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Russ Dawson

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ProfessorDepartment of Ecosystem Science and ManagementUniversity of Northern British Columbia

Russ Dawson

Professor

Department of Ecosystem Science and Management

Faculty of Environment

University of Northern British Columbia

Prince George, British Columbia, Canada

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14 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 7 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Currently accepting graduate students Supervises in PhD NRES

Latest papers

Data from: Hatching failure in an aerial insectivore, the tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor), is driven by embryonic mortality, not infertility
DRYAD · 2026 · senior author
Divergent population trajectories despite similar response to temperature in a widespread aerial insectivore
Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) · 2026
Supplementary File S1 for: Whitworth T.L. & Dawson R.D. (2026) Bird blow flies, Protocalliphora and Trypocalliphora, in North America: updated taxonomy, illustrated keys for adults and puparia, species distribution, life history, and host-parasite relationships (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Integrative Systematics 9 (3): 1–169. DOI: 10.18476/2026.632471.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026 · senior author

All 133 publications

133 publications.

Data from: Hatching failure in an aerial insectivore, the tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor), is driven by embryonic mortality, not infertility

Hannah Tench, Nicola Hemmings, Russell D. Dawson

DRYAD20261 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.5061/dryad.w3r22817c

Divergent population trajectories despite similar response to temperature in a widespread aerial insectivore

Conor C. Taff, J. Ryan Shipley, Daniel R. Ardia, David Aborn, Lauren Albert, Marc Bélisle, Amos Belmaker, Lisha L. Berzins, Tricia Blake, Frances Bonier, Hannah C. Brewer, Michael W. Butler, Kyle Cameron, Samuel B. Case, David Chang van Oordt, Robert G. Clark, Ethan D. Clotfelter, Amelia R. Cox, Russell D. Dawson, Elizabeth P. Derryberry, Cornelia W. Twining, et al.

Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)2026Open Access

DOI: 10.3929/ethz-c-000803131

Supplementary File S1 for: Whitworth T.L. & Dawson R.D. (2026) Bird blow flies, Protocalliphora and Trypocalliphora, in North America: updated taxonomy, illustrated keys for adults and puparia, species distribution, life history, and host-parasite relationships (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Integrative Systematics 9 (3): 1–169. DOI: 10.18476/2026.632471.

Terry L. Whitworth, Russell D. Dawson

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21724509

Supplementary File S2 for: Whitworth T.L. & Dawson R.D. (2026) Bird blow flies, Protocalliphora and Trypocalliphora, in North America: updated taxonomy, illustrated keys for adults and puparia, species distribution, life history, and host-parasite relationships (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Integrative Systematics 9 (3): 1–169. DOI: 10.18476/2026.632471.

Terry L. Whitworth, Russell D. Dawson

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22147302

Supplementary File S1 for: Whitworth T.L. & Dawson R.D. (2026) Bird blow flies, Protocalliphora and Trypocalliphora, in North America: updated taxonomy, illustrated keys for adults and puparia, species distribution, life history, and host-parasite relationships (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Integrative Systematics 9 (3): 1–169. DOI: 10.18476/2026.632471.

Terry L. Whitworth, Russell D. Dawson

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21724510

Supplementary File S2 for: Whitworth T.L. & Dawson R.D. (2026) Bird blow flies, Protocalliphora and Trypocalliphora, in North America: updated taxonomy, illustrated keys for adults and puparia, species distribution, life history, and host-parasite relationships (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Integrative Systematics 9 (3): 1–169. DOI: 10.18476/2026.632471.

Terry L. Whitworth, Russell D. Dawson

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22147301

Data and code for: Divergent population trajectories despite similar response to temperature in a widespread aerial insectivore.

Conor Taff, J. Ryan Shipley, Daniel R. Ardia, David Aborn, Lauren Albert, Marc Bélisle, Amos Belmaker, Lisha L. Berzins, Tricia Blake, Frances Bonier, Hannah C. Brewer, Michael W. Butler, Kyle Cameron, Samuel B. Case, David Chang van Oordt, Robert G. Clark, Ethan D. Clotfelter, Amelia R. Cox, Russell D. Dawson, Elizabeth P. Derryberry, Ana M. Diaz Bohorquez, Peter O. Dunn, Valentina Ferretti, Anna Forsman, Matthew Fuirst, Dany Garant, Daniel R. Garrett, Jessica Gutiérrez, Julie C. Hagelin, Braelei M. Hardt, et al. (81 authors)

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026Open Access

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19665083

Divergent population trajectories despite similar response to temperature in a widespread aerial insectivore.

Taff CC, Shipley JR, Ardia DR, Aborn D, Albert L, Bélisle M, Belmaker A, Berzins LL, Blake T, Bonier F, Brewer HC, Butler MW, Cameron K, Case SB, Chang van Oordt D, Clark RG, Clotfelter ED, Cox AR, Dawson RD, Derryberry EP, Diaz Bohorquez AM, Dunn PO, Ferretti V, Forsman AM, Fuirst M, Garant D, Garrett DR, Gutiérrez J, Hagelin JC, Hardt BM, Harris ME, Horton K, Houle C, Houtz JL, Jones PL, Jordan KC, Kindel AS, Klaver R, Knutie SA, Lauck KS, Lombardo MP, Lougheed SC, Love AC, Mackenzie SA, McCarty JP, McKellar AE, Mejia N, Morrissey CA, Nahom ML, Norris DR, Para LM, Pelletier F, Porter CK, Rendell WB, Riddell EA, Rivers JW, Robertson RJ, Rose A, Rosvall KA, Ryan TA, Shannon RP, Shutler D, Simons VF, Stanback M, Tarwater CE, Thorpe PA, Tingley MW, Tischer CL, Tonelli BA, Truan ML, Twining CW, Uehling JJ, Vleck C, Vlec D, Watson ML, Wheelwright NT, Whittingham LA, Winkler DW, Youngflesh C, Zimmer C, Vitousek MN

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2601817123 PMID: 42412926

Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America

Megan Weinberger, Andrew J. Laughlin, T. Anders Brown, Michelle Jackson, Joseph P. Poston, Ian S. Pearse, Lindsay Schulz, Kirk Larsen, Elsie M. Denton, Elliot Kinnear, Kathleen Uvino, Natasha Barlow, Stephen C. Lougheed, Dany Garant, Christy A. Morrissey, Elise M.R. Armstrong, Lynn Siefferman, Kendrick Fowler, John D. Styrsky, Russell D. Dawson, Jennifer J. Uehling, Insiyaa Ahmed, Elizabeth Long, Kathryn M. Weglarz, Claire J. Houchen, Chloe K. Boynton, Kamal J.K. Gandhi, Caroline Killian, Jen Marangelo, Brian D. Inouye, et al. (78 authors)

Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)2026Open Access

DOI: 10.17615/qs2j-7089

Hatching failure in an aerial insectivore, the tree swallow Tachycineta bicolor , is driven by embryonic mortality, not infertility

Hannah Tench, Nicola Hemmings, Russell D. Dawson

Journal of Avian Biology2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/jav.03664

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Russ Dawson

Research

Latest papers

Data from: Hatching failure in an aerial insectivore, the tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor), is driven by embryonic mortality, not infertility

Divergent population trajectories despite similar response to temperature in a widespread aerial insectivore

Data and code for: Divergent population trajectories despite similar response to temperature in a widespread aerial insectivore.

Divergent population trajectories despite similar response to temperature in a widespread aerial insectivore.

Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America

Hatching failure in an aerial insectivore, the tree swallow Tachycineta bicolor , is driven by embryonic mortality, not infertility

Frequent collaborators

Russell Dawson

Dave Shutler

Marc Bélisle

Dany Garant

Marty Leonard

Fanie Pelletier

Christy Morrissey

Robert Robertson

Pierre-Paul Bitton

Elizabeth Gow

Fran Bonier

Steve Lougheed

Stephen Lougheed

Frances Bonier

Keith Hobson

Ann McKellar

Mitchell Weegman

Mitch Weegman

Kevin Fraser

Ken Otter

Ivana Schoepf

Vera Tai