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Kathy Martin
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Latest papers
Climate, habitat, and socioeconomic gradients shape divergent occupancy and co-occurence patterns between two hummingbirds in western North America.
Scientific reports · 2026
Linking habitat preferences and fitness across scales for a relict bird species of the southern Andes.
Scientific reports · 2025
Cavity nesting birds show behavioural plasticity to simulated territorial intrusions in response to natural resource pulses.
Scientific reports · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $264,000
Ecology and Life History of Mountain Birds
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
- $70,000
Kluane Lake Research Station
NSERC · 2012 · Co-investigator
- $70,000
Northern alpine avian ecology and climate variation
NSERC · 2010 · Principal investigator
29 publications.
Climate, habitat, and socioeconomic gradients shape divergent occupancy and co-occurence patterns between two hummingbirds in western North America.
Scridel D, Martin K, Kennedy T, Wilson S
Linking habitat preferences and fitness across scales for a relict bird species of the southern Andes.
Altamirano TA, Novoa FJ, Bernath ZV, Vermehren A, Martin K, Jara R, Price ER, Rozzi R, Ibarra JT
Cavity nesting birds show behavioural plasticity to simulated territorial intrusions in response to natural resource pulses.
Norris AR, Martin K
Rock cavity nesting as the norm: Breeding songbirds of the temperate High Andes.
Altamirano TA, de Zwaan DR, Scridel D, Wilson S, Martin K
Weather and nest cavity characteristics influence fecundity in mountain chickadees.
Norris AR, Martin K, Cockle KL
GABB: A global dataset of alpine breeding birds and their ecological traits.
de Zwaan DR, Scridel D, Altamirano TA, Gokhale P, Kumar RS, Sevillano-Ríos S, Barras AG, Arredondo-Amezcua L, Asefa A, Carrillo RA, Green K, Gutiérrez-Chávez CA, Lehikoinen A, Li S, Lin RS, Norment CJ, Oswald KN, Romanov AA, Salvador J, Weston KA, Martin K
The relative influence of cross-seasonal and local weather effects on the breeding success of a migratory songbird.
de Zwaan DR, Drake A, Camfield AF, MacDonald EC, Martin K
Woodpeckers and other excavators maintain the diversity of cavity-nesting vertebrates.
Trzcinski MK, Cockle KL, Norris AR, Edworthy M, Wiebe KL, Martin K
Combining point counts and autonomous recording units improves avian survey efficacy across elevational gradients on two continents.
Drake A, de Zwaan DR, Altamirano TA, Wilson S, Hick K, Bravo C, Ibarra JT, Martin K
Treeline ecotones shape the distribution of avian species richness and functional diversity in south temperate mountains.
Altamirano TA, de Zwaan DR, Ibarra JT, Wilson S, Martin K
Ecology and Life History of Mountain Birds
Principal investigators: Martin, Kathy
Kluane Lake Research Station
Principal investigators: Marshall, Shawn
Northern alpine avian ecology and climate variation
Principal investigators: Martin, Kathy
Ecology and life history of alpine birds
Principal investigators: Martin, Kathy
Developing science-based policy guidelines for biodiversity maintenance in unhealthy mature conifer forest ecosystems
Principal investigators: Martin, Kathy
Kluane Lake Research Station
Principal investigators: Beauchamp, Benoit
Northern alpine research laboratory igloo
Principal investigators: Hik, David
Vehicle for Northern alpine avian ecology and climate variation
Principal investigators: Martin, Kathy
IPY - Climate forcing of alpine tundra ecosystems in southwest Yukon: a Canadian contribution to the International Polar Year
Principal investigators: Hik, David
Ecology of alpine and forest birds
Principal investigators: Martin, Kathy
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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