cues are available to predators. Thus, we also ask questions relating to 'how predators compete for food based on variable information'.
Much of the work done by my research group is field based. A common (and valid) criticism of vertebrate chemical ecology is that it is heavily biased towards laboratory studies. Lab conditions often lack important ecological relevance, and as a result, we integrate field projects when ever possible.
