Shannon McCauley, University of Toronto

Research

climate change connectivity dispersal diversity experimental freshwater metacommunity predator-prey

Latest papers

Gender underlies the formation of STEM research groups.
Ecology and evolution · 2020 · senior author
Physiology underlies the assembly of ecological communities.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Controlled environmental systems for studying the impact of climate change on plants, animals, and host-microbe interactions
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$141,978
Effects of local and regional processes on freshwater metacommunities in a changing world
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$168,000
Integrated System of Radio-Frequency Identifier Equipment
NSERC · 2013 · Principal investigator
$57,417

All 4 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Gender underlies the formation of STEM research groups.

Start D, McCauley S

Ecology and evolution2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6188 PMID: 32489614

02

Physiology underlies the assembly of ecological communities.

Start D, McCauley S, Gilbert B

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1802091115 PMID: 29784774

Controlled environmental systems for studying the impact of climate change on plants, animals, and host-microbe interactions

Co-investigatorNSERC2023Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Dillon, Marcus

$141,978

Effects of local and regional processes on freshwater metacommunities in a changing world

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: McCauley, Shannon

Keywords: climate change; connectivity; dispersal; diversity; experimental; freshwater; metacommunity; predator-prey; species interactions; winter ecology

$168,000

Integrated System of Radio-Frequency Identifier Equipment

Principal investigatorNSERC2013Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: McCauley, Shannon

$57,417

Effects of cross-scale interactions on community structure

Principal investigatorNSERC2013Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: McCauley, Shannon

$156,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Benjamin Gilbert

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

1 shared papers, latest 2018

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: climate change Dear Professor McCauley, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Gender underlies the formation of STEM research groups." (2020), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Effects of local and regional processes on freshwater metacommunities in a changing world" (2019), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]